Category Archives: First Year

Starbucks offers peanut butter, who knew?

IKBLC, Starbucks Chocolate Chip Banana Coffee Cake, Starbucks peanut butter suggested by Megan, a mess that got all over my yoga pants, I harvested my crops on farmville, and finished my poli sci assignment. Higher learning.

Check Check Check Check it out.

Click Here to read my blog for Free The Children on CTV.ca. I’m moving on up into the big leagues!

BC gods- If you can hear me…

When I moved to BC, I developed this weird thing where food likes to get stuck in my throat. And it never goes away. It’s so strange. Did I upset the BC gods or something?

Dear BC gods,

I do not like having my Java Chip Frappicino stuck in my throat. Usually water would resolve this issue but my body is a noncooperative. Please give me some other newly developed quality like cracking my knuckles. I’ve never been a fan of that, but I’d trade it up to get rid of the Starbucks in my throat.

Thanks, some girl named Erica.

Well… At least my acne decided to clear up in BC. That’s a plus.

I’M GOING TO STUDY.

Currently: IKBLC. 10pm w/ the girl that I don’t know from the picture on the left side of the page.

Listening to: Play your part pt. 1 by Girl Talk

Mission: Don’t fail. Study until 1am so you can go to the Bro/Sis Floor dinner tomorrow.

Here’s my question: HOW THE HECK DO I KEEP GOOD GRADES IN UNIVERSITY? What’s with all this scaling and how come I have more to read then I have time? How do people survive this and get good grades? Am I going to perish? If I perish then everyone should know that I lived life to its fullest but never had the chance to read Harry Potter.

Music Monday

One of my all time favorite songs that AE has ever played in store. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Ladyhawke’s ‘Paris is Burning.’ My favorite part of the music video is the sequence where she walks through the sparks starting around the 1:40 mark.

I slept in today until 11am by accident, missing all of my morning classes. My mother is mailing me a new alarm clock since the defective one I bought from Ikea was used for a prank in residence.

Ladies: How to meet hot res boys.

There must be like a Hot Boy Society at UBC who has a table set up somewhere. Maybe hidden behind the Sauder clubs on Main Mall or the Chinese Society who owns the Chem Building lawn across from the bookstore. But why haven’t I found them yet? I’ve been really good about wearing my glasses…

All of that changed this morning. If the society does exist, I now know where they all come together to meet and discuss hot boy topics like… Flight of the Conchords? or.. Powerthirst YouTube videos? I’m not sure what hot boys would discuss, hopefully they can quote a few good lines from Powerthirst for me but, as long as they look outstanding I really don’t give a damn.

Here’s what you want to know: All the hot boys in Totem come out for 8am breakfast in the dining hall. As if they all own pagers from the 90s or something and they were all paged to go to the dining hall for free gym memberships- they all just flood the room out of no where. One second I’m grabbing my chocolate milk, the next second I’m noticing gorgeous boys all around me. If I knew how, I’d make a pie graph to show you the percentage of hot boys that were in the dining hall compared to average looking people like myself. There was so many of them, it was like they were walking in slow motion. I’m not kidding.

Girls- you now know. 8am breakfast- the dining hall is infested with hot first year men. I have done my duty as a blogger and the world now knows. I can now watch Glee with a clear conscience.

What are you doing from here? The best of the best.

Have you checked out UBC’s new brand of “From Here” added to “A Place of Mind” recently? The UBC website changed it’s look last Tuesday to fit the new brand. There’s also this website for the community to use. On the right side of the page, you can tell everyone what you are doing from here.

Here are a few submissions that made me laugh really hard:

Be aware of course drop deadlines to save yourself heartache From Here.

Kanye is a meanie, Alumni

I need to play Farm Town. Can I log into Facebook From Here.

Pikachu, Other

If I pierce my skin over here, for some reason I bleed From Here.

A. Einstein, Other

All the people look like tiny little ants From Here.

