Hello dear readers! This is my back-up post. What is a back-up post, you ask? Well, we update UpbeaT everyday, right? But we're all U of T students, so what happens when school hits and we don't have time to…
Don’t Mess With Me. I Can Throw People
What was I thinking? Why did I sign myself up for this? What do I even wear to Tae Kwon Do? Is it too late to back out? Okay. So I had a bit of a freak out before heading…
What’s in your pantry? Ingredients for success in writing
You enter your kitchen. You know you have to eat, but you are loathing the fact that you have to cook. You hear a rustling in the pantry. You think it might be a mouse. You are afraid of mice.…
Soundtracks and Study Music…
Music has always been pretty important to me. I can usually be found walking around campus plugged into my iPhone. At Robarts my studying is usually aided by the rhythmic nodding of my head. When I get home on evenings,…
U of T’s planetarium: zoom in from the edge of the universe!
I remember when I was a wee little thing, I'd lie in my bed at night and stare at the ceiling, wishing I could somehow transform the white paint into the night sky. Years later, a friend came back from…
Get Your Head Right for School
“It’s the mooooossssst wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeaaarrrr…* *humming in the key of Z-flat* Yes folks , faster than you can say “OSAP”, we're back to school. I'm convinced some of us are in denial about summer's end, since I've…
Excuses in September…Tae Kwon Do in October
After a whirlwind summer of backpacking through Europe, sleeping on overnight trains, and pushing my body past its limits on grueling bike rides in the Italian Alps, I arrived at U of T slightly dreading the school year. I cringed…
True Blue – the search for school spirit
For the time that I have been a student at U of T, I’m sad to say that my blood has never bled blue for U of T’s Varsity Blues. School spirit is few and far between on our campus…
The Story of Willcocks Commons: a car-free pedestrian-only zone
It was a calm and breezy evening as I walked down St. George when something shiny caught my eye. I stopped near the hot dog stand and stared at the stretch of road between Sid Smith and Lash Miller. It…
“Can’t manage without …”
New School-year Resolution Le Deux. This year I will… 2. Manage my time better … Though I really, really don’t want to jinx myself, I usually do pretty well in school. And I should… after all, as any of you…