Over the weekend, I visited Toronto's Tea Festival at the Reference Library (which is also a great place to study downtown). A myriad of vendors offered samples from diverse types of tea leaves including cultures such as from…
Staying Healthy During Flu Season
In university, it almost seems like the “flu season” is really the just the school season. Everywhere I go, I hear people around me coughing and sneezing. Normally, I don’t mind too much, but when it gets close to midterm…
Studying Abroad: Settling in
As I've repeated countless times, studying abroad had always been a dream of mine. Even when I was much younger, and still in middle-school, I knew it was something I wanted to do in university. And like all my friends keep telling…
One Day At a Time
Happy New Year, everybody! Now that we’re into our third week of classes I feel like I’ve finally been able to settle in and breathe a little. This semester is a big transition for me: I just came off of…
Overwhelmed? #RELATEABLE
Aaniin, hope you’ve all been well! We’re halfway through the academic year, and I don’t know about you, but the days seem to just be getting busier. As students, we find ourselves struggling to find a balance between school, work,…
Making Spirits Bright: Surviving the Dark Winter in Finland
"Kaamos" is the Finnish word for "polar nights:" some places don't see sun for three months. Helsinki, where I am, is southerly enough to get some light--almost seven hours per day now! Still, it's not as luxurious as the nine…
My New Year’s Resolutions as a Student
As the new year begins, I (like others) have many resolutions for the upcoming year, so I wanted to dedicate this post to sharing some of mine. Engaging in lectures: Last year, I realized that I wasn’t actually learning in lectures, but…
Surviving Food Poisoning While At University
You’d think your first week back to university would be fun and relaxing, right? Think again. Last week, on my second day back to school, I got food poisoning after eating at a deep dish pizza place on Bathurst and…
Styling U of T Clothes for a Week (Winter Edition)
To start off the new year, I wanted to do a fun little post about how I style U of T clothes! Here are some of the outfits I’ve put together with different U of T pieces incorporated into each…
6 Things to Start 2020 Off Right
New year, new semester, new schedule, (new me?)! For my first blog post of 2020 I thought I’d share some of my new years resolutions/beginning-of-the-semester goals, with the intention of holding myself to them as well as maybe inspiring a…