First Year, Environmental Management
“Who’s your favourite author?”
“I don’t have a favourite author but I like reading things that are interesting… by genre.”
“What’s interesting for you?”
“Interesting to me is like any mysteries, criminal books and all… Historical… Like those. So I like books that combine them all together.”
First Year, History
“I used to go to Sheridan.”
“Why did you decide to come to UTM?”
“It had the course I was interested in – which was history, the program – and I heard good things about U of T.”
“What do you prefer about UTM?”
“I think the campus is better. It’s an experience in itself. I think UTM has better administration in general, the way things are organized.”
First Year, CCIT
“What do you think is your best quality?”
“Confidence.”
“How about your worst quality?”
“Overconfidence.”
Don’t you feel as though every day is exactly the same? You wake up around 6:30 a.m., catch the bus (I mean, run for the bus), spend almost eight hours at school, commute again, do homework, more homework, even more homework, sleep (more like a nap), and then repeat.
Left: Fourth Year, Double major in Psychology and Criminology.
“What do you like about one another?”
“She’s funny and she keeps me motivated, like with school – I’m always zeroed down and she helps me.”
Right: Fourth Year, Double major in Biology and Psychology
“What do you like about one another?”
Right: “She puts up with my whining a lot. [laughs] And we watch a lot of shows together. She’s like my partner in crime, almost.”
First Year, Visual Culture and Communication
“I find inspiration from different things, like different artworks, everything around me. People, animals, objects, anything. Anything can be served as inspiration.”
For you lovely readers who are humanities students like me, I know you feel my pain during this time of the semester. Our essays pile up, half of them are due on the same day and must be 8 pages long, include outside sources, contain a bibliography, have a super amazing thesis and —
Okay everyone, breathe! Take a moment to absorb the sunny (but freezing and snow-covered) day and just keep breathing.
Second Year, Psychology
“If you could be anyone, dead or alive, who would it be?”
“I think I would say John Tartaglia, because he was in Broadway and he did Avenue Q – which was hilarious – and then he went on to do childrens shows with puppets. So I just like how he’s so multi-dimensional and I think I’m also like that.”
The semester is already well in session, but some of us have yet to set foot in the library or the bookstore. Thanks to this thing called the syllabus – a piece of paper that gives us a list of required textbooks for a particular course – entering the library or the bookstore may just trigger a hypo-glycemic panic attack. Unfortunately, that isn’t the only thing students have to worry about. Checking the U of T bookstore only to see the amount of money your text books are going to cost you can make you go Macaulay-Culkin-Home-Alone-panicky.
First year, Commerce; First Year, Social Science
“I heard the business program is very competitive…is it?”
“Oh yeah, it’s pretty competitive, some people are really supportive, and there are some people, who are like, they want to get in, they will do whatever. I mean its hard, but it’s gonna be worth it in the end for me.”
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“How do you like your program so far?”
“I like how, for my program, you don’t have to focus on taking specific courses…you can choose whatever courses you want, and see what you wanna major in.”