Welcome Back U of T, Is It Time for Reading Week Yet?

You wait and wait all year for the holidays but with a blink of an eye they pass you by all too soon. With Christmas, Boxing Day, and New Year’s exhaustively celebrated, there’s nothing to look forward to except for the end of an all too short winter break and the beginning of the second semester. I’m sure more than a few of the students at the U of T campus (myself included) are guilty of procrastinating during the two week vacation.  Our unfulfilled goals of reading ahead and reviewing material from the first semester will be paid for in the next few months as we begin hitting ourselves over the head cramming for upcoming finals exams and essays. But this is just one of many regrets that students feel during the first few months of the new year. You regret the extra gingerbread cookies you devoured for dessert. You regret the moment of temporary insanity at the mall during Boxing Day. Not only that, January has to be one of the coldest months of the year in Toronto and no one wants to trudge through the wet snow to get to your next class, especially if you have back to back classes and only ten minutes to get to the other side of campus.
 

Overall, everyone is starting the second semester with low morale and little expectation. Only the tiny spark of anticipation in the form of reading week in February is something that keeps us going forward. But here’s more good news, students at Waterloo and McGill start classes almost a week earlier. So keep your head up, and remember that reading week is just around the corner!