Tag: personal essay

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A photo illustration of a hockey stick, puck and ripped paper placed over a pink background.

Home Court Advantage Sports

Personal essay: Loving sports is a feeling, not a skill

Existing in sports doesn’t require a resume of professional experiences

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All My Relations Communities

Personal essay: Finding your way back

November 18, 2025

A story of lineage, reconnection and learning

Picture of black laptop on a desk with the AI website, “ChatGPT” open.

Personal Essay: If we don’t have our voice, what do we have?

September 16, 2025

With AI in the picture, original writing may become an obsolete skill

A volleyball athlete stands ready to serve, with illustrated people standing in the back

Sports Weekly Sports

Personal Essay: Fulfilling my volleyball dream with the Bold

After the Varsity Blues broke my heart, I found love for my sport again at TMU

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Arts & Culture Passion Project

Personal Essay: What does it mean to call yourself an artist?

The clash of societal expectations, self doubt and imposter syndrome create a complex struggle in using the title

A photo illustration of the writer behind the Filipino golden sun and the Canadian maple leaf

Personal essay: ‘Isang Panahon’—A moment in music across my worlds

February 25, 2025

From the Philippines to Canada, music has always been my constant guide through change

Was my body ever mine?

January 28, 2025

Growing up, I always dreamed of how finally turning 16 would change me as a young woman—never did I imagine that it would completely rob me of my girlhood

COURTESY OF SHAKI SUTHARSAN

Through my eyes: The beauty that is mine

The sleepover that stuck: A preteen girl cliché turned self-esteem nightmare

close-up Portrait of young Jonathan smiling

Communities Diaspora Diaries

Knowing I belong in two different worlds

My life experiences hailing from different countries has took me on a path to rediscover who I am

Man sitting on a chair holding a stethoscope to a woman's shoe

When a medical drama inspires an academic U-turn

October 3, 2023

For Mahta Jan, watching a medical drama did a little more than just inspire her. In fact, it may have just altered the trajectory of her entire life.

A family hugging each other in the middle of their living room.

Personal essay: As an international student, I created my own Thanksgiving tradition here

October 21, 2021

Krishika Jethani redefines what home really means around the holidays

Woman wearing purple hijab listening to music with faded people in a school hallway

Through My Eyes: Navigating the post-9/11 world as a hijab-wearing woman

September 7, 2021

As the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 approaches, I can’t help but feel a throbbing pain in my heart