Reading is one of the many ways I like to de-stress and learn about new things. So, this past summer, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing some books on the Life@UofT social media accounts. Now, you can find them all…
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25 Hours in a Day – Making Time for Everything
“While everyone is sacrificing sleep to get ahead of the game, sleep to actually get ahead of the game” – Having three classes back-to-back is not fun (especially around lunch time). Even if the buildings are next to each other..
It Gets Easier: Second Year Discoveries
After my guide to meeting people in first year last week, I thought it would only be fitting to discuss my experience as a second-year student. Firstly, a question to the audience: Should second year students (or any upper years for…
Organizing my streaming schedule
Streaming shows, movies, and videos on the internet have been a plague to my GPA efforts in previous years. YouTube rabbit holes, seasonal anime, Netflix binges – you name it. These have been the number-one source of wasted time during school…
How to Navigate Orientation Week with a Disability
So it’s orientation week, and you feel like you don’t know where to begin. There are so many new experiences ahead of you, you might be feeling a little overwhelmed. Take a breath, and read ahead. Get out of your…
Being Instructed to USE Mobile Devices in Class
Goodbye clickers, hello smartphones! “Talk to *insert student name here* behind you and discuss the question again”. This message that displayed on our mobile device screens was freaky at first…
How I Met People at U of T
Jumping into such a big school, my first worry was “How am I going to make friends?” Living in the same neighbourhood for most of my life, I generally had a solid group of friends and feared that if…
Commute checklist
For someone as restless as myself, commutes can be a fatally boring task. Besides the ever-present feeling that time is being wasted away, taking the bus and the subway every day to and from school is an incredibly tiresome and…
There’s a failing grade on my transcript and my GPA sucks
The situation Even the smallest failure is catastrophic when you feel like the trajectory of your life depends solely on your actions today. Doing poorly on a quiz, not scoring well on an essay – these relatively insignificant inconveniences began…
Time Keeps On Slippin’
Back when I was in high school, my father would always tell me that I needed better time management skills. I’d like to say that now I’m a master of scheduling, a non-procrastinator who gets things done immediately with magical…