By: Emily Olsen As tuition prices evolve, student loans have become a major part of the post-secondary experience for many students. The process of application, budgeting and paying off these loans is a large undertaking for many students. However, after speaking to...
By George Hong Mastering a second language is hard and English is considered one of the most difficult. The English as a Second Language (ESL) program at NAIT doesn’t count for credit toward a diploma or degree, but the students can benefit for a lifetime. The ESL...
By: Zachary Flynn ATB Financial has been reinventing the way people look at traditional banking. The Alberta bank has a number of pilot projects on the go that each take a different approach on how they work with customers. ATB’s Four Directions branch works with...
By: Eryn Pinksen NAIT’s Essential Campaign raised $125 million in donations with $5 million given by students through the largest donation in NAITSA’s history. Half of this went to the Centre for Applied Technology, the remainder will be paid over 5 years. Jason Roth...
By: Eryn Pinksen Student loans are a common financial assistance plan for many post-secondary students, however a survey compiled by a Canadian accounting network states that three in four Canadian graduates regret the decision to take out loans. In 2017, this poll...
By: Alberto Villoga A balanced lifestyle is hard for any student to manage, but when you're on a sports team as well, it gets so much tougher. With hobbies, friends, and homework it can be quite overwhelming. With sports they add in weekly practices, workouts and then...
By: Ty Ferguson A popular yet often uneducated opinion on how to be free of any mental illness is to “just go for a run.” Anyone who has faced depression or anxiety in their lifetime though knows that recommendation just sounds senseless. It is stated mostly by people...
By: Peter Go Dudes like me ain’t suppose to talk about stuff like this. I’m about to hit y’all with some real shit. Seeing someone happy doesn’t always mean they are happy. Robin Williams or more recently, Anthony Bourdain. Both of those celebrities were the light of...
By: Joseph Lipovski The majority of NAIT students enjoy NAIT’s athletic facilities and speak highly of the conditioning lab. However, many students describe NAIT’s Athletic facilities specifically the fitness centre as outdated and dreary. Kennedy Hennig, Midfielder...
By: Alberto Villoga Basketball “At NAIT it’s just the education you have to pay for. Not sure how much it cost grow- ing up because my parents wrote the cheque’s but it wasn’t too bad. School sports were a couple hundred dollars to play. Spring league basketball and...
