Hi friends 🙂
Long time no talk. Well no real talk, if that makes sense. Just a lot of formal informative stuff (which is hopefully helpful and.. informative).
I figured that I’d give you guys a little update on my life.
(I’m thinking about starting to vlog.. I’m not really sure if that’s something I’ll follow through on though because I’m pretty busy, but I think it’d also be fun and more personal)
Sorry about the relatively disorganized format of this blog post, by the way. I’ll do my best to keep it as organized as possible.
So, what have I been up to lately?
I went from 0 jobs to two jobs pretty quickly. I’ve come to realize that it’s not too difficult finding a job with a good number of hours in Vancouver, which is nice. I’m splitting my time between a coffee shop and a grocery store, which I’m really enjoying. Both jobs are about a thirty minute drive from my house, but I get lots of hours and it keeps me busy. So 40 hours of work a week later, here I am 🙂 It’s busy and tiring but it’s a nice break but not really break from school, if that makes any sense.
I made the hard decision to decline the RA job next year, so I can really pour all of my focus into school. It was a super tough decision, but I really struggled in term two of first year, and I figured this coming year is my chance to have another fresh start, and give it my all again. (Another sidenote, I’ll be making another blog post about struggling in school and anxiety as well sometime very soon)
This means that next year, I’ll be living in a Marine Drive studio. On move in day, expect a few move in related posts, and some pictures, for anyone who needs photos for reference! Because let’s be real, UBC’s pictures of the different rez rooms are lacking big time and it’s mostly a surprise once you get there.
This coming year, I’ll be going into my first year of Materials engineering, which is a super small program (hopefully that’s a good thing!). It was actually my second program choice, but I’ll make a post on that sometime in the next few weeks. I’m excited to start though! I’m all registered in my courses, and not gonna lie, I’m pretty stoked to take a course called “Pyrometallurgy” (I hope I don’t get my hopes too high up though 😮 )
So somewhere in all of this, I’m finding the time to hang out with my friends (though I feel like my life has been all about working, reading and sleeping) and finding some cool new music.
Somehow, summer is already coming to an end, and next thing you know, school will be in session again. It’s a weird feeling, being so excited, but also knowing that it’ll be crunch time soon.
Hope you guys are enjoying the long weekend! I’ll make another post in a few days, probably a course chronicles.