HELLO WORLD!
Hi everyone! My name is Vincent and I am in the Faculty of Science. Pleased to meet you all! I guess I’ll start off my Blog Squad-ery by briefly talking about my journey at UBC so far.
Unlike many new bloggers on the Blog Squad (I think), I had the pleasure to be a participant in Jump Start, which is a two-week orientation program for new incoming international students (even though I’m not technically international… shhhhhh). I LOVED it. Words cannot even express my love. I got to meet so many amazing people and to say that it has helped me prepare for the beginning of university studies (as cliché as it sounds).
Then Imagine Day happened. I was pleasantly surprised to be put in a MUG group with a lot of other Science One people (oh hey, did I mention that I’m in Science One as well?) and I got to know them during Imagine Day. It was great knowing some people before class even started. And then the pep rally happened. Wow. That was really hectic, but it was also the highlight of the day for me. Being able to scream out my science pride for an hour nonstop was really great (I’m not even kidding here). Our cheer was super awesome (even though we got booed once for cheering over a speaker) and I got exhausted super quickly, but it was all worth it. Not even kidding. So worth it.
Then, there’s the first week of classes. Of course, being the nerd that I am, I heeded the tips that I got from Jump Start and sat in the VERY FRONT ROW in all of my classes. There are three things I learned:
1) My neck really hurt from staring straight up at the screens where the presentations were being displayed.
2) It made the class seem really small (especially my HUGE psychology class), so that was good.
3) My neck really hurt.
So guess what I did the second week of classes?
I woke up late and I ended up sitting in the front row still because the second-fourth rows were full. But hey, sitting in the front is never a bad thing… I hope. Except for my neck.
So for now, I’ll leave it at that. Until next time, I bid you all adieu!