• It’s not often that someone like Guy Fieri comes to Calgary to sing the praises of our restaurants, and it’s certainly unexpected that one such restaurant would be a spin-off of a bakery. Located in a small building at the corner of Central Memorial Park, Park by Sidewalk Citizen is known for their dry-aging and fermentation techniques. It has a beautiful solarium as well as the kitchen area that you can be seated in. An expansion of the popular Sidewalk Citizen bakery, it also serves as a year-round event space in Calgary’s oldest park. We chose to sit in the fireplace-heated solarium with…

    Trying Beeswax Dry-Aged Lamb at Park by Sidewalk Citizen
  • I’m sure you’re already aware of the same old time management and productivity tips – goal setting, daily scheduling, and more. In this blog post, I hope to give you some more unique, practical, and specific tips to try out! Use Microsoft To Do/Apple Reminders for Deadlines I used to put deadlines in my calendar but recently discovered that I much prefer using a To Do list application for this purpose because: My favourite feature of these To Do list apps is when they automatically extract the date of the task you write out (even for recurring tasks). Another unexpected…

    Easy and Practical Productivity Tips I Use in University
  • When I decided to apply for a Study Abroad opportunity, I thought choosing a university would be pretty straightforward. Instead, I found myself with 41 tabs open, knees-deep in options and trade-offs, and constantly changing what I thought was a great choice for me. Get ready to dive into the details with me as I share both the obvious and the not-so-obvious factors that can help narrow down your choices (and how to research them), and which university won me over! Initial Research Built-In Filters Most of this part is pretty obvious, just filter the program finder results based on your major,…

    Choosing Your Dream Study Abroad Destination
  • It’s that time of the year again! Personally, I feel like after a semester is over, I completely forget how hard it was to study for all my courses. So, I’d like to take this opportunity (once again) to reflect on how the Fall semester went and record it for posterity :). CPSC 331 (Data Structures and Algorithms), Required Most computer science graduates will say that this was one of the most useful courses for their career, because it teaches important skills for technical interviews and the workplace. I completely agree, and you should pay full attention to this course…

    Rating my Second Year Fall Courses as a UCalgary Computer Science Student
  • Unfortunately for many of us students, most dorm rooms don’t include a TV, you’re not allowed to mount your own TV on the wall, and there isn’t much space to use a TV stand. Hence, projectors are a student favourite: you can put a projector on a side table, and ideally point it towards wherever you want on the wall. Plus, there’s $50 ones on Amazon, right? That’s what I thought until I delved into the world of shopping for projectors and discovered that there is way more that needs to be considered than one might imagine, and unfortunately for…

    Buying a Projector: A Student’s Guide to Dorm Projectors
  • Don’t want to deal with the hassle of picking up a pizza delivery? Super hungry on campus and want something to eat ASAP? Wanna bring some food to a dorm party? PizzaForno aims to solve these issues of convenience for you with a fully automated “pizza vending machine” on campus that can serve you a hot pizza in just a few minutes. Last week they put on a sampling event for students to see it in action and try it out, so if you missed that, here is my honest review! The pizza machine is located in the Engineering building, specifically…

    PizzaForno Automated Pizzeria Review UCalgary
  • may be an impossible task. Many students have tinges of regret over choices they’ve made throughout their time in university. Perhaps this is self-consolation, but there’s only so much you can do to “make the most of your youth” during a time when you’re also under a lot of pressure to do well in your classes and other areas of life. Not only that, but you may not even know what making the most means to you – especially among the influence of friends and social media. It’s draining to try to keep up with what’s going on, and difficult…

    Making the Most of Student Life at UCalgary
  • Here are three fun things you can make in the UCalgary Dining Centre and my ratings of them (also known as the Landing among other things)! By the way, my numerical ratings are in comparison with average food from the university dining centre, I’m not saying anything is Michelin-worthy, just that I really enjoyed it as a student with a meal plan! Ice Cream Sandwich Inspired by the Marble Slab ice cream sandwiches where the outside is cookies instead of soft chocolate wafers, I grabbed two chocolate chip cookies from the dessert area and added two small scoops of classic…

    Rating UCalgary Dining Centre Hacks
  • In case you’re wondering, yes, there is a Star Trek themed town in Alberta which Leonard Nimoy (Spock) himself visited in addition to many other Star Trek actors! Vulcan is located about an hour south of Calgary with a population of ~2000 people and is a surprisingly fun place to visit. Make sure to plan a visit soon, because most attractions are closed from October to April. After driving through long stretches of farmland, Vulcan is instantly recognizable by its Starship statue and Trek Station Museum at the entry road. The “Trek Station” is a small but mighty museum of…

    I Went to the Star Trek Capital of Canada! (Vulcan, Alberta Blog)
  • Summer in Calgary is full of free cultural festivals, one of which is the Fiestaval Latin Festival! Held in Olympic Plaza all day Friday to Sunday (July 21-23 this year), it’s a long weekend of music, dance, and food. I attended on Friday evening and was greeted by a lively crowd and tons of booths and food trucks. Initially, the amount of people and volume of music was overwhelming and I was worried that this event wasn’t for me, but I found that I soon got used to it and enjoyed the atmosphere. Soon after we arrived, my friends and…

    Calgary Fiestaval (Latin Festival) 2023 Blog