Well, here I am…
Approximately 600 cups of Ethical Bean coffee, 10 marbelous cookies, 12 all nighters, over 10, 000 written words, countless friends, a couple bestfriends, a couple burnt bridges, eight months in Shuswap, +40 trips on the 99Bline, countless nights of laughing, and a couple nights of crying, and I am in the airport waiting to go home after completing the last final of my first year of university.
Sam’s Totally Guilt Free New Year’s Resolutions*
1) Pull up my socks in the academic sector of my life. You see, this winter break as I got my exam marks back I didn’t do so swell in the academic portion of my life. I thought for a while that I was not joining the rest of everyone’s shinny faces in the second semester. I had a break down and a bit of a panic attack. I felt that this thing I had worked so hard for was slipping away from me. You know, it’s true that you never really appreciate something until it’s almost gone. I couldn’t imagine my life without UBC, and all the opportunities a post secondary education would bring me. This lesson of a horrible first semester academically helped me renew my drive for what I want to do with my life and also helped me really see why I’m at UBC and what I need to do to keep my dreams a live. It’s so easy to get caught up in everyday life and forget what passions really drive you to become that person you strive to become. I’m starting out this new year and this semester with a whole new vigour.
2) Seek balance. Balance in social vs. academics, health vs. indulgence, ect. ect. Just be a more balanced person.
3) Be more organized!
4) Start really working towards what I want to do with my life after my degree.
5) Keep this blog updated weekly.
*Disclaimer: Sam’s Totally Guilt Free New Year’s Resolutions are kept guilt free by the fact that if I don’t complete one or two it’s not the end of the world. Minus #1, there’s no NOT keeping that one.
So yes, there you have it folks. New Year’s from yours truly. As this semester gets rolling more and more I’ll have a more in depth blog post. I hope everyone’s winter breaks were fantastic and that you’re all ready and rested for a new semester. I hope exams went well for you all! See you in class!
Peace, love, and epiphanies,
Sam.
1) When is your last exam?
2) When’re you going home?
3) When was the last time you made contact with someone else of the human species?
Peace, love and stress ulcers,
Sam.
Good luck everyone!
I wish I could say I was a rock, that I didn’t cry often. Or ever. But the truth is I cry, a lot. Not like, I stubbed my toe and now I’m crying… not like that. Or like I’m overtly emotional and cry one minute and hysterically laugh the next… I’m balanced. But, you know that commercial where Michael Buble is doing a PSA for the children’s hospital… I cried during that commercial, and the one where Sarah McLachlan is talking about abused animals. Now, it’s not like big alligator tears and bawling, but just shedding a couple tears.
This past two days saying goodbye to family has been like a never ending string of Canadian PSAs.
So, I pack up (pack being the relative word) my belongings and move to Vancouver in fourteen days; that’s fourteen nights and one day. You’d think I would be doing the responsible thing and actually packing my belongings, no? Yeah… I’m not. I don’t think I’ve even made a definitive list yet. Perhaps I will just wing it the night before I actually have take off… that sounds like a terrible idea. So terrible it just might work.
Right-o, some background on where I am coming from here.