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…
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…