WEEK ONE: Day 1

So today was my very first day at Simon Fraser University. I was very excited and a lil bit nervous. So the night before I took to sleeping pills so that I would sleep soundly, I set my alarm for 8:30am and in retrospect it was not enough time, I ended up being 4 minutes late, which highly annoys me. I like to be extremely punctual. But hey nobody is perfect and all I can do is learn from my mistakes. But to add to this my timing was completely off, right when I got up to the skytrain platform I had just missed a train, and then when the next train came I boarded it and it went super slower than usual. So I finally made it and was a few minutes late.

Apparently I was not the only one late, which does not make me feel any better, but least I was not the only one. When I arrived in my new classroom it was pretty full, the teacher/faculty to student ratio was in the faculty favor. Basically just a fancy way of saying there was more staff then students.

We started going around the table and introducing ourselves, talking about where we came from (band/reserve wise) and a little or a lot about ourselves. There are resident elders, academic advisors, tutors all at our disposal and FREE, how amazing is that? I will be taking advantage of that let me tell you!

So mid day we had lunch, which was catered by Bread Garden & Blenz Coffee, which was awesome. This was followed by a campus tour and then our student I.D card pictures were taken. We went back to our classroom, which is going to be the same room for all 4 courses of which we receive 11 credits and received conditional acceptance into SFU. We went over the course outlines and the rest of the week is goin to be pretty basic stuff. Then starting Monday we start math and all the other courses, I cant wait.

There was a lot of honesty within the class, which I really liked. We talked a lot about our personal failures both academically and personal. Someone said that failure could be a great teacher. I must say that looking back on my own life that if I didn’t make all those wrong choices and multiple failures that I would not be in this particular place in my life. So truly all my life choices good & bad lead me here…to University how wonderful is that. I also wanted to say that I feel comfortable being myself and though I was a major failure in school in the past, I can make up for it know.  

University is such a different environment than high school. Thank god for that. Well that is about it for know ttul :D