Happy new year everyone!
2020. A new year. A new decade. Full of potential opportunities.
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How to set goals (and achieve them)
It’s officially 2019! I’m sure you have big things planned this year both academically and personally. Are you planning on boosting your GPA? How about landing your dream job/internship? Or perhaps just aiming to get into better shape? Whatever it is, this time of year is perfect for setting goals.
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Inertia
Tonight I can’t sleep.
It’s 2:42 a.m. My alarm is set for 6:50 a.m. and here I am – typing in bed: I hope you had a good break and enjoyed the holidays. I had a total of 10 days off. I stayed in the GTA with my family and did nothing. It was fantastic! The holidays, in general, were as expected – merriment mixed with family, friends and just a touch of yelling, frustration, and the occasional moment of exasperation. A little bit messy, but a little bit beautiful, too.
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Expectations vs reality
October has officially set in and I assume that things are rolling.
People are getting busy with work and studies, preparing for midterms, applying for jobs, and setting time aside for personal endeavours.
As such, we often have many decisions – or trade-offs – to make in our lives which ultimately carve the way for our future. How do we balance this?
I distinctly remember attending a conference three years ago in which a speaker broke it down to us quite bluntly: there are 24 hours in a day, about 8 – 10 hours are spent doing work (or studying), 3 hours are spent in eating, 2 hours are spent for personal hygiene/grooming, another 3 hours are gone in leisure, and the remaining 6-8 are spent in sleeping.
What time do we have to spare? “Well, who needs sleep, anyway?” he so eloquently put it.
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I know what you did last summer…and didn’t do.
The four months of summer vacation in your university years may seem like a lot of time to recuperate from studying for the other eight months (unless you are taking summer school).
But in between lying on the beach and biking around the lakeshore, there are some easy and simple things you can do to help you better prepare for the upcoming new school year.
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