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3rd last day of 1st term re cap

(Note: I don’t write much about class because other things are more fun to write about)

  1. I slept early last night but woke up tired. Oh sleep debt…
  2. I did not have my knowledge together for my Chem quiz in the morning. I don’t want to relive that.
  3. We had a substitute chemistry professor who I loved. Prof MacLachlan. He talked to us about his research which include iridescent material and cellulose nano crystals. Cool! He was super energetic which was nice to watch when all my body wanted to do was return to my bed.
  4. Lunch with Misaki in the Nest – She said she’ll never get chicken noodle soup ever again.
  5. We took pictures at the photo booth. (Oops I can’t remember what cause the photo booth was fundraising for though…)   Made awkward poses. Hope the pictures turned out well.
  6. English – We got our Rhetorical Analyses back today. I realized that I wrote some pretty dumb things. Hindsight is always 20/20.
  7. Andy grabbed me and Alyssa to go see the A&W commercial man filming on campus. That was our celebrity sighting of the day.
  8. As usual, Andy glanced over this blog and wanted to know why he’s not mentioned more often.
  9. Disappointed in myself for not getting much done after class 🙁 We had to get up and move a lot of time. That was really disruptive to my writing flow haha. I’m so easily distracted and unproductive after class nowadays. I got to fix this. 🙁
  10. Surprised to learn something totally awesome about my friend today. Good luck girl!
  11. My Big let me know about this super quiet and comfy and totally awesome study spot that I want to try out! (Hopefully with her) My Big never ceases to be awesome. I got to meet Big’s ‘bae” today.  So that make him my Big in law? I don’t know…
  12. Freshly baked cookie Yay!
  13. I visited my Alpha Omicron Pi girls today at their fundraiser for Kidsafe (an organization that provides after school programming to children, technically “at-risk” children but I don’t agree with the use of the word “at-risk” – which is a story for another day). Lots of hugs with girls. I missed them!!
  14. Photos with Santa
  15. Shinnie ate a cookie that she claimed she will die if she doesn’t learn where to get more of them.
  16. Fraternity boys sang Christmas carols. They were off-tune but we could sense the effort.  Boys, please leave  “You’re Beautiful” to James Blunt.
  17. I love Christmas carols. Shinnie and I sang along. My favourites include: Last Christmas I gave you my heart, All I want for Christmas is You.
  18. Shinnie and Lisa wanted me to pinky-swear that I’ll re-join AOII in the spring. I take my pinky-swears really seriously so I couldn’t pinky swear. I really want to be with them more though.  Missing the sisterly love <3
  19. Had to turn down their invite to go out tonight in order to go home and work on my paper.
  20. Watched an episode of Oh My Venus while eating dinner: strong female lead inspires me
  21. Reading on selection bias, espeically survivorship bias.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
  22. Blogging in the middle of the night.
  23. Back to my English paper!

Have a great end of the last week of classes!!

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Tough choices

If you seek courage to make a tough choice, think this:

  • Life wasn’t supposed to a straight road from one point to another.
  • Life is full of forks to different paths.
  • When you get to the fork in the road, choose a path and don’t spend your life at the fork. There’s nothing to see or do at the fork in the road.
  • The interesting sights and experiences are always on the sides of the road.
  • Pick a path and move forward.
  • You can’t always have everything. Yes, there are great, totally amazing things along the path that you didn’t take but you know what? There will different amazing things along the path you have chosen to take too!
  • That said, it’s normal to feel sad if you have to leave something you love so allow yourself to feel sad if needed.
  • If you’re leaving behind an activity, you can find a lighter way to get involved e.g. a recreational level sport as opposed to varsity/pre-professional level, or if you leave jazz band, play some jazz on your own once in a while
  • If you’re leaving people behind, keep in touch with the ones you connected with most.
  • Proceed with your adventure in life!

The tough choice I’m making is that I know that de-pledging AOII is the road I must take but it’s still really hard to leave such a great group of girls.  I may cry on Monday when I fill out my de-pledge forms. Watching this video made me sad because the video showed the reasons I wanted to join a sorority – the laughter, love and support of sisterhood. I’m extremely thankful for the experiences being a part of AOII gave me and the girls that AOII allowed to meet (especially my Big Sister Sisi!! and Shinnie and Elaine). Shinnie and I clicked super well, and Elaine and I went through the whole journey of formal recruitment (rush) together.

Shout-out to the talented Michelle Ma for making such an amazing video! Joining a sorority is a worth-while experience if you have both the time and money to commit (neither of which I have). Having been an member of AOII, I highly recommend AOII.  If you’re interested, email or Facebook message someone in AOII and try a casual interview.

Check out AOII UBC’s instagram! https://www.instagram.com/AOIIUBC/

To the beautiful ladies in my pledge class <3: I’m really sorry that I can’t spend more time learning all the layers of each and every one of you. You’re all inspiring!

(Edit: The instagram photo is appearing funnily in the published post so I’ve deleted it from the post.)

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