Now you may find it difficult to sleep on the bus, or worse - to ignore the person sitting right next to you who is loudly talking into their cell phone.
But I have the solution:
Earplugs.
I don't know how many times earplugs have saved me. They are handy when sleeping anywhere other than home (or even at home when a new noise has invaded your sleep - like a neighbourhood dog, or your guest's snoring). They are essential to studying in the modern public library (I learned this while trying to write an essay while a student chatted with her friend on her cell phone about the phone sex that she'd had the night before - TMI (too much information)!). They are also essential for any commute - long or short.
Looking for more commuter tips? Check out this useful website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A930133
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thanks for the heads up, I repaired the broken links on my blog...
Hi Michele:
Your type of dedication is amazing! I was in pain just reading about your commuting adventures/trials. See you tomorrow.
Hello Michelle. I feel your commuter pain as I commuted to UofT for four years from Whitby, which meant local transit, the GO train and then the TTC, bringing my commute to about an hour and a half each way. One of best tips to you is to get at locker somewhere on campus, and there happen to be some in the FIS building. While this tip is not specific to the commuting part of your day you may find that it comes in handy. If you are only coming here three days a week, you will likely maximize your time here and extend it beyond class hours to photocopy readings, find resources for assignments, speak to professors, administration, etc. You will likely be carrying plenty of reading material with you each day as you will hope to be ambitious and use your commuting time wisely (but end up finding out that a lot of your commute will be spent dosing off). Your commuting "luggage" may seem quite bulky some days. A locker will provide you with a great place to store the extras, i.e. reading material and bulky winter clothes that keep you warm while waiting for buses, making the time you spend at FIS a little less burdensome, as you will not feel like you are constantly carrying your life around with you.
Your commuting won't get easier when you read the news I just posted to my blog. Check it out!
I used to travel one and half hours to work every day, but not any more. And so I understand your commute pain. If FIS have more on-line courses it may be better for you.
In this course we are talking about new technologies for libraries, but not many library schools in Canada provide on-line courses :-)
Sufei
Michelle- do you want my recipe for banana cake? It is pathetically simple (and I need that..) and its a great way to get rid of 3 or 4 spoiling bananas...Let me know via email and I'll send it along.
Thank you so much for the suggested computer fix - looks like it's working now! I'm even getting pretty good at print set-ups now too; this might leave some time to get some real work done!
Hi Michele,
What a great concept for a blog. These Life Hacks type blogs (http://www.lifehack.org/) are great. I myself commute in from Mississauga (GO Train and TTC); keep up the good work.
- fellow commuter
Hi Michele!
Great to finally see your post after meeting you at YPFIS! I saw your question about lockers on another post, and I would like to let you know that there are other lockers available through U of T's different colleges (like Victoria, UC, Trinity) but also there are day lockers that you can use at Hart House too, as well as the Athletic Centre at Harbord and Spadina, although you would have to provide your UofT student card to use them.
Hope this helps
I just wanted to let you know that some Toronto outlets of Shopper's Drug Mart that aren't along the subway line do sell TTC tickets (for example, the one at Yonge and Steeles -- although there probably are examples closer to FIS), so you can get Optimum points at the same time!
Sufei I know what you mean. I also expected that a discipline that is so heavily tied to information technology is so behind the times when it comes to online courses.
Why don't we have more online courses? Or at least have access to courses at other universities?
It sure would make commuting easier.
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