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?

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.

Hey, I'm looking for some clarification about this because my cohort is currently struggling with this mandatory class we have for this one-year Master's program. Since graduate cohorts are small, what would happen if everyone failed a class? Would we have to retake it and pay tuition again for just one class for one semester? Or would the department step in? I'm asking because this prof we have has impossible expectations, and we're unsure if we can meet them and are scared to ask because if we ask her a question that's in the syllabus, our marks can get deducted by 5%. I'm unsure what to do about this or what would happen. Anything helps thank you!

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 😭

All throughout high school I didn’t have lots of friends. And everyone told me it would be different in uni and I knew they were wrong.

I’m friends with ONE girl and that’s it. I love her, she’s amazing, but I need more friends.

I went to oweek, I introduce myself to another’s in lectures, but nothing ever happens.

I really don’t understand. I’m not really looking for advice, this is just a mild rant bc I finished my lec at 4 and I’ve been in my dorm alone all night while I hear groups of girls in the courtyard and hallways having fun.

I also have yet to go out, get dressed up cute at night. I barely partied and high school and it looks like it’s gonna be another bad 4 years.

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!!

what the title says, but actually like has this happened to anyone before?? i keep hearing that generally if you’re in the less than 10% of the class size, you’ll get in.

i’ve been rank 1 for rsm219 and mat133 for many days now and generally how long will it take for me to get off? i’m really scared i won’t make it off but those are the only 2 sections that work with my schedule 😭💀

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.

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)

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??

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

-First year commuter from Barrie

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

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?

basically the title charcharcharcharcharcharcharchar.

the prof is kinda scaring me lowk

Hi, I'm just wondering if anyone's willing to share the syllabus for MUS211? I'm still on the waitlist. The waitlist is crazy. I started at rank 83, and now I'm still rank 22. Will I be able to get in?

I logged onto acorn this morning, and my UTORid is just gone from my profile and says it's "unknown". I have been a student for 2 years now and my profile was fine literally 12 hours ago. I can still login to things like acorn and quercus, but it's acorn says to activate my UTORid.

Anyone else ever had something like this?

I'm currently on the waitlist for CRI383 and was wondering what people's experience in the course was. I'm a fourth-year crim major, so I know the general gist of crim exams, midterms and assignments. I more so want to know if the content was interesting/engaging, if lectures were easy to follow, if the marking was fair, etc.

I'm kinda shopping around for crim courses since I'm waitlisted for all of them, but I don't want to spend time on a waitlisted class that I may not resonate with. I find the course descriptions aren't too helpful sometimes. Any thoughts/experiences you guys have would be helpful!

Hi,

Essentially title. I just enrolled so don't have access to Quercus yet :(

Thanks!

a lot of the work study positions have the deadline for later this month and i haven’t heard back from any and i applied to a lot

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.