{"id":548,"date":"2011-09-29T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T04:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/?p=548"},"modified":"2011-09-29T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T04:53:23","slug":"3-things-and-a-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/2011\/09\/29\/3-things-and-a-mash-up\/","title":{"rendered":"3 things and a mash-up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past week has led me to learning the following lessons:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Don&#8217;t leave your co-op application to the last minute.<\/b> I know it&#8217;s a hard decision to make, but lean towards one side in the summer and <U>JUST START<\/u> on the application. The info session will provide the almost the same things as a simple 15-minute browse through the website, unless you want to hear from a couple of people who have done\/are still doing co-op terms. The info session would be more useful for international students, I think- they provide important details for you guys.<\/p>\n<p>BUT! Besides frantically rushing my boyfriend to edit my cover letter like a mad man and running around campus to print everything out, I managed to hand in my application 2 hours before the deadline! Fingers crossed that I get a call back! <\/p>\n<p><b>2. Schmooze and mingle with men who have acted as advisors\/interacted with Pierre Trudeau in any way, shape, or form.<\/b> I know this video has been spammed 10000x and a half (how could it not be, amazing!cochair-of-mine!AJ made it), but let me point 0.18 seconds into the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfuYpDp6lJg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That round-faced rambling girl talking about meeting the French Consul-General? That&#8217;s me. And on the same night, I got advice from Jeremy Kinsman, who has worked with Trudeau. This all happened when I attended IRSA&#8217;s Diplomacy 101 event last year. And just two days ago, I attended it again. Once again, there was a speaker who  was once a special advisor to Trudeau, and he was a delightful speaker.<\/p>\n<p>How easy it is to tell who my favourite Prime Minister is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>3. SIGN UP FOR POLEDANCING 101 WITH NO REGRETS.<\/b> Yay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.ubc.ca\/services\/ams-minischool\/\">AMS Minischool<\/a>! Someone join me? :D<\/p>\n<p>And before I sign off- study music!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fWffdqTh678\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nA combo of two favourite songs of mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past week has led me to learning the following lessons: 1. Don&#8217;t leave your co-op application to the last minute. I know it&#8217;s a hard decision to make, but lean towards one side in the summer and JUST START on the application. The info session will provide the almost the same things as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2448,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,224,576,48632,458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ams","category-careers-work","category-events","category-i-like-lists","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2448"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/patchworked\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}