{"id":49,"date":"2008-09-02T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T05:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-11-18T23:41:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T07:41:45","slug":"004-imagine-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/2008\/09\/02\/004-imagine-day\/","title":{"rendered":"#004: Imagine Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Currently listening to: &#8220;Just Dance&#8221; &#8211; Lady GaGa feat. Akon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So today&#8217;s been an absolute madhouse; I&#8217;m still trying to get things straightened out in my head, but we&#8217;ll get there eventually. A sea of bright colours greeted me after a decidedly lengthy bus ride (hurrah for public transit, and thank goodness for <em>Les Cowboys Fringants<\/em> songs playing on loop on my MP3). The Arts students were decked out in purple, while the other faculties were showing their spirit with their appropriately-coloured clothing. After trawling around the Buchanan compound, I managed to find my MUG and joined the motley crew: we were led on campus tours, talks, and other such activities. I&#8217;m so thrilled to have met a bunch of my fellow Arts One students; they&#8217;re all quite terrific- a real bunch of laughs, from what I&#8217;ve seen so far- and the profs are equally entertaining. On a separate note, I can&#8217;t stress enough how the weather has an uncanny knack of being particularly finicky, especially on days like this: I&#8217;m definitely investing in a pair of wellies much like the ones Paddington Bear dons, as I&#8217;ve quite frequently thought of doing. But I digress, as usual- what was I saying before that? Oh yes. The pep rally at the War Memorial Stadium was terribly fun: there&#8217;s nothing quite like seeing large colour-blocked bunches of excitable first-year students and MUG leaders waving balloons\/feather boas\/handkerchiefs and chanting their little lungs out. Most entertaining and rather heartwarming, I daresay.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve my first class at eleven tomorrow morning. Psych 100! Hurrah! <\/p>\n<p>More news coming your way some time soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently listening to: &#8220;Just Dance&#8221; &#8211; Lady GaGa feat. Akon So today&#8217;s been an absolute madhouse; I&#8217;m still trying to get things straightened out in my head, but we&#8217;ll get there eventually. A sea of bright colours greeted me after a decidedly lengthy bus ride (hurrah for public transit, and thank goodness for Les Cowboys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[5198],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life","tag-imagine-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}