{"id":19246,"date":"2014-01-14T16:14:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=19246"},"modified":"2014-01-28T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:44:14","slug":"careful-not-to-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2014\/01\/14\/careful-not-to-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful Not to Slip"},"content":{"rendered":"A very warm (figuratively speaking) welcome back, fellow U of T comrades!<\/strong> I hope you\u2019re all finding ways to fight off the cold other\u00a0than lingering over sidewalk heat vents on your morning walk to campus. All jokes aside, it has been ridiculously and dangerously frigid outside lately. As if making it to your 9AM class on time isn\u2019t already enough of a struggle, add on all the extra minutes <\/strong>of 1.<\/strong> dreading leaving the warm cocoon that is your bed, 2.<\/strong> making sure you\u2019ve piled enough layers on (without looking like a living snowman), 3<\/strong>. dealing with appalling delays and disrupted transportation services, courtesy of GO Transit and the TTC, and 4<\/strong>. slowly treading on ground at the speed of two inches an hour for fear of slipping on ice and chipping a tooth.\r\n\r\n
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LITERALLY me, every morning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(PC: Tumblr)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nMoreover, studies show that weather really does have an effect on mood<\/a>, which in turn affects your motivation (and in turn, school work). Having spent my entire life until now living in humid, subtropical climates, the weather in Toronto has been a huge<\/em> hurdle for me in becoming well-adjusted in this city. Here are a few important pointers I\u2019ve picked up over the past couple winters \u2013 I\u2019m definitely no expert, but I\u2019ve somehow successfully survived despite my convictions that anything below 23\u00ba is sweater weather, so I must be doing something right.\r\n