Room Assignments and Meal Plans!

Posted on August 13, 2012 | 1 comment

I finally got my room assignment today! After learning what room I’ll be living in, feelings of actually going to university are starting to kick in!

I’ll be living on the Valhalla Residence! I won’t be saying my room number –  no stalkers allowed!

My residence building for first year - Valhalla!

But I’m still a bit iffy about the whole sharing a bathroom with someone else idea… but maybe it’s better than sharing a bathroom with the whole floor? I have yet to contact the person I will be sharing a bathroom with for the next year, but I hope things will turn out well!

Then there’s the Meal Plan due on August 15. More expenses, great :'( I got the Bronze Plan, so my first payment was around $620, and the second payment is around $2200 (due on October). Now I just have to find a way to live with that much money from September to April. This is where my budgeting skills come into play! 🙂

There’s also a Silver and Gold Plan, but I got the Bronze since it was the cheapest option, plus I can just add more money on my plan just in case I run out of money  after spending all my money on Starbucks and Tim Hortons 😛

Bookists also came out today, August 13th. But since the UBCO Online Bookstore is being a pain and not showing me my booklist, I might have to wait until tomorrow. I think I can wait though – the insanely high textbook prices will probably drive me nuts. Maybe I’ll do the book rental program?

Around 3 more weeks until I go to Kelowna (AKA K-Town) !!! It’s gonna be such an adventure, but I’m gonna enjoy Vancouver with the little time I have left :'(

 

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First Year Term 1 Courses.

Posted on July 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

I’m so excited for the courses that I’m taking next year~ I’ve started reading the calendar more thoroughly and it turns out that I need to take 6 credits of Arts electives? Darn it, I should’ve registered for JAPST 100, but I really like my schedule, and there’s only one seat left in the lecture, so… maybe I’ll take it in second year? But I will definitely take it in the future, I really wanna learn Japanese 🙂

Anyways, I wanted to sum up and describe my first term courses and here and write my initial thoughts on it, just to see how they’ll compare when I actually write about how the courses go when I take them from September to December. I’ll also talk about the professors and what I’ve heard from them (according to ratemyprof) So here we go!

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BC Student Loans

Posted on July 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

If some are not fully aware, applications for BC Student Loans have been out since the beginning of June (I think?). I just finished my application… I think UBC Okanagan says that applications should be sent in by July 15 in order for the money to come in time to pay for the first installment of tuition payments.

Speaking of tuition payments, I saw my financial summary through my SSC account. WOW. Over $4,000 for first year courses alone. That doesn’t include housing, textbooks, and other fees. I should’ve anticipated this when I was using the UBC Cost Calculator, but I don’t think the reality set in until now. SO MUCH MONEY. But that’s the harsh reality when you go to university, I guess. I also find it to be good motivation – if you’re paying to go to school, might as well work hard so you don’t waste your money… or in this case, the government’s money 😛

Anyways, back to Student Loans…

At first, the application looked extremely difficult due to the tons of financial information I had to fill out, but it turns out that many of it didn’t apply to me, so I basically spent half an hour filling everything out with $0.00 😀 There was one part where it asked me how much I had in my bank acount, so that was a bit embarrasing since I have less than $40 in it… but not too bad of a process overall.

Now all I need to do is get my parents to fill out the Parent Appendix form in order to fully complete the application… that could take a while :S

To anyone who needs to apply for Student Loans and haven’t yet, here’s the link!http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/studentaidbc/apply-online/student-loan

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Winter Session 2012-2013 Timetable

Posted on July 2, 2012 | 1 comment

Registration was a relatively… painless process? Not what I had anticipated, I expected to find all my desired sections full and me having a panic attack at 8 in the morning. But that wasn’t the case at all! I actually got most of the lectures I wanted at the times I wanted! Considering my registration was the last day for first-years, I was pleasantly surprised. It also helped that I woke up 2 hours before my registration time, made 5 different worklists, and monitored the SSC constantly ;D

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