As a result of all the midterms and assignments that have been piled on my plate in the last week, I can now say that I have successfully pulled off my first all-nighter of the year. I know I’ve been…
Your ideas are worth spreading (and funding)!
It's midterm season and that means you're probably spending countless hours of your precious youth reading, studying, and re-reading your textbooks/notes/lecture slides in a desperate effort to get that all-important "A" on your first bout of midterms/assignments. While this time of…
Field Trips…They’re not just for kids!
I'm lucky to be in a program at U of T that values hands-on learning. Theory is great and is useful in itself, but too much theory makes Lori an unhappy girl. The ratio has to be about 40:60 for…
Goodnight classes.
Goodnight chair. Goodnight paper. Goodnight pen. Goodnight screen. Goodnight lecture theatre. Since my first year of university, I have had 5 night classes, 3 of which are in this semester. Night classes, especially when you commute from far away and…
So You Wanna Write the LSAT, Eh?
I did not know how to sign up for the LSAT, what LSAC was or even what the LSAT consisted of until February 2012. And I wrote my first LSAT in June 2012. Some things I wish I had known…
The Back Door to U of T – The Millie Rotman Shime Academic Bridging Program
I was sitting in a hallway the other day waiting for my prof’s office hours to begin when another person sat down beside me. We got to talking and when I told her that my college was Woodsworth she immediately…
Learn about the world, courtesy of U of T!
If you're like me, the idea of travelling the world is both a fascinating and daunting thing to comprehend. Who doesn't want to travel a bit, learn about a new culture, broaden their perspective, see some exotic locations and meet…
UTSU Emergency Townhall Meeting
On Tuesday, September 25th, the University of Toronto Students' Union held a town hall meeting in MSB 2158 to solicited feedback on a response paper to the Ministry's new discussion paper on the future of pse. Here are some tweets from the event.
Yes, I’m crying. Why do you ask?
Sometimes the best thing you can do about school is cry. I mean it. When you have three papers due within three days and your brain refuses to construct a single coherent sentence, crying is perhaps the only thing…
Study Saint? (Not this guy)
Strategic studying, my comrades; this is your word of the week (heck, it should be your word of the year), and even though this blog post will cover the topic of strategic studying, I myself have only recently begun to…