Tron-sendent
Editor’s note: Some people on the Manitoban staff are really into the film Tron and its sequel Tron: Legacy. And by “into it” I mean,…
February 2011
The grad school blues
Applying to grad school is quickly becoming the bane of my existence: it is time consuming, costly, and more or less unnecessary. Basically, I am…
Wellek, Felix and the sacred orders
Fairbanks Community Centre. There were eleven of them. Slouching, wretched failures, waiting, just as he ordered, warming up the eight lonely rows of rusted steel…
Smells
It happened in a classroom in Tier, where the desks are small and cramped. Where bodies slip into their seats, like folders in a filing…
Do futuristic games have 8-bit beat?
I lay there bleeding from the sizeable hole on my chest, just before my left shoulder. I knew that the end would come soon. A…
Turning 18 . . . meh
On Jan. 16, 2011, I turned 18 years old. Yes, I turned 18 in the year 2011. This is the part where you quickly do…
The glass ceiling
It’s been over twenty years since the term “glass ceiling” entered into the mainstream psyche. Originally, it was meant to be a metaphor for the…
What you need to know
Feminism Some people think that feminism means that women want to be equal to men. I don’t. Why would I want to be equal to…
Notes from my top drawer
There is something to be said about brand knowledge. We spend hours of our lives looking at the nutritional content of the foods we eat, where…
Same job, different pay?
I expect to earn equal pay for performing the same job as my male counterpart. I don’t think that’s an unfair request, do you? In…