A talk about sanitation (poop), and the sections of human geography — A summary of a great talk about sanitation and poop I had the fortune of attending a talk by Dr. Caetano Dorea, a researcher who works in water and sanitation for low-resource contexts. He’s also the Director of NSERC CREATE: a highly prestigious training program that trains engineers and scientists working on important problems like sanitation. …

Warning: This post is about what’s happening in Israel-Palestine. Stop the bombs. The death toll in Gaza as of the time of writing is 5,087¹. More than 3,000 of those killed are women and children². I believe that no matter your politics, we need a ceasefire. …

Did you think I’d forgotten? You’d be mostly right. But it was convenient to delay posting by a day because I now get to show you this: Two degrees, done. Here’s a two sentence summary of the whole ordeal. A business degree has felt like understanding how to identify a…

The trees were shocked into fall colours this week. One of them, a type of maple is all I can say, was so completely red that I’d forgotten we are so out of summer. Five years I’ve been in Waterloo and yet it still feels that I can ride down…

It still surprises me when you don’t make time for things (nearly) daily, they don’t get done. The “I’ll go to the gym and do physio eventually”, and “I need to figure out how to incorporate dark leafy greens in my diet”, and apparently “I’ll work on the blog tomorrow”…

And we’re off. I had my first graduate 🎓 orientation on Tuesday the 5th and despite all thoughts of “it’s only a conditional offer”, I’m now a grad student. This biweek’s post is going to be quite short because I’d like to take a pause after orientation this week and…

In between the last issue and now, I wrote my final written undergrad exam, submitted my final undergrad report, hosted my last cohort-party, and went to an old friend’s cottage for the last time. Lots of lasts that should be getting me down but I keep on getting up on…

I’ll be starting my master’s in less than a month, I miss traveling, and I miss writing. So this is my answer for that. I’m promising a biweekly (every other Friday morning) where I talk about three things: Masters stuff. What it’s about, how I go about it, and any…

I used to see a lot of movies and assumed life was pretty much going to be similar. Besides being incredibly wrong about that, here’s a list of some things I don’t think a visual medium can get. Talking in the dark. Almost every movie scene with dialogue has lighting…