Everybody Likes a Gathering!

How goes it everybody? Hopefully everyone out in U of T land are killing their midterms and papers this week. Speaking of midterms... what's with that term "midterm" anyways? I think we need to strongly consider changing it to "First Tests" or something, I mean Midterm assumes that you are already midway through the semester, and last I checked we were just 5 weeks in. Also how can one have two midterms? Are you attempting to persuade me into believing that there can be two middles of the semester? have you lost your minds completely? Stop speeding up on me University, time is already going too fast and I still have no idea what I'm going to do post-Grad!

Alright so now that we have the rant portion of the post already covered and out of the way let's move onto something more productive shall we? Even though we are all swamped this month with paper's and tests, it's nice to get your head out of the library/classroom and check out an event or two on campus. This month First Nations House has a major writing event being held on the 24-25th appropriately titled "Indigenous Writers Gathering". The purpose of the event is to, of course, promote indigenous writing, storytelling, and rhetoric but it also includes events featuring authors who focus on stronger fiction, non-fiction and creative writing skills in a more broad sense. Therefore the programming is not geared specifically and only towards those of Aboriginal ancestry. It's not just a great opportunity to get out and meet some professors and award winning writers but also an opportunity to go to an event which you can write about for an assignment/paper. Multiple times, in a variety of my courses, I have been required to attend and then report on an event around campus.  If you are in a similar situation than this is definitely the event for you. The Indigenous Writer's Gathering also has a lot of momentum from it's past years success, if you have a second, check out this short review of last year's programming. I hope to see some of you there 🙂 Well, stay in there everybody.  This wave of "first" tests and papers will be long gone in just a few short weeks. Shak