I grew up in a house with two kinds of rice. There was parboiled, the kind for peas and pigs feet, and jasmine, the kind to steam alone. That also became how I thought about the food we ate, two separate groups of taste. There was Chinese food and Jamaican food and so by addition,Continue reading “Patois, Soon Come”
Project Type Archives
Don’t worry your career will start soon
A post about everything I learned from the University of Waterloo. “Believe it or not, it is all about innovation.” Read it now
Performative of Branding
Union Pearson Express
Homesharing is Homecaring
Processed with VSCO with g3 preset The Cities of Tomorrow contest is a competition of student ideas for improving major cities in Ontario. In the summer of 2015, I entered with a team of students and alumni from the University of Waterloo and McMaster with a policy innovation paper for improving housing for both seniorContinue reading “Homesharing is Homecaring”
Columns
During my time at Imprint, the University of Waterloo student-run newspaper, I ran two different columns. Frugal & Free Imprint January to April 2015 A weekly personal finance column where I shared my tips & tricks for affording a university education. Scrawny Girl, Meet Sports Imprint May to July 2013 A biweekly column where I attempted aContinue reading “Columns”
Do it faster: Larry Smith’s guide to changing the world
Prof. Smith’s talk on social entrepreneurship emphasizes action now, not later Students packed into St. Paul’s GreenHouse — University of Waterloo’s social innovation hub — to hear Prof. Larry Smith give a talk titled, “So You Want to Change the World,” Jan. 28. The talk was part of a larger project to improve experiential learningContinue reading “Do it faster: Larry Smith’s guide to changing the world”
The Doctor Will See You Now
“The Doctor will see you now” is an article I wrote for the Q4 2013 edition of The Bridge Northbridge Insurance’s B2B newsletter. For this long-form piece, I had the pleasure of interviewing Nancy Friedman, the creator of the Telephone Doctor program.
Midnight Sun X Ready to take Formula Sun Grand Prix
The University of Waterloo Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team has taken its 10th solar car, the Midnight Sun X, to the 2013 Formula Sun Grand Prix competition in Austin, Texas from June 24 to June 29. As the only Canadian team going to the race, the UW team has been preparing thoroughly and theContinue reading “Midnight Sun X Ready to take Formula Sun Grand Prix”
Searching for the Canadian Voice
It was a brisk, windy fall day last Sunday when Word on the Street — a Canadian book and magazine festival — rolled out across from Kitchener city hall. All local literary-related organizations and authors came out demonstrating Canada’s living literary voice and the booming self-publishing scene. The Canadian literature genre is almost inexplicable. LikeContinue reading “Searching for the Canadian Voice”
Catherine Vendryes 