I have recently fallen into what feels like an endless slump of job hunting and looking for a major. The lack of opportunities for international students on the UBC Careers website as of late has been rather disheartening. I know that there are less of us here now that it is the summer, but those who are have far less opportunities for employment than domestic students. I want to work on campus. I am a good worker. I just wish there were more opportunities for me to prove that.<\/p>\n
When it comes to majors, people have told me that I just just reapply to Creative Writing next year, but no one seems to realize that it is a two year program and I can’t afford an extra year here at UBC as an international student. Our tuition is four times<\/strong> that of a domestic student. That one extra year would costs just as much as a domestic student’s entire undergraduate degree. I cannot take out another loan for that, I cannot ask my parents to share that burden with me. <\/p>\n It is incredibly difficult to give up your passion and move on to something else…especially when nothing else fits perfectly. Regardless, I am considering English Lit (if I can’t write books, I might as well study them). Choosing this major requires a certain amount of faith in my ability to gain admission into the program, as I would not find out if I was accepted until November 30th, after the withdrawal date for Term 1. If I were rejected, it would lead to being enrolled in courses to serve a major that is not mine, which would be incredibly frustrating. I just have to have faith in myself, no matter how difficult that is right now. <\/p>\n My mantra has recently become “prove them wrong” because that is all that is really driving me to get up and try everyday. I should have got in to the Creative Writing Program. I am good enough to succeed as a writer. I may not be taking the express route, but I will get there one day. It is my dream. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have recently fallen into what feels like an endless slump of job hunting and looking for a major. The lack of opportunities for international students on the UBC Careers website as of late has been rather disheartening. I know that there are less of us here now that it is the summer, but those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,256,210,31,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers-work","category-financal","category-international","category-personal","category-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}