What do you like?
We must have asked over one hundred people that very question, and this magazine is the answer.

Nova Scotian Rich Aucoin sits, reads, slides and jumps with us in our first-ever issue of Medium Magazine.

Rich Aucoin started doing this and that, now he’s getting in trouble with Dr.Seuss and having a good time.

A varied reading list is vital if you want to come across great fiction or impress cute English majors. After all, you’re not going to understand the shape of world literature by reading Star Wars novels (or even by reading the Western canon).

Whoever said “television should be educational” was on to something—alright, maybe not Jersey Shore.

Ever needed to prepare a formal dinner and had no idea where to begin? Michael Di Leo breaks it down for you.

You just saw your crusty old professor at a bar. Quick—what do you do? Put on some music of course. Melissa Horn tells you what to listen to when.

In the market for a new camera? Medium Magazine’s Photo Editor Matthew Filipowich draws out what you should buy.

Remember your first day at UTM? Remember feeling like you’d never find your classes when you realized they took place in more than one building? Here’s your guide to finding your way around utm.

Like the 900 or so University of Toronto Mississauga Frosh students at the Hart House field during Frosh Week, I was silenced by the chant of “St. George rejects” that the downtown students hurled at us.

It’s your first year at UTM and it all seems confusing. Here’s our first-ever guide to UTM’s resources for international students, compiled by Su Lyn Liew, our own copy editor imported directly from Malaysia.

Many laughed when the iPhone was first released. No keypad? Apples gone mad, they said.

Somewhere in the world a boy will ogle at a pair of Adidas sneakers, a grown man at an iPhone, a girl at an Armani dress, and they will all wish they had it.

As we enter a new decade, The Medium Sports Editor Andrew Tysiak takes a look back and recaps the top 5 Canadian athletes of the 2000s.

Bruce Driver is one of the lucky few who realized his dream of making it into the NHL. We asked him about it.

Medium Magazine breaks it down, item by item, exactly what you need to have to get through your daily grind.

You’ve somehow established the flimsy pretense of “watching a movie.” Don’t blow it by throwing on Schindler’s List. Now, it’s important to differentiate between a “make-out movie” and a “date movie.” “Date movies” are meant to be engaging, at least for one party.

As far as I know, The Medium never had one before, although other university papers do. Nor has there been a demand for it—try as I may, I can’t hear students clamouring for a Medium Magazine outside of this office.

So why did we do it? Why now?

What do you like?

We must have asked over one hundred people that very question, and this magazine is the answer.
Newspapers can be limiting. You are obligated to write a certain way, to only cover certain things, and everything must follow a specific grid. Sometimes this can help foster creativity, being forced to work within parameters. But after 36 years of publishing, we feel that it’s time to step outside of the box.
Producing a magazine was a no-brainer. We were free to write how we felt and to present it in a more accessible way.

This magazine was composed with you in mind. That’s right. We went through a ton of ideas, picking out the good, trying to cater to everyone’s preferences and make it as approachable as possible. Hence this brand new website.

We suggest you take a look around. You might find something unexpected.