I started my blogging year writing about a conversation I had with a little girl about “’paradise”, and how a word could mean many different things to different people. The winter version: Steeped tea and strudel My final year of…
Blogging about Blogging
For this week’s post I had the hardest time coming up with something to write about. Over the last year, I’ve been writing weekly blog posts for CTSI, in partnership with Student Life. The posts generally follow rough guidelines: Word count:…
The Subject POSt (harhar)
April 1st is coming up!! For all with freshly completed 4.0 FCEs, this means it is time to pick your Subject POSts. Before you declare a program, make sure you know: What type it is (1, 2 or 3) What…
The Job Application thing.
A big part of March Madness is that job search sites have officially opened their recruitment floodgates for the summer. It is an inevitable part of the growing process – job applications. It can be daunting when I think about…
The Bravery Continues Interview: Professor Karney
A few weeks ago I featured an interview I did with one of my English professors. I wanted to continue my bravery, but was also genuinely curious about other teaching styles in other disciplines at the University. So I asked…
March Madness
March is a mad mad month. It is that uncontested season of the school year where everything academic explodes into a huge mess of deadlines, caffeine and printer ink shortages. Coming off Reading Week is disorienting, a little like Alice…
Life Schedule Conflicts – the real deal.
This week I had planned to write about a conference I was really pumped to go to. But when the weekend hit and I assessed the work I needed to do for the week to come, I realized that the…
The Office Hour Interview: Professor C. Warley
Office hours for me have always been a point of stress, something I was determined to go to every year but never really mustered up the courage or effort to. So one of my resolutions this academic year was to…
Ideas for the U of T.
Last Wednesday I enrolled in a free lecture series called ‘Ideas for the World’, hosted for students at Victoria College. With the options of different sessions within the program, each focusing on different topics and hosted at different times, the…
Questions and Answers
We often come into University searching for answers: Who am I going to become over the next four years? Where is the cheapest restaurant? What am I going to do with my life? Where do they serve free coffee? What…