STRANDED

Guide to surviving winter at UofT

Winter is a time of hardship for most students. Food is scarce, icy winds howl, snow falls, and bitter cold temperatures persist—at least here at the University of Toronto. For some students, the strategy they employ for coping with this harsh season is hibernation. Among the hibernators, UofT students have an extremely good survival rate in an ordinary winter. ...

Top five sexiest pictures of Con Hall

The sexiest building on campus just keepings getting sexier

Love hurts but not as much as me losing at my Bachelor fantasy league

Dear Reader(s),  Listen, I understand that during a holiday perpetuated by a company that makes folded paper it can be hard to hold back the tears. Hell, I cried three distinct times during Spider-Man: Into  Spider-Verse—and that’s not even a joke. The point is that the next time you hear that ...

2019 year in review

Can you believe these crazy things happened in 2019??

Areas of the GTA rated according to my experience playing competitive girls’ hockey in those areas from ages 10 to 16

I’m from Ottawa (Go Ice Go!), but from ages 10 to 16 I travelled to the GTA fairly often for hockey tournaments.  You can learn a lot about a city, township, or neighbourhood based on the local Atom, Peewee, or Bantam girls’ hockey team, so here are a few of ...

2018 in memoriam

Remembering what Stranded has lost in the past year

I tried to explain what “snow” was to Margaret Atwood and then briefly asked her about The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood is as ubiquitous in Canada as snow. But does she know what it is? L: Hi Margaret, thank you so much for meeting with me for this interview.  M: No problem, I had nothing else to do today.    L: Did you have any trouble finding The Strand’s office?  M: Yes, ...

These crazy things happened in 2018???

Wow, 2018 went by so fast—it’s almost like it was largely spent writing listicles and arguing with rednecks on Twitter! Check out this recap of 2018 and reminisce on another year of mediocrity.

Realistic new year’s resolutions

We can sit around grasping our iPhone running bands, Martha Stewart cookbooks, and ECOMAN study subscriptions, all while huddling by a digital fire of our own self-delusion reading The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, but eventually we’ll all be burned by the reality that these pants indeed do not fit. The reality that it takes a little more than sisterly ...

A definitive ranking of Shawn Mendes’ outfits from the “Lost in Japan” music video

I-I-I can’t get him off my mind (can’t get him off my mind)