As we enter the last month of the last year of the decade, Algonquin Times reporters set out to do a mood check of students in the Algonquin community.
On Thursday, Nov. 21, reporters fanned out to lounge and study spaces all over the Woodroffe campus to hear what students have to say.
With the term winding down, what do they think about topical issues, their lives at college and their wider community?
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Bryce Godin, a television broadcasting student shared his thoughts on @AlgonquinColleg diversity in the school.
“I like to believe that Algonquin’s hiring the most qualified people, rather than their race.” @algonquintimes #ACHumans pic.twitter.com/toQATaBdNs— Bradley Legault (@LegaultBradley) November 21, 2019
Ali Abdullah, a first year in the television and broadcasting program at @AlgonquinColleg believes there's a good amount of diversity around campus. "I see a lot of different types of people in the college." #AChumans @algonquintimes pic.twitter.com/e5HJn9lMqz
— Jessica Alexandra Hempinstall (@jaalberga) November 21, 2019
Nicholas White, a 1st year Medical Radiation Technology student at Algonquin College, had this to say when asked about the most interesting things he’s learned so far.
“The science and mechanism of x-rays, learning that they’re just fancy photography with radiation.”#ACHumans pic.twitter.com/0yhz9EzdZe
— Brian G. Sharbin (@Brian_GSharbin) November 21, 2019
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Jonah Kachkowski, a second year respiratory therapy student thinks nationalism is a major threat nowadays. "We should all be one big country," he said, "Borders are irrelevant."#AChumans pic.twitter.com/7QJJ8y0uuC
— Mike Athey (@Mike_C_Athey) November 21, 2019
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Steffi Hagel, a second-year nursing student, says she’s learning all about anatomy and the abnormalities in the body. #AChumans
“Something cool is that your third eye has rods and cones just like your other eye but there’s no actual eye there” pic.twitter.com/qiVZw7bny1
— emily (@ebrit_) November 21, 2019
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Sophia Rogdriguez, a second-year AC nursing student, says third-world countries need more awareness.
”There are a lot of problems going on in Nicaragua and a lot of smaller countries and they can’t get any help because no one’s promoting anything in those countries.”#AChumans pic.twitter.com/RuAFMiFhuR— Emily Hsueh (@ehsueh_) November 21, 2019
Lila Bajraktari, a 1st yr Graphic Design student, believes Climate Change is pressing issue in the world.
"People don't want to believe it's real. They think we need all these things that contribute to Climate Change for our economy to prosper."@algonquintimes #ACHumans pic.twitter.com/bTX8igmsVG
— Vanessa Myre (@MyreVanessa) November 21, 2019