In case you haven’t been looking at your calendar recently, OH MY GOSH THERE ARE ONLY TWO WEEKS UNTIL SCHOOL STARTS. Part of me is crazy excited for Imagine Day and all the cool stuff I get to do this year and seeing my friends again and being back in Vancouver and the other part is taken aback by how fast four months went by and sad that I’ll have to leave my friends, family, and boyfriend for several months once again.
In the midst of this swirling muck of emotion I thought I’d write down a few thoughts about entering my third year of my degree.
- Where the heck did the time go? I feel like I just moved into first year residence. Now you’re telling me I’m halfway done?
- I’m halfway done?!?! This means I only have two more years left before entering the real world and leaving behind this campus and the friends I made here?? So not ready for that. Not ready to think about it. Moving on to the next point.
- I’m excited to be doing more courses that I’m enthusiastic about taking. At this point in my degree, I get to focus on playing my instrument and taking electives that interest me.
- I feel kind of like a grown-up mentor person. Then again I don’t really have that many people to mentor so that also feels kind of irrelevant.
- I’m feeling more responsible. I plan to take on a lot more extra-curricular activities this year (including being a club executive!) so I’ll have to step up and make sure I handle them all!
- I’m excited to take advantages one of the best opportunities UBC has to offer: Go Global. If everything goes according to plan, next February I’ll be on a plane to Belgium!
- I feel like I really need to experience everything at UBC before I leave. In first year I felt like I had tons of time, but now here I am two years later, and although I’ve already done a lot, I still feel like there’s a ton I want to do! Time to make a UBC and Vancouver to-do list and cross those experiences off.
Goodness, before you know it, I’ll be graduating. Wait, I’m not thinking about that. Not thinking about it.
That's me! I'm a fourth year, introverted, Winnipeg-hailing, blog-writing, cookie-eating, harp-playing, yoga-doing, blanket-knitting music student at UBC. I'm always trekking around campus in my Pumas and massive black backpack, and if you spot me, come say hi! It would be nice to know someone actually reads these things!
Hi Samantha! I’m Alice and I’m a first year Arts student. I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading your blog posts. They are informational and fun to read. :) by the way, since this post is about you looking back on your two years at UBC, do you have any suggestions on which clubs to check out?
Hi Alice! Hmmm… what clubs to join? Definitely the Knitting and Sewing Club :P If you enjoy yoga I also definitely recommend the Yoga Club. I haven’t joined any other ones, so I can’t really recommend any more, but there are a ton of different ones so you should definitely go to Clubs Days in September and check them all out!