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Pumpkin Challenge 2016: Days 4-6
Since 2011, every October I embark on a month-long journey to consume something with pumpkin in it, in some form, every day. **** Day 4: Chai Pumpkin Latte, Starbucks A day with many activities led to a last-minute trip for a deliciously easy item. Starbucks has made a few staple appearances throughout past challenges, and this…
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Pumpkin Challenge 2016: Welcome! Days 1-3
For the previous 5 years, I devote one part of each October day to consuming something with pumpkin in it. It started as a shared challenge (thank-you, J.A.) and has since become one of my favourite personal projects (in addition to the Hot Chocolate Festival – but that’s for another time). Unlike my chocolaty winter challenge,…
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Moving
My family moved to a new house recently, after staying in our previous home for nearly 13 years. I was having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around this significant change, particularly due to its being plunked right in the midst of many other changes happening simultaneously. Up until the move, I had been…
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Graduation
It has been nearly two months since I finished my final exams, and about three weeks since I crossed the stage and received my diploma. It has been almost five years since I moved into residence at UBC and embarked on my undergraduate journey. The actual “graduation” happened very quickly – I was scurried across…
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Don’t follow your passion – foster it.
My last post was somewhat-obnoxiously but somewhat-accurately entitled “How to Become Better”, and it featured summaries of videos and podcasts that outlined strategies and theories relating to self-improvement. These were not strategies to attain such contentious goals as eating better, achieving mental peace, or weight loss; indeed, the summaries I shared were strategies to connect with external…
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Being Cognizant: How to Become Better
Self- and other-improvement resources from Carol Dweck and Freakonomics Radio.
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Being Cognizant: The (Summer) Job Hunt
A series about the ways I work towards being cognizant through decisions that make me more mentally engaged with various facets of my day-to-day life. Cognizance (noun): Awareness, realization, notice, knowledge, perception. — It’s that time of year for university students: The hunt for The Summer Job. Or, even more daunting, the hunt for The…
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Photo Journals: A Brief Taste of Eastern Canada
Reading Week is a magical time where students have the chance to catch up on readings, catch up on sleep, and/or go off and do something that breaks up the ol’ routine. We elected to do the latter. To visit family and friends who are on the other side of the country, we planned a…
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HoCho Fest 2016: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 + Farewell!
Each year, the Vancouver Hot Chocolate Festival brings together cafes, confectionaries, and restaurants to create specialty hot chocolate beverages to fundraise for a great cause. This year, proceeds of the festival will be going towards supporting the Downtown Eastside Women’s Job Training Program of the PHS Community Services Society and East Van Roasters. Each year,…
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