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.
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