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Slipping through my fingers all the time

Dec 6, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Aisha Chaudhry |Abbie Lee |Fiona Sjaus

For many, the night is a time of escape and peace, but for the majority of my life, it’s been one of my worst enemies. As a kid, I believed that if I let my eyes shut, I’d awake to everyone gone. There was this dread that would bubble in my throat along with a queasiness in my stomach. The anxiety would make me nauseous and wane my focus. The thoughts consumed my mind and left me jittery and restless. My dad didn’t live with us and only visited a few times a year.
My mother’s taste in men, Kyle Gallner, instant noodles

Dec 6, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Jessica Poon |Abbie Lee |Fiona Sjaus

My mother believes in God on a part-time basis, but her real religion is watching the news. It’s the morning and People magazine announces John Krasinski as the world’s sexiest man. My mother declares John Krasinski is no George Clooney — his nose is too big. My mother’s aesthetic judgments are casually cruel, dispensed with the frequency of oxygen. I am not in the habit of discussing male pulchritude with the woman I came out of, so I’m mildly surprised when my mother solicits my opinion.
eve

Nov 7, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Abbie Lee

good lord, what have i doneto be so far from you? to be independent, assertive, strong,my own leader, a model.
Women's volleyball sweeps Cougars in home opener

Oct 31, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Abbie Lee

UBC’s 14-time national championship-winning women’s volleyball team took on the University of Regina Cougars this past weekend in a crushing full sweep in their season’s home opener, 3–0 and 3–0. Before this weekend’s series, both past and current T-Birds filled the War Memorial Gym seats in celebration of the 2024 U Sports Championship banner unveiling commemorating another championship.
‘I feel like I’m doing what my body is meant to do’: The students and alum on the frontlines of the BC wildfires

Oct 25, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Sophia Russo |Abbie Lee

Elora Van Jarrett is no stranger to wildfires. Having grown up in BC, she’s been around them her whole life. But unlike many of us who were raised in the province, Van Jarrett doesn’t just read or hear about forest fires — she’s on the frontlines fighting them. The UBC forest resource management alum has spent summers with the BC Wildfire Service in helicopters, on intensive hiking expeditions and at the frontlines of the province’s wildfires.
Farewell, old friend: An obituary for Coyote Kip

Oct 16, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Olivia Vos |Abbie Lee

Kip the Coyote wasn’t just another furry friend on UBC campus — from sunbathing on the lawns of Place Vanier to chasing squirrels down Main Mall, Kip has touched the hearts of UBC students for years. It is with a heavy heart that we report Kip passed away sometime during the first weekend of October.
Movie night on Main Mall

Oct 10, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Abbie Lee

Okay, so I’m super drunk, right? And I’m walking down Main Mall at like 2 a.m. It’s pouring rain and I must’ve left my polka-dotted Costco umbrella at whoever’s dorm we all squeezed into for the night. It wasn’t a fun party (hence the decision to drown my liver tonight). A tall boy with foggy eyes drives an electric HOPR bike with a girl squeezed into the front basket.
an em i loved

Jun 21, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Abbie Lee

somehow there is always an emily somehow there is always an emily —she is beautiful, cool, sometimesgoes by em or emma, stone-cold,blunt like a dick in someone’s, butas i was saying,there is always an emilyan em i love, yes. when she hides behind her friends,she is the man behind the curtain — i am the ruby shoesthat bring her home, therethe whole time, forever composed of nows,and she is her worst enemy, her own rival.
asonnet

Jun 21, 2024 | ubyssey.ca | Abbie Lee

how can you love someone without cravingtheir insides? is it to live to eat, or eat to live? we figured out we’re capable of loveeven when we ate foods that refused totouch on plastic plates or when we would drinkfrom sippy cups. we were princesses andpicked play pretend partners, when pleasure waspure and all we could do was live to eat.
Incoming: Graduation…Here’s What I’ve Learned

Apr 23, 2024 | hercampus.com | Abbie Lee

It’s come to my attention (sadly, as I’ve been trying to avoid this topic for weeks) that graduation is less than a month away. Thinking about that and even just writing that sentence down brings me so many emotions – excitement, worry, sadness, and curiosity about what’s to come, along with simply making me sick to my stomach. I’m surely going to start tearing up in the midst of writing this article. During my time here, every school year has been wildly different.