u/Powerful_Fee_4538

Hi everyone, I'm going into second year and have my courses planned out already for that. I'm just using degree explorer to plan 3rd and 4th year courses. The only required courses are POL and PHL, not the PRT.

I know I want to go on an exchange year or semester but I don't know when to go since I am competing in varsity sports for UofT so I would think it's better to do it my last year, but then I wouldn't graduate in June. I also need a full course load (5 courses) to be able to do an exchange year. Should I just do it third year and move most of the 4th year courses down to take them in 3rd year for the full load? Or do a bunch of random courses.

Just asking now because I'll have to apply for the exchange program this year for next year.

I wish I could post a video of these soft, moist cinnamon rolls😫

So I decided to make cinnamon rolls today, and my oven kept trying to catch itself on fire because the excess butter and sugar from the cinnamon rolls kept leaking onto the floor of the even. So I ended up having to cook it in intervals, 5 mins 350°, 2 mins 325°, 10 mins 300°, 4 mins 325°, 2 mins 350°, etc, while letting the smoke out of the oven. This means it was a bit undercooked but I let it sit after out of the oven and it seemingly cooked itself a bit more.

Thankfully I had aluminum foil on them so that they didn't burn or taste and smell like smoke. But holy fuck are they JUICY and MOIST for fucking once. They used to come out dry and overworked in the past, and so I realized that proofing it 3 times, 2 times in the oven at 95° for 30 mins each, and one more time in the oven after having rolled them makes it rise a ton.

ALSO MOST IMPORTANTLY, I created a concoction of 50% butter and 50% milk since I have no heavy cream, and doused it over the cinnamon rolls before cooking them so their interior was juicy while the bottom was crispy from the cooked brown sugar. I have never been so happy in my life.

This is the recipe I used, but the concoction isn't included in this:

https://bromabakery.com/homemade-cinnamon-rolls-soft-fluffy/

Why would anyone buy from a food place that is too lazy to even put real pictures of why they offer...

[effacé]

Made pretzels for the first time (ignore the ugly shape). I posted a couple of days having made bread rolls for the first time :)

Hi everyone! My cat and I were on a walk when he started hunting something in the bush. I realized it was a wild baby bunny after he caught it by the neck. He was trying to bring it inside the house so I let him because I wanted to release the bunny but didn't want to touch it in case the mother would smell my human scent and wouldn't take it back.

As you can see the bunny was not injured at all and wasn't in since he was bouncing around the house all cute. I ended up using gloves to pick him up and release him back into my backyard and he hopped away.

Was this the right decision, should I have taken it to get checked out maybe? I didn't want to take it too long since its family might have been nearby. I see these rabbits in our back yard every day.

Posted 6 days ago with people telling me to take a profit, and I agree. I wish I did. But with me being Canadian I don't like the conversion rate eating away for each buy and sell. Then yesterday, pre-earnings, Micron dropped down to $1070 so I bought a tiny bit more shares, then down to $1040 and $990 today which I didn't have money to buy. I didn't sell and happy about it, since it is currently going back up again. However, only real market hours plus selling will determine my profit!

Thank you to everyone who was giving advice!

Just wanted to say, I currently work at a gym making minimum wage ($17.60) and typically make like $1000-1400 a month depending on how many hours I work. To see it go up that much in the past week is insane.

I was like wondering really bad back in January whether I wanted to start investing or save up regularly and use my money to go on trip in September, but here I am. Opened the TFSA back in January and just opened the FHSA (trying to play it safe with that one, not much risk). Lmk if you have an advice for long term holding.

Hey all! I love wearing my natural hair but I've been contemplating whether I want to cut my hair again or just grow it out but want any help to estimate how long it will take to grow back to the "original" length. I'm also first providing my routine below before giving background info on each picture so ANY ADVICE IS APPRECIATED!!!

HAIR ROUTINE

I have low porosity 4a hair I believe. My hair fights my shower water and never absorbs it. My routine includes washing every 3-4 days with T444Z shampoo and conditioner. I air dry my hair after washing, I don't really like diffusers cause they shrink my hair even more.

