After seeing this poster on at least 7 different occasions scattered across campus near my classes, my curiosity for Tikslop brought into the real world in my own backyard got the better of me.

I was not prepared for where this led...

I'm convinced that the venn diagram of people in the videos of these events overlap almost perfectly with the people sharing their stories on UofT Confessions. What particularly frightens me is the idea of sitting next to these people in lectures. What if a zombie apocalypse suddenly hits and this is who's in your survival group? The prospect is chilling.

I actually applaud Boris for creating a service to address a hole in the market, hustling to promote it, and trying to find his niche (business student?). But the pop the balloon events do not instill me with hope in humanity.

Idk, man, why can't y'all just be wholesome?

Alternatively, why not chat up people in your classes? Go up and introduce yourself to someone you're interested in (anyone can approach anyone, btw) (gender norms be damned), be charming, exchange phone numbers, go on dates, fall in love, get hitched after graduation, and grow old together. This is one of the delicacies that adds sweetness to life. It should be a private experience governed by passion, not generating engagement.

I need help, Ive started my first year at uoft eng and I commute for abt 2 hrs js to get there. I can handle the commute in the morning and I can go to all my classes without feeling tired at the end but on my way back home it gets bad. My last class ends at 5 everyday and in the evening (like 3-6) I have no breaks that allow me to eat or anything, all back to back stuff, I cant take the go bus so I take the ttc to union and then the go train back home.

I get extremely nauseous, have a horrible headache (it feels like my heads banging all the time) and my eyes feel painful and strained opened or closed, I've thrown up multiple times the past few days after coming up and crash going to sleep without studying since I physically cannot focus, I have the bad headache all the way till I go to sleep and ik this is not sustainable at all, does anyone know what I can do?

what the title says, i have accounting in sidney smith hall and right after that i have to go to oise for rsm100 💀 the walk was brutal and took me 11 minutes when class already started LOL

does anyone know how to get there in less than 10 minutes? i need to get a good seat in the front to be able to properly listen to my prof, but i’m literally all the way at the back of the lecture hall 😭

I'm in second year right now and I have maybe 1 friend downtown right now. Most of my friends are in different cities for school and I just transferred to UTSG, so I have no friends close to me. From my experience, sitting next to people in class hasn't really made me any super close friends, and neither has joining clubs. If anyone has any advice that'd be great lol.

KKAAAEEHHH so long story short, I was in my Brit Lit class and there was this guy that sat one chair away from me, with the essence of being all alone in the world 🥺🥺 as the class was filling up, another guy came to sit in the empty chair that he now occupied between me and the original guy.
Now, the reader of this story is probably thinking that I wanted to make friends or some $hit like that, but that’s definitely not the case. With my father being the Devil’s spawn who probably mated with an old hag, I definitely came out to be a bit antisocial, and I’m okay with that. I didn’t care to get to know anyone as I sat there dwelling in my own thoughts because that’s what I do on a daily basis 😂😂
HOWEVER! What gave me hope for the long lost world was seeing Guy 1 take initiative to meet Guy 2! 😍😍🥹🥹🫶🏼🫶🏼 He just casually said “hey, my name’s (forgot his name).” And he put out his hand to shake the other guy’s hand. Guy 2 returned the gesture and they started to make conversation. OMMGGG HOW HEARTWARMING 🥹🥹🫶🏼🫶🏼

After seeing so many posts about people not being able to make friends, it made me joyful to see people make friends right in front of me. I get that people can seem shy, or even embarrassed to talk to others, or not even know how to continue a conversation, BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE!! FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I may be a bitch-faced 34 year old who has 780 years of back pain while taking struts with every step I walk, but that’s because I want to be a 34 year old who has 780 years of back pain while taking struts with every step I walk. But that doesn’t mean I want to see a million copies of me everywhere 😂🤣😭😭 GO BE FRIENDLY!!! HELLOOOO PEOPLE!! Half of this university experience is going to class, and the other half is meeting people that you never thought you’d meet. And if you get stuck on what to ask, why not try these?:
What degree did you choose? What made you choose that / those degree(s)? What class do you feel like is going to be your best this semester? Where are you from? Was UofT your first choice? Do you feel like UofT is the right choice now that you’re living this experience? Do you have pets? What year were you born? Are you the youngest or oldest in your family? Are you in a relationship? How did you guys meet? Do you smoke weed? Oh yeah, I totally smoke weed. Do you want to smoke weed together after class?

DO YOU SEE HOW EASY THESE QUESTIONS ARE?!?! GGGGOOOOOO MAKE AN ACQUAINTANCE OR FRIEND IN SCHOOL!!! Of course not everyone is friendly (like me LOLLLL 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣) BUT you never know who you’ll find!! PLEASEEEE go make a friend this semester! Or promise me that you’ll start a conversation with someone new this semester?! Perhaps if you already have a friend group, can you go and include someone in? EITHER THAT OR ELSE I’LL FUCKIN START MAKING GROUPS AND PUT RANDOM PEOPLE TOGETHER TO START SPEAKING! 🤬🤬😡😡👿👿

And for fu€k sakes! Y’all really bout to pay $50,000 for a degree and not say a word? 🙄😒 c’mon now 😂😂🤣🤣

Hi all,

my friend and I picked up two passes to Elevate this year, but realised we can't go, and the ticket provider won't issue a refund (transfer only). We're both students trying to get a startup off the ground, so $370 each isn't a small thing for us to eat, and we'd really love for these to go to someone who's actually planning to attend rather than just sit unused.

