UTM's Association of Graduate Students

Hey Grads, check out these upcoming events from the RGASC!

Hi Grads!

To celebrate this holiday season, UTMAGS is hosting a holiday event! Come by the Blind Duck Pub on Dec 6th from 5:30 to 8:00 pm and bring your ugliest holiday sweater! There will be food (halal and veggie friendly), drinks and candy bars, plus a trivia competition and raffle. Best of all, we are having an ugly sweater competition (see below for details)! Entrance is 2 food drive donations, or $5. Food drive and raffle proceeds will go to charity.

To sign up for the ugly sweater competition, email hamna.fayyaz@mail.utoronto.ca with group member names (and graduate departments and she can arrange a time to hand out kits via email).

Kit with sweater and basic decorations are provided (but you can use your own decorations as well) (10 kits in total)

Sign up closes Dec 5 at 7pm.

One group member must wear and participate in a small “fashion” show. Audience votes on best sweater and the first place team members receive a prize.

So come on by for an evening of fun activities, and celebrate the holiday season with your fellow grad students!

Hey Grads, see attached poster for an exciting now opportunity to improve you writing skills for grad school!

Hi graduate students,

The RGASC is hosting two writing workshops next week. Register today!

Workshop One: Editing your work for science students (with a focus on sentences and paragraphs)

Date and Time: Wednesday November 7^th, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Location: NE 4107

To register: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/editing-your-work-science-students-focus-sentences-and-paragraphs-registration

Workshop Two: Editing your work for humanities and social sciences students (with a focus on sentences and paragraphs)

Date and Time: Thursday November 8^th, 2018 from 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Location: NE 4107

To register: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/asc/editing-your-work-humanities-and-social-sciences-students-focus-sentences-and-paragraphs

Workshops’ description:

We all know how rare it is for good and clear writing to happen in first drafts. For most of us, most of the time, it’s the editing stage (or editing stages!) that turns a collection of good ideas into a good text. In this workshop, we’ll discuss and use best practices in editing, focusing especially on working on the sentence and paragraph level. In addition to working through issues of grammar and basic syntactical rules, we’ll work on deepening your understanding of how your choices of word order and structure affect your readers by analyzing and rewriting sample material. This workshop will help you write prose that is correct, that is clear, and that communicates what you want to communicate.

Halloween is upon us, and you know what that means…

The UTMAGS annual Halloween lunch is here! Come join us for a free taco lunch with lots of candy on Oct. 31 at 12 pm in the grad lounge. Costumes are not required, but you’re more than welcome to bring them!

Happy Halloween and hope to see you there!

The HCC and the RAWC are initiating a new program called Wellness Routes, see the attached flyer for details. If you love nature, you will love this!

Heya Grads!

Hey Grads!

Come by the Grad Lounge on Wednesday, July 25th at 12 pm to participate in the Annual General Meeting, where you can share your thoughts about upcoming events for grad students!

There will be a free pizza lunch included, and all grad students are invited to attend!