London Adventures
The Game is ON!
Hello again, everyone! Once again it's been a while since my last blog post. And there is a reason: Uni Year 2 is ON, full speed ahead! Everything is intense, challenging, and overwhelming, all in a very good way (for now; wait till it's time to get grades back... ;) I'm taking four 300-level courses (= a whole lot of work) and one 100-level course (an art course, which is great).
My classes are Principles of Marketing (how to create a great marketing campaign for a product of our choice), Organizational Behaviour (the psychological side of successful management), Research and Writing Methods (writing long research papers... again!), Video Production (where we get to make our very own short clips/movies), and Making Your Mark (the art course). In the mean time, I'm also working in the Admissions office again (10 hours per week) and I'm one of the Peer Leaders in our FYS program. FYS (First-Year Seminars) is a new program they introduced this year for all the new students. Basically, instead of taking Rights, Choices, and Values (an obligatory Gen-Education class), students choose a first-year course based on their interests. In the course, they learn things about their particular concentration (eg History of Film, Invisible London, Identity and Culture) and they also get advice from a professor and a student (yay, this is where I come in) on how to be successful in Richmond. I think it's fun and I would have preferred to have that instead of Rights, Choices and Values.... The FYS thing is only 1 hour per week though I still get paid for that.. So all in all, this semester will be great in terms of financial outcome, great in terms of knowledge I will gain, and hell in terms of keeping up my GPA :) Oh well..
So far I've been in London for 4 weeks (2 of which were dedicated to Orientation Prep and to the actual Orientation). That was a fun time! I got to meet so many new people! The preps (ha, preps, I'm still thinking in ACS terms...), I mean freshmen, are amazing! Most of them are very friendly, excited to be here, and happy about everything that's going on around them. I love that! Of course, there are some other kids who are depressed and pessimistic, but you can never expect everyone to love their University.
Richmond is a young university, and the best thing about that is that we all are part of the rapid improvements happening here. Just over one summer, the school changed so much! We have new ID cards (which we'll be able to top up with cash), a newly refurnished Common Room, one new Residence Building, mail boxes for all people on campus, and other random things. I love it! There are so many opportunities for improvement here, so I'm glad I'm a witness/participant in this process.
I've been really sleepy though. It's mainly cause I haven't been getting a whole lot of sleep recently... ah, 300-level courses... :) I think I'm going to go to sleep now (well, in a bit - it's 9:30 pm now which is unbelievably early for a bedtime for someone like me). I'm up for the challenge! :D
Okay then... I'll finish this entry here. I hope you're all doing great! I miss you all! Love, Marty
My classes are Principles of Marketing (how to create a great marketing campaign for a product of our choice), Organizational Behaviour (the psychological side of successful management), Research and Writing Methods (writing long research papers... again!), Video Production (where we get to make our very own short clips/movies), and Making Your Mark (the art course). In the mean time, I'm also working in the Admissions office again (10 hours per week) and I'm one of the Peer Leaders in our FYS program. FYS (First-Year Seminars) is a new program they introduced this year for all the new students. Basically, instead of taking Rights, Choices, and Values (an obligatory Gen-Education class), students choose a first-year course based on their interests. In the course, they learn things about their particular concentration (eg History of Film, Invisible London, Identity and Culture) and they also get advice from a professor and a student (yay, this is where I come in) on how to be successful in Richmond. I think it's fun and I would have preferred to have that instead of Rights, Choices and Values.... The FYS thing is only 1 hour per week though I still get paid for that.. So all in all, this semester will be great in terms of financial outcome, great in terms of knowledge I will gain, and hell in terms of keeping up my GPA :) Oh well..
So far I've been in London for 4 weeks (2 of which were dedicated to Orientation Prep and to the actual Orientation). That was a fun time! I got to meet so many new people! The preps (ha, preps, I'm still thinking in ACS terms...), I mean freshmen, are amazing! Most of them are very friendly, excited to be here, and happy about everything that's going on around them. I love that! Of course, there are some other kids who are depressed and pessimistic, but you can never expect everyone to love their University.
Richmond is a young university, and the best thing about that is that we all are part of the rapid improvements happening here. Just over one summer, the school changed so much! We have new ID cards (which we'll be able to top up with cash), a newly refurnished Common Room, one new Residence Building, mail boxes for all people on campus, and other random things. I love it! There are so many opportunities for improvement here, so I'm glad I'm a witness/participant in this process.
I've been really sleepy though. It's mainly cause I haven't been getting a whole lot of sleep recently... ah, 300-level courses... :) I think I'm going to go to sleep now (well, in a bit - it's 9:30 pm now which is unbelievably early for a bedtime for someone like me). I'm up for the challenge! :D
Okay then... I'll finish this entry here. I hope you're all doing great! I miss you all! Love, Marty
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