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Oct. 12, 2018Combining Stats and Storytelling
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve enjoyed both academics and art. They both involve creativity, so of course I liked both! I found as I got older though that there was a tendency for people to expect you to only enjoy and be good at one thing – one type of science, or maybe a particular musical instrument.
Sep. 28, 2018Printing a Labour of Love
When I pulled my daughter's name, Christina Hörst (MA '10), for our Christmas 2017 gift exchange, I recognized I now had fresh motivation to pull a stalled project off the shelf. Her thesis was originally in French, as the title makes obvious: Discours Protestant et Parcours Féminin dans Delphine (1802) de Madame de Staël.
Sep. 14, 2018Defining Success Your Way

In the fall of 1980, I sat in Sunny Sundberg's office in Health Services Counseling Centre at the University of Waterloo - a confused 19 year old wondering what I was doing in university, and what life was all about anyways.