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I can't believe how quickly this year is flying by. The past six years even! Looking at where I am now, and where I was after finishing high school in 2004 and not really have any real direction in life, it seems like a flash. A flash filled with endless academic papers and coffee-fuelled...

hey yall :) so my birthday approaches, and I find myself at a loss for any ideas. anyone have any suggestions for what i should do for it with my friends? please share!

so ya. I was all gung-ho about emailing this awesome girl i sort of know, and ask her to go to coffee. but turns out that she has a boyfriend. this obviously complicated matters, so I was unsure of what to write, if anything. some people said go for it anyways, some people said take it ease...

I cast aspersions and futility upon my words by my deeds, and upon my deeds by useless words. the fault lies not in the speck lodged in another's' eye, but in the crustification blinding your own vision from the truth; that self-reflection alone is not enough to sustain and propel change...

I feel like I’ve finally made a choice to really, consciously challenge my negative self perceptions on a regular, consistent basis, and reject the falsehoods about myself that I have constructed and clung to in the past. Case in point: my very near tangible insecurity about never finding a...

I finally got my marks back for school, and to my giddy excitement, I scored straight A's for every single class! AHHHHH holy crap! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be able to achieve majority, let alone straight A's. I always thought it would be so cool, but it was always a...

In recent months, I’ve evolved from pulling ‘all nighters’ to pulling ‘morning of’s when working on papers for school. Each deadline gets increasingly tighter and tighter, but my marks don’t seem to suffer, and somehow in hades, I maintain an A average. This is both a blessing and a curse, since...

I’m sure this is something almost everyone can relate with: I have a general-to-high anxiety of public speaking. It’s not as bad in a group setting, where there’s interaction going on, but put me in front of a room with something to present, and man, I tend to feel the heat - and it usually ends...

hi, just posting an introductory spiel. I've been lurking for a couple days, and I thought it would be cool to actually be able to post and interact and the like. so yes. a little about me: I'm a Canadian university student, studying to be a social worker. I live just outside Toronto. I like...