PHOTO BY SARA SHEIKH / THE SPUTNIK PHOTOGRAPHY Many students find it hard to keep their sanity in the middle of all the chaos COVID-19 has caused, and continues to cause. According to the Centers for Disease […]
Getting a pet might save your life
Summer Loves: A short story
ALAN CHEN / UNSPLASH PHOTOGRAPY The heat from the early morning sun warmed my skin, flushing it pink with the sky’s reflection. I sat on my front doorstep, waiting for Jack to pick me up in his old […]
Making the best of Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is a lot like Christmas, you need to be in the spirit of things. You can be a Scrooge if you’re single and ignore the day. I’ve done that many times myself. But if you’re in a relationship […]
The Catfish Experience
With their profile pictures curated from Google images, their short contact list which might have one or two common friends, and a wall completely devoid of any actual social interaction, it’s almost as if they made the account yesterday just […]
How to love yourself through everybody else
When it comes down to life decisions a common phrase is to put yourself first. Well, I beg to differ. Everything I do, every decision I make is with the conscious thought of the people around me, mainly those that […]
Alone on Valentine’s Day
Last Valentine’s Day was incredible. I was in my car and the cool February air made the windows fog up faster than I had anticipated. I had managed to fog up the car windows from heaving desperately lonesome tears […]
Laurier students’ long distance relationships: Held together by technology?
Does this generation ask too much of their partners? Long distance relationships used to rely on letters and the few affordable phones calls. Now technology has given the world the opportunity to electronically see their partners from anywhere, talk to […]