The Future of History<\/a>. I have a pile of papers I've written over the past three and a half years, a half dozen of which I am sufficiently proud to submit for publication. (This includes one of my personal favourites, a 12-page paper on the nineteenth-century advent of the toilet as a popular household commodity, a catalyst behind the birth of modern medicine and urban infrastructure, and behind the death of outdated Victorian ideals on the body. I'm a little worried that the editors will be a bit insulted by it, as I have dubbed it The Toilet Paper: The Nineteenth Century's Silent [But Deadly] Revolution, <\/em>but I feel nonetheless that it is a worthy historical paper, and merits at least a try).\u00a0\n\nNext term I will also photograph my favourite alleyways, nooks, crannies, and stained-glass windows: my favourite parts of the U of T campus.\u00a0These I plan to amass into some sort of photographic map, to which I can turn to in later years to remember the school.\u00a0\n\nAnd finally, this spring, when the tulips are in bloom, when apple trees pour out their blossoms onto the wind, when migrating birds belt out a thousand merry songs from bobbing tree branches, and when I am drowning in the murky blackness popularly known as U of T exam time; I will make a point of packing a tablecloth and basket full of food and scooting over to the campus to enjoy an early May picnic in one of the school's more isolated courtyards.\n-Mary<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"