Our MBP May Kay Girl’s Night was a huge success. The event was held last week in honour of the Week to Prevent Violence Against Women. About a dozen beautiful ladies came out, ate delectable brownies, drank delicious hot chocolate, and pampered their skin in every way.
Our fearless instructor Shirley Hung taught us to cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize, and protect our skin. Something I didn’t know before this event: you can exfoliate your hands! And they feel amazingly soft after! …….. (more below)
This year, to uphold an old tradition, the MBP is going to Handel’s Messiah again! Join your fellow students for this marvellous performance by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at the Roy Thomson Hall on Friday night, December 18th, 2009. Get your tickets as soon as possible, as there is a very limited number available. See you at the concert! Tickets are $27 for MBP Students, and $30 for Non-MBP guests.
Please, email Anton at anton.neschadim@utoronto.ca for more information. A limited number of discount tickets are available to all MBP students and their guests. As part of a pilot I am trying this year, you can now reserve your ticket online and it will be assigned to you on a first come – first serve basis, as always. You can now also pay for the ticket online (although, there is a $2 service surcharge for online purchases that is unavoidable), but that, I hope, will make it easier for those of you who would prefer to pay online with a credit/debit card and those of you uptown. If you have any questions or concerns about this, send me a note, please. If you wish to not pay the surcharge and would rather arrange to bring me the cash, just select the pay by cheque option. All tickets are in the first 3 rows of the R9 Balcony in RTH.
If you are writing a thesis, you may think of this process as a road stretched out in front of you composed of unexpected turns, climbs, or crossroads, as well as discoveries, possibilities, and cornerstones. As you think of this journey, I also encourage you to imagine the road composed of many pit stops, as these represent one of the most important steps of the thesis process: meetings with your supervisor. Regular meetings with your thesis supervisor represent an essential element of the research and writing process because, in order for your supervisor to be an effective guide for you along your journey, he/she must be consistently updated on where you’ve been in this process, where you are now, and where you are headed next. Below are suggestions for ensuring that you make the most of your meetings with your supervisor.
Plan to meet with your supervisor regularly whether or not you have any finished work to show him or her.
Prepare in advance for meetings by making notes of the issues you would like to discuss. Prioritize these issues from most important to least important in case you end up having less time with your supervisor than you anticipated. Making notes ahead of time also allows you to be more focused during the meeting; you are less likely to forget to ask important questions regarding your research/progress.
Meetings will be most productive when you accept responsibility for “running the meeting”. Your role is to raise the issues and questions while the supervisor’s role is to respond.
We’d like your feedback on our annual Geneva Park retreat. This anonymous survey will help with continually improving our retreat, we’d really appreciate you taking 5 minutes to fill it out.
To get comprehensive feedback, we’re looking for responses from as many students, faculty, and postdocs as possible - whether or not you attended the retreat this year. Your opinion counts and we’d love to hear from you!
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