Le journal bilingue de Glendon | Glendon’s Bilingual Newspaper
Vol. 62 Issue 1 : le 5 octobre 2023
In This Issue Page 2 ● LETTER FROM THE EDITOR VIE ÉTUDIANTE Page 3 ● Active Recall! Page 4 ● Le YFS diminue la couverture médicale pour la santé mentale Page 4 ● Starting Fresh(men), Avoiding the Post-Grad Purgatory MÉTROPOLE Page 4 ●Canada’s Last Remaining Women’s University to Close in 2024 Page 5 ● La sécurité sur le TTC CENTER SPREAD Page 6 ● GLENDON O-WEEK EXPRESSIONS
Starting Fresh(men), Avoid the Post-Grad Purgatory
Page 7 ● Meeting Luis Angel on a Mountain Page 7 ● Alive ISSUES AND IDEAS Page 8 ● Jury Duty as an Honour, Duty or Task? Page 8 ● Markham Campus Open But YorkU Still Missing a Medical School ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Page 10 ● ¿Dónde Está Mi Gente?: Un Appel à l’Inclusivité Page 10 ● Drawing on Digital Due Diligence SANTÉ ET BIEN-ÊTRE Page 11 ● Nouilles instantanées au beurre d’arachide Page 11 ● Great Glendon Grub Page 12 ● Une recette de lasagne végétarienne La prochaine date limite : vendredi 6 octobre 2023
Maria Eydmans French Editor
and to get experience, you needed a job! I firmly believed that if Sisyphus lived in the 21st century, job-searchIn my final year of undergrad, I finally ing would be his hill, and deadfound the answer to the question that end resumes would be his boulder. Now that I’ve “been in the had plagued my adolescence: “What do you want to be when you grow game” for a little under a year and am up?” This question had been posed finally seeing some prospects, I reflect by well-meaning adults who probably on each year I spent at York. I was weren’t about it thinking too deeply. studying, but I wasn’t working towards The thing is, even though this question my career, and I wish I had spent my had been asked numerous times, I had time differently. The following is advice never actually given it serious thought. to my younger self — what I wish I would I’d occasionally realize, “I should prob- have done each year to make the tranably start thinking about it,” but then I’d sition into the professional sphere a litquickly change the subject. What can tle easier: In your first year, spend your I say? It always seemed so far away! time getting to know the clubs and the That is, until my fourth year. All of a campus. Find out whether or not you sudden, it seemed like there was so like your major. There is no shame in much to do and so little time to do it. changing to something else. That’s exEvery job required years of experience, actly what I did, albeit a little late in my
degree. As cliche as it sounds, freshman year is the time to figure yourself out and hone in on your specialization. In your second year, start working towards a career path. Explore. Do various internships in your area of expertise (i.e., something related to the major that you decided to pursue the year before) to determine what you like best. I recommend the LevelUP program at Riipen (www.riipen.com/levelup), which offers $1,400 for 80 hours of work at any company — and you can do up to four at a time! This is a great resource to get your foot in the door and network. If you aren’t comfortable with the responsibility of an internship, do some volunteering! It takes a little digging, but finding volunteer work in your field is possible and super helpful to Continued on PAGE 4