or U of T: the Field Trip Extravaganza Post Okay, so it wasn’t me who got peed on twice in one day, but it was still fairly amazing: seventy-two hours into the fall term of ’09, and I was standing…
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Guest Post – There’s More to School than Books!
As we wait for the return of our regular bloggers in mid-September, we have invited a number of people to guest blog for us. Our first post is from Asma Desai. By Asma Desai End of summer is fast approaching…
The best quiet spots on campus – Part 2
I feel like I should call yesterday’s post the “West End Edition”, because then today’s can be the “North End Edition” and tomorrow’s the “Centre Edition”, but I’ve already named yesterday’s post. In the spirit on continuity, let’s just keep…
The end that is no end at all
Oh, sweet summer. The cicadas droning from somewhere near a bone-dry tree, leaves clapping in the breeze. Blades of grass tickling the skin while lying prostrate in the park. That sleep-inducing late afternoon haze. It was only weeks ago that…
A Kaleidoscope of Student Experience in 3 days!
Ah, the mutlitude of student experiences, culminated into one week to drive a person insane! The Luncheon I started my week on Monday with an English take home exam being slapped down on my desk, with a 48-hour deadline. “I…
Uncensored: UTSG v. UTSC
I always hear it: “St. George campus is too difficult” or “UTSC is too much like a high school”. Well, here it is! The uncensored perspectives of students who study at downtown St. George campus (UTSG) and Scarborough campus (UTSC),…
Assigned Readings at U of T: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Up to last week, I believed that the r’aison d’être behind studying English is good communication. Boy, was I proved wrong: for a fourth year seminar, I was assigned an article, Animal Nomenclature: Facing Other Animals, by Richard Nash, English academic extraordinaire. First…
Laptop, Topdawg!
For the ordinary student, well, it’s just a common thing. Everyone has one – I see them in class, in libraries, on the streets. They are (here is my word of the week) ubiquitous! But for me – the experience…
Replace my body with bits of metal: into the future
I am slowly becoming Darth Vader. It’s not just that I knocked my teeth out in a bicycling accident and had to replace them with titanium implants. It’s not the molar fillings, either. It’s not even that both my tonsils and…
The Last Essay I Shall Ever Write
Heather HIS343Y1Y Project RYAN, the Meta-Essay: It’s an Essay that Knows It’s an Essay So, this is my last essay. I was going to take it REALLY seriously, you know…go out with a bang, but then it really occured…