Today, I am going to do my blog post by commenting on my classmate- Jocelyn Kwong’s blog post (https://blogs.ubc.ca/jocelynkwong/cream-of-the-crop/) about Sauder Alumni and what made them success. I believe many of us (first year students) are still confused and may not believe we have what it takes to be a Sauder alumni one day. But meeting the Alumni that day, made me reconsider why am I here, in Sauder.

I loved the presentation from Paul , the CEO of Tangoo, he showed the confidence that I am looking for throughout this course – COMM101. It is suggested for us to answer questions to get higher scores in class, and for myself I know there are lot of other classmates in the class has strong sense of commerce which dropped my confidence a lot. However, after seeing Paul’s confidence I started to think maybe I just need to do more preparation before class.

Another male Alumni came to us that day was Tom, the creator of Monarch Studios. I admire his “non-regretful” decisions, the fact that he chose to pursue what he thinks he wants the most showed a lot of courage. And I personally can never decide on something big, I take 10 minutes to decide what to have for lunch, and I am always afraid that I will regret afterwards. I would love to say I am a risk taker but at the same time I am contradicting myself.

In the end, this lady made my day. Jenny Duffy, she enlightened me.

When I was little I always think if there is superman then there can be a super woman, and until now, this is still my dream. I love dancing but this year, I questioned myself a lot since I don’t know if dancing is what I am good at or I can keep on doing it while I have so much school work to do. Jenny’s presentation showed me if this is what you want, you can do it no matter what it takes. I loved how she balanced her work and her choreography dream, although they take up all her time, still she isn’t going to give up either of them.

Having alumni coming in and show us what it takes to be on top really showed me what Sauder is about, how business can be combined with other pursuits and why we are doing this. Because this is the path that will train and lead us to the top.