I have to admit: This week I intended to write about a séance – a fully-fledged, Ouija-board-wielding séance – put on by one of U of T’s more obscure campus groups. Unconventional events like these are – in this writer’s…
Slave to the Email
Like me, millions of people around the world are finding themselves to be slaves to email. This “new” way of communicating has actually been around for about three decades now, but seems to becoming a more and more popular means…
Check yourself before you wreck yourself!
I suffered a particularly nasty blow to the ego last Tuesday. A shocking midterm experience led me to “check myself, before I wrecked myself.” Thank you Ice Cube! This midterm season sure felt bad for my health – less…
Cynics beware…the do-gooders are coming!
Someone said something interesting to me the other day. I was having a coffee on break during class and a stranger who was sitting beside me noted that he thought it was odd how people never talk to each…
Culture Shocked!
U of T plays host to students from all around the world including the Far East, the Caribbean, Central America and Africa. Now while I've not been to all of these regions, I can say with some certainty that Toronto…
Give Disappointment the Back Seat
Recently I got a “bad” mark. What happened was that I got a mark that was below my usual standard. This got me thinking. We all have standards of what we consider to be “good” marks. But, what happens when…
Teleportation and other things that would make commuting easier
If you spend any time on the east side of campus, you know how beautiful it is. The east side of campus makes me feel like I’ve been transported back in time…that I’m a student of a bygone age. Everything…
“I From Foreign!”
In the dialect of my home country, this phrase — in more ways than one — says that I’m not from around here. These would have been the words spoken from my mouth four years ago as I arrived in…
Has excess turkey given you a gobble?!
Hey there...Welcome back! Fingers feeling a little heavy? That turkey/tofurkey/turducken weighing you down?! Perhaps it’s the thought of impending midterms and papers that October brings... Whatever it is, (like me) you might be feeling more sluggish and tired than you…
Part 2: Fire! Fire!
I admit that was a cheap trick to capture your attention. But rest assured, danger lies ahead and I promise that fire (and knives) will make appearances in this post. Last week I posted about my ENG434 Cook the Books…