Move over Toby Young, and let U of T students demonstrate how it's actually done. As proud members of the self-proclaimed "Harvard of the North", we take the concept and practice of "survival of the fittest" to a whole new…
A picture (or two), a flighty student, and a thousand words
It's easy for me to think of myself as being a little flighty. You could shack me up alone on an wooded island for a week, plunk me down in the middle of Calcutta, or place me in the dusty…
The Louis B. Stewart Observatory: where to bring your dental claims.
As an amateur aesthete and a history specialist, I tend to take note of the older buildings on campus. I've found myself on a number of occasions walking past the Louis B. Stewart Observatory. In some of my less stressed-out…
I iz in Montreal
You are sitting in on a comfy hotel couch in a classy classy city. - ACTIONS: >>> pee. you had too much tea at your uncle's house. - >>> rather, get up and pee. don't pee on the couch. -…
Act One: The Magic of Rare Books
Before I had gone there, this is how I pictured the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library: The student walks onto the stage, through the revolving doors of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. In front of her is a grand…
Une petite fromagerie
When I moved to Toronto about five years ago, one of the first things I noticed about the city was its self-contained neighbourhoods. In Ottawa, where I grew up, there is a central downtown complete with food markets and boutiques;…
Ripped, Revised, Résumé-d
You need a summer job. Can't you feel it? The impending sinking feeling when you log on to your ROSI account and a horrendous number in bold, bright red appears, reminding you that you are broke, and need to pay…
Rise Over Run: Testing Slopes in Real Time
Being a student taking primarily history classes, I had forgotten all about rise over run equations until just recently, when in a biology lab I had to graph and calculate the extinction coefficient of chlorophyll. I'm still not really sure…
Hello CUPPIES! or ‘I TOTALLY MET JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN’
We had pretty low self-esteem when we boarded the plane to Saskatoon. “We” are one of the many many campus newspapers from U of T, and we knew the facts when we made our way towards the annual nation wide…
The Coming of the End: How to [Messily?] Wrap up Loose Ends
Like most other U of T students, I have just finished the fall term for 2008 (and boy does it feel good). Unlike the majority of other students, however, the end of this term signifies for me the beginning of…