Year and program: Second-year, Speech Sciences major
Where is home for you? Vancouver, Canada
What three adjectives best describe you?
Considerate, honest, challenger.
What extracurricular activities have you been involved with (UBC related or not)?
UBC Red Cross, UBC SALSA (Speech and Language Students Association), UBC LSURC (Language Student Undergraduate Research Conference), Archery club, Anime club.
What is your best study strategy/tip?
I like to plan out my week on Sundays by creating a list of every task I need to complete and their due dates. This includes assignments, projects, tests, and the readings I need to go over written in the syllabus; from there I can break it down into chunks and get a clear image of what my week will look like. This helped me to become better at time management and create more time to spend with friends and family! I would recommend either Google Docs or Notion for these lists.
If you could travel back in time to your first year at UBC, what is one thing you would do differently?
If I could, I would tell myself not to strive for “perfection” and give myself big expectations in my first year. Like many did, I put long hours into studying (including all nighters…), revised my textbooks multiple times, etc, all while trying to adapt to my new environment but was still disappointed by my grades. I learned the hard way that how I was studying wasn’t working for me, and that to strive in university one of the first things everyone learns is HOW to learn efficiently and in a way that works for them. Grit and optimism is key!