Top Five Canadian Cities to attend post secondary:
Applying to college or university is a chance to get out of your hometown and experience a new environment. It’s a scary leap from the safety of your home to a dorm room, but it’s worth it! When I applied to university, I refused to apply to any schools in my province because I didn’t [...]
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To rock that job interview
The Set-up You’ve sent your resume out a hundred times and finally someone has called you for an interview. Congratulations! You’ve made it past hundreds of other applicants, but you’re not in the clear yet. An interview is your one shot at employment with that company and thus it’s important to prepare thoroughly and make [...]
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Top 5 Student money mistakes
Whether you’re in college now or about to be, there is no time like the present to start thinking about your financial situation. It’s important to be as conscious of your finances as possible so you don’t wind up in trouble when you graduate (or before graduation, if you’re really negligent). 1. Ignoring the budget [...]
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Featured University: McGill in Montreal, QC
McGill University is one of Canada’s best-known institutions of higher learning and one of the country’s leading research-intensive universities. With students coming to McGill from about 150 countries, our student body is the most internationally diverse of any medical-doctoral university in Canada.
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Top 5
Top Five Canadian Cities to attend post secondary:
Applying to college or university is a chance to get out of your hometown and experience a new environment. It’s a scary leap from the safety of your home to a dorm room, but it’s worth it! When I applied to university, I refused to apply to any schools in my province because I didn’t [...]
Career TV
Gina – Television Producer
Gina Phillips is Television Producer for the entertainment show Inside Jam airing on Sun TV in Toronto.
Know-how
Know how to clean
Just like with laundry, some high school grads haven’t learned about the joy of cleaning. Okay, so most people hate cleaning. I, on the other hand, love it! For me, cleaning is a form of stress relief. During exam time my room was always spotless. The reason being, a clean and organized environment calms me. [...]
Study Break
Top 5 study-break games!
Sometimes, you need a break from working on assignments, homework and studying. Because it would be inefficient to spend time trying to find little fun games to play, we brought the top five to you! Bubble Shooter Bubble shooter is a classic puzzle-shooter game. Basically you try to group three or more bubbles of the [...]
Recent Articles
Top 5 ways to skip school (and why they’re disastrous)
Sometimes you just need a day off from school. Whether you need a day to catch up on your schoolwork or just to relax, it’s common and it’s not the worst thing in the world. A day off once or twice a year is fine, a day off once or twice a week is not. [...]
Know how to clean
Just like with laundry, some high school grads haven’t learned about the joy of cleaning. Okay, so most people hate cleaning. I, on the other hand, love it! For me, cleaning is a form of stress relief. During exam time my room was always spotless. The reason being, a clean and organized environment calms me. [...]
Know How to do Laundry
Some people just don’t get how to do laundry. Usually those people don’t know how to do laundry because they’ve had someone to do it for them. It’s actually not that hard! The Process: Start by separating your clothes into lights and darks. Okay, I’ll admit it, I NEVER separate my lights and darks. Every [...]
To avoid the government yelling at you during tax time.
If you don’t want the Canadian government to send you hate mail or mock you on the phone when you do your taxes, learn from my personal struggles. When I was little I used to save everything. Broken toys, old clothes and even a pop tart for over a year (hidden in my underwear drawer [...]
Top 5 Job Interview Q&A’s
Okay, so maybe three Top 5’s in one! During a job interview you could be asked many different questions, some easy and some not. Generally, the questions can be split into three different categories: your Past Experience, Current Skills and Your Future With the Company. We’ve included the top five common questions from each category. [...]
To prepare for life after high school before you graduate: Cooking / Eating
When students graduate from high school they face many situations where they feel unprepared. If you read advice books and blogs you find the same line over and over again: ‘I wish I knew this back then.’ Because of this, FYIhigh has decided to run a series of ‘know how’ articles specifically tailored to knowing [...]
Top 5 reasons why Americans attend Canadian universities!
We know FYIhigh has a lot of American (and international!) viewers, which is why we have made a Top 5 specifically for our neighbors to the south and beyond! The following are our Top 5 reasons why Americans attend Canadian universities: The price is right. American universities are expensive. For an American, it is often [...]
To prepare for life after high school before you graduate: Grocery Shopping
When students graduate from high school they face many situations where they feel unprepared. If you read advice books and blogs you find the same line over and over again: ‘I wish I knew this back then.’ Because of this, FYIhigh has decided to run a series of ‘know how’ articles specifically tailored to knowing [...]
Top 5 study-break games!
Sometimes, you need a break from working on assignments, homework and studying. Because it would be inefficient to spend time trying to find little fun games to play, we brought the top five to you! Bubble Shooter Bubble shooter is a classic puzzle-shooter game. Basically you try to group three or more bubbles of the [...]
Top 5 Tactics to get into your first choice University
Very few students apply to JUST their university of choice because it’s always wise to have a backup. You still want to strive for the best though, so increase your chances of getting into your number one school with the following top five getting-into-school tactics. 5. Use every opportunity to promote yourself Everything you [...]