Girl A: Oh my god!! Guerlain Shalimar! Smell it! Smell the bergamot? Iris? It's supposed to have a vanilla base. Oh my god I'm in love! I have to get this!…
Laptop, Topdawg!
For the ordinary student, well, it's just a common thing. Everyone has one - I see them in class, in libraries, on the streets. They are (here is my word of the week) ubiquitous! But for me - the experience…
Arts Week, Next Week: uft haz artz o i didnt no
Have you been to 1 Spadina Crescent? I went once last year. On a random day. It looks ghostly from the outside, and I felt like an intruder (as it was particularly empty at the time). In first-year, part of…
Come Fly With Me, Lets Fly, Lets Fly Away…
Time to rock the world, my fellow students! I remember the first time I heard about studying abroad. I googled all the awesome summer courses for U of T students, and hooked myself onto studying Criminology in England. Every year, Woodsworth…
Competitive? At U of T? Really?
"Hey, do you want some?" It was second year and I was sitting in Sid Smith when a girl I knew opened her purse and took out her caffeine pills. "I also have some other stuff, you know, day time…
Lost: A Small Notebook that is Green and Wonderful
I had a little green notebook once and I loved it. It was for my history class. It had everything in it that I needed. Every class. All the points the professor made. Everything. Over reading week I’d begun to…
My Only Hope: One day Someone will Realize my Mediocrity is Actually a Super Human Feat
UTormail: Inbox Email # 339 of 340 Date :Tues, 10 Feb 2009 00:09:10 -0600 From: Heather To: Phil Subject: AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey Phil, Ya, you're right, I really haven't gotten back to you in a while. This is…
UTGDDC: Game Making Deathmatch, and a Tribute to Randomness
I hope you like non-linear narrative GAME MAK- Ah. Before that, did I mention our 'in-house' game project this year? We're attempting to develop, or at least flesh out the ideas needed to develop, our own game within the club.…
The Quarter-Life Crisis of a First Generation Immigrant Part III: Breaking Free
One of my biggest fears in life is to miss an opportunity. I hate the emptiness of "never knowing" that accompanies regret. It's like a big, black hole that sucks the optimism out of me, and leaves me deep in…
The Quarter-Life Crisis of a First Generation Immigrant Part II: Tough Love Re-rooted
In science, there are two fundamental key concepts that paradoxically co-exist in nature: “Like attracts like” “Opposites attract” Even if you are not a science type of person, it doesn’t take much to realize that both make perfect sense but…