There was an exciting interactive “mix and mingle” event hosted by the University of Toronto Pre-Medical Society (UTPMS) recently! The event allowed undergraduate students the opportunity to receive valuable insight from current U of T medicine students. As your Professional…
Showing Up
In my last post, I talked about how just showing up to things can have a huge impact on your happiness, and can ward of feelings of homesickness and loneliness while you’re away on exchange. I thought that idea deserved…
October Horrors: Long Answer Responses
October is a month of horrors in more ways than one. Yes, we have the typical ghost stories circulating around, where we masochistically devour them and subsequently jump at every single porcelain doll in sight, but we also have .…
Self-Talk
Hello! I’m a chatty person. In elementary school, the comments sections of my report card consistently remarked on how I would benefit from chatting less in class. As much as my chattiness is often directed at others, many of my conversations are in…
On Exploring Toronto
Having had a (relatively) lax last couple of days, I decided to get out and discover a new part of Toronto. At a photo walk last month, I met a couple of people who work at Fujifilm who recommended I…
Tackling the Big Bad Reading
Why did my professor do this to me? Why is she making me read this overly dense, buzzword-ridden, thinly veiled torture device of a book? We are repeatedly told never to make our essays too “wordy.” We’re told to keep…
The Wonderful World of Bullet Journaling
For the past week, we've been talking about stress management. The thing is, stress and I don't get along. At all. When stress strikes my first inclination is to climb under the covers and wait until whatever is freaking me…
Getting crafty at Mental Wellness Month
The past few weeks or so have been jam-packed. I’ve had so much work to do that I’ve barely had time to breathe, relax, eat, sleep, and all of those kind of important aspects of being a human. If you’re…
Powering Down The Stress
Feeling stressed out at university is natural. There are deadlines, midterms, relationships to keep up, moms to call, birthdays to remember and somewhere in there you are supposed to get eight hours of sleep?! It’s understandable why university life can…
“And that’ll be….$0”
As students, I’m sure we’re all too familiar with the dreaded term…’budget’ I’m still acquainting myself with it. A trip to Eaton Centre, as well-intentioned as it may be ("I just need to visit Fido and sort out my phone…