I have always loved English classes and writing, whether creative or essay-based. Throughout high school, the writing process was relatively natural for me. However, I took an English course in my first year that challenged me to amp up my…
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Office Hours — make the most of it!
Now that we’re more than halfway through reading week, it’s worth thinking about how we’re going to use the next couple of weeks — we don’t have many of them left! A good place to start is office hours. You…
Professors Don’t Bite (Going to Office Hours)
Walking into a professor’s office hours can feel akin to infiltrating a dragon’s lair. Sometimes, even the friendliest of professors are difficult to approach. But overcoming fear of office hours opens the door to a great resource. Whether I’ve hit…
Indigenous Language Revitalization
One of the things that brought me to Toronto was to attend George Brown College for their American Sign Language and Deaf Studies program back in 2011. Many people—myself included, prior to taking that program—assume that there is a universal…
The “good enough” question
We have established that classroom interaction is important. But most of us are faced with the same problem — what makes a question a good question? Any question is great because it clarifies something, but it’s even better when it’s…
An Online Course Adventure
With every new semester comes new challenges and experiences. This semester, I’m taking my first online course. To be honest, it wasn’t until this summer that I even knew that U of T offered online courses! It’s had its challenges,…
Dealing with stressful weeks
Last week was one of those weeks – three exams and two midterms. And I was sick. You can imagine the stress. I like to look back and reflect on particularly stressful weeks mainly because it’s interesting how despite how…
Advice from 2 Third Years.
No matter how things go, we always seem to look back and wonder what an alternative situation would be like. In the case of our courses, there are several things that we know we could have done to better our…
A Sense of Belonging and Accountability
I remember being overwhelmed by the number of students in my first class at Con Hall. The IB Programme I did in High School had only 12 people so this was a huge switch for me. I’m in my third…
Change and Unrealistic Goals
How many times have we thought “this year will be the year” at the beginning of semester? We make these big plans, sign up for several clubs, picture our 4.0s and think that by the end of this year, we’ll…