Uncategorized – Twenty Thousand Leagues to UBC

UBC – Walt Disney’s Inspiration

Ever wonder where Disney got the idea to make his cartoon animals into little people? Well, wonder no longer! Just come to UBC and you will see that those frighteningly human little animals actually exist. Don’t believe me do you? Well then I suppose you will just have to come see for yourself. Today, a squirrel escorted me to sociology. Last week a pigeon had a hissy fit at me as I entered the sub (student union building).

They walk among us, completely unbothered by the fact that we are inches away from stepping on them. They show no fear, and don’t run away unless you try to pet them, (which is a stupid idea anyway so don’t try it) and let’s be honest, wouldn’t any random stranger do the same thing if you walked up to them on the street and tried to stroke their back?

Maybe they are aliens. All I know is that these are not normal animals.

So, I spent this weekend at the sorority formal recruitment and it was both really fun and completely exhausting. In the end, I got an invitation to Alpha Phi and got to meet all my new sisters.

Fun Fact: Alpha Phi is technically a women’s fraternity, since it was founded before they came up with the word sorority.

Thats all for now, keep on smiling. I’m going to try to take my camera to school tomorrow so I can post some pictures of the amazing UBC campus. The animals are not the only reason it resembles a Disney movie.

Revelations

This was actually written August 21, 2008

Okay, so I now officially know two things about UBC, which is a big improvement on absolutely nothing which is what I knew three days ago.

1. The booklist is totally not released when they say it will be. I hope it is released sometime this semester, or I might have a bit of difficulty on my finals.

And,

2. Ratemyprofessors.com is a great way to find out if you will be spending a couple hours a week with a brilliant professor, or an evil goat in a tweed suit. Apparently, the luck that I thought had abandoned me as a child seems to have made a surprise reappearance this year and my timetable has no evil goats in sight. In fact, all my professors have great reviews.

Actually I have just had one more revelation. It is really, really hard to concentrate on writing when Family Guy is playing in the background.

“The only reason we die, is that we accept it… as an inevitability.” Ha ha, oh the vast wisdom of Stewie.

My friends are watching the show behind me and my attention keeps getting drawn backwards. It would be much easier to write this on my own, but this is the last night that one of my best friends is in Canada. Tomorrow, she leaves for China for a year. Another friend just left for Brazil.

It’s so odd that the people I have known for eighteen years are all leaving. For the first time in my life (that I can remember) I have to make all new friends. It won’t be that hard though, right?… right? (Whimper).

I need to go now, I’m going to stay up all night trying to fit a years worth of chatting into one night. Wish me luck.