{"id":31870,"date":"2017-09-18T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=31870"},"modified":"2017-09-14T08:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T12:16:33","slug":"my-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/09\/18\/my-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Week: Writing, Classes, and Bojack Horseman"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31871\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG_2258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31871\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG_2258-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of table with laptop, books, and a pen.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG_2258-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2017\/09\/IMG_2258-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And I feel great in this Starbucks tonight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Life can get exhausting, but it\u2019s important to find your own happiness by doing things you love. For some of you, this can involve diving headfirst into course readings and projects. Or it might be running for a position on the executive of a campus group. Or it could be something low-key like art, poetry, journaling, and writing. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Personally, it\u2019s been a busy week for me. Classes just started, I\u2019ve been volunteering at TIFF (which I will write more about later), and the fourth season of <i>Bojack Horseman<\/i> was just released on Netflix (speaking of which: this show is just getting better and better, check out the trailer below). Again, busy week.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bf12qwPWDVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here\u2019s something I do to keep my head afloat: I write. I write poetry. I write journal entries. I write articles for <i>The Varsity<\/i>. I write creative pieces for the <i>UC Gargoyle<\/i>. I write humour pieces for <i>The Salterrae<\/i>. I write speeches for the Trinity College Literary Institute. I write blog posts for <i>Life at U of T<\/i>. I write essays and projects for classes. I write personal essays which I hope to one day publish as a collection. And I write blobs of words that don\u2019t necessarily connect to create a cohesive piece.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I write what\u2019s on my mind. I write to deal with internal conflicts. I write to help and inform others. I write to make myself laugh. I write objective pieces on external topics to take my mind off whatever\u2019s bothering me at the moment. And I write to make myself feel better.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Coming from a high school that didn\u2019t have a student newspaper or really <i>any <\/i>outlet for writers besides a creative writing class in grade twelve, I didn\u2019t expect to find so many outlets at U of T. But they\u2019re here. There are so many campus publications that I can\u2019t even name all of them, and though it might take a while, you will find the right match for you if you\u2019re a writer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the process, you\u2019ll discover more about yourself and find your voice. It\u2019s surprising how much I\u2019ve changed as a writer (and also as a person) in my last two years at U of T. It\u2019s also surprising how much I haven\u2019t changed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Basically, there are <i>so <\/i>many ways to get involved at U of T, but I'm not going to say it\u2019s important to get involved in everything. I\u2019ve interacted with other students who were stressed and miserable with their co-curricular activities, mostly because they pursued activities they didn\u2019t necessarily want to do for arbitrary reasons such as employability, or because it was related to their program, or a friend wanted them to do it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here\u2019s my advice, plain and simple: don\u2019t do that. Do what you love to do, and even if you\u2019re pressed for time, you\u2019ll somehow still persevere because they\u2019re doing something that you love to do. For example, even though I\u2019ve had a monster week of classes, TIFF, and <i>Bojack<\/i>, I\u2019ve still managed to write for <i>The Varsity<\/i>, <i>The Salterrae<\/i>, the <i>UC Gargoyle<\/i>, the Trinity College Literary Institute, and <i>Life at U of T<\/i>. And I don\u2019t even feel that exhausted, because it\u2019s something I love doing.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nLife can get exhausting, but it\u2019s important to find your own happiness by doing things you love. For some of you, this can involve diving headfirst into course readings and projects. Or it might be running for a position on&hellip;\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/09\/18\/my-first-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My First Week: Writing, Classes, and Bojack Horseman&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2017\/09\/18\/my-first-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My First Week: Writing, Classes, and Bojack Horseman&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":31871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7204,1,70,69],"tags":[25307,135,25382,211,218,303,212,1488,25381,16241,25380,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31870\/revisions\/31899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}