This is my last post of the year. I thoroughly enjoyed writing these posts every week, even though for the last few weeks I had been struggling with some level of burnout. It is hard to keep a sustained level…
Author: petera
Summer in Moderation
In my first year of university, I took 6.0 FCEs. It worked out surprisingly well for me, but it is clear to me now in retrospect that I should have calmed down a little bit and taken fewer courses; by…
Talking About Spoons
Depression takes a lot out of you; when I was very depressed and untreated I (of course) hardly functioned, so I had come up with what I called a “conservation of willpower”. Essentially, it meant that I had to neglect…
Inverted Lectures
Two of my classes this year feature the strange format of “Inverted Lecture.” The idea behind the format is that material is learned outside of the classroom and then the material is practiced during lecture. I was initially skeptical of…
The Pitfalls of Group Work
Most of my homework is explicitly individual: I put in all the effort, slap my name on front, shove it in the hands of some unsuspecting marker, and in the end I get all the credit. The idea behind it,…
Finding On-Campus Jobs and Work-Study Positions @ U of T
If you are looking for a summer job and haven’t found one already, now is the time to start looking. The Career Learning Network maintains a job board on which postings for Work-Study positions, On-Campus jobs, and Off-Campus jobs are…
The Downside of Reading Week
I was looking forward to my week off just a little too much this year. My midterms drained me and I wanted time off. The truth of the matter is that time does not stop. Everyone else at the University…
Write Now!
I went to a Write Now! session this week. Write Now! is a drop-in writing session facilitated by mentors and is offered through the poet-in-community. We began simply by writing as much as we could without thinking about what we were…
Flourish, Publish & Poet-in-Community
Last Thursday I went to Flourish, Publish: Literary Publication Panel hosted by Echolocation, Hart House Review, and the Poet-in-Community at UofT. The panel consisted of Laura Ritland and Adam Zachery, the respective editors of Echolocation and Hart House Review, and…
Student Unions on Campus
University is about more than going to class and getting credits. University is also about pursuing and developing your interests. If you are interested in political action, then there are a large amount of different student unions across campus each…