Over the years, I’ve used health services at U of T as my family physician. In second year, for example, when my roommate and I had the (genuinely brilliant) idea to throw a candy sushi party and I woke up…
Five tips to explore careers at CID
Raise your hand if you like networking! I’m guessing you didn’t raise your hand. Perhaps because you dislike networking, or perhaps because you felt like it would be weird to raise your hand at your computer. It's true that networking…
How I’m planning to #startUofT
We’re halfway through August, which, to me at least, feels like the end of the summer. But happily, it’s not the end, especially since classes start mid-September for most students this year! Even though we’re not quite there yet, there’s…
On the move
In the past five years, I’ve moved four times, and in a few weeks, I’m about to make it five. I moved from home in 2010 into residence at Whitney Hall for my first year. After that, I moved into…
How to see your name in lights (or at least in print) on campus
One of the cheapest thrills on campus is seeing your name in print in one of our many student media publications. I can still remember seeing my first major byline in The Varsity - I wrote a story about going…
U of T staycations
It’s summer in Toronto, U of T - and it’s a hot one. (Well, most days. Then there are those weird cold days. But I will refrain from turning this post into a rant about the unpredictability of the weather…
The perks of pen pals, or my personal quest to keep Canada Post in business
Dear lovely Life at U of T readers, I mentioned in previous posts that I studied abroad a couple times during my undergraduate degree (you can read about my summer in Berlin here). During those terms, I always made sure…
Of coffee and cabbages
For most of my U of T career (so far), I've lived in Harbord Village. Being close to campus made life a lot easier. I was able to roll out of bed half an hour before class and stay at…
According to my research…
In my second year at U of T, I did the Research Opportunity Program (ROP). I assisted a professor in the department of Art History who was working on a book about illustrated haggadoth (the Jewish ritual book of Passover).…
An afternoon with U of T Dig In!
Ever walk around campus and think that you might like to swap out your textbooks and pencils for some dirt and gardening tools? If you’ve got the urge to get your hands dirty in between summer classes, you should get…