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The Importance of Enjoying Celebration
Are you cherishing celebrations or are you letting them consume you? Making sense of why we let moments meant to be commemorated become moments full of trickling anxiety, and how that shouldn’t be the case.
Know Thyself
To know, or not to know, for that is the question.
Discovering Life (and Myself) Somewhere New: Lessons I Learned so Far Living Abroad
What an 18-year-old immigrant has to say about living away from home, finding yourself again, relationships and why you should not give up.
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The First [Mis]steps to Surviving University: How to Make the Most of UTSC
Time management, getting involved, dealing with independence, and more tips for making your first year enjoyable.
Hidden Gems and Quality Cuisines: A Guide to Eat More of Scarborough
Stories of immigration, colonization, encroaching gentrification, and despair, but also love and hope. All can be found along the Scarborough blue line, especially in the food, according to food enthusiast, Howard Tam.
Discovering Scarborough’s True Self Through the Arts
From a strong sense of community to the amalgamation of immigrant cultures, this is Scarborough’s identity.
Who Gets Credit for Changing the World? Inside the Attempts to Rewrite Insulin History
Full of jealousy, fights and bitter grudges, the story of U of T’s most famous medical discovery is the soap opera you’ve never heard of.
Cottagecore, Grunge, Y2K, or Soft-girl: Discovering Aesthetics in the Age of Social Media
In a generation of revolutionaries, Gen Z continues to raise the bar on new fashion styles and aesthetics. With a variety of trendy styles circulating on platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, how do you decide where you fit in?
The Medieval Astronomer’s Tools
The more time passes, the more discoveries are made by humanity. And yet, the stars haven’t changed through it all; here are the thoughts of an astronomer from the Middle Ages.
UTSC Wildlife
In this month’s edition of UTSC Wildlife with The Underground, we explore the fascinating wilderness of the UTSC campus and its inhabitants.
On the Wings of Citizen Science: How a Former UTSC Professor Tracked the Migration of the Monarch Butterfly
A 37-year project involving hundreds of volunteers across the continent had its centre right here at UTSC.
Outside of the Box
Living life stuck in someone else’s box. Discovering light outside of someone else’s box.
Endless Pathways
Discovering the nonlinear future through humbling experiences.
Technology and Space: Will Robots Really Take Over the World?
In a world where technology has become crucial to human life, will robot intelligence supersede our mere mortal minds? The history and evolution of space technology provides us an insight on the role of humans in making positive uses of advancing technology.
Searching for the “Right” Passion
The experience of being an ever-changing person in an ever-changing environment.
A TIFF-erent Perspective: How a Summer of Films Transformed Me
Movies move me. Perhaps a bit too easily.
Throwing Plastic Discs: My Ultimate Frisbee Journey
From catching flyballs in Indonesia to tossing plastic discs at dawn; here’s how ultimate frisbee changed me.
Woolly Lines
As the leaves change and fall, the protagonist of this story considers how the thread of time and the thread between seasons fray.
Arachne, Five Different Ways
The myth of Arachne has been told and retold for ages, but what if the spider girl was in university? What kind of monster would she become?
Growing Pains of the Superhuman Teenager
Are you there God? It’s me, your friendly neighbourhood superhero.
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