If you’ve been keeping up with me you’d know I had a chaotic start to this semester. And as a result, I quickly fell behind in all of my classes. I had an extension for an assignment that I still…
Navigating the Final Stretch of the Academic Year
I have been counting down the weeks of this semester since the first day of school! Back in January, when I was putting my calendar together, I thought to myself "wow, this is going to be a brutally long 14…
Academic Success and Imposter Syndrome
Over Reading Week I attended an Academic Success workshop on Imposter Syndrome titled “Learning from Failure and Challenge”. This is one of a group of workshops in U of T Student Life’s “Learning How to Learn" series. These Academic Success…
Attending Academic Success’ “Express Your Stress Workshop”
In the frenzy and anxiety of starting a new semester, I started to feel stressed out about the stress that I may experience when the workload of the semester picks up again. I know I should have been living in…
Stressed? This Post is for You
If you’re feeling extremely stressed about the five papers and five exams you have in the upcoming weeks, then this blog post is for you. Here is a short rundown of how I deal with my November/December stress. The best…
To Stress or Not to Stress
Stress (Noun) /stres The Oxford Dictionary’s definition: A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. My definition: A constant battle with oneself. A mental state that consumes one’s psyche for prolonged periods of time until…
You Can’t Spell “Group Project” Without “Group”
Midterms. Alright, enough talk of midterms. Let’s talk about something way more terrifying. That’s right. Group projects. For a fair number of us, the end of October isn’t just scary because of Halloween- it’s the…
Take a Break
Sometimes, if I focus on one thing for too long, it feels like my brain might melt and lazily drip out from my ears. It isn't a nice feeling. Chances are you know what I'm talking about (minus the melting…
How to manage post-exam stress
As we all know, exams are stressful. They take a semester's worth of knowledge and cram it all into a two or three hour session. For someone like me who isn't particularly fond of examinations (I much rather write final…