Residence Stuff – Excess Thoughts

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.

Hello everyone! I hope you’re doing well.

So, Saturday, (Aug 31) was move in day! It’s pretty crazy that I’m now living “alone”, though, I don’t feel alone, which is good. It’s been a lot of fun (and I must admit, a little bit hectic), but nevertheless, I am here, relatively settled, and having an incredibly rad time.

So let’s backtrack to Friday and all of the prep for moving in. I had all of my clothes packed up a few days early, so I was pretty prepared in that sense. I had a full small suitcase and an overstuffed duffle bag, as well as another duffle full of shoes (as you may notice, I’m a bit of an overpacker). The packing would not have gone so smoothly without my parents’ help, as they played a tetris game of boxes and miscellaneous items so that everything was packed as efficiently as possible. I had work from 6pm to midnight (which in retrospect, wasn’t the best idea since I was so tired the next morning), but we got everything packed up into the car by 8:30 am the next day!

As you can see, it looks like I overpacked a lot, but I actually ended up having space for everything in my room!

As a local student, I was lucky enough to be able to overpack and send anything that didn't fit home. — As a local student, I was lucky enough to be able to overpack and send anything that didn’t fit home.

We ended up taking two cars (the minivan above, and a small sedan), since we had a LOT of things to bring. Luckily, two of my friends (thank goodness for them), came along for the move in and helped me out.

As a local student, we made the gruelling (sarcasm) 45 minute car ride to UBC. As we got to campus, there were tons of volunteers helping us out. UBC did a great job of letting us know the schedule of what to do in advance, so we were all as (more or less) prepared as we could be.

We all went to the commons block, got our keys, had our mini orientation, and it started feeling so real. So I headed to my room (all the way up to the seventh floor) and checked it out. It’s gorgeous. I’m already super in love with Vancouver, but being able to look out and see everything is the most beautiful thing ever.

Fast forward to moving in (since this post is getting a little long), we took the elevator/made the trek up seven flights of stairs, and finally got everything in. (It took about.. 3 or 4 trips with 6 people and the volunteers!) Even though it seemed crazy full of clutter with all of the boxes, after moving everything in, I still have lots of space and an empty drawer in my dresser! It’s pretty crazy.

I’m still adjusting to living “alone”, (it’s a really weird experience, but it’s also good), and I’m really grateful for all of the new friends that I’ve made.

Huge thanks to all of the move in day volunteers for helping everyone out and making sure that our day went smoothly.

(Thinking about it, I keep asking myself why I didn’t take more photos of the whole move in process. I’ll do a little tour of my room on here soon!)

**Look forward to a post about move in that’s a little more detailed!

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