The Easter break has arrived and universities all over the UK will be closed for the next month. A break for an entire month, can you believe it?! Many students, international and UK students take the time to travel Europe…
Over-planning Kills the Magic
I’m sure many of us have spent time swiping through travel blogs, national geographic magazines and even the catalogs of mountain warehouse for hiking and backpacking equipment. Certainly, backpacking has had its Hollywood glamour through many films including Daniel Radcliffe’s…
The Library: my new home
When studying abroad, one can easily get caught up in the “abroad” part and quickly forget or choose to look past the study part. Big mistake. While it has only been 3 weeks in the beautiful, lakeside campus of the…
Flying out of my comfort zone
I never imagined myself living a whole ocean away from Toronto; away from U of T, my parents and my comfort zone. In my final summer at U of T, I took a leap of faith and applied for the summer abroad program. This just happened to be the first year that they offered a psychology course and it was a topic that I was extremely interested in. Not to mention, they were offering 1.0 credit in just a month, which also made it easier for me to convince my parents to let me go to England by myself!