Wednesday Wisdom I have worked with hundreds (maybe even thousands) of university students, and something I've heard a lot is that they just want to finish their degrees and get out into the world. I always ask these students "Why? What are you in such a hurry for?" I know that 4 years can seem like a long time - as I say this, I'm in my 5th year of a 6-year PhD that I thought I would finish in 4 years. So I get it! But most students only do one degree. So this could very well be your only...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom January is a tough time of year. We got a week or so when the university shut down, which is nice, but getting organized in January is a whole other story! It feels like it takes the whole month just to get back in the groove, and then suddenly you're 1/3 of the way through the semester. A lot of students who feel like this will decide it's time to "catch up" because they feel behind. And while there may be things that you need to catch up on, this can also turn into a trap...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom Did you know that there are two new medical schools opening in Canada in 2025? Simon Fraser University and Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson) are both launching new med schools next fall! This will allow more students to attend medical school! Both schools are focused on training more primary care physicians (family doctors) to help with the shortage we are seeing. TMU is currently accepting applications, until December 2nd. Their medical school is located in...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom I just added a new resource to my website: Why Students Shouldn't Join Multi-Level Marketing Businesses. Check it out! There are Multi-Level Marketing businesses that specifically target students, so I want to make sure that students are familiar with these and can look out for them. MLMs are businesses that often encourage their sales reps to use unethical sales and recruitment tactics. While they sell products or services, more emphasis is placed on recruiting more sales...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom Are you using the summer to build your scholarship list? I recommend that students use a little bit of their downtime over the summer building a scholarship list, organized by deadline, so they don't miss any application deadlines. The easiest scholarships to find are those offered by your university specifically. They'll be centralized on a university website, and may even all have the same deadline. However, there are also thousands of scholarships out there from...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
Wednesday Wisdom One thing I love about working in education is the new year starting in September. This gives me another chance to reflect on my past year (in addition to January 1st) and determine whether I'm going to make any changes. And the summer is an excellent time to be reflecting on what we want the upcoming academic year to look like. What are we doing to learn and grow outside of the classroom? I know that being a student is a HUUUUGE commitment. I get it. But we still have to be...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
Wednesday Wisdom I've been talking about networking a lot lately over on Instagram because I recently launched the new Networking Essentials program for students in partnership with Hannah Schwartz, and it has caused me to reflect on my own networking journey. Back when I was an undergrad - I would have rather done almost anything other than network. Stay unemployed forever. Work at Zellers forever. ANYTHING. And while I was working in the business school, I learned what the students were...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom Can you embrace your procrastination so it stresses you out less? I've been seeing some suggestions lately to do this. If you're a procrastinator like me, why not just accept it and use that deadline to motivate you? I have mixed feelings about this... on the one hand, I'm probably going to do it anyways, so why not just plan for it and take some of the stress out? But on the other hand, it's still procrastinating and I could probably do better work if I gave myself more...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
Wednesday Wisdom: Study Smarter, Not Harder! When I was an undergrad student, working away at my bachelors degree, I didn't even know there were different ways to study. But there ARE! And some of them are way better than others. University students should spend their first semester or year trying out new study methods to see what works best for them. We all have different preferred methods of learning! For example, I do not learn well from listening. Having a text read to me is pretty much...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read