Innovation

Some nights, campus feels like a loop of the same white walls, the same flyers, the same lecture halls. Then you walk into a local coffee shop and see a…

I was walking past a student co-op house off Regent Street one night and noticed half the residents crammed onto a tiny, crooked back porch. Everyone was balancing laptops, coffee,…

I was staring at my dorm ceiling one night, listening to the AC run non-stop, and suddenly thought: how much money is literally leaking out through that thin layer between…

I had this odd late night thought walking past a broken fence near campus: why are so many old fences still built and fixed in the same way they were…

I was walking across campus one afternoon, sweat sticking to my backpack straps, when I noticed something strange. Two buildings, same sun, same time of day, but one felt like…

I was walking past a house in Calgary with half its shingles stacked in the driveway and a crew yelling up and down ladders, and I caught myself thinking: this…

I was walking past a small strip mall near a campus in Springfield one afternoon and saw a roofing crew using drones and tablets, with two students in campus hoodies…

I was standing in a campus basement one night, staring at a leaking water heater, and it hit me: this boring metal tank is quietly running half the buildings we…

I had this late night thought while scrolling through my phone: if almost everything a student startup does lives on a screen, what story could that screen tell if someone…