An interesting thing happened to me this weekend, something that doesn't typically happen to a student within the parentheses of Friday and Monday: I learned something! And no, it wasn't how many beers I could chug in five minutes. I…
Check yourself before you wreck yourself!
I suffered a particularly nasty blow to the ego last Tuesday. A shocking midterm experience led me to “check myself, before I wrecked myself.” Thank you Ice Cube! This midterm season sure felt bad for my health – less…
What would you do if you had the courage?
After walking into a cozy, hidden room full of strangers at the top of Hart House yesterday afternoon, the first question I was met with did not ask my name, or why I was there, but: “What would you…
Are you too old to trick or treat?!
Too old to trick or treat?! Maybe… But NOT too old to get dressed up!!! Halloween may be the only driving force dragging me through mid-October midterms, but I think I’ll make it. Looking back on Halloweens gone by I…
What’s Your Tree?
One of the most special aspects of being part of this university community is that I am free – and even encouraged – to engage with fearless, brilliant, passionate people that have the ability to hold up a mirror to…
Occupy your Academic Don
Comrades, My mind has been occupied lately. Mid-terms, assignments, this blog and world events that seem extremely loud and incredibly close (I'm reading Jonathan Safran Foer for my Cook the Books class at the moment) are mentally taking its toll…
“I From Foreign!”
In the dialect of my home country, this phrase — in more ways than one — says that I’m not from around here. These would have been the words spoken from my mouth four years ago as I arrived in…
Read this post! There won’t even be a test at the end.
Yesterday, I did something terrifying. Or, more accurately, something that should have been terrifying but was instead an overwhelmingly positive experience. I attended a math talk hosted by the Fields Institute. I am not a Math major. Now, before you…
Ubuddy is my Buddy!
School has just started and I'm already tangled up in a web of course announcements, emails from my professors and fellow classmates, newsletters from the university, events listings from associations I take part in, college newsletters etc. It is exhausting trying…
A Nuit Blanche Walk at U of T
Aaniin (hello) everyone, As an Aboriginal Studies major, I've been lucky enough to study under some amazing teachers and Professor Jill Carter has been one in particular that was always able to capture my attention and imagination. As the first…