At the end of the term, emails flood into student inboxes with the reminder to fill out teaching evaluations. This is a chance for students to grade their professors’ performance as an educator. However, scholars have questioned the accuracy of these surveys, and how they might mask gender, racial and ethnic biases.
Humans seem to only ever think about ourselves. Why are we only ever thinking about ourselves?
It’s hard to notice when the things you love begin to hurt you, and harder still to leave them once you realize it. Prioritizing my sanity and wellbeing was scary, disheartening and took longer than it should have.
I hate to love Vancouver rain. / It makes everything smell like decay. / It rots dirt fissures into muddy pools, / But it’s consistent.
When my nana was first diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer, we knew keeping her at home would be difficult. But in the middle of a pandemic, we didn’t want to put her into a facility where visitation restrictions could stop us from seeing her if she took a turn for the worse.
This point in the year is brutal — the 4 p.m. sunset and the thick exhaustion that settles into the darkness. But inside the pool, it’s always bright. The deep water of the lap lane is cool, while the hot tub and sauna are warm.
In my life, there is a Before and an After.
Spring is here: birds are chirping, flowers are blooming and the sun is shining — except this isn’t true.
Most people spent their reading break traveling, studying or catching up on sleep. Thunderbirds Piper Logan, Florence Symonds, Phil Berna, Jack Carson and Matthew Percillier spent it playing professional rugby in front of 67,753 fans at BC Place.
Presidential candidate Brandyn Marx’s campaign has been suspended today between 1 p.m. and 8 p.m., which is when voting closes.
With moth abundance declining in the last 50 years, the task of learning why falls to researchers brave enough to venture into the dark for answers.
UBC women’s volleyball is going for Canada West (CW) gold for the first time since 2018, after sweeping the University of Alberta Pandas over the weekend.
“Democracy, more like dumbocracy,” said Scandal before trying and failing to high five me.
my mother’s advice: / ‘there is no box’ / was meant to be kind
Growing up, I had been different. I usually had fewer friends than other kids and often felt disconnected from the ones I did have. I regularly forgot assignments and exams — teachers would pull me aside and tell me I had so much potential, if only I would do the work. I was beginning to see why.