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FEATURED ARTICLES           Thursday, September 09, 2010                                Email to a Friend

Tips on Staying Upbeat During the Winter Season
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From pothead to psychologist? Why not!
A self-confessed "pot head" at 14 years of age, today, at the age of nineteen, Ariell Foran...

Tips For Valentines   Don't make him sweat on the hot seat?
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Tax Time can be rewarding for students
ost secondary students may be thinking about midterms and Spring Break at this time of year but...

Campus Eating Know-How:With Some Help from the Experts
Which resident student has not heard the following familiar grumblings at their native mess hall: “This food sucks”.

Holiday Shopping Guide '07
Campus Life get you the info on all the best gifts for friends and family for this holiday season.

Sweaty Coverage of the Sauna World Championship
Zooming the video camera lens, the sight of four flabby, nearly naked men and one scrawny guy forces me to zoom out—way out.

Riders with a Cause
Do you worry about the current state and future of our planet, or humanity? Are you one of those people who is scared by Al Gore’s vision of the world...

Internship Profile: Stephanie Ullman, CTV Newsroom
Attending murder trials, interviewing famous Canadian singers like Michael Buble, and covering breaking news...

Live Like You Were Dying

Life Lessons by Vladie White

What would you do if you received the news that your days were now numbered and fleeting? How would you live the remainder of your life? What kind of person would you be?

One generally tends to disregard how fragile and delicate life really is. Death can happen to any one of us when we least expect it. Enjoy what you love and do it with all the passion you have within. However many years you live may you enjoy them all.

Follow your heart and whatever your eyes see. In order to live like you were dying you must live up to your own expectations and not the ones someone else proposes. You should act freely and be free to be yourself. By living up to others’ expectations you are not achieving happiness because you are not being true to yourself. Reach your fullest potential, and enjoy each and every day you have been given.

Life is a series of lessons. Appreciate hardships, for they can be life’s greatest blessings. Life is what you make of it and the amount of pleasure you experience from it is dictated in large part by the ways in which you deal with the difficulties you face each day. Hardships enable you to appreciate what you enjoy and to persevere through what you do not. By looking at undesirable circumstances through this perspective you will be able to constantly challenge yourself to improve and learn.

Don’t travel through eternity carrying a grudge or resentment towards another on your shoulders. Let bygones be bygones; pursue forgiveness. Reestablish, renew, and reconcile with others in your life whom you have had any troubled relationship with. Leave any bitterness behind. Make peace and restore harmony now, while you are still able to.

Carpe Dium - Seize the day! Compensate for missed or killed time. Do not wait until eternity to understand that life is short and that you only live once. Put pride aside. Life is too short to waste on engaging in sinful or hurtful acts. Spend less time trying to make money and more time with the ones who love you dearly instead. Make every moment count. You should live life as the joyous adventure that it is intended to be! Do everything you do to the best of your ability. Love life and all the people you choose to allow in your life.

Make the most of every opportunity. Do not waste anymore time. Don’t misuse the gift of life! I challenge you today, if you do not already, to make a positive life change -- live like you were dying.