{"id":19266,"date":"2014-01-16T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=19266"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T19:46:26","slug":"reflecting-on-the-beginning-of-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/01\/16\/reflecting-on-the-beginning-of-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on the beginning of the end"},"content":{"rendered":"My usual reluctance to leave the holiday cesspool of unproductivity is further complicated by a sad realization that I will soon not have to deal with this problem anymore.\r\n\r\nThis is my last semester at UofT.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19274 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_9550\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_9550-300x300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_9550-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_9550-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_9550-1024x1024.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>new self-portrait.<\/em><\/p>\r\nWe all start our undergraduate careers thinking about the possibilities that the next few years will hold for us, without realizing how quickly those few years will slip by.\r\n\r\n<strong>There are many things I wanted to do, that I managed to do,<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Get involved with on campus extra curricular<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Discover what I was interested in<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Live well in a city I am unfamiliar with<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Learn how to cook<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Make fabulous friends<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Make a snow angel\r\n(Coming from the tropics, this is a big one, I have my first experience on film)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19275 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-15 at 12.20.41 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-12.20.41-PM-300x191.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-12.20.41-PM-300x191.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-12.20.41-PM-470x300.png 470w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-15-at-12.20.41-PM.png 505w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><em>a still of me executing perfect snow angel form from aforementioned film.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<strong>There were also things I didn\u2019t plan on, but did anyway,<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Pull multiple all-nighters<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Work at a soup kitchen<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Read a ridiculous amount of literature in a short time<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Eat too much food truck poutine<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Do a random minor completely for fun<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Fall badly on the ice at least once every winter<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_8145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19277 aligncenter\" alt=\"IMG_8145\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_8145-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_8145-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_8145-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2014\/01\/IMG_8145.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>the UofT student diet.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<strong>With one semester left, I decided to compile a list of things I wanted to do before graduated:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Go see a collection at the Justina Barnicke gallery in Hart House<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Use as much wifi as possible<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Go to a couple of free lectures\/talks<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Use the career center<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Enter a poetry contest<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Study outside when the weather gets nice<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nI also wanted to conquer my fear of talking to professors more openly, so I will be conducting some professor interviews this semester and writing about my experiences.\r\n\r\nWhat else should I do before I graduate?\r\nWhat do you think are some must dos at UofT?\r\nFollow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=tryituoft&amp;src=typd\">#TryitUofT<\/a> on Twitter to catch events all over campus.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div 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