{"id":310,"date":"2011-01-03T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/?p=310"},"modified":"2011-01-04T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T03:40:02","slug":"being-an-adult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/2011\/01\/03\/being-an-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Being an adult."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of being a new student these past few months has been increased by the fact that I turned 18, got a job, and well, am considered an adult by my parents. While I&#8217;m a commuter and still get to enjoy the joy of homemade food, I still found myself having to adjust to all the responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>It felt weird, it still does- instead of having my mom make my dentist appointments for me and my dad always driving me to the bank, it&#8217;s up to me to get all that kind of thing handled. I had to learn my dentist&#8217;s work hours, make the trek to the Village to deposit money and even made my own tax-free savings account. All by myself. It feels rather nice, though now with the dawn of a new semester coming upon me, I have a brand new daunting-as-always list of &#8220;adult tasks&#8221; I have to accomplish- paying tuition fees and selling my textbooks and letting my boss know my new work hours. Adult tasks=managing my own money, most of the time. I&#8217;m still trying to get the hang of it, but I think I&#8217;m slowly but surely getting there.<\/p>\n<p>Besides these adult tasks are still the typical student tasks, the biggest one being cleaning up for Term 2. <!--more-->This entails things such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Deciding which textbooks to keep, and which to sell<\/li>\n<li> Putting up ads in the usual sites (saveonbook, craigslist, textbookexchange) for the latter books<\/li>\n<li> Buying more mini-binders for classes because I realized I had too few last term<\/li>\n<li> Restocking on looseleaf, pencils, finding that sharpener I lost all term<\/li>\n<li> Keeping notebooks for recently finished courses (setting aside a place to put them in), or throwing them all into a bonfire as a cathartic ritual of sorts<\/li>\n<li> Deciding to keep certain papers I&#8217;m proud of into a specific place, to look back to when I need encouragement<\/li>\n<li> Cleaning my room, especially the shelf where I dump all my school stuff onto<\/li>\n<li> Getting over the courses I know you could&#8217;ve done better in, and vowing to be awesomer this upcoming term even though I have more courses and the usual overinvolvement thing going on<\/li>\n<li> Setting up appointments to visit GoGlobal and Arts Academic Advising<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did all this the day before, and I must say it&#8217;s a great start to the New Year. I took the initiative to be organized and start with this clean slate, with a somehow more optimistic outlook (despite the fact that I have to be at the bus stop by 6:50am to get to my 9:30am class on time tomorrow, woo). There&#8217;s so much non-academic things to look forward to as well: attending SLC, volunteering at and promoting Arts Week, and volunteering at UBCMUN- all in two weeks! \\o\/<\/p>\n<p>PLUS, I&#8217;ve come up with a list of new features for the blog. This might also mean my resurrection in Twitter and a new layout and all that goodness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jennine<\/p>\n<p>P.S. AREN&#8217;T THE CANUCKS DOING AWESOMELY??????????? :DV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The responsibilities of being a new student these past few months has been increased by the fact that I turned 18, got a job, and well, am considered an adult by my parents. 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