For four years, Michelle Yan handled her stress like most university students did. She sat through classes, listening to professors. She handed in her assignments on time; and she spent long, sleepless nights in her apartment. She was an average student.
Yan always thought that the stress would fade away. But as she walked down the red carpet at her convocation, she was more stressed-out than ever.
“I always assumed my life would get easier after I graduated,” Yan said.
Varsity Blues’ Thanksgiving weekend was spoiled in spectacular fashion on a windy Sunday, as the men’s soccer team fell 4-2 to the visiting Queen’s Gaels, snapping the home side’s six-game winning streak.
Back to back games are a turnaround unimaginable for a professional soccer player but unavoidable in Canada’s largest intercollegiate sport conference, the OUA (Ontario University Athletics).
As a civilian in Canada, Hans Christian Breede teaches. As a soldier in Afghanistan, he became a student again. “We were in awe at how (Afghans) live without all the creature comforts we here in Canada are so used to,” he said. In Kingston, Breede works at Queen’s University as an assistant professor of political studies. From September 2008 until the end of March 2009, Major Breede was deployed in Afghanistan serving with the Force Protection Company of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Stephan Barrie believes this will be a season of transition for his Queen’s University Gaels basketball team.
And that can only be a good thing for a club that won two of 22 games.
Going from league MVP of a national champion to the practice roster of the Toronto Argonauts may not be the path most football players dream about.
But that’s the reality for Danny Brannagan, a Queen’s University star trying to do the impossible: make it as a Canadian quarterback in the CFL.