Meet your 2022-2023 PAL Peer Leaders
"The Learning Peer I worked with was incredibly helpful. PAL has
helped me tremendously with my academics."
Lauren (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Favourite Quote: "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer
Prachi (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Bachelor of Medical Sciences- Honours Specialization in Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences (4th year)
Favourite Quote: "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."- Wayne Dyer
Madison (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Ivey-Honours Business Administration (HBA)
Favourite Quote: “Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.” – Michael Josephson
Amy (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences
Favourite Quote: “Learning never exhausts the mind.” -Leonardo da Vinci
Andrew (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Honours Specialization in Computer Science
Favourite Quote: "Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work" - Albert Einstein
Sherry (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: 4th year Medical Science - Honours Specialization in Physiology and Pharmacology
Favourite Quote: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss
Jinkun (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences
Favourite Quote: “Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” - E. M. Forster
June (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Neuroscience
Favourite Quote: "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."-Benjamin Franklin
Ryan (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Ivey-Honours Business Administration (HBA)
Favourite Quote: "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Lao Tzu
Emma (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Electrical Engineering
Favourite Quote: “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B King
Eric (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Engineering
Favourite Quote: The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. - Brian Herbert
Guangchang (Greta) (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Honor Specialization in Finance
Favourite Quote: "Learning without thinking is lost; thinking without learning is perilous."-Confucius
Dhanya (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Honours Bachelor of Medical Sciences, Double Major - Medical Cell Biology & IMS
Favourite Quote: "Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching" - A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Sophie (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Science
Favourite Quote: "Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit"- Vince Lombardi
Tristan (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Management and Organizational Studies
Favourite Quote: “Take advantage. Do your best, don’t stress. You were granted everything inside this planet, anything you imagine, you possess” – Kendrick Lamar
Jack (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Mechatronics and Biomedical Engineering
Favourite Quote: “If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” – Zig Ziglar
Matthew (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Honours Specialization in Computer Science with Minor in Game Design (4th year)
Favourite Quote: “Just ’cause somethin’ ain’t been done Don’t mean it can’t be did.” – Shel Silverstein
Valeryia (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Honours Bachelor of Science: Specialization in Data and Major in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Favourite Quote: “The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another”-Unknown
Kareena (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Honours Bachelor of Science: Specialization in Animal Behaviour
Favourite Quote: "The joy of learning is an indispensable in study as breathing is in running." - Simone Weil
Celina (PAL Ambassador)
Degree/Program: Honours Specialization Health Sciences with Biology
Favourite Quote: “Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it” -Confucius
Nadia (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Honours Specialization Health Sciences with Biology
Favourite Quote: "Never stop learning"-Unknown
Adam (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Bachelor of Engineering, Civil Engineering
Favourite Quote: "Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn" - Benjamin Franklin
Ahmad (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences - Honours Specialization in Physiology
Favourite Quote: "The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great at whatever they want to do." - Kobe Bryant
Aidan (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program:Kinesiology
Favourite Quote: "Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a part of success" - Arianna Huffington
Faisal (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences - HSP Pathology
Favourite Quote: "You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving" - Paul Kalanithi
Gina (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences, HSP in Physiology and Pharmacology
Favourite Quote: "It always seems impossible until it is done."-Unknown
Jhanvi (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Psychology
Favourite Quote: "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you" - B.B. King
Jiahuan (Edward) (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Specialization in Human Resources
Favourite Quote: ““The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”-Unknown
Kara (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Sciences
Favourite Quote: “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” - Abraham Lincoln
Karan (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Health Sciences
Favourite Quote: "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcom X
Satyavenkata (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Science
Favourite Quote: "The past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it"-Unknown
Sina (Learning Peer)
Degree/Program: Medical Science-HSP Physiology and Pharmacology
Favourite Quote: "Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it" - Michael Jordan
