Hi Everyone! Your fellow blogger, Tyler is looking for players to form a REC volleyball team. He also has a soccer team on the go if you’re more interested in soccer. Email him as soon as possible at tylernelson@deathofdestiny.com if you would like more information!

Here is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested!

UBC Student Systems is currently working with UBC Admissions to improve the user experience of UBC’s online application process. The sessions are running Monday August 10th through Thursday August 13th and will be approximately 30 minutes long. The participants will also have a chance to get a sneak peak at UBC’s new and improved online application.

If you are interested in this opportunity please contact Sarah Rush at sarah.rush@ubc.ca for the times and locations of the sessions and further details.

Hello Everyone,

I thought I would take a minute to properly introduce myself, to both the new 1st year squad as well as the returning bloggers. My name is Carman Lam and I am currently working for Student Development, specifically with leap.ubc.ca. I am a third year student going majoring in International Relations and minoring in History. Some of my favourite things in life include but are not limited to: listening to music, playing music, ice cream, board games, my family, skydiving and traveling. I am really looking forward to meeting all of you in person this September!

Feel free to comment, introduce yourselves & some of your own favourite things in life.

I’ve been hearing that there is some trouble getting in contact with me. My email is sdasst4@exchange.ubc.ca. Please email that instead of simply pressing ‘reply’ because that (confusingly) reroutes to a different, inactive address.

Since I don’t remember if you guys have access to write posts on this blog, I’ll do this.  Freely comment.  Plan extravagant things.  Or simple things.  Just something so we can all get to hang out sometime soon!  Movie?  Bocce in the cold?  Games night?  Invade rez commons?  Off campus?  =D

~ H

Hey all,

Got this link forwarded to me – thought it to be a pretty good resource.  Most of you already do all those things so don’t really need it, but I think it’s kind of a good checklist to run through in your head.

http://communications.students.ubc.ca/tools_web_blogwriting.cfm

~ H

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Ahem. Now that we’re all relaxed and feeling the endorphins from watching the most entertaining thing known to man, I’ll say hi.

Hi!

Like the title says, my name is Lindsay. I have never blogged before but even though I want to major in some form of biology, I LOVE to write. Well not so much the action of writing itself… I more enjoy the feeling afterwards. It’s brain-er-cise.

I’m from Victoria. It’s okay, I guess. Very quiet, and not much to do unless you’re a tourist. We have tons of low quality movie theatres here that I like to peruse from time to time, but that’s about it. The scenery around here saves the island. Nature rocks.

Anyways, it’ll be great to meet all of you. Maybe you can teach me some stuff about fancy fonts and things. And not using “stuff” and “things” in the same sentence… Wow.

Signing out!

Lindsay (but my friends call me Pinz)

ps. Eastwood! I saw your email on the contact list thing on the email we got sent! I used your website all this year for practicing provincial exams! You are my History, Chemistry and Physics God! Same with my friends. We bow down to you.

Pheobe, I would definitely go for the September issue. After all, nothing is better than a good fashion magazine (although I’m a Cosmo gal myself). Those timbits sound like a pretty good idea too…

I’m Jayne, by the way, and it looks like I am the only person on the squad with absolutely zero experience blogging. I did keep a diary when I was about 14 that lasted for a good two weeks, a record for me. Mostly I end up losing all the loose bits of paper that I write on, so having somewhere to write that won’t end up in the laundry is probably a good thing for me.

My background is pretty typical. I was raised by wolves until about age ten when I was discovered by talent scouts from the circus. My howling at the moon was such a big attraction that I quickly moved up through the ranks until a fire decimated all the wagons and the troupe had to go their own ways. I chose to go to university because Im not really qualified to do anything else…

I can also be a bit of a liar. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m Phoebe and I have too many blogs to count. I really envy people like Lizzy and Eastwood (posts below) who managed to keep their personal blogs going for so long! I’m more of a theme blogger and that’s why this UBC experience will probably be a blast for me!

So me in a nutshell:

Faculty: Commerce, currently overloaded with WAY too many electives.

Background: Sir Winston Churchill grad, Vancouverite for the past three years, Londoner from Ontario before that, Torontonian before THAT… the list goes on.

Most Excited About: the 6th Harry Potter Movie MEETING PEOPLE AT UBC! Especially Blog Squad folks who are 1337% cooler than the general public.

Can Usually Be Found: lurking on Facebook, working multiple jobs, coding another website, trying to decide whether to splurge on the enormous September Vogue issue or a box of Timbits… or both =P

Currently listening to: “30/90″ – tick, tick, BOOM!

Hey there! I’m Mary, and I’m not really new to this blogging business. In fact, I recally my very first blog at the age of fourteen: an angst-filled dustbin for mindless trash – oh, the memories I’ve tried to suppress of capslock and exclamation marks dancing across pages. Ugh. Currently, I have a Livejournal and a WordPress, so feel free to poke around. I assure you, I’ve improved from my young and stupid days.

Quick Snippets of Information:

Faculty: Arts (hopefully majoring in Psych OR French, I haven’t quite decided!)

Other Pertinent Bits: Francophile, musical theatre geek/freak, hat-and-scarf wearer, tea drinker, is never sarcastic, cannot tell left from right, semi-British accented, bitten by the travel bug.

That’ll be it for now, and I most certainly can’t wait to meet all of you!

Cheers,
Mary

Well, here we are at the beginning!

I wasn’t too sure what would be the best way to launch my blog, but since I’m already at UBC, I figured I’d save an introduction for a little later, as there is just so much going on here already!

I’m lucky enough to have been able to be a part of JumpStart this fall, so my first day on Campus was the 12th August. About 180 of us international students have been housed on Campus, Walter Gage Towers,  with some amazing facilitators doing their utmost best to make this transition a smooth and stimulating one.

I had definitely, without a doubt, underestimated the scope of the diverse ethnicities and cultures I’d be coming into contact with. It’s really difficult to compare anyone here to anyone I’ve ever met before. I have never in my life been surrounded by such an incredible eclectic mix of cultures and ethnicities. We have somehow managed to represent all continents, most states in america, MANY parts of Asia, a much greater chunk of Africa than expected, Europe is up there and let’s not even get into the Scandinavians! I was all prepared to be the lone South African Representative, but no, I am happy to report we’ve sent a few of our best! Read the rest of this entry »