It’s that time of the year again! Your favourite library starts to get a lot busier, your notice everyone you pass has bags under their eyes, and the line at your favourite coffee shop on campus is suddenly three times…
Closer to the Art
Art is great. I don’t always understand it, but it’s still great. Being able to convey feelings or stories in many ways is a treasure. Even if you’re like me and the best image you can draw is a stick-figure,…
Finding Relaxing Spaces around U of T
Although I may sound like a broken record, I still have mono. What is worse, this mono is impacting my medications, meaning my anxiety is on high gear. On the bright side, however, I am getting much better and my…
Preparing for the end of the semester and beyond
The semester is almost over. If you've had a tough and difficult semester, you should take a moment to congratulate yourself for getting this far. School isn't easy. But, unless you are ready to graduate this semester and have already…
Charles vs. The Turkey
Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the S-Bomb Chapter One Turkey, Peacock, great-concrete-brutalist-monolith-of-doom... whatever you prefer to call it, I spent the first four years of my undergrad without studying in Robarts library. I had never felt the need. There…
Komaba Festival
A few friends and I checked out the University of Tokyo’s annual Komaba-Sai (駒場祭) festival last weekend. One day of preparation transformed the campus’ otherwise tranquil tree-lined corridors into bustling streets of food vendors and entertainers. Almost every student group…
Winter is coming… Oh Wait
Unless you haven’t looked out a window and/or been outside in the last 3 days, you may have noticed that winter is here. As exams descend upon us, and winter freezes everything in it’s path, including my morale, motivation and…
Surviving the end of term crunch
This week is the last full week of classes for Arts and Science students, meaning winter break is fast approaching. Standing between us and winter break however, is the hulking menace that is the exam period (dramatic, I know). Somehow…
Funding Opportunities for Exchange Students
In my first two years at U of T, I got the sense that many students were anxious about some of the purported costs of going on exchange. I heard that studying abroad was exponentially more expensive than studying at U of…
Ondiek Goes to… a Feminist Comedy Show
Last night I had the pleasure of being able to attend the hilarious (and equitable) Crimson Wave Comedy Show at the Comedy Bar! The event was jointly sponsored by both Rainbow Trinity (have I mentioned before that Haley’s the president?!)…