Sometimes the best thing you can do about school is cry. I mean it. When you have three papers due within three days and your brain refuses to construct a single coherent sentence, crying is perhaps the only thing…
Being Peter Parker
With the Student Life Community Crew, The Ethics, Society and Law Students’ Association, The Underwear Club, Work-Study at the School of Public Policy and Governance, a service learning placement in the winter and a more-than-full course load—to say that I’ve…
The “Best” Me?
Lately, or at least since the school year started, I’ve been going to bed by reviewing the day I’ve had. Time and time again, I've been find myself coming back to the same question of if I'm being the best…
Tweeting your way to student engagement
Are you on Twitter? If not, you should be. To me Twitter is more than just another dumb social network (although it can totally seem like it sometimes) but a way for a person to stay constantly informed and up-to-date…
getting my bbq on.
WARNING: this post does contain Carly Rae Jepsen and Owl Man, please proceed with caution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agluuflcpos First off, welcome to all our new bloggers! Looking forward to working with all of you! 🙂 If you're like me, you like…
Day Use Lockers — A Practical Remedy for Book Hoarding
I used to live ten minutes from off campus, but last April my family moved out of town to greener pastures. I got alot of “the commutes going to kill you” and “you’ll be wishing you never moved after you…
H(e)art House
While I’ve previously talked about finding myself, what I’m studying and how my college has helped me come to terms with who I am and what I hope to do, one of the places on campus that had an important…
Hey U of T, it’s time to get moving!
Can you believe two weeks of classes have already flown by? Life just seems to get insanely busy for us students once the term begins – we are immediately bombarded with quiz dates, assignment deadlines, and mid-term schedules. With a…
Dabble Dabble Dabble
This time last year I was a bright eyed, Aboriginal (Cree, First Nations, or as Derek Zoolander would put it "Abodiginal"), first year, Humanities student. I wanted to do it all: the student clubs, events, sports, meeting more Indigenous students,…
In Search of Wellness: School, extra-curriculars, and Parisian agendas
The end is near! Or at least, that’s my hope, being in my fourth year of undergraduate studies. And yet, the end is already looking somewhat bittersweet. Bitter, because there are still so many things I had thought I would…