{"id":21260,"date":"2014-09-16T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=21260"},"modified":"2014-09-15T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T23:38:53","slug":"commuting-the-multitasking-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/09\/16\/commuting-the-multitasking-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuting: The Multitasking Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"Like most students here at the University of Toronto, I am a commuter student. As such, I spend a large portion of my time every day on our city's treasure: the TTC.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nUnlike many of my peers though, my commute is not that long. I only really have to be on the TTC for half an hour to get to campus. I know, I'm blessed. I commend those brave souls who travel to campus all the way from places like Ajax! The sum of those individuals' commute is definitely not 41 minutes.\r\n\r\nYes -- I deliberately made a Sum 41 joke in 2014, I apologize for that.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBack to the subject at hand, yes, it's slightly annoying to put your life on pause to sit in public transit. Nevertheless, I've recently started\u00a0to take a new perspective on it, and I've actually come to embrace\u00a0my time on the TTC.\r\n\r\nTo quote the great Ferris Bueller: \"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.\"<\/strong>\r\n\r\nYou don't actually have\u00a0to have a miserable experience\u00a0while commuting! It can\u00a0even be *audible gasp*<\/strong> enjoyable.\r\n\r\nHere's what I did:<\/strong>\r\n
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  1. My readings.\r\n<\/strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n
    \"Me<\/a>
    The Anthropology of Youth Culture!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nI don't start new readings since I find it pretty difficult to start new readings in the frenzy of the\u00a0TTC. However, I find it extremely helpful to re-read readings that I've already started or finished. While it is always advised that you look back at your readings, I perpetually ignore that fact, unless I'm on the TTC. Therefore, the TTC is a treasure to my GPA.<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Read newspapers.\r\n<\/strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n
    \"Me<\/a>
    I came too late. No copies of the Metro were left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nI can't even explain to you how far behind in the real world I was until this summer. Yes, we have the Internet. But with the Internet comes videos of dogs reuniting with their owners after a year. Why in the world would I voluntarily skip out on that, and instead read about Rob Ford's $9-billion subway plan. It's sad to say this -- because I'm basically admitting I'm an old person -- but the subway excites me these days, because I know I will have time to just read the newspaper. Getting topical is becoming fun for me!<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Listen\u00a0to music.\r\n<\/strong><\/strong>\r\n\r\n
    \"Me<\/a>
    Me trying to achieve the whistle register.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSometimes I don't want to think -- sometimes I just want to put Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend\u00a0<\/em>on full blast through my earphones, and just wail my arms. This is honestly such a stress reliever for me, you don't understand. Sometimes it takes making a fool out of yourself to put everything back into perspective.\r\n(Warning: Never try to listen to Landslide<\/em>\u00a0by Fleetwood Mac while alone\u00a0on the subway, you may start thinking about life and stuff)<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Sleep.\r\n\"Me<\/a>\r\n<\/strong>self-explanatory.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nAnd that, folks, is how I realized, that the commuting part of being a commuter was not actually that bad.\r\n\r\nSo, UofT, what do you do on your commute?<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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