Student Life – Life @ U of T

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Adjusting to the Time Difference When Doing a Virtual Exchange

I am excited to join the Life @ U of T bloggers this term and blog about my virtual exchange experience at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Australia! Although there are many great aspects of doing a virtual exchange, which I am looking forward to sharing in my future posts, I thought I would start off by sharing my experience with one of the main challenges that comes with virtual exchange – adjusting to the time difference.

A Letter to My First-Year Self

In these photos, you look happy. Keep trying everything you can and everything you want. There’s seemingly not a lot of time in the day but once you put yourself in whatever opportunities you want, you’ll start to find a…

How I Avoid Eye and Screen Exhaustion

We are lucky to have screens and that many parts of our lives can be adapted to the virtual net, however, I’ve noticed that my eyes often feel strained and I have become more exhausted due to working on a…

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Managing Synchronous and Asynchronous Lectures

Now that I’ve been in class for almost a week, I’m starting to notice a unique challenge of online learning this year… managing synchronous and asynchronous lectures! For those that don’t know, synchronous lectures refer to lectures that take place…

DIY Backgrounds for Online Classes

This week is a fun one (or at least I had a lot of fun doing it)! Now that classes are online I’ve been thinking a lot about backgrounds. Most of my professors ask us to keep our cameras on…

Dealing with a bad day- how I bounce back

This past week has been particularly rough for me and I suddenly found myself feeling overwhelmed by the future and everything going on around me, so this week, I wanted to share how I bounce back from my bad days.…

My Thoughts and Feelings Going Into My Final Year of University!

In a couple of days I’ll be starting my fourth and final year of university—there are a lot of things to process and think about! In this blog article, I thought I’d share some of my worries and hopes for…

What I’ve learned from “bird courses”

As a student, I have had my fair share of taking “bird courses”—especially in my first two years at U of T. Some courses are said to be “bird” because they are “easy” and the course average is usually quite…

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Why I Love Being on the Editorial Board of an Undergraduate Journal

Today I wanted to write about something near and dear to my heart! For the past two years, I’ve worked on the editorial board of an undergraduate journal on campus—Hardwire: the Undergraduate Journal of Sexual Diversity Studies. Undergraduate journals are…

The Regrets of a Third Year Student

This post is inspired by the Macleans article “The Many Regrets of a Fourth Year Student”! I’m just starting fourth year, so these are my regrets as a third year, aka advice that I would tell my younger self who…

Category: Student Life

Category: Student Life

Adjusting to the Time Difference When Doing a Virtual Exchange

A Letter to My First-Year Self

How I Avoid Eye and Screen Exhaustion

Managing Synchronous and Asynchronous Lectures

DIY Backgrounds for Online Classes

Dealing with a bad day- how I bounce back

My Thoughts and Feelings Going Into My Final Year of University!

What I’ve learned from “bird courses”

Why I Love Being on the Editorial Board of an Undergraduate Journal

The Regrets of a Third Year Student

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Category: Student Life