Ambrose Ambassador Blogs

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What is it like to be an international student?

Posted by Johana Mak

Being born and raised in Venezuela, I’ve always wanted to see snow and the beauty of snowflakes. When one of my brothers was choosing a university, he chose the University of Calgary, so as a family we all came to see the city. I fell in llove with Calgary at once, even though there was no snow.

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Tags: International Student

Community and Joy

Posted by Miranda Casey

Last year, my friend Paul and my fiancé Josh were working on building a one stair step—basically a box made of wood for the stage at LYC (Ambrose’s Legacy Youth Conference). My grandfather was a carpenter and I watched him work growing up, so to me this simple task should have taken no time at all. Five pieces of wood, screws, and a screw gun can’t be that hard right? Well it took the men three hours to build this step which could have been finished in 45 minutes.

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Tags: Legacy, Joy

Happy New Year!

Posted by Alistair Mahood

The year 2016 came so quickly. It caught me by surprise.  I don’t have any New Year’s Resolutions. I can never come up with creative resolutions, so I have just stopped making them all together. Instead, I am setting a few goals:

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Tags: business program

What is this white stuff falling from the sky? Is this real life?

Posted by Anna Zipprick
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Tags: university, winter

Social Life in Residence

Posted by MacKenzie Baker

Upon arriving at Ambrose, one of the things I was most concerned about was making friends in residence and being a part of the many different activities that take place.

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Tags: university, community

Survival Guide to ‘Finals Apocalyptic Week’

Posted by Miranda Casey

It is that time in the semester where every student dreads ‘Finals Apocalyptic Week’. This is where some students leave final papers, take home exams, and preparing those 150 cue-cards for your biology exam, all until the final week of classes.

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Tags: university, finals exams

“Seminary? Master of Divinity? What is that?!”

Posted by Johana Mak
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Tags: seminary

How to Write a Thesis – And Other Things High School Didn’t Teach Me

Posted by Mo Hickman
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But You Don’t Sound Nova Scotian?

Posted by Mo Hickman

Introducing – Me!

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Finding a Fantastic University

Posted by Nicholas Newnes

To be completely honest, I used to think that Ambrose was just another bible college with not much to offer for other programs. I always knew that I wanted to go into a Business Administration program and people would say to me that to do that I needed to go to a provincial university or another big name school.

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Tags: university