There's no doubt that by now you've seen at least one of the innumerable videos going 'round the internet, entitled: "Things — insert cultural background/gender/sexual orientation — people say." Now, while I think that most of these are hilarious, they're…
Baby It’s Cold Outside!
Baby it’s Cold Outside! No this is not Rod Stewart guest blogging...although that would be mighty keen! It’s really starting to feel like winter though, I don’t know about you but I was caught unprepared, sloughing it out in the…
My name is Erin?
The time has come for me to take the Aboriginal Studies language requirement and when I stepped into the classroom for my first Inuktitut lesson, I immediately stepped back out of it. Why? After stepping into the class and scanning…
I’m so ridiculously excited for my project course
I just got off the phone with my mother. According to her, auditing math courses just for fun makes me "a huge nerd". True. But 'round these parts (namely, the departments where I study, or more broadly, this whole…
Getting Older, but What About Wiser?
Monday of this week marks my 32nd year on this planet, and often when my birthday passes, I become reflective of my life. Specifically I judge where I am at, compared to where I thought I would be at. This…
Team Building: Leadership First
As we embark on a new year, I have had much time to reflect on the past, and to conjure up in my mind what I want to accomplish for the future. While I have the standard resolutions of…
A Letter to Fellow Travellers
Imagine for me, lifeatuoft, the following 3 things: (1) a friend who will love anyone exactly as they are, (2) a professor who knows that the hard problems of science have deep existential relevance, and (3) a joyous and unrelenting…
“First of all, are you okay?”
Back in September, I started off the school year on the wrong foot. Actually, to push the tired foot analogy a little further, I was dragging my feet, tripping over shoelaces and falling down. Probably in a puddle. Of mud.…
Quitting: The quest to go smoke-free
Last week I was keen on writing a post on how to successfully quit smoking, but, after much thought, I felt that I would be a hypocrite if I did so. Yes, I had plans on quitting, as I tend…
Dances of hope and healing
I'm surrounded by strangers and TV cameras and bright lights as far as the eye can see. Somewhat unlike a typical lecture, there’s a certain energy about the people in the rows and rows of wooden chairs. The excited buzz of…