Student Stories

Look at them now: 20 years of the Maclean’s University Guide

To celebrate the 20th birthday of our University Guide, we tracked down two decades’ worth of grads we interviewed in those pages to see where they are now

The shocking childhood of Ashley Richard and how she overcame it

Inspired by her grandmother, Ashley Richard went from being homeless, poor, abused and assaulted, to an award-winning student.

After a suicide attempt, football became Jeremy Pearce’s ticket out of a dead-end life

His football coach had never met anyone who had been through so much at his age.

I dropped out of McGill because of depression

Advice from a woman who couldn’t find help on campus