Friends, students, countrymen and women, My name is Erin and I hope over the course of this school year, I can be a source of knowledge, entertainment, and perhaps escape as you procrastinate over a final paper. Making a…
UpbeaT has a videoblogger, and it’s me!
As a fourth-year international student, I’ve had the opportunity to experience all sorts of new things at one of the biggest universities in the world, in one of the most exciting and diverse cities in the world. In keeping with this, I’m going to share a few lessons with you that I’ve learnt over the years; while attempting to uncover the best that UofT and Toronto has to offer to international students. Hopefully though, everyone, and not only international students, can get something out of these posts.
What do you mean I have a face for radio? Adventures On Air at CIUT
I had a radio show back in high school and for awhile I was pretty sure that it made me the coolest person of all time. My show was called "The Right Side of the Bed with Whitney and Emily."…
You Don’t Have to Be Shakespeare: Write a Poem with U of T’s Poet in Community
"Poetry is a response to the world, whatever is the clearest most direct and urgent response possible at the moment. Everything feeds poetry whether it's something you say to your neighbour or something you write on a piece of paper."…
Stand up and shout! U of T prepares to best UBC with a tri-campus lip dub
If you haven't heard about the Lip Dub phenomenon yet, it's time to start paying attention. And by that I mean, watch the video above and be prepared to spend 15 minutes of your life on YouTube discovering other amazing…
“The Medium is the Message:” Hanging out with Marshall McLuhan’s ghost at St. Mike’s
Dear UpbeaT readers, I’m Emily, your blogger for the summer months. Thanks for having me! Late yesterday afternoon in the name of passion and blogging, I visited the Marshall McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology. It’s a diminutive brick building…
Final Countdown
Time: 3:23AM Word count: 2,929. (just 71 words short of finishing my 3,000 word research paper) Typical countdown of a U of T student during finals week. (or even any typical week while drowning in schoolwork for that matter!) In…
dance, dance, dance
Off-beat bop. Wild shoulder shake. Index-finger-point with hip-shake. Y-M-C-A. Lawnmower. Sadly, that's about the extent of my dance moves. But I love dancing and take every opportunity to bust this short repertoire...in the privacy of my own home, of course.…
Healthy Recipes with U of T’s Culinary Arts Club
On Friday, Shannon asked for healthy recipes, and I thought, who better to turn to than U of T's very own Culinary Arts Club! "I would suggest making chili - Chili is one of my favourite things to eat! It…
Shaken by Japan’s earthquake
On March 11, a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and caused a wipeout of several villages of people and places they once called home. We are thousands of miles away and yet, I can hardly fathom the aftereffects of…