Hello friends! Reading Week has come to an end, but I hope everyone had a productive and/or fun week to catch up and/or relax! As much as I would like to talk about my own Reading Week for this post,…
Ice and Events: Reading Week 2015
This is the first Reading Week I’ve spent in Toronto. In both my first two years I flew home to see my parents and my Alberta friends. Last year, Reading Week actually turned out to be more stressful than helpful.…
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…
Oh, Those Dreaded Overnighters: Why being Sleep Deprived is Not a Sign of Productivity
Like every other U of T student, I have had a lot of assignments due before Reading Week. Given that I don’t have a time machine (I only have iTime 2.0, which doesn’t have the feature to go backward!) I…
Reading Week Blues
It's Reading Week. Lord God Almighty, it's Reading Week! Reading Week. That magical time of the year where I could go anywhere, and take a nice breather. A whole week of sowing my wild oats? NYC? MTL? The possibilities are literally endless.…
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…
Fun in the Snow
Sometimes, you don’t need a reason to have a little fun. You are in for a treat this week! I was really happy with my completion of four midterms and an essay in my first month back from the holiday…
My Healthy Eating Pledge
I have commitment issues. No, not with people. Not with responsibilities. But with something that has far bigger consequences. Healthy eating. *collective groan is heard throughout the campus* I think the longest I've been able to keep up with a…
Making Group Work Work
"Teamwork makes the dream work", or so I've been told. Some people might be inclined to respond that "Group work makes the nightmare work". It's a scary form of assessment which universities seem to be falling increasingly in love with. From an…
Getting out of Tokyo
Popular media often characterizes Tokyo as a mess of endless neon and concrete. I've also described it this way in the past, but getting out of the city is actually surprisingly easy. From Shinjuku, one of the city’s most densely…