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A large Toronto house that is haunted.

Business & Technology Features

Students are buckling under unaffordable rent

The bulk of his savings went to rent—$940 a month, plus utilities, food, internet and his phone bill—which left him with only $20 to live off until his OSAP came through

A cartoon of a stressed out person

Business & Technology Features

If work and school and no sleep are normal, where do you draw the limit?

My peers “busy brag” too. Who slept the least? Who worked the hardest? We talk about our unhealthy habits like it’s something to be proud of when in reality, it would probably be better for everyone if we slept more

MEET YOUR FALL 2017 MASTHEAD

Congratulations to our Fall 2017 Eyeopener masthead!

From frosh week to graduation, students are trained to find pleasure at the bottom of a bottle. Photo: Karoun Chahinian

The after party: trying to diagnose addiction in university

“Recovery is the chance for the life I’ve always hoped for but felt I wasn’t good enough to have”

Features Student Politics

The young and the clueless: the eternal turmoil of the RSU

In a book about the history of student initiatives at Ryerson, history professor Ronald Stagg wrote that at time, the nasty politics “inhabited the student union’s ability to act”

If living waste-free a sustainable lifestyle for a student? PHOTO Devin Jones

When The Trash Starts Piling up: Going Waste Free for a Week

February 28, 2017

One afternoon, amidst all of the environmental horror stories on my Facebook feed, I came across a video of a girl who was able to fit all of the trash she produced over a six-year period into a single mason jar

A student commuter sits in a subway car, looking exhausted

Your commute is hurting your wallet and your health

February 7, 2017

Each month, I’m commuting for 48 hours, or 2,880 minutes. That’s two days. Two days of just getting somewhere. And all for the low, low price of $149.60 a month

Knocked out: the dark side of quitting a sport post injury

January 31, 2017

I was educated on what concussions are, but I wasn’t warned about what they can do to you long term, both physically and mentally

A couch surfer surfing a couch. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: KEITH CAPSTICK

Couchsurfing offers students a new wave in travel

January 24, 2017

It doesn’t consist of tour groups and megabuses hauling people from one site to the next, it’s discovering what the everyday is like for people from around the world

Writers come together at Sister Writes to use their craft as catharsis

January 17, 2017

The packed art gallery falls silent. “Don’t touch me,” she cries, her red curls shaking with her voice

Pulling all-nighters for your exams isn’t such a great idea. PHOTO: IZABELLA BALCERZAK

I deprived myself of sleep for a week and this is what I saw

November 22, 2016

It’s recommended that university students get at least eight hours of sleep each night... but that doesn't seem to be happening very often

The Glass Obstacle Course: Why aren’t more women in STEM?

November 15, 2016

Why aren't there more women in science and engineering programs?

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