{"id":132,"date":"2012-01-12T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T00:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/?p=132"},"modified":"2012-01-17T19:45:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:45:56","slug":"a-ubyssey-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/evan\/2012\/01\/12\/a-ubyssey-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ubyssey Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my big goals this term was to volunteer at The Ubyssey. And it wasn\u2019t just a goal. It was a spin-o-rama, behind the back, bicycle kick kind of goal. Very important to me and very awesome, a fulfilling experience for the news junkie I\u2019ve become. I thought my time at Blog Squad gave me the experience to tackle a real-life story, albeit one that doesn\u2019t include my awkward experience purchasing an ice cream cookie sandwich<\/a> or my goal to one day gain the ability to fly<\/a> (still working on that). No disrespect to those tour de force pieces, but I wanted to tackle one of the institutional facets of writing, journalism.<\/p>\n

Now I wasn\u2019t expecting people in tweed suits and \u201cPress\u201d hats to be yelling, \u201cCome \u2018ere, see. Yeah, see\u201d with that abstract and strangely exciting 1960\u2019s attitude\u2026okay, well I was expecting that, but more in that unique state of unrealistic optimism that improves your day, regardless of the logical fallacies attached. It\u2019s like that glimmer of hope that you\u2019ll one day open the paper and see, \u201cBeatles Back On Tour!\u201d Just our little fantasies. Our impractical, sanguine daydreams.<\/p>\n

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So I stumbled to the SUB, full of desire for my future in campus journalism, my passion, my zeal\u2026until I saw Blue Chip Cookies. Food usually sidetracks my ambition. And so after I had sat in isolation, gently repressing my campus goals with crumbling baked oatmeal and a melted slab of white chocolate, I headed down to the Ubyssey office, hoping I wouldn\u2019t find a snow-cone stand to further delay my success.<\/p>\n

I walked in and it was nothing like I expected. Mind you, I wasn\u2019t really expecting anything, but it was nonetheless cool. It had the loose organization of a presidential candidate\u2019s HQ. People walking around with paper, desks organized to maximize communication, some guy in the background yelling, \u201cWe need New Hampshire, people! Come on!\u201d Okay, that last one\u2019s made up. I think I\u2019ve been watching too much CNN.<\/p>\n

A little discussion and I had my story. Something that wasn\u2019t just a rookie assignment, like, \u201cGo interview a dog about frisbees,\u201d (which I\u2019d still do. I mean, come one. That\u2019s awesome), but something I could bend to my will, something with eons of opportunity, something I could go the extra mile with. And I know, you\u2019re saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cEvan, eons? Miles? Did this story span both time and space, proving that time is relative?”<\/em><\/p>\n

And I would respond,<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m just talking in metaphor.\u201d<\/p>\n

And you\u2019d respond,<\/p>\n

\u201cOh\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And there\u2019d be this awkward silence. Like, a really long awkward silence. And then we\u2019d both drift away, both muttering something about \u201cthat thing we got to go do,\u201d now forevermore avoiding eye contact in order to avoid future social contact.<\/p>\n

But this was far better. It felt like the first time I got to do something here that really made an impact, really helped the UBC greater good.<\/p>\n

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The article is on Sustainability 101, a new course UBC is offering:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ubyssey.ca\/news\/sustainability-101-course-offered\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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