VIDEO: Conestoga students drum exam worries away with Funkbucket jam session
Students at Conestoga college gathered in the Venue for a Funkbucket drumming session with Adam Bowman.
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VIDEO: Halfway through the semester, how are Conestoga students doing?
Every semester brings new challenges for each student, whether that be completing difficult course work or dealing with mental health issues. Kirsten Kitto reports on the current semester and the available resources to assist students with different stresses.
AUDIO: Secondary students lead discourse about eliminating discrimination
A forum at Kitchener Public Library featured a digital presentation on the experiences of students with racial intolerance in area schools.
VIDEO: Hearthstone team from Guelph moves on to the next round
The university team is playing for a chance to win tuition money in a competition hosted by Tespa, a collegiate esports organization.
AUDIO: First steps taken toward new student mental health strategy
A Kitchener consulting firm, Overlap Associates, is conducting one-on-one interviews with staff and students during March.
Sleep – a luxury that post-secondary students can’t afford
It is recommended that adults get between seven and nine hours of sleep every night. Unfortunately for students, this is difficult to achieve, resulting in longer reaction times, poor attention spans and a loss of motivation.
One Card continues to make strides toward wider acceptance
Only about 10 per cent of students at Conestoga load funds onto their cards, but their use as a payment method, on and near campus, is inching upward.
Make the most of your tax return
BY PETER SWART It’s officially tax season and students should be starting to look into every possible tax break they can get before filing. According to David Sukhdeo, one of Conestoga’s accounting professors, there are plenty of benefits that students can take advantage of. “All tuition that students paid is what they get to claim on their taxes,” he said. “As well, if they paid interest on a student loan … Continued
Conestoga ONE Card offers many benefits
BY AUSTIN WELLS Every student at Conestoga College has access to the school’s student card, or ONE Card, as it is called, but not every student is aware of some of the card’s other benefits. In addition to acting as a student card, it is the college library card, and students can load money onto it and use it to make purchases at any vendor on campus, sometimes at a … Continued
A warm college welcome
BY LUCAS HUTTERI Aleks Mivonenko laughed trying to reach a nametag that had been placed on her back. “The people (of Canada) are so friendly and kind, and the nature, it’s so beautiful. I love looking down the streets and seeing all of the trees and bushes.” A first-year web design and development student hailing from Russia, Mivonenko is one of the many students who attended Conestoga College’s International Student … Continued
Waterloo weekend party cleanup a success
BY ANDREW BENNEY After the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on Ezra Street in Waterloo came to a close, the event’s focus changed from excessive drinking to something a little more orderly. Over 25 volunteers took to the streets on the morning after the parties, doing their part for the community by cleaning up the solid layer of garbage on the street. On top of this, the volunteers were also forced … Continued
Weekend sports at Conestoga not seeing success
BY ANDREW BENNEY
Tax talk opens my eyes
BY BRANDY FULTON I turned 20 at the beginning of this month. I have been living an hour and a half away from home for two years now, and I am pretty self-sufficient when it comes to getting to school and work, spending wisely and understanding basic life skills. However, a couple of days after my birthday, my parents decided they wanted to have the ever so dreadful and painfully … Continued
Good2Talk is all ears for post-secondary students
BY CASSIDY FOULDS Every post-secondary student in Ontario has felt the heavy weight of stress. Whether that stress is due to studies, home life, familial matters, work or addictions, they all agree it feels great to get it off their chests in a healthy, safe way. An Ontario helpline can help with that. “The latest National College Health Assessment survey found that nearly 90 per cent of Canadian post-secondary students … Continued
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