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- Marine Drive: First Impressions
- Commuter Tunes Vol. 1
- 043. Dobrý den from Telč, Czech Republic*
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- Like a pressure cooker waiting to explode…
- Reflection on First Year
- From East to West: The Ins and Outs of Going to School Across the Country
- Summer Goals/New Job
- 041. Here comes the sun, do da doo doo.
- Rejection Nightmare
- For Imagine Day Squad 62
- I got a residence offer!
- Residence Year One: Totem Park
- Term Reflection
- Possible minors
- I don’t really know a lot about French politics..
- An End To A Beginning
- My first -and most probably last- mini post in Turkish
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Category Archives: AMS
AMS referenda
The AMS, our student union, is having a referendum on a few issues this week (voting ends Friday.) The following views represent nobody but me. I’m not even sure if they represent me, haha. I’m voting YES for the U-PASS. Because not doing so would screw over all of the lovely commuter students . The [...] Continue reading
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Why I will vote YES for increasing AMS fees
As some of you may know, the AMS will be having a referendum from March 7th to March 11th. The two main issues that students will be asked to vote on are a change in the Upass program and a … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in 1st year blogs, AMS, International, Involvement / Leadership, Sustainability
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AMS Elections: too much ideological heat from VFMs?
I am a little disappointed with how personal and ideological the Voter Funded Media blogs have become this year.* [Note for those who have no idea what I'm talking about: VFM ] First, you have the Student Union Press taking personal jabs at elections candidates. Seriously? These people are volunteering their time and putting themselves [...] Continue reading
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SLC Haikus
Haikus about my more memorable moments. My inspiration comes from this: Haikus are easy But sometimes they make no sense Refrigerator [and I think someone else did haikus on the Blogsquad before?] – (Drew Dudley) The CV owns us Lead by breaking from its chains NOM NOM lollipop (Lunch) Picture a sandwich So delicious, so [...] Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: ARTS WEEK IS NEXT WEEK
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Posted in 1st year blogs, AMS, Recreation
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Music, and other things.
(She is fabulous, and I love her. You should love her, too. 
) This is preposterous. For the past week, yours truly has managed to go into random bouts of sleep on her commute to school. Usually, this never happens- I’m way too paranoid that I&#… Continue reading
Posted in 1st year blogs, Academics, AMS, Involvement / Leadership, Musings, Sharing is caring, Study music
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UBC Quidditch!
UBC Quidditch is now an official AMS Club. Yaaaaayyyyy! This is the first year that Quidditch is a club here at UBC. Founded by first-years and run by an awesome executive team of eight first-years, we want YOU to join UBC Quidditch. You can play, be a referee, or just come out and support Quidditch [...] Continue reading
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Shopping List: Eggs, Milk, TUTOR
Why hello there world! It’s been a while. For the first time in a long time, I’m won’t be spending my night over a textbook or at the basements of Koerner. Because I’m done with midterms ROUND 1. It’s a week break then BAM more midterms then BAM FINALS. It’s pretty much hardcore from here. [...] Continue reading
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COPPERBOOM!
Just thought I’d let you all know that I am alive and that I can navigate Buch successfully. Aww yeah!
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Once upon a time the AMS…
…voted to eliminate the International Student Representative seat.
Actually, it was today.
After about an hour of debate the AMS Council decided that having a non-voting international student representative is not the way that they want to engage with international students.
Well… I have to say that I am deeply dissapointed.
If they had a plan about how to [...] Continue reading
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