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CREATING HOME AWAY FROM HOME
16 / CAMPUS LIVING AT IT’S FINEST At Quest, community is important. We create community through our small classes, our friendly tutors, our open study spaces, and our collective love of food, music, and playing outside. Most importantly, we create community by having all students live on campus throughout their time at Quest. For incoming…
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COMMUNITY UPDATES PROVIDE A FORUM FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS & DISCOURSE
17 / FOR THE GOOD OF THE GROUP Quest’s small size is our greatest strength – it allows for small classes, close friendships, and lots of social capital. For the Quest community, nothing epitomizes the tight-knit social and academic culture of our campus like Community Update, an all school meeting that happens on the first…
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SQUAMISH – HARDWIRED FOR ADVENTURE
18 / LOCATION-LOCATION-LOCATION Nestled between the second largest granite monolith in North America and the Howe Sound fjord, you will find the distinctive town of Squamish. Whether it’s bird watching, sea kayaking, rock climbing, mountain biking, cross country skiing, or hiking – you’re sure to find something to do outdoors all year round, right outside…
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Carmen Petrick ‘12
Carmen is in her third year as a medical student at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. We found her in Kenora, a rural town of about 15,000 in Northwest Ontario, on an eight-month clinical clerkship. What was your Question while at Quest? What biological and social factors foster the spread of infectious disease? Tell…
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Keep Plastic out of Compost!
“There once was a bag they called Tim,” begins the story of a plastic bag’s journey to a composting facility. The short stop-motion video is produced and narrated by Quest University students in Ellen Flournoy’s Rhetoric class and is meant to educate the community about what happens when plastics end up in the compost. In…
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Teaching Matters Seminar Series
Quest Mathematics Tutor Richard Hoshino was part of the Teaching Matters Seminar Series at Simon Fraser University. Richard’s talk on March 6, 2018, was focused on the idea: “I Wish My Final Exam Could Be…” Richard and his co-presenter, Veselin Jungic, Department of Mathematics at SFU, imagined what their final exam would look like if there…
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Allie Carter, Visiting Faculty
University: UBC (BSc), SFU (Master of Public Health & PhD in Health Sciences) What’s your Question, Allie? I’d say it’s How can we create enabling social conditions so women living with HIV can have the sexual life they want? Right now, the discourse around HIV is all about fear, stigma, and how not to transmit or…
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Check-in with Quest Counsellor Julie Miller
Julie’s Top 5 Tips for Relieving Stress – Be in the moment and tackle what’s in it. Self-care! (Whatever that means to you: tend the cactus garden, go for sushi, or if you’re Julie, a wee 25 km run across Black Tusk.) You know it’s coming…know what works for you. Plan ahead for stress. Find…
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Math: the Bigger Picture
Math isn’t just about memorizing equations and numbers — it’s about seeing the bigger picture. Dr. Richard Hoshino, award-winning Quest Math Tutor, speaks on his Quest experience, and how mathematics relates to everyday life through communication and problem-solving skills. Also featured is Quest student and member of the Leaders in Elite Athletics & Performance (LEAP)…
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Roz Groenewoud Qualifies for her Second Trip to the Olympics
Congratulations, previous Quest student and member of the Leaders in Elite Athletics and Performance Program (LEAP) Roz Groenewoud, for qualifying for her second trip to the Olympics. Roz will be competing in the 2018 Olympic Games in PyeongChang. For more information, visit: https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018
