Life @ U of T

On Tuesday I had the opportunity to attend “Honoring Holocaust Education Week: Understanding Religious Discrimination,” a collaborative event held by the Multi-Faith Center at the University of Toronto and Hillel. The lecture, entitled “Memes and Memory: Contextualizing Online Holocaust Denial…

When I have a bad mental health day far away from home, the thing I miss the most is comfort. Being surrounded by familiar things and places always helps me. At university, I sometimes feel like I am far away…

As the semester starts heating up and we get new information every single day about the different modes of teaching, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us students to deal with this changing routine. From online to in-person to online…

Toxic positivity (n.): The overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state that results in the denial, minimization and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience. It usually feels good to be motivated, productive, happy and optimistic. And sometimes we get that…

I’ve always loved the start of a new year because it feels like an opportunity to create new habits or improve old ones. One of my resolutions this year was to become more mindful and intentional. The more I thought…