April 2017 – Life @ U of T

Reminiscing on my Summer Abroad

The biggest regret I have of my time in undergrad is not going on exchange. I'd wanted to spend a semester in Europe since high school, but doing so would've meant giving up opportunities such as donship or managing Caffiends, which I…

In Which I Close a Chapter

ALT="My friend looking back standing next to his car" — I've finished looking back for now.

It's hard to believe we're at the end of the year. I feel like I say this every end of April, but school went by so fast; scarily fast. It seems like just last week I was putting on boots and trudging through the snow-- oh wait, that was last week! Jokes aside (though Canadian weather is not a joke sometimes), I wanted to squeeze out one last blog post for the wonderful folks who read my work all year. This blog post will be my advice to you consisting of the 4 most important lessons I've learned in my third year at this wonderful university.

Time for Reflection

My first year as a University student in Canada is done! I can't really explain how strange and exciting it feels to be done with my first year of university, similar to the feeling I had when I found out…

Now, A Break

On Tuesday afternoon, I finished my last exam of undergrad. It has taken some time for that fact to sink in. I'd imagined walking out of the exam centre skipping with joy in the sunlight. Instead, I spent a half hour calculating the…

Thanks for Everything

For those of you who have followed me throughout the year via this blog or any of our other social media channels, this is where we part ways. This is my last blog post with student life, and very likely…

I Wrote a Novel (Literally)

On Monday, I finished my first novel draft. It was 192 pages in total and just over 58000 words long. It'd taken me seven months to complete, and I wrote it for a fourth year seminar course (VIC479Y1) called The…

Finding Student Housing

What do I find more stressful than finals slowly approaching? Not knowing where I will live next year AND having to find a place before I go home to Uruguay AND study for finals... all at the same time. When…

A Year of Doing Things I’m Afraid Of

A picture of the blog I'm currently writing with the caption: "writing my last blog post" — Meta

When I first met with my supervisors to begin blogging for Life at U of T, I was suddenly unbelievably, irrationally nervous. I confidently applied for the role of Career Centre Blogger because I loved to write, I wanted to think more about my career, and I was qualified for the position. But as soon as I stepped back on campus to begin writing for the year, I was filled with self-sabotaging doubt.

In Which I go to Spain and Live in a Cave

The Swedish semester is odd, and classes start and end seemingly randomly, but sometimes this strange system can lead to unexpected breaks. With a week between lecture sections I decided to visit some old friends from my wild hostel-working days,…

The End of the School Year

The end of the school year is here, and I don’t know about you, but as much of a relief as it is to have made it through another year of school, it’s also kind of bittersweet for me. For…

Month: April 2017