One of my best friends is Vietnamese. I grew up living, and eating, at her house almost half of the week. Her family cooks incredible food, and since I don’t go out often now (family, on a budget), I kind of miss those perfumes. But this week my colleague made me discover my new favourite… Read More Eating the best vietnamese on campus
Life as a graduate student can be isolating, especially for those students who don’t need to physically stay in a lab to do their research, and thus end up spending most of their time alone. Luckily, there are many occasions to get in touch with some fellows, such as non-curricular lectures where you will probably find… Read More GradLife Friendly Moments: The Department Gatherings
Being a graduate student is sometimes hard, with the conference, paper to write, TAship and grading. But sometimes, it is also a lot of fun. Free food Food is everywhere. In meeting with the department, after a friend’s oral defence or conference or during a lunch with a supervisor. I really like when I can… Read More The perks of being a grad student
By Alex Enescu (M.Sc. Candidate: Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine). The concept of food, as a harmless and purely nourishing substance, is — in every respect — an undistilled cultural construct. Nature produces metabolizing, reproducing, living organisms. Not food. Some of these organisms are predators. Some are prey. Some are higher up the proverbial… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part IV: There Is No Such Thing as Food In Nature
By Alex Enescu (M.Sc. Candidate: Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine). Dieting is ubiquitous. But this does not mean that everyone has willingly adapted, customized, or modified their way of eating. In fact, it means that different diets naturally—or through the governing forces of human tradition and habits—assert themselves within different cultural domains. For example,… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part III: Crazed Dieting: Keto versus Vegan
October 2017 is a pretty exciting month, no doubt! Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A) – the research partnership I am a fellow of, based at McGill University, York University and the University of Vermont – and the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) are about to hold their joint conference: ECONOMIES IN AN AGE OF LIMITS: A… Read More Human-Earth relationships: Let’s talk about them, here in Montreal!
In the modern world, food has become a source of anxiety, identity, distrust and confusion. In our endless crusade for longevity, optimum health, better sleep, reduced levels of anxiety, improved cognitive performance, weight loss, self-fashioning, and eschatological ethics, we have become susceptible to a plurality of diets and curious eating habits. In general, diets tend… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part I: The War on Saturated Fat
Classes are done. Assignments are submitted. Exams are written. The regular school year is over, and summertime is here! We are very lucky to be graduate students in Montreal. It’s a vibrant and energetic city – especially in the summer. With the beautiful weather right around the corner, I wanted to share my top 5… Read More Summer in the city
The Samuel Bronfman building is the house of business studies at McGill University. Each year a batch of students begin their two years journey of dreaming and a batch leaves the building with the satisfaction of having achieved their dreams and the joy that the last two years bought to their lives. But there are some… Read More The Dream You Don’t Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMoTHJ3gu3U So here it is. My first ever video. Actually, that’s only half true. I have made videos before but only the type you keep buried on one of your external hard drives in case the day comes when you want to show your children ‘what life was like when I was a teenager’. So… Read More A McGillian in Paris
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