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Somewhere between A-level credits and Battle of the Bands, your UCalgary decision gets more human.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid UCalgary student conversation turns first-step uncertainty and internship pressure into practical next steps.
UCalgary's student experience is framed through a familiar first-year problem: how to find a place and begin. The episode is strongest when it moves from general encouragement about taking baby steps into the more concrete path of micro placements, with 30 to 40 hours over eight…
A student music club turns individual sign-ups into bands, open mics, and an entry point to campus life.
Creativity at UCalgary comes through as a practical way to build community, with Schulich Soundstage showing how individual sign-ups can turn into bands and a clearer path into campus life.
A clear guide to A-level transfer credit, official exam results, and the August waiting period.
For students arriving at UCalgary with GCE credentials, this single-episode review works best as a practical guide to how A-level transfer credit is handled.
A warm profile of a UCalgary student shaping a wide academic life across physics, philosophy, research, clubs, and languages.
Michaela comes across as a UCalgary student whose academic life keeps widening without losing its center. Her path through physics honours and philosophy honours gives the episode a strong intellectual spine, while the research theses, study abroad, and club leadership show how…
A clear look at campus recovery support, belonging, and its wider Calgary connections.
Choose UCalgary's look at the UCalgary Recovery Community gives a campus program room to show what recovery support can mean in university life.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Host Prithul introduces the podcast and interviews co-presidents of the Alliances in Marketing Club about their experiences at the University of Calgary.
This episode discusses the GCE curriculum and admissions process for undergraduate students at the University of Calgary.
Host Prithul introduces the Choose UCalgary podcast season, discusses land acknowledgment, and interviews members of a student music club about their roles and studies.
This episode introduces the UCalgary Recovery Community, a campus support group, through an interview with two staff members.
This episode introduces the podcast season and features an interview with a dual-degree student about her university experiences.
A podcast episode introducing a new season and interviewing a recent graduate about her entrepreneurial journey with a generative AI company.
Graduate students in the Canada Conservation Science Lab discuss their research on coyote emotions and behavior, and their experiences as student researchers.
Undergraduate students discuss their research and fieldwork in wildlife conservation at the University of Calgary.
An interview with the coordinator of the Pathways to Medicine Scholarship Program at the University of Calgary, discussing the program's goals and support for prospective medical students.
This episode interviews a professor about the Bachelor of Community Rehabilitation program at the University of Calgary.