Hey Guys! So, just to catch you guys up, I am currently on my summer vacation (Yay! 4 months of no school), but I will be doing special blogs because I am a Imagine Day leader and being an imagine leader requires me to do special Summer Challenges! Although this is super late (I apologize David, if you’re reading this) I will be doing the May Challenge which is My Story!

When I first got accepted into UBC, I was super anxious but at the same time super excited! As the first week started, I was overwhelmed. I felt like I didn’t belong, I felt like I was surround by geniuses and that the admissions office had made a mistake and I wasn’t supposed to be here. Well, as the first few days went on, I was still feeling the same way, so I decided to go to Collegia, which was a place where first-year commuter students could go to hang out and do homework (similar to residence).

Once I got there, I was greeted by a collegia adviser. I then sat down and began doing my homework. Shortly after, a different collegia adviser sat down at the table I was at and just started talking to me. I told her that I felt like I didn’t belong and classes were very tough and different from high school. She had told me that when it was her first year she had the same problem too. She felt like she was surrounded by people 10X smarter than her, even though she was one of the top students at her high school. We then continued chatting, then after what felt like only a few minutes, an hour had gone by. After our chat, I felt a lot better.

The following week, I was still pretty anxious, but one thing the collegia adviser had told me was that I got accepted because UBC saw something in me, and that I wouldn’t have been accepted if I wasn’t special. From that chat, I realized that even though I may be surrounded by these people who feel like geniuses, I got accept for a reason, and that I deserved to be here. So, overall one simple chat with a collegia adviser really changed the way I felt and I used what the collegia adviser had said to me and used to as motivation and it sure did motivate me throughout the year.

So, even though I do still feel like I’m surrounded by geniuses, I know that I do belong at UBC.

So, that’s my story! Hope you guys enjoyed it!