What if you’re not good enough? That’s the question Ben Fung kept asking on his first day of medical school at the University of Toronto. Fung was accepted in a year with 3,488 applicants, when the average grade point average was 3.96 on a 4.0 scale. Objectively, he was qualified. But what if all that was an illusion? “Everyone seemed so smart, so impressive and I kept asking: Do I belong here?” says the 23-year-old.

Dennis Bock's workshop in novel writing at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies brought English teacher Uzma Jalaluddin back to her alma mater, 14 years after graduation.

"For five days, I wasn’t tucked away in my little corner of the world," Jalauddin writes. "I was back in the trenches, creating and growing.Teaching is an important job, but taking the time to learn and to remember how hard it is to learn — that’s priceless."