New term, new year, new post.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Okay, so it’s about a month late for that kind of talk, but the thought is still there.\u00a0 A whole lot’s happened since my last post, the most important of which is my new laptop, which will permit me to update with more frequency than I had in the past.\u00a0 I guess I’ll make a quick overview of notable things that may have permitted a full blog post at some point…<\/p>\n
– For those of you who read Sam’s blog, she came to Toronto with me over the winter break.\u00a0 She met my family, who loved her.\u00a0 I also went to the CN tower for the first time in about ten years.\u00a0 I’m not sure if it’s because I think it’s too tourist-y or because I’m deathly afraid of heights, but I really don’t like it there.\u00a0 But if you’re taking someone to Toronto for the first time, I guess it’s the proper thing to do.\u00a0 Also yes, I bought her a bracelet from Tiffany’s for Christmas.\u00a0 This might seem like overkill if you don’t realize that Sam got me like, a million presents for Christmas and I only got her one.\u00a0 I enjoyed seeing my family again, and I was reminded how much I miss them.<\/p>\n
\u00a0-I got to shake Jack Layton’s hand a few weeks ago.\u00a0 This isn’t a big deal for people who aren’t pro-NDP, but to me he’s probably the most relevant active Canadian politician there is.\u00a0 One of the things I find so refreshing about BC is that there’s a lot more NDP support than I generally saw in Toronto.<\/p>\n
-It’s almost February and we in Totem park STILL have no commonsblock.\u00a0 I, like many other residents of Totem park, am becoming frustrated with the constant delays, and particularly the lack of compensation we’re being offered.\u00a0 We’ve paid full fees for our residence, just like anyone from, for instance, Place Vanier, but we’ve been denied the benefits that we’re paying for.\u00a0 I thought this was going to be for only half the year, but the way the delays are going (they currently say February 18th, but through any kind of inductive reasoning you can speculate they’ll probably delay it until March) we’re going to get maybe two months with a commonsblock.\u00a0 I am thankful we’ve had a cafeteria for the majority of the time, but we’ve been inconvenienced in many ways.\u00a0 For instance, we have no bathroom facilities where we eat.\u00a0 I personally don’t consider myself hard to please, so I can cope with all this, but quite honestly it’s hard to explain to my father that he’s paying for things that I’m not getting.<\/p>\n
-Yes. I failed econ last term.\u00a0 Math isn’t my thing at all.\u00a0 I did quite well in my other courses, however.\u00a0 During the final exam for econ my professor came out and talked to me about how badly I did…\u00a0 It made me feel kind of bad for not trying as hard as I probably could have.\u00a0 UBC really has some good professors in this respect.\u00a0 You can tell most of them really care about their subject and the students.\u00a0 This is the general opinion Ive heard from other UBC graduates, as well.\u00a0 In spite of my academic struggle in things involving mathematics and my griping about things like the commonsblock, I’m still very grateful to be here.<\/p>\n
Okay, I’ve only had my laptop for a month and the damned enter key is already sticking.\u00a0 I must attempt to remedy this now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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