{"id":274,"date":"2016-11-15T16:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/?p=274"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T23:44:36","slug":"274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/2016\/11\/15\/274\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey there!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re nearing the end of the term already \u2013 I guess time flies when you\u2019re having fun! Or really busy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been both these past couple months, what with courses, working at MECH Student Services, working as a TA, and volunteering for my favourite groups, Thunderbots, Club MECH, and EngCite! I got so caught up in all the homework and events that this is my first blog post! So, I\u2019ll start with an introduction:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hello, my name is Khashina, I\u2019m a 3 \u00bd year mechatronics student, and Two Truths and A Lie about me are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<li>I\u2019ve roasted marshmallows on an active volcano<\/li>\n<li>I can do a backflip from standing position<\/li>\n<li>I took a job working outside in -20\u00b0C weather just to see if I could<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you think you know which one of those is false, leave a comment or send me a message at <a href=\"mailto:ambassadors@mech.ubc.ca\">ambassadors@mech.ubc.ca<\/a> and I\u2019ll let you know!<\/p>\n<p>Alright. So the big theme in my life this week is that I have my very last midterm on Friday (!) and then I just have Final Projects and Final Exams! Often, classes will have projects as a large part of the work you do, which is really great because it distributes your grade (no 80% finals for us!) and you get to learn about the material in a more hands-on way. For example, for my manufacturing processes class, I have to choose an object and, through observation, think about how it was made (which might sound boring but did you know water-bottles are made by blowing up hot plastic into water-bottle shaped balloons?)<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to work for me, and please leave a comment or send me an email if you have any questions about being a UBC Mech student or about this post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re nearing the end of the term already \u2013 I guess time flies when you\u2019re having fun! Or really busy. I\u2019ve been both these past couple months, what with courses, working at MECH Student Services, working as a TA, and volunteering for my favourite groups, Thunderbots, Club MECH, and EngCite! I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mechambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}