Dear Fourth Years: From seminar papers, weakly class assignments, endless readings and the stress of post-grad looming over our heads like a scythe, I get it. LIFE IS INTENSE! Overwhelmed? Depressed? STRESSED? And, if you are like me, on the…
Dear Fourth Year Me
Dear Fourth Year Me, I know, you made it! Lucky for you that Mayan Calendar-end-of-the-world thing was just a phase right? As you gear up to say goodbye to what were the most eventful years of your young adulthood, let's…
What I learned about leadership over my lunch with the Dean
On Monday, myself and a dozen or so other graduating students from the Faculty of Arts and Science were invited to have lunch with Dean Meric Gertler at the Faculty Club as part of an award for student leadership on…
I’m so ridiculously excited for my project course
I just got off the phone with my mother. According to her, auditing math courses just for fun makes me "a huge nerd". True. But 'round these parts (namely, the departments where I study, or more broadly, this whole…
The best-spent year that I could ever imagine
Writing my first-ever blog post for lifeatuoft has been difficult. Really difficult. As a fourth-year, everything seems like my last - my last frosh week, my last chance to take those courses that caught my eye in first year, and…
The Coming of the End: How to [Messily?] Wrap up Loose Ends
Like most other U of T students, I have just finished the fall term for 2008 (and boy does it feel good). Unlike the majority of other students, however, the end of this term signifies for me the beginning of…