{"id":197,"date":"2008-11-05T16:13:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/UpbeaT\/?p=197"},"modified":"2008-11-05T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T21:13:56","slug":"an-emo-story-of-meloncholy-and-resurgenceand-free-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2008\/11\/05\/an-emo-story-of-meloncholy-and-resurgenceand-free-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"An Emo Story of Melancholy and Resurgence…and Free Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"Pish with being cool and etc. I'm going to take a giant leap and be honest: It\u2019s weird being a fifth year student.\n\nThe buildings are all the same but now, the people in them are\u2026different.\n\nI'm feeling like I did in first year--\u00a0like I have to act upbeat and happy and interesting around the\u00a0strangers I meet on campus\/in class in order to get to know them\u2014it gets exhausting.\n\nI mean....\n\nGrrr...\n\nSometimes\u00a0I feel like being boring or quiet... or just unafraid of saying something wrong\/inaccurate\/stupid (curse you u of t for your supply of intellectual undergrads).\n\n*sighs*\n\n[WARNING:<\/strong> - This could be some kind of left over melancholy from my sister getting married, and having to face up to the fact that life changes, people move on, and things just don\u2019t stay the same.]\n\nBut then there are the things that do stay the same.\n\nI was in the mood for tradition and stability, so I did the whole \u201ctea\u201d thing at 91<\/span>\u00a079 St. George Street. It\u2019s a 35-year-old University College tradition (but not just for UC students), and really, it involves a help-yourself spread of tea and cookies<\/a>. It happens between 2:30 and 3:30, but the cookies tend to disappear quickly.\n\nYou know, I never really liked tea, but last year this dude from my \u201cPost Colonial and Transnational Literatures in English\u201d class told me it was free, and then I was on the thing like white on rice, because I\u2019m shameless and cheap (which is probably kind of clear by now.) Now, I enjoy tea\u2014more than the cookies, actually.\n\nIt\u2019s funny what repetition can do.\n\nAnyways, last year the whole thing was pretty cool because it was there that I met his entire circle of friends, and they were, frankly, the kind of people you really want to meet when you\u2019re an arts student at university: articulate, intelligent, witty and just down right interesting.\n\nNow, as of last week, the wooden floors are still shiny, the watercolor paintings are still random, the cookies still in existence and the tea is still toasty.\n\nBut there\u2019s something vaguely ghostly about being in a place that\u2019s empty of the people who used to go there. Now that those people are working, or in grad school, or in class\u2026it just became really clear to me then that last year is over and done with.\n\nIt didn\u2019t help my depression.\n\nIt sort of made it worse.\n\nBut then, out of nowhere, was a person I had met once and vaguely knew.\n\nListen, I have a problem, and maybe you can help me with it\u2026if we know that a triangle and a square share the same surface area, how can we possibly find the dimensions of the square in question\u2026?\u201d\n\nPeople gathered around.\n\n\u201c I took first year calc! I can help you with this!\u201d\n\n\u201cWho has paper?\u201d\n\n\u201c I think I can get this! Who has a lap top?\u201d\n\nAs I sat down beside him in a newly formed circle filled with eager undergrads, I realized that his question was a hard one, and that he was probably somewhat screwed\u2026. but at the same time, suddenly I felt my first little bit of optimism all day.\n

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