Blog — Linh S. Nguyễn

Why I Love Taylor Swift

The struggles of teenagers may indeed be trivial in retrospect, but they certainly do not feel that way in the moment.

Pop cultureLinh NguyenOctober 4, 2015Love, Music, Taylor Swift, TeenComment

Send Your Kids to Vic!

Vic taught me that it is possible to be intelligent, driven, and kind, all at once.

Student LifeLinh NguyenSeptember 6, 2015Education, Frosh, Kindness, University, University of Toronto, Victoria CollegeComment

Learning with Sharks

Fifth–year student Katie Masters recounts her field course in the Amazon, Galapagos, and Andes.

Celebrate Your Guilty Pleasures

As long as our guilty pleasures contribute to our happiness and growth, they are worthwhile and worth celebrating, not hiding.

Literature, Pop cultureLinh NguyenAugust 13, 2015Guilty Pleasures, Harry PotterComment

Inside Out: The Right to Feel

Being positive can give us energy to pull through, but it does not have the power to heal the way sadness does.

Pop culture, WellbeingLinh NguyenJuly 16, 2015Depression, Emotions, Inside Out, Mental HealthComment

Everyone Should Want To Be A Hufflepuff

No one gets a medal for being nice.

Literature, Pop cultureLinh NguyenJune 15, 2015Harry Potter, Hufflepuff, Kindness, SuccessComment

Follow Your Distractions

At this stage in life, it can be so easy to narrowly focus on the path we’ve laid out for ourselves and refrain from getting distracted, when those distractions might be the things that make us happiest.

Career, Student LifeLinh NguyenMay 16, 2015Education, Extracurriculars, UniversityComment

Hot Docs review: Last of the Elephant Men

A fascinating look into Cambodia’s Bunong tribes.

Pop culture, TorontoLinh NguyenMay 12, 2015cinema, documentaries, events, festivals, Film, hot docs, review, toronto

The Varsity’s guide to Hot Docs

Everything you need to know about Hot Docs 2015.

Pop culture, TorontoLinh NguyenApril 23, 2015cinema, documentaries, events, festivals, Film, hot docs, toronto

Meet the Fearless Katie Vogan

If you're involved at U of T, it's very likely that you've heard Katie Vogan's name.

Student LifeLinh NguyenApril 5, 2015profile, Student Life, University of Toronto

10 Lessons I Learned from Taylor Swift about Love

The majority of her songs, even her old ones, show a lot of perspective, and they taught me a great deal about navigating the confusion that is love.

Pop culture, Love and RelationshipsLinh NguyenMarch 18, 2015Dating, Lessons, Love, Music, Relationships, Romance, Taylor Swift

Relationship Representation in Mainstream Media

Because every story ends right when the couple gets together, we almost never get to see what a good relationship looks like.

Pop culture, Love and RelationshipsLinh NguyenMarch 16, 2015Love, RelationshipsComment

Enviro Fashion Show: Fashion with a Message

"I think it is important to remember the impact that the fashion industry has on the environment, and to remind ourselves that we can each contribute to protecting the environment through the way we dress."

Student LifeLinh NguyenMarch 15, 2015environment, fashion, Student Life

My Caffiends; a love letter

For every milk run we did at 8AM, every two-hour budget meeting, compost run, every text we woke up to notifying us that a machine wasn't working, every box of chocolate bars carried across town on the subway, I'd never once felt like I didn't want to do it.

Student LifeLinh NguyenMarch 5, 2015balance, caffiends, Student Life, work

What I Learned About Life From A Kid’s Show

“You have light and peace inside of you. If you let it out, you can change the world around you.”

What's the Dream?

University of Toronto artists discuss how they incorporate their work into student life.

Student LifeLinh NguyenFebruary 22, 2015art, artist, Student Life, toronto, University, University of Toronto

Readers Inspired by the 36 Questions

Last month, Mandy Len Catron wrote a Modern Love essay about how she found love by replicating a 20-year-old experiment that involved two strangers asking each other 36 increasingly personal questions.

Love and RelationshipsLinh NguyenFebruary 13, 2015Dating, Love, Relationships

To Fall In Love (Again), We Did This

Anyone who's been online in the past few weeks has surely heard about the famous 36 questions that will supposedly make strangers fall in love in less than two hours.

Love and RelationshipsLinh NguyenJanuary 31, 2015date, Dating, Love, Relationships, Romance

Our 7 Favourite Fictional Couples

There is so much to be learned and admired in the dynamics of functional couples who are idealized and immortalized on paper or on the big screen -- regardless of whether or not they actually exist.

Pop culture, Love and RelationshipsLinh NguyenJanuary 19, 2015couples, Dating, Love, Relationships, Romance

The Culture of Perfection

Competition at U of T breeds pressure and stress among students.

Student Life, WellbeingLinh NguyenJanuary 19, 2015Mental Health, Student Life, University, University of Toronto, Wellness