Posts Tagged ‘O-Week’
PROSocial initiative at Dal to help student’s mental health on campus
Your first year at Dalhousie can be hectic, scary, and downright fun all at the same time. There are movements and initiatives in all walks of campus life trying to help you adjust in every way you can imagine. That being said, at times adjustment to university life and its difficulties becomes more pertinent when…
Read MoreMental health and roommates: don’t be an asshole
Editor’s note: this article deals with sensitive material surrounding mental health and suicidal thoughts. For those of you who are starting your first year of University here at Dalhousie, King’s or anywhere in Halifax, you may not be surprised to find out that it can be difficult living with a roommate. They might be a…
Read MoreThe reality of making friends
If you’re like me, you’ve heard someone tell a story about how they met their best friend on the first day of classes, when they happened to sit next to them and strike up a conversation. My belief in these kinds of fateful meetings led me to have incredibly high expectations of how easy it…
Read MoreYou’re not too good for O-Week
This goes out to all the students that think they don’t need orientation week to make their university experience a better one. You know who you are. You’ve managed to glide through high school with a couple good friends, and even though you and those friends have gone to different universities, you think you’re fine.…
Read MoreRugby rookie
I’m still not really sure how I ended up on the King’s rugby team. I was a skinny, awkward and, most crucially, unathletic freshman with no prior interest or experience in rugby. I liked playing sports, sure, but that had never meant I could play them well. I was the only player to go scoreless…
Read MoreKeep the discussion going
If you are a Dalhousie student, you have a share in your student newspaper, and there is no better time than now to help build the Dalhousie student voice. Let me explain. If you are a new Dal student, you may have already come across Dal Student Life’s blog for incoming students and its June…
Read MoreYou are now a tiger
For all new members of the Dalhousie community, welcome to one of the best schools in the world. You are now a Tiger – wear it proud and wear it loud. To all returning Tigers, welcome back: let’s go release the roar and make this an epic year for Dal athletics. I think it’s safe…
Read MoreIssue 147-1 now available
The first issue for The Dalhousie Gazette’s 2014-2015 publishing year is now available in PDF format for your convenience!
Read MoreA guide to sports at Dal
I know what you’re thinking – being responsible for introducing over 2,500 new Dalhousie students to the ins and outs of athletics at a university that is not renowned for their sports teams must be a grueling task. With the Wickwire stands that will leave your butt still feeling numb a half hour after the…
Read MoreFashion on the Atlantic
While Halifax can sometimes feel like a barren style wasteland years behind major centres, there is far more going on in east coast fashion than those ubiquitous “East Coast Lifestyle” t-shirts. Admittedly we love our plaid lumberjack shirts, and *Trailer Park Boys* is a dominant sartorial inspiration, but HRM actually has a great selection of…
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