Jason: I sit beside this
amazing guy in my
Commerce class.

Curby: Really?

Jason: There are avid
learners, and then there’s
George—he’s rabid. He eats,
sleeps and breathes it. And
now that he’s discovered the
Learning Skills Centre, he’s
positively wallowing in it.

As soon as George gets off
work, he putts up the hill
to the Learning Skills time
management workshop.
At work people pay $150
and take a whole day. The
LSC gives George the
essence in an hour, for free.
Not bad.

No sooner does George get
out of the workshop than
he books an appointment
with a Study Skills tutor to
pick up some new learning
strategies. Those Psyche
research reports and those
Business market analyses

are so, well, dull. The
Study Skills tutor
demonstrates some

comprehension techniques
and explains why the
articles are written like
that.

On this visit George learns
that he can access all the
Learning Skills Centre’s
handouts at their web site.
Even though George finds
lots of tips on writing there,
he’d still like to talk to a
real, live person. So he

Student
success?
The Saga

by Jason

books an hour
appointment with a writing
tutor who shows him 22
strategies for getting ideas
to write about. Awesome.

Next comes the study
group meeting. Chock full
of insights, George hopes.
Oh, no, they’re meeting at
his place. George has five
minutes to feed the cat,

Over the Edge Feb. 07,1995 Page 9
Top Ten Worst Valentine’s Day Gifts

By Vince Yim

10: A candle lit dinner for two...at Denny’s.

9: A box of black roses from that guy that you just broke up with.
8: A book of love poems...written by Stephen King.

7: Personalized jewelry...that has someone else’s name on it.

6: Red and white balloons filled with tear gas.

5: A red and white teddy bear that says “I want tof__
animal” when you squeeze its tummy.

4: Saint Valentine’s dead, fossilized, rotten corpse.

3: Red hot cinnamon candy hearts. No one likes (let alone eats) that
crap. i

2: Sexy underwear from some guy that you don’t really know, but he’s
been following you everywhere and leaving really weird messages on
your answering machine.

1: A pair of handcuffs.

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George gets a cup of coffee
and explains free writing, ~
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true believer, and a couple
of other invention
strategies.

The boss is impressed. He
rewards George with the
corner office and a

company car. A Ferrari |,
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Because now George can
get up to the Learning
Skills Centre much faster.

Curby: I hope he doesn’t
park beside my Vauxhall.

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