the days of being a Chem kid..

sooooo, instead of spending time studying physiology, I decided to clean my stupidly untidy room (procrastination at it's prime..at least I was being efficient about it!..attempt to justify procrastination = done.) I was pretty much trying to sort through the enormous pile of notes and books from the past two years of courses, weeding through what I should keep and what I should chuck away. it felt so weird going through all my chem notes, and lab books, since it brought back memories from second year, how scary it was, but (in a way) how much fun I had in the lab, and how I realized that I'm a hands on learner and love working with my hands. although I HATED the theory behind some of my chem classes, not enjoying how I couldn't apply anything I was learning to my day to day life, those labs are what kept me in that specialization for a year, instead of making me quit in the first half of second year. I've always loved doing things that were hands on, that allowed me to visualize what I was learning in those brutal lectures. it felt weird looking back at how second year was and how extremely different life is now, how what I'm learning at the present day is so VERY different from the days of being a chem nerd. the environment I study in now is so much more relaxed, the profs are a lot more approachable, I've been able to develop amazing relationships with not only my fellow colleugues, but with MANY profs themselves, and the amount of opportunities I've been given just being in LFS for a year is immense, nothing I probably would've attempted if I remained in Science (mainly because nothing in the faculty interested me as much as LFS.)

one thing I've missed the most about Science are those friends. not being able to see those chem kids, those SUS peeps and just a lot of groups of buddies I made in Science alllll the time, because our classes don't coincide, along with our schedules. it's a bit bumming, but it happens. I found some old Sci Frosh stuff, along with a lot of other volunteer docs in that pile of second/ third year crap, and I forgot how involved I was in second year with extra curricular stuff (it feels like it happened so long ago!) everything feels like it's changed so fast in such a short amount of time.

right now, I don't regret switching faculties. although people jokingly say (well I hope it's jokingly!) that switching was a weak move, that people do it because they can't handle Science and need an easy way to fix the pressure, I gotta admit, I'm glad I did it. liking what you're learning should be the reason you go to uni. UBC is allowing me to figure out myself, my likes, and my absolute dislikes. people fear change (and I know I'm one of them) but change isn't always a bad thing. I know a LOT of people who absolutely love the specializations the Faculty of Science offers, but, after a LOT of research, speaking to tons of specialization advisors, and a lot of thinking, I just wasn't one of them. meeting new people, being given new opportunities, and actually enjoying school = a lot of winning in my eyes. oh LFS, you have changed me for the better! =)