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“The Swagger of a College Kid”

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TI – Live Your Life

So we’re finally here.   The end of the first week.  (or something happier sounding: the first weekend of the school year)  Have you developed your swagger?

If I had a swagger right now, it would be a hunched over one.  This was a very tiring week.  I remember in grade 7 all the teachers said that going into high school would be a huge change.  In grade 8 we even had multiple orientations.  Personally, I didn’t find it much of a difference and adjusting was easy.  University however, is quite the formidable challenge in terms of the work load (to me anyway.)  How exciting! Really!

It is a little hard though, the amount of reading I already have to do is scary.  It’s just how university is though I guess.  My friends at other institutions are going through the same things.

A recap of my week:

IMAGINE Day
I am not a fan of chants.  School/Faculty pride is fine and dandy but chants… not so much.  The atmosphere changed things though.  When all the faculties gathered in the stadium for the pep rally, I just got compelled to yell and wave things around like a maniac along with all the other maniacs in the seats (pretty much everyone?)  As lame as it sounds, when everyone did the YMCA in the stands together, I could breathe the unity in the air.  It was a great feeling.

Class
The pace of lessons is very different from high school.  It’s faster.  Teachers are more passionate about teaching than I thought they would be.  Otherwise, learning is learning.  Only the work is harder and heavier.

Free Stuff
There is free stuff everywhere!  Clubs always hand out pins.  Fido gave me gum.  And there was this one cart thing that literally gave out candy by the handful.

Not Free Stuff
My friend and I thought that the AMS BBQ had free food.  So we went in, but first we had to get past the security check thing.  They dumped out our water.  We thought we would get free food inside so we told ourselves it would be worth it.  But the food wasn’t free.

WOODWARD to MATH is far
Power walk it.

Napping
Classes move too fast to blank out for more than a minute and the little table thingy that comes out from the chair is too small.  Koerner Library in the basement is very quiet though.  The long commute is a nice place to nap too.  I think I will need it.

Notebooks or Binders
Notebooks.

Now to rest my back from carrying textbooks! (and live up the weekend because this week was crazy busy!)

another letter from UBC.

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You know, I don’t think I’ve ever received a letter before that wasn’t related to school in some way.

The letter is about the first day of school.  aka IMAGINE Day/Orientation.  Here is what was inside among the letters:

I AM UBC.
A nifty sticker!

Is it supposed to be a bumper sticker?  Could you see yourself driving around with it on though… whatever, free stuff is always nice.  I guess it will come in handy if I develop a case of school spirit.

Another interesting thing about the little package,

It says "Swing Space"

It says "Swing Space"

I’ve very curious to find out what this is… and if it’s what I’m imagining.  Which I doubt.

Also on the map is a building called “Thunderbird Winter Sports Centre.”  Could it be?  Is it for the Olympics??

The first time I heard that the mascot for UBC is a Tunderbird, I immediately thought of Zapdos from Pokemon.

"I CHOOSE YOU!"

"I CHOOSE YOU!"

IMAGINE sounds like it should be a pretty good time.  Why do I capitilize IMAGINE?  I don’t know, that e-mail from UBC types it that way… but not the letter.  Those free root beer floats they speak of sound very enticing.  I am not, however, looking forward to getting to school by 8:15 am.  That is earlier than the time I woke up at for high school.  I guess it’ll be an adventure.

By the way, who is planning to buy their textbook at the Textbook Exchange? (Sept 8, 4-5pm, Koerner Plaza) Where do we find what books we need anyway?