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The Dynamics of the Recess Week Break

“Yes! One day closer to recess week!” – the motivating voice that pushes us through week 7 reassures us. This week consumes our...

How to Rekindle the Art of Listening

For SMU students, four years in this school would have taught you that the first part of the above quote can be easily checked. SMU’s...

Come Hell or High Water: The Great SOL Flood

Most of us prefer to spend our Sundays at home preparing for the upcoming school week, but the hardworking ones amongst us who spent last...

It's Time to PLAY: Patron's Day 2017

For many of us, the board game Monopoly features as an integral part in our childhood memories. Nothing can compare to the high one got...

Home Away From Home

Let's say you grew up in a small town, surrounded by the same surroundings, the same sounds, the same people throughout your entire life....

OCSP: Community Service Or A Misleading Guise?

I attended one of SMU’s many OCSP info sessions looking for a meaningful project to participate in when one particular session left me...

Forget that 4.3

So you have divorced yourself from social activities, barely had more than four hours of sleep and you need (at least) two cups of coffee...

5 Tips to Surviving the Last Few Weeks of School

1. Place yourself in The Bat and hover over that little village of stress Source: http://www.gamezone.com/originals/ranking-the-seven-bes...

Week 11 And We're All Stressed Out

It is oft said that the smallest coffins are the heaviest, and the recent ruling of a young 11-year-old boy’s passing as suicide is no...

15 Minutes to Kill? Let’s Debate!

15 minutes is the amount of time we have for a break in between our 3 hour long seminars in SMU. Think it’s short? 15 minutes is also the...