Imat, Alumni

How do I get to the men’s lavatory From Here.

I.P. Freely, Faculty

I can see Russia From Here.

Sarah Palin, Other

With UBC being a place of mind, Zombies will be happy to get some brains From Here.

grRaaugghhh Braiiiins!, Other

Now to offset the inappropriate submissions, here are some positive ones sent in to UBC. Enjoy:

The view is inspiring, and the possibilities endless From Here.
B, Student

LIFE IS GOOD From Here.

Dave, Community

From here we learn to co-exist peacefully From Here.

Kathleen Meadowcroft, Other

I can become someone I couldn’t be before From Here.

Kaitlin, Student

Inspire. From Here.

Ben, Student

Gossip Girl Season Premiere? pfft let’s embarrass Erica on the internet instead.

If you haven’t already met Mark, a fellow first year UBC Blog Squad Member, you probably should. Today I developed a really bad cold and was lucky enough to have classes from 9am-4pm today with a 2 hour reading break in the library. I haven’t even had classes for one week and I’m already sick- lucky me. So when I decided to take a nap this evening, Mark showed up at my door with Ikea ginger snap cookies and some cough syrup. After working on healing my short little body, he took me to his room to brew me some lovely tea to help my throat. What a sweetheart. See, use bloggers are the best souls in the world.

So here’s the fun part. Mark is half aware of this and half unaware. He gave me some blackhead strips to try out for fun and suggested I wait until I’m healed later this week. Little does he know that I am a huge fan of public embarrassment and I decided to take photos and blog about my experience of trying blackhead strips for the first time. He also doesn’t know that I’m advertising this on my blog either (surprise!) or that I have no respect for my ill little body and I went ahead and put them on my face during today’s Gossip Girl season premiere that everyone but me was watching. PS, Kevin our Residence Coordinator loves Gossip Girl and has a flat screen tv in his room to watch it on. Pure dedication.

Meet Maegan and Megan! Roommates and the photographers for the evening’s events.

Before shot of my face in our Totem bathroom.

I’m absolutely crazy about LUSH products and it’s all I use. Here’s my super weird looking facial scrub called Dark Angel.

Scrubbing up my face getting ready for the blackhead strips.

Applying the white strips to my forehead and nose.

Directions: Leave on face for 10-15 minutes until it hardens.

Step 2: Blue steal.

Harden quicker blackhead strips, I know I look hot and all in them but I’ve got readings to do.

Step 3: Texting Vanier friends while waiting for the time to pass is a must.

Step 4: Time’s up! Let’s get pulling!

Getting the most painful one done first: the nose strip.

Blackhead removal action that you cannot see which is great because that would be just awkward.

The forehead strip hurt more then I thought. Thanks Mark for providing me with entertainment.

Strips are all done! Thank goodness. Time to clean off the strip area again with my crazy black stuff that scares people.

Now some LUSH Tea Tree Toner.. ohhhh yeahh 🙂

Squeaky clean! Results: Some blackheads were removed from my nose area but, I should of left it on a little bit longer instead of getting inpatient around the 12 minute mark. I am now ready to go to class lookin’ gooood and to surprise Mark with this blog post. 🙂

Here’s a story… my friends told me to post this.

On the first day of classes last week, I spent the entire 50 minutes that my Poli Sci class takes lost in the Chem building looking for the lecture hall. Turns out, I should of been looking for room 150, not room 105 because room 105 surely does not exist hence why I never found it. I ended up in the basement of the Chem building many times in restricted area where all kinds of crazy testing goes on with doors saying “DO NOT ENTER” and danger symbols. I’m smart, that’s why I’m here getting a degree, right?

Today, yes indeed my friends, I found the Tutorial for the Poli Sci class just fine. We were asked to define liberty and I cannot help but think of this clip from the “MANtage” at 43 seconds into the video. I brought it up with some people in the tutorial but they looked at me like I was from space. Little do they know how badly I wish UBC was in space…