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A Day Without Coffee
As working hours intensified and modern life advanced, caffeine became the ideal drug to keep up with this accelerated perception of time. Just like the goats in Ethiopia who discovered the magic of coffee, stressed and busy human beings in the Western world abused it.
The Future of the Military and their Conflicts
Invading foreign countries is old school. Now you can just hack a government website from your living room.
A Grad Student’s Look Back at UTSC
So you’re starting your first year: a breakdown of do’s and don'ts from a former undergrad
The Future of Campus Life at UTSC
Virtual campus life may feel alien, but it is the same community.
The Future of Human Interaction
Imagine not having to leave your home and being able to perform all of your daily tasks through virtual reality. Haha, just kidding, unless...
The Depressing Future of Sock Puppets: My Predictions
100% plausible and 48% pun free (but how can you not? Put yourself in my shoes!).
Why I Won’t Be Buying a PS5
Do I really want the future of gaming to be the future I’m worried about?
Won’t You Please Consider The Noble Profession of Post-Dystopian Teaching
Why you should consider (the noble profession of) (Post-Dystopian) teaching!
It’s Not Me, It’s Porn
Work is work; for some people it just happens to involve a lot more porn.
Physical Touch: Quarantine’s Forgotten Love Language
Quarantine calls for keeping a distance of six feet apart between yourself and others. How has love stretched past six feet for these three couples?
Dear ______
The people who change us don’t always stay. But here’s to the lessons they teach us anyways.
Why Do We Keep Wanting to Change the People We Love?
If love is an uphill battle, do we continue fighting to keep our toxic loved ones, or do we let go for the sake of our own peace?
Embracing the Gap: Five Tips to Living Happily with Vaginismus
“I’ve never been able to have vaginal sex without experiencing immense pain, and it’s something I’ve spent years trying to find a solution to.”
Look, Mom, I’m Grieving!
How I learned to stop suppressing and learned to accept love, despite loss.
What is Love? Baby Don’t Hurt Me
Strong, confident, and powerful: the collective experiences of women who overcame abusive relationships.
Love Can Be Without Sound, But Not Without Language
“For the first time in my life, I started to imagine what it was like for Gong Gong, living in a world where sounds are not relevant and even the loudest scream sounds like a whisper.”
We Women
“Under the tradition that only the sons could carry on the family line, we feared that we let our family down, for the reasons that were out of our control.”
(I Think) I Love You: The Parents I Never Knew
As an adopted kid, I was sure that I loved my birth parents and they loved me. But what does that mean when we’ve never known each other?
My Dad, Minus Relationship
Parent relationships are complicated, especially when they’re ruined at every step. But are they unsalvageable?
How Queer Youth are Navigating Quarantined Life in Non-Affirming Homes
Only 24% of [queer] youth can ‘definitely’ be themselves as an LGBTQ person at home.” How are they managing to cope in these uncertain times without regular routines and support systems?
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