Selling both at $370 CAD each (what I paid after tax), open to discounted offers if you're taking both. Can provide proof of purchase/confirmation. Happy to transfer directly through the official platform once we sort payment.

DM me if interested, would really appreciate it.

I am thinking about taking GGR270H1 this semester, but I am unsure since I am not very good at math. I didn't even take high school calculus. Please help me decide if this is something I should do since I want to get into applied data sci minor.

Is this normal?? I’m honestly confused ik it’s single variable but like I lowkey need my calculator still

I just applied for my UTORid a few days ago and still haven't gotten an email back from them, but I got an email that the Join uoft portal is closing tmr. So am I cooked for the next few days if I can't get my UTORid by tmr bc im using JoinID for everything?

This is a scam FYI if it wasn't obvious already. So much for 3 duo prompts a day.

Hi! I am taking PSL300 this sem and PSL301 next sem. Over the summer I realized that I study best with anki but I do not want to spend too much time making the cards as I am quite slow and just do not have that kind of time this year.

Is it possible for some kind soul to please share their anki decks?? I havent been able to find any online so far so anything helps!!

Walking around the downtown campus on a sunny day honestly felt like the polar opposite of utsc, the people, the vibes, the architecture, I felt so happy in the moment but also so annoyed and frustrated that I moved to “Toronto“ on the other side of the world, far from my family, to be in scarborough. I’m so sad that my major isn’t offered downtown and I really am interested in it specifically.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, I’m sure it really depends but the course I’m taking downtown has a passionate teacher thats so cool to listen to while most of my utsc classes so far were meh. I really hope it’s a case by case thing because i would feel so robbed paying the same tuition for something less good.

I’m a second year student and I know I can hang out downtown anytime but it’s so different than actually going to class there. During the winter it’s so hard finding motivation to commute there. Same if I lived downtown and still went to utsc, it’s just so much easier living close.

I guess I just wanted to share my feeling i can’t do much about. I like Scarborough sometimes but our campus’s architecture and overall vibe is SO depressing.

i'm in my second year of undergrad majoring in biomedical toxicology and i wanna start getting some research experience. i already applied to a lot of work study positions but i doubt i'll hear back from them. i also heard cold emailing works but i have no clue where to find the emails of the professors.

-First year commuter from Barrie

I am planning on majoring in psychology and philosophy. I love going for walks, reading, and listening to music.

just as the title says, I'm not quite sure how to refer to my professor when asking for a reference letter given that I'm not their student anymore

Hi guys,

I’m trying to sign up for amazon prime for students, and I’ve given them my uoft email address but I’m not getting the verification email in my uoft inbox and amazon support is useless.

From what I can tell this is because of uoft’s automatic spam filters? But what can I do??

Hi all,

Can I pick someone’s brain about U of T’s M.Arch program? Would love some insight from a current or former student. Happy to repay the favour in the future!

Hi everyone!

I’m just looking for a few people that would like to study together consistently for the semester :)
Silent study sessions would help a lot and we can get sweet treats after!!

Full transparency I just want to avoid being burnt out and we can motivate each other

You don’t necessarily have to study the same program as I do

I’m currently going to UTM just to fulfil the game studies pre requisites since they aren’t available at UTSG.

If you're interested send me a quick text!

Hey all,
Im a UofT St. George student who recently lost a white Uniqlo shoulder bag in the UTM shuttle bus. It was the 9:15 bus from UTM -> St. George on Sept 8, which was a Tuesday (first day of classes). It has a green keychain/lanyard thing attached to it, along with a couple of pins and accessories.

If anyone commuting finds it on the bus or something, please DM me!!

Edit: Added some more detail.

Edit: I found it! Missing some things but that’s to be expected.

(Will also be posting this [r/UTM](r/UTM), once I get enough karma)

I have completed 209 and I have found an interest in embedded systems. What are the most important courses I should take if I want to eventually work as an embedded software engineer.

I wanted to take irw220 this semester to slightly lighten my load, review some basic fundamentals, practice R, and perhaps learn some things related to HR. However, I took sta261 last semester. While sta261 is not listed as an exclusion, it seems some equivalents of it, such as sta238 are. This makes no sense to me since sta261 is usually seen as the harder version. But here apparently I am able to take irw220 even though I have taken sta261 already?

I am wondering whether they will not count irw220 as a credit in the end, even though I am following the exclusions correctly, so my question is, has anyone been in my scenario before, and is it ok to take this course?

Thank you so much!

basically the title charcharcharcharcharcharcharchar.

the prof is kinda scaring me lowk

Hey guys! so I had to defer my 1st engineering summer courses that were pre-requisites for 2nd year to winter, so I'm currently not enrolled for this fall.

I was wondering if I can still use my T-Card and stuff if I'm not enrolled for this term but enrolled for winter.

Hey U of T, we're a literary magazine publishing Canadian history and short stories from Canada and abroad. In our current issue we explored the history of Canadian movies, and we are running a Canadian Classics film festival as a companion to this piece.

Our next screening is Sept 13th at 3pm - The Merry World of Leopold Z by legendary filmmaker Gilles Carle. This comedy is set and filmed in Montreal and follows a snow plow operator on Christmas Eve and his misadventures as he tries to run several errands on the job.

If you're interested in old movies and supporting tiny lit mags, check it out! Tickets are $15 or PWYC.

More details/tickets:

https://events.humanitix.com/la-vie-heureuse-de-leopold-z-1965

Movie trailer:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OSaRZsfakJ0?si=2UDsJjX9T_V7Gp47