Month: March 2011

“Sell yourself.”

That was the task proposed to us throughout the course of the year, a gentle coercion for us students to undergo a journey of self discovery. To extend beyond what we know ourselves to be, and highlight the needs of what we wish to be. Not only did delving within myself help outline my interests, capabilities, and aptitude, but also helped me distinguish myself from the next eager business student beside me.

Referring to my rather distasteful, yet ironic title, learning how to effectively project myself towards a future employer or business partner was perhaps the most monumental of learning outcomes I discovered from my time in COMM 299.

Afterall, business is about the exchange of goods or ideas with one another to maximize one’s profits. If you can’t convince someone to respect (avoiding the word “like” as that is a completely different story) you as an individual, how do you expect them to respect the work you do?

But otherwise, thank you Pia! And COMM 299 🙂 It was a tremendous year and a great start to my four years here at UBC!

There are typical things we learn as kids that everyone can understand: to chew with your mouth closed, to listen tentatively while another individual speaks, to walk on the sideways and look both ways before crossing the street. Yet an emerging trend within the last decade – the decade in which us internet children have taken up social media by storm – has encouraged a new line of thought and a backlash against the norm.

This expansion into the world web has created an ever growing environment for students to think beyond limitations of reality and exhaust their creative outlets online. In a society where complacency once dominated our line of thought and way of life, we are expanding towards a future where only the innovative and daring can prosper. Here, as a student of the ever creating and ever expanding University of British Columbia, I have come to realize the importance of taking initiative and creating something meaningfully new for myself.

The “dream profession” is no longer simply taking the seat of a Fortune 500 CEO, but creating a job specifically for me. And hey, if I can knock one of those 500 out with my own? All the better for me.

Surrounded by these ambitious and alarmingly worldly people has driven me to attempt, if not succeed, in producing projects I can call my very own.