Morgan Vanek
Morgan makes a consistent effort to take advantage of all
that U of T has to offer for graduate students. A regular
attendee of departmental events like coffee hour, brown
bag lunches and lectures series, Morgan also steps outside
of her department to engage in the wider University
community.
"Without question," Morgan says her most rewarding extracurricular
experience was serving as a departmental
steward for the TA union (CUPE 3902), which offered
her a productive outlet for her desire to make her classroom
a safe and accessible place to learn.
Morgan is also involved with the Centre for Women
and Trans People, where she helped facilitate a
peer support group on mental health and body image.
She served as a departmental representative with the
Graduate Students’ Union, and recommends the
Office for the Status of Women to any new female
graduate student because of their "fantastic" mentoring
program.
Other than reading, one of Morgan’s favourite things to
do on campus is to attend WIDEN: Workshops on
Interdisciplinary Exchange and Novelty, a biweekly
graduate student symposium where other grad students
talk about their research-in-progress in an informal
environment.
Morgan recommends services like the archival research
workshops at Robarts Library as an efficient way for
new students to become familiar with U of T’s tremendous
resources and applauds the research librarians at Fisher
Rare Book Library. But when Morgan needs to buckle
down and work, she finds the 'lack of reliable internet
access' at the Green Beanery really helpful and loves
the big jugs of unsweetened iced tea at the T Cafe.
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