Lately, with everything going on in my life, I’ve been thinking a lot about love and how it is the only reason why we’re here at all. I don’t mean just romantic love; I mean all kinds of love (familial,…
The Co-Curricular Record
In September, the University of Toronto will introduce an official document called the Co-Curricular Record (CCR), which aims to show your involvement beyond the classroom. After months of consultations from a number of working groups, Kim Elias presented the CCR during a…
Teeing off with the President
One of my goals for this semester is to keep up with events going down on campus an try to make it out to as many as I can. Especially if they are free! So even though I didn’t know…
Don’t get “Friend-zoned”
Ahhh, sweet student life these days, between all of the midterms, readings, tests, etc. it seems that a good amount of us at U of T somehow find the time to give a fair amount of attention to such things…
Winter Doesn’t Have to Get You Down
Even though I’m a self-proclaimed winter lover, I have to admit that the colder temperatures and shorter days have definitely made me more moody at times. I’m sure many others have also experienced some form of the winter blues, but…
Research @ UofT – Opportunities Galore!
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my undergrad. But I can confidently say that not taking advantage of the research opportunities on campus is not one of them. I started out by volunteering in a research lab in the…
Mobile games for mobile students
Phones and other mobile devices these days can do a lot of amazing things (it's like we're living in the future or something) and one result of the proliferation of these 'smart' phones/tablets/other doohickeys and doodads has been the emergence…
Basket weaving, Vikings, and Birds…
So you’re staring out your window day dreaming, while you’re supposed to be writing a fifteen page essay about the history of conscription in Canada and you see a cardinal…true story (see photo below) and you think to yourself, “I…
creative expressions of soul
We’ve heard it all before. First day of lecture, a thousand or so young budding life science students walk into Convocation Hall. Inside, a professor awaits ready to distribute knowledge about pikas, DNA polymerases, and cis and trans double bonds. Needless…
I dare you to try SQUASH!!
U of T, I double dog dare you to try squash!!! My friends have been bugging me to try squash for a while now and I always used to tell them, "are you crazy, its way too intense for me."…