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By Renee Baker For the graduate fresh out of high school, university can be one of two things. It is either a golden gate illuminated with the possibilities that come with adult independence, or an unreadable door leading to a future that may or may not have a place for…

By Renee Baker It has been close to two years now since the Class of 2014 left the familiar halls of TIS, and I followed up with one of the students to see how well she has taken to university life. Considering how Verena Tse graduated such a short time…

By Renee Baker As part of the first graduating class of TIS, Luis Riberio (Class of 2009) has a lot to show for the past six years. He chose a science major on almost a complete whim, finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 2013, and is…

By Renee Baker I came across a quote the other day that got me thinking: “If you don’t build your own dream, someone will hire you to build theirs.” Entrepreneurship isn’t easy, but for those who have set their sights on creating their own empires, it helps to have a…

By Renee Baker I thought it would be fun to reconnect with the person who first held the task of sharing TIS alumni stories - Michael Veith from the Class of 2012. Michael has just completed his third year at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, where he studies history and…

By Renee Baker “It’s definitely not for everyone, but accounting is less about math than most people think.” As someone who has loathed and dreaded math for the vast majority of their life, this is not a sentence that I can believe easily. For Jenny Chan (Class of 2009), however,…

By Renee Baker Science and art are very different fields. A neurosurgeon’s area of expertise will most likely never overlap with an animator’s, nor will a makeup artist share similar work experience as a meteorologist. In most schools, students usually pick either science or art to focus on for the…

By Renee Baker (TIS student 2008-2010) About two years ago, we interviewed Mandy Zheng (Class of 2010), who had been in her final year at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She had gone to Haida Gwaii, a series of islands along the British Columbia coast, for a semester immersed in…

By Renee Baker (TIS student 2008-2010) Up until this summer I hadn’t set foot in TIS in years, but this past June, I found myself sitting in the main office five days a week. This odd twist of fate was due to the fact that I had been given a…

Even though universities in Australia and New Zealand work on a different time schedule than TIS (school starts in Feb/Mar), TIS students apply and get acceptances to many programs. The hardest part about applying, is waiting until after they graduate - unlike their classmates.