DISCLAIMER: The following content is a biased review based on my own experience and does not reflect the overall experience of others. Please excuse my poor writing, it’s still a skill that I am working on. This review is subjected to changes as I continue to reflect on my time at UTM.

Parents, students, and employers often fuss about going to the best University or hiring employees from the top schools. There also has been a recent trend of parents trying to get their child to attend the best middle school and high school. Education is an important part of one’s life and the education one receives may impact their entire life. Going to the top schools usually implies having the best teachers, the best resources, and the best chances for success after graduation whether it be for high-level education, research, or career.

In one of my previous blogs, I have gone over my struggles in choosing what to do after High School. Like most students, we all have to find a program or vocation to major in. After many dilemmas, I choose to study Computer Science (Specialist Program) at the University of Toronto Mississauga. As usual, this blog will be poorly written and incoherent.

Prologue:

I want to eat your pancreas is a heartwarming and breaking story of a boy and his interactions with a female classmate has a terminal pancreatic disease. It is a beautiful portrayal of the importance of the life we have on Earth. It is an interaction between two opposite people: a male and a female, a bookworm and a person who only reads manga, an introvert and an extrovert, a healthy human and a person with a pancreatic disease, a person with a longer life expectancy and a person who has less than a year left. Regardless of their personalities, views, and circumstances being drastically different, the two become very close in the very few remaining months of Sakura, the girl with a terminal disease, has on Earth. In fact, they wish to be like the other, wanting some traits of their opposites. The outgoing girl, Sakura, has been interested in knowing “[Mr.Classmate who is on his own world with his books]” and gets the chance one day when [Mr. Classmate who is in his own world] finds out Sakura’s secret that only her family knows, the fact that Sakura has a terminal pancreatic disease. The protagonist finds out her secret when he finds a book that was left behind in the waiting room of the hospital. That is the start of their interaction and the transformation between a bookworm who seeks his everyday life with no one and a girl who is determined to live her life to the fullest. The male protagonist being indifferent from learning her secret provided a sense of normalcy to her life which kindles Sakura to spend her remaining time with him. Sakura could not share the fact that she has little to live to anyone outside her family, for she knew she could not live a regular life that she strives for if she does reveal her secret to her friends.

Depending on where you live, your commute to work or school may be short or very long. Your mode of transportation probably consists of one or more of the following: walking, taking a bus, subway/train, or even a ferry. I used to commute to my High School through a yellow bus since there is no public transit in the countryside where my High School was located. I would have to wake up early and be at my bus stop by 7 am and make up my loss of sleep on the bus since I usually slept around 2 or 3 in the morning. Sleeping is a great way of killing time on the bus since my commute was about 45mins. I would also sleep on the way back from school since I have motion sickness and taking a school bus in a country road does not help at all. I typically find commutes suck up your energy and time and would get frustrated about the loss of time. Perhaps not so much since I lacked sleep anyways. But I’m sure many of you who commute through public transportation feel that your time is being wasted. During commutes, you are losing productive time that can be spent on things more valuable to you.