After I shower I alternate between leaving Shea Moisture Curl & Shine Hair Masque and Mielle's Rosemary Mint Strengthening Hair Masque in to keep it wet. I also use Wonder afro Argan Oil for styling instead of gel so it doesn't flake or dry out my hair. I like changing my hairstyles a lot so I wear my hair up a lot if that changes anything because I don't like my natural hair out at the awkward length it's growing back at. I try to wear a sating bonnet or durag or bandana to sleep but sometimes I just forget.

So I'm just wondering how long it might take, I assume another 5 years, but maybe since it's actually healthy it'll take shorter??

BACKGROUND INFO TO THE PICS (Hair Journey)

In 2018 I went away to send a summer to my white grandparents' home and they didn't have the proper hair products, and didn't take me to a hairdresser that whole summer so over two months my curly hair became super matted, and I cut it all off right before turning 11. It was super short and I became insecure of my short hair.

Photos 1, 2, and 3 are from March-June 2024, so about 6 years after the big chop, but I had bleached and dyed ginger brown hair back then.

Photos 4, 5, and 6 are from July-December 2024, when I bleached my hair again, this time to orangey blonde. (Don't ask me what I was doing I had a midlife crisis) It was EXTREMELY dry and was constantly breaking at this point.

Photos 7, 8, and 9 are a sequence of the worst hair experience I've ever had. I had dyed my hair black in December, and it looked gorgeous but was still extremely dry. I had braids in from December-February 2025, and took them out to look how photo 7 does. After that I detangled and showered but clearly I didn't detangle enough because all my hair matted in photo 8, and then photo 9 shows all the hair my hairdresser miraculously managed to save.

Photos 10, and 11 show my hair in early October 2025, around shoulder length when curly so lower shoulders while straightened. I still had a lot of bleached dead hair left.

Photos 12, and 13 show my hair late October 2025 after I straightened my hair and cut off a decent chunk of the bleach twice (idk how much cause I did it myself).

Photos 14, 15, and 16, show my third time cutting my hair in November 2025 (I loved that length in photo 14), and then it a grew awkwardly outwards a bit by mid November (photos 15 an 16)

Photos 18 and 19 reveal the curly growth it has had to May and June 2026, haven't straightened my hair since October so I can't really show a comparison of that, but since like 95% of the bleach has been cut off, my curls have grown back to their original curl pattern of 4a I believe.

My hair is now healthier.

I made a post on Monday about buying in at $908, with many saying it would pull back hard the next day, and me objecting believing it would grow steadily because of everything that has been going on with Micron. Safe to say, I'm up $100 USD and have never been prouder🥱

Hello! I am relatively new to investing. I turned 18 in September 2025, but didn't open a TFSA until January 2026.

I am looking for advice on my portfolio and the current ETF/stock picks I have.

Since I'm young, I don't mind my portfolio's individual stock percentage being greater than 10%, and with the pending fractional buys it would move from around 9.8% with just BDT to 24%. I wanted to invest directly in more american individual stocks but I have no USD and am not willing to pay for the monthly US account nor will I pay the conversion fees of 1.5 buy and 1.5 sell. I decided to go with the hedged options which I know take a small percentage but I'd rather this. I also picked NVDA and MU because of a belief that they will continue to grow or at least stay relevant as AI grows, and I picked BDT and CAT because I believe construction will always be profitable, and they are both the largest canadian and american construction companies.

I know many will be like just get ETFs but I'd rather not only have those, and yes I know there is overlap between VFV, VDY, and XEQT, but I like having all three so maybe I would consider only investing in 2, but for now I'm content with it because I want to lean more heavily in the US market and their stocks.

I will be continuing to put in $70-$100 per month depending on my paycheck and how much I need in emergency savings, but if I could get advice on how my current distribution is, what you would advise me to change, and if I should cancel my fractional buys before tomorrow and pick something else? I'm not looking to take this money out any time soon, maybe 10 years at the earliest.