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…
I love you, but I love me more
We all have those days. You know what I'm talking about: days when you are so stressed you wonder why you were even born, why somehow you were dealt all of Fate's crap cards in one blow, why you deserve…
Come Fly With Me, Lets Fly, Lets Fly Away…
Time to rock the world, my fellow students! I remember the first time I heard about studying abroad. I googled all the awesome summer courses for U of T students, and hooked myself onto studying Criminology in England. Every year, Woodsworth…
“Uh, so what did I learn from humanities?” Mary gets a rock for Christmas
"So really, what's the point?" This is the question that creeps into my consciousness with frightening regularity. Particularly now that I'm finishing university and graduating with a specialist in history, without any palpable skills other than supposedly being able to…
Competitive? At U of T? Really?
"Hey, do you want some?" It was second year and I was sitting in Sid Smith when a girl I knew opened her purse and took out her caffeine pills. "I also have some other stuff, you know, day time…
How to lose friends and alienate people, U of T style
Move over Toby Young, and let U of T students demonstrate how it's actually done. As proud members of the self-proclaimed "Harvard of the North", we take the concept and practice of "survival of the fittest" to a whole new…
Post-Modern Procrastination 1: Thgin Eht Evivrus I Lliw
(It looks funnier without the question mark.) It's 7:48pm, my bowels are acting up, I have not had the urge to crochet since finishing my very bright hat, annnndddd... ... It's 7:55pm. My bowels have been dealt with, my throat…
PoSt Selection: How to get through it without dying [Part II]
UPDATE!! "Life Sciences POSt Seminar" on Wednesday, March 11 at 5:00pm. Event: Life Sciences POSt Seminar What: Workshop Host: Medical Sciences Student Union (MSSU) Start Time: Wednesday, March 11 at 5:00pm End Time: Wednesday, March 11 at 8:00pm Where: PB…
Lost: A Small Notebook that is Green and Wonderful
I had a little green notebook once and I loved it. It was for my history class. It had everything in it that I needed. Every class. All the points the professor made. Everything. Over reading week I’d begun to…