BLACKNESS A faint light appears, growing brighter to reveal a face. The clock on the bedside table reads 3:00am. A chip packet and pizza crusts occupy the bed, along with the Netflix-watcher. Their Netflix history shows they’ve been watching Dogs…
b2B History Alumni Dinner – #TryitUofT
Over the last year and a half at U of T I think it’s safe to assume that I have received 1000+ emails to my school email address. While a lot of these did contain valuable information about courses, midterms,…
A Beginners Guide to (almost, kind of) Surviving Statistics
Throughout all the trials and tribulations of university, whether it be cramming for 5 midterms in one week, or starting a 3000 word essay the night before, there is only one thing that actually, genuinely terrifies me: Statistics. Unfortunately, the…
Winter Life Hacks (UofT Style)
I would have loved to start this post with the over-used yet always relevant Game of Thrones reference “winter is coming”. Unfortunately however, winter is already here - it’s icing up the sidewalks, freezing the streetcar tracks, and hurting your…
One Long To-Do: The Importance of Finding the Right Balance
Hello dear blog readers! Welcome back to school for our winter semester. For me, I am incredibly excited to get things going. Yet this week was probably not what I had in mind. Alongside my course readings, I have twelve…
To Credit or Not to Credit?
As I write this post I have officially finished 4 out of my 5 exams! (Promptly after I have submitted it I plan on passing out for a nap and then spending the rest of my day watching Christmas movies)…
Another Year Wiser
December has finally arrived! I always love this time of year. December is a special time when we welcome winter into our lives and focus on getting away from the cold crazy world out there and curl up inside where…
T’was the week before finals
T’was the week before finals, when all across U of T Students were cramming, for the sake of their degrees They read all night, unable to sleep in their beds With visions of 4.0’s dancing in their heads IT’S HERE…
Internet and Outernet
For more than the last eight weeks, I have had no internet access at home. It's been a difficult time. Undertaking research projects for credit, applying to grad schools, blogging here... all while not having internet access was difficult. No…
Studying: Gluttony 101
We've all been there before. You know the feeling right? You've been sitting on your laptop for hours and hour on end (and by that, I mean an hour and a half), and you begin to feel like your life is…