A lot of people give the advice to get out of your comfort zone. I always had trouble of fully understanding the comfort zone and why it was such a bad thing. I couldn’t understand what my comfort zone was…
The Art of Losing Elections
My name is Avneet and I’m a loser. Seriously, it’s a term that I actively embrace. I even wrote an article for The Varsity about the merits of being a loser. When I first got to university, the most jarring…
Councils and Unions
Since election season is underway, I’ve decided to dedicate a few posts to explaining the who’s who of different structures, unions, groups and councils on campus. Last week I talked about the different student government structures each college has, and…
From Spectating to Participating: the time to get involved is now
With the first week of March now upon us, we students are entering that proverbial ‘crunch time’ of late nights, libraries, and fancy lattes to help us cope with it all. And this year, more than most, seems to have…
Born to Run
So a few weeks ago, I decided to put my name in the running for an executive position on the Arts and Science Students’ Union (as Don Cherry would say, the pinkos in Sid Smith!). I was told there was…
What exactly are you running for?
“If I don’t even pay much attention to our own country’s elections, why should I bother with my school elections?” This is the common excuse that I have received when asking around about the upcoming end of year elections. I’m…
The Truth is Out There: Turnitin.com
While I was slaving working on an essay for a PoliSci class, this beauty dropped into my inbox*: Here’s the thing that bothered me: “TAs will not grade/return your paper if it is not also submitted online.” I have to…
Making sense of the U of T elections
You’ve seen the posters everywhere on campus – Vote for so-and-so! And somewhere in your subconscious, you probably realized there’s an election coming up at the University. But if you’re like me, you just don’t care. It has nothing to…