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Uncertainty is my Enemy
I welcome uncertainty knowing it chips away at me, destroying me bit by bit; but nothing feels better than it.
First Steps into Real Life: A Guide
A breakdown of resources for upper-year and graduating students.
The New (old) Course Retake Policy: An Insight
More equity? Too late? GPA booster? The Underground answers this and more questions.
So, You Want to be BFFs With Your Roommate: UTSC Students on the Realities of Living with Roommates
The roommates—a horror story or a tale of friendship, fun and adventures? UTSC students reveal their experiences with house-sharing in Scarborough and provide advice on how to survive living with roommates in your first-year.
UTSC’s 60th Anniversary: An Interview with Lisa Bevacqua
Learn what UTSC’s 60th Anniversary means and how students can participate.
Scarborough in the Mid-2000s
Eyes on Scarborough back when PJ’s Pet Centre was still a hit at STC.
How a Fall Tradition Came Home to UTSC
On the past and present of university Homecoming.
A Parable of the Captivated and Cursed
The universe has perfect balance; a proton to neutralize every electron. Humanity does not.
Rehumanizing Through Art: A Glimpse Inside a North Korean Street Market
The People’s Museum of North Korea tells the stories that media doesn’t.
To Write is to Be Creative: An Interview with Alums about Creative Writing at UTSC
Here at The Underground, we value UTSC’s community of writers. Have you ever wondered where to find other writers on campus? One surefire option would be the creative writing classes. Here’s what three of the alums from the program had to say about it.
What Makes Music Sexy?
UTSC students discuss the sexiest songs of our generation, and the essential ingredients that make rhythm and rhyme so emotional and sensual.
Is It Finally Time to Break Up With Netflix?
Amid a new crackdown on password-sharing, Netflix may no longer be our preferred platform for chill.
This Illusion Called “Love”
How the media can both shape our view of love, and destroy it.
Doctors & Dignity: A Pride & Prejudice Retelling
In a culture which can be reminiscent of Pride & Prejudice, would you marry a doctor if it compromises your small town dignity?
The TIFF Next Wave Film Festival is On! Here’s Everything You Need to Know.
A film festival “for the youth, by the youth.” The Underground sat down with the TIFF Next Wave Committee to find out what’s coming up for youthful cinema connoisseurs.
One-Sided Love: Parasocial Relationships and Why You May Be in One
Picture this: thousands of people having a one-sided relationship with the same person. Is it a situationship? A harem? No, it’s a parasocial relationship.
Hysterical Women and the History of Sex Toys
Liberating women one (or a couple) orgasms at a time– how feminist sex toys normalized sex-positivity in a world that made women out to be monsters.
Trigger Warning: themes and images of mental health disorders, suicide.
The Underground’s Beginner Guide to Filing Taxes as a Student
Students are no strangers to credits, but what about taxes? The Underground has put together the beginner guide to filing your taxes in-between assignments with advice from a CRA representative.
A Woman’s Right to Choose
A submission by a contributor that addresses the beliefs and societal systems in place that make it difficult for woman to have power over their own body.
To You, Overbearing Lover
A letter to someone who loves too much that it’s suffocating. But suffocating for who? The writer of the letter or the one it’s directed to?
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