I feel very fortunate to be in a position where I’m offered many opportunities for growth and development as a young person and as a student. There are a few special skills that I have cultivated throughout my years of school, either through formal education or extracurricular activities.<\/p>\n
People skills<\/strong>: For some people, this might be something that comes naturally – I’m not sure that I’m one of them, but certainly the majority of things that I have been involved with has required me to constantly use and improve on my people skills. Throughout high school, I was\u00a0involved with student council, moot court, etc., and now, in university, I find myself drawn to extracurricular activities that involves working with people, whether that’s volunteering with women and children living in the downtown eastside or residence advising. (Click here<\/a> to learn more about my time as an RA this year!)<\/p>\n Journalism, writing:<\/strong> Ever since I was a little girl, I have been a writer. As I grew up and learned more about myself and the world, my writing has grown up with me, from writing stories about princesses and her friends to writing about Plato’s Forms. I had always wanted to write for a school newspaper, but my high school didn’t have one. I knew when I got to university that I would want to write for one, so on the very first day of university, I marched myself into The Ubyssey’s<\/em> office and asked that they show me the ropes. I have been writing for them ever since.\u00a0(Click here<\/a> to see a list of some of the articles I have written.)<\/p>\n Graphic design<\/strong>: Throughout high school, I was keen on learning graphic design – that was why I chose the high school I went to, because they had a great program for it. I did very well in it and was involved in a variety of projects advertising for the school, going to competitions, doing layouts for the literature magazine and the yearbook. Since coming to university, I have not had the opportunity to be involved in graphic design as much as I would like to be and I miss it quite a bit. (Nonetheless, click here to see a couple samples of my work that I could dig up. 1<\/a> 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I feel very fortunate to be in a position where I’m offered many opportunities for growth and development as a young person and as a student. There are a few special skills that I have cultivated throughout my years of school, either through formal education or extracurricular activities. People skills: For some people, this might […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35842,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35842"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/hzhou\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}