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This was kind of like that time I said “brb shower” to someone but then I ended up going out to dinner and the movies and not getting back to them until like 10 hours later

Second year was hard for me.

I will recap in an acrostic poem.

Someone should have told me the MICB 202 multiple choice was evil
Everyone chose their major confidently, while I spent a solid few months not okay
CHEM 233 was not as terrible as everyone before me made it out to be
Of course, I had to walk from BUCH to CIRS. Of course.
Nursing application was rejected, not as disappointed as I should’ve been which shed light on what I really wanted.
Driving needs to be a thing I should learn.

You can still make new friends, I definitely did!
Every science student needs to take BIOL 204 with Angie. Best course ever.
Arts Advising, for me, was a lot nicer, welcoming and way more helpful than Science Advising. (Sorry not sorry.)
Reach for the stars, I applied to Science Psych, while preparing to transfer faculties because I thought I was absolutely not going to get in. Guess what? I got in.

 

I told myself I’d keep updating this blog so I could look back and be able to relive good memories and to help other students about to experience what I have and instead I took a hiatus.

But here I am… and I am STOKED for third year 😀

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OBLIGATORY EXAM SEASON POST

I just had the worst (THE WORST) organic chemistry exam of my life.

Worst.

Well it was last night but I was too busy having a pity party to blog about it.

I’m currently taking PSYC 101 and we have 3 midterms in that class and before every midterm, my professor likes to remind everyone to try to do their best and that exam results do not reflect you or your own self-worth. Bless her soul, she always tells us to believe in ourselves and to not stress out too much because exams DO NOT DEFINE US.

But let me tell you something.

Despite what people say, you will feel like that.

And no matter how much you know exams don’t define you, in those moments, you’ll feel like they are your entire life.

You’re going to just sit there and you’re going to think over and over and over:

I’m a failure, I suck
I’m a failure, why am I even in school?
I’m a failure, everything is awful.

And your mind is going to imagine so many different scenarios about how you’re going no where in life and you are going to question every single thing you do.

BUT.

But.

Those moments will pass. Better exam grades will happen. Maybe worse ones. More important things will push to the front of your mind. Things like that party your friend invited you on Friday night. Things like your plans for thrift shopping. Even the smallest things like how awful the long line for the 99 has been recently. Those things will be the forefront of your attention.

So no, exam results don’t define you.

But yeah, for those moments it’ll feel like it.

I say embrace it. I say accept it. I say let it happen.

Don’t start berating yourself for caring about your grades and don’t let others do it either. If you wanna say you think you failed, SAY IT. If you want to complain about how the professor totally and completely screwed you over by making every single question a trick question because he hates you then COMPLAIN.

These things show that you are a student who cares. And that moment is probably an integral part of being a post secondary student. Because exams happen all the time. Good ones, bad ones, easy ones, horrible-life-force-sucking ones.

But it’ll pass.

Live in the moment!

Even if it’s a bad one, because we are humans and this is life. It would not be interesting without the bad moments and we wouldn’t learn much either. Don’t ever beat yourself up for being human and worrying about a grade. Just remember that it’ll pass.

… Okay that’s enough from me.

I’m still sad about my o-chem midterm, but hey, on the upside it’s a long weekend this weekend?

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EVERYTHING IS CHANGING

I’m taking a break from making my cue cards… but I don’t want to get lost in a riveting Fanfiction or be stuck on YouTube. So what did I decide to do? Read all the lovely blogs of our lovely, current Blog Squad!

And then I realized how bad of a blogger I’ve been.

So I decided I’d post a quick update.

AND THEN I ARRIVE AT THE UBG BLOG SITE AND EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED, don’t get me wrong the layout is AWESOME, but CHANGE OMG SO MUCH CHANGES.

If you have the time, check out UBC Wayfinding!

IT’S ACTUALLY USEFUL NOW.

(No offense to the one before, which was nice, but hardly useful since it was just basically an online version of a map that was equally useless… at least for me.)

Um, I guess I’ll spit fire updates in my life and if some tips slip in there then bonuuuus!

  • Cheat sheets don’t help you study unless you study by writing. Want to tackle BIOL 200? Study the learning objectives to the point that you can recite them in your sleep!
  • Don’t cheat on quizzes. Because even though your prof has always used one quiz and let your friends mark it for you, there could be the one class where he doesn’t and there’s three different quizzes and you copied the answers to a different quiz and looked like an idiot. (That wasn’t me though.) (I swear) (Maybe) (It was like 2 questions I swear)
  • Try the tiramisu at Mercanté at Ponderosa. It’s expensive, but HEAVENLY. The pizza too, THAT CRUST IS SO GOOD.
  • The smell of manure is everywhere. I feel so bad for you Vanier people.
  • Volunteering is always lots of fun. If you ever volunteer at Burnaby Hospital, their floors confuse me too. (You come in from ground level and find out you’re on floor 3… wait what?) (Hospitals on hills man…)
  • SKYTRAINS ARE TEMPERMENTAL AND DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU, ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR DELAYS OR YOU COULD GET A GAZILLION WHITE HAIRS TRYING TO MAKE IT TO A CHEM QUIZ ON TIME
  • I FILTERED ALL MY CRYSTALS ON TIME ( If you understand me, dance with me. If you are a science student who will take CHEM 235 in the future, you will understand one day)
  • Forensic anthropology is a science course under the mask of an arts course. You’ve been warned. There is simple and minimal (yet still annoying) math involved.
  • Don’t be that jerk student who walks in the middle of all the construction when there is obviously a designated path for you. If I see you, I will throw things. At you.

I guess that can be it for now!

I think I might just change my blog title to “Kim’s Lists” (Of AWESOME) Because I’m a huge fan of those things. Lists, I mean. Well also awesome things, but, yeah.

ALSO PIXAR IN CONCERT (Vancouver Orchestra playing Disney Pixar Music) IS ON APRIL 30, 2014. AND I’M EXCITED CAUSE I REALLY WANT TO GO BECAUSE DISNEY. 

 

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