First Year – Psychology + First Year – Psychology
“What’s your favourite thing about her?”
“I guess it’s the way that she carries out her day-to-day living. It’s kind of motivating and kind of helps me idealize what I would like to do with myself.”
“I like that he really loves animals. He’s really nice to our fish.”
“So it’s like your mutual pet?”
“He’s our baby. His name is Wally.” [laughs]
First Year, Visual Studies
“If you had only one more year to live, what would you try to accomplish?”
“Get married and have a child. [laughs] Okay, maybe not have a child, but get married.”
Ah, Valentine’s Day. A day where all those who hate it unite and make it known to the world through Twitter, Facebook and the almighty Tumblr. We commence our loathing as soon as the clock strikes 12 on the first day of February.
First Year, Psychology
“I have no idea what I’m doing after graduating because a Psychology degree is kinda common. I just don’t know what job is there that’s available for [someone with a] Psychology degree other than going for masters or PhD… or going to med school. So I don’t know what to do.”
Kimberly Johnson
Last year, I got into the show How I Met Your Mother. The show is basically a story about a guy, named Ted, who sits his kids down to tell them the “long story” of how he and their mother met. I’ve been binge-watching the past eight seasons, and I’ve totally misjudged the level of awesomeness that the cast and the writers are on. The way they tie things together throughout the seasons is mind bogglingly brilliant. I’ve realized something about Ted though. I think Ted had to go through the journey that he went through to get to a place where he was mature enough to be in the kind of relationship that he and the mother have.
I bring them up in a post like this because I’ve learned something from that show, and it’s something I was told years ago, but never really listened to. It’s this:
“Everything has a season.”
My parents used to say that to me all the time, and it’s something I seem to find true. I firmly believe that everything happens when it needs to happen, and wasting time worrying about something (or someone) not being in our lives does nothing for us but cause unnecessary stress. There is a time to be single, and there is a time to be in a relationship, and while neither option is entirely perfect, both are important parts of our lives that co-exist, on some level, for some reason.
I am so sick and tired of seeing people feel bad about their singleness (this goes for me too). I can’t count the number of times when I’ve had the following conversation,
“Are you single?”
*Sighs and shrugs/sags shoulders*
“Yeah…”
First Year, CCIT and First Year, Commerce, Accounting
“What’s a particular moment with her that you’ll always remember?”
“Oh my gosh, we have so many moments! We had Soc[iology] moments… so many. We had Skype moments, Beyonce moments…”
“There’s so many.”
“Way too many. But [what’s] one that stood out most to you?”
“I think it was the Darrel [moment].” [both laugh]
First Year, Psychology
“Are your parents happy with your major?”
“To be fair I’m not too sure, but I think they’re okay with it… I think they’re a bit worried that I won’t be able to support myself.”
“Do you think you’ll be able to support yourself?”
[laughs]
“I hope so!”
When you enroll in classes, it’s sometimes difficult to fill up extra spaces on your timetable. Trust me, I know this because in my first year, during first semester, every Tuesday, I had a seven-hour long break.
Insane, right?
University life in today’s day and age is known to be way more stressful than when our parents and grandparents were completing their education. The peer pressure, the level of competition, and the risk of unemployment, have reached new heights and has placed a lot of unnecessary strain on university students. In trying to escape the hellish workload, we hunt through our imaginations for a grand escape, or a de-stressor that could help lighten our loads. One crucial point that’s often overlooked though, is that life’s biggest pleasures can be found in some of the littlest things. There’s no need to pile on the stress while trying to find ways to cool off because the answer is sitting at the tips of our noses…
PhD Candidate, Mathematics, Teaching Assistant
“I like that energy you have with people. You can share ideas, concepts… [I like] the interaction.”