{"id":126,"date":"2021-10-17T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T04:53:37","slug":"patrick-ryan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/houp\/archived-interviews\/patrick-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI needed one more elective to take, and so I messaged a good friend of mine and hit him up about all his courses to see what he was taking. A lot of them sounded just awful and really not interesting whatsoever, like philosophy of the law\u2014I was like, not down for that. *Laughs* I saw that he was taking abnormal psychology, so I signed up\u2026 In the first class, I remember this guy asking a very show-offy question, and so the prof goes, \u2018No one knows what you’re talking about right now.\u2019 It was really funny, and as we were walking out of the classroom, that\u2019s when we met Allie.\u201d
\n\u201cIt was my first day and first class at UBC. I heard like this incredible, booming laughter, and it was your friend, Chao. I thought, I think I know what they’re laughing about\u2026\u201d
\n\u201cSo Allie says, \u2018I know right! You guys, it was such a stupid question!\u2019 I thought she was pretty cute and she asked me where the bookstore was. We got talking from there and started hanging out. I was her first friend here in Canada.\u201d
\n\u201cI know you\u2019re minoring in psych, but what got you interested in geography?\u201d
\n\u201cIt makes you think about pollution and air movements and the formation of mountains and where the water is going to run down those mountains, and how all of those processes are connected on a scale that a lot of people don’t really think about in their day-to-day life. So I guess geography makes me see things in a more global or holistic way. Shout out to Simon Donner and his course on climate change; the biggest underscored message of that course is that climate change is real. I really thought that was an impactful course and I guess it kind of shaped this whole fascination with the climate for me. I never thought of myself as a climate protector, or any of that growing up or anything, but after coming to UBC I feel like it\u2019s such a big challenge and one that\u2019s worthwhile devoting yourself to. So I\u2019ve found a niche for myself in the clean energy sector and want to continue working in this field because I think it\u2019s important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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