4 Years and A Degree Later

If there is one day that I HAVE to post something, it’s on my “bloggeversary”, June 26th. 4 years ago I was sitting in the computer room of my house “studying” (studying = stalking everything UBC because that’s how stoked I was) for my grade 12 provincial exams, anticipating starting my first year at UBC in the following September. Whoa, THAT was a lifetime ago. Now I am currently on my computer, writing a blog post while I’m anticipating about an exciting opportunity that has come up in my life, woo. Once you graduate from high school, things just keep changing. You go into first year university (assuming you took this route) and you can say that you can anticipate (my new favourite word apparently) where you will be until you finish your degree, or maybe not, lots of people realize university isn’t their thing and they choose to follow a different path. Some people go into a Science degree in order to fulfill their lifelong desire to become a doctor, and after four years, they graduate with a Fine Arts degree because they took that one Visual Art elective in first year and they realized Science wasn’t for them – you may think that this is an exaggeration, but really, it’s not, it happens. UBC was a time of finding myself, a time to follow various paths until the signs along the road became clearer and I started following a path that seemed to have a clearer destination than when I first set foot on it. If you’re someone that thinks they know where they will be in four years, then great! If you’re someone that doesn’t know where they will be in four years, even better, create your path from scratch! Mind you, it always is nice to have some direction, but do it for you, don’t do it for someone else. I would go back to first year in a heartbeat, would I change the way I did some things, or would I keep it the same? That’s a tough question. I feel like all the things that happened along the way got me to where I am today – the people I met, friendships gained and friendships lost, the experiences I experienced, my involvement, academic difficulties, all of it. If those things hadn’t happened, I would not be who I am today or where I am today. So really, pave your destination, but there are no guarantees that it will get paved in one go.

And because I’m feeling so throwbacky…here’s an irrelevant music video from forever ago…because I heard the song today. I am pretty sure I loved this song between the ages of 9-13, and I think I still enjoy it to the same extent. I can’t get over the level of corny in music videos from the early 2000s, like what?

Ode To Undergrad, Call Me Alumni

I am still alive, actually. And I graduated with an expensive piece of paper. What. Four years goes by super fast folks!

I know I haven’t been very active here in my fourth year, or at least as active as I had anticipated — to be honest, one of my reasons for the lack of blogging especially in my second term of fourth year was because one of my classes required us to use WordPress for blogging, and I always kept that logged in and was too lazy to continuously switch accounts.
But now that it’s time for the new class of 2019…? to join UBC, I’ll be more active on here to answer everyone’s questions as I’ve noticed my blog has been peaking with traffic. So yes, as an alumni(how weird to say), I am willing to help you all get through what I was experiencing four years ago. :O
As per always, I will experience the excitement vicariously through all of you new to UBC kiddos!

On a side note, another reason for my activity here will probably be because I’ve realized how liberating it is to have a blog and have a place to write your thoughts. And on that note, I highly encourage everyone to start a blog as they’re going into UBC (or any university, or whatever new chapter you are starting in your life), it’s amazing to be able to go back and reflect on 4 years of your life, especially when it’s at the stage where you’re going through SO many changes — coming out of UBC, I am definitely not the same person that went in.
Anywho, cheerio! 🙂