{"id":34218,"date":"2018-03-27T08:21:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=34218"},"modified":"2018-03-26T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T12:23:16","slug":"hear-it-from-a-4th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2018\/03\/27\/hear-it-from-a-4th-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear it from a 4th year"},"content":{"rendered":"\u00a0<\/strong>It\u2019s me. I\u2019m the 4th<\/sup> year. I have one more week left of classes and then I\u2019m done. Oh and exams, but then I\u2019m done. I will be graduating this June. I cannot believe it. I am not ready to leave but at the same time, I can\u2019t wait to leave. My personal feelings aside, here are a few things I have learned along the way:\r\n\r\nU of T is BIG. Make the most of it. Ask for things.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIf you don\u2019t ask, no one will give. Your experience anywhere is what you make of it. My only regret is the fact that I didn\u2019t get involved as much as I wanted to. I didn\u2019t go to places, events, clubs, and explore as much as I would have loved to. I didn\u2019t network as much as I should have. I didn\u2019t go to office hours as much as I could have. I didn\u2019t make friends in all 40 courses I took (maybe 13\/40). It\u2019s my last few days here and there is still so much I want to do.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nSpend wisely<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe suddenly have all these responsibilities thrown at us \u2013 finances being one of them. Depending on your circumstances, you may have to work, pay rent, have commuting fares, food expenses, a pricey social life, expensive fashion taste, and so on. If proper budgeting isn\u2019t practiced, soon enough we can find ourselves eating instant noodles every day and cancelling plans with friends. Unless you\u2019re financially set, the broke student life can become depressing. It doesn\u2019t have to be that way if you just prioritise and think more rationally before giving Zara all your money.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nTake care of yourself first. <\/strong>\r\n\r\nI mean this in all aspects. Take care of your health. Do not become addicted to coffee. DRINK WATER. Do not ruin your back by sitting all day with a bad posture. Manage your weight before you dramatically lose\/gain it because of stress. It is not worth it. Learn to say no to things \u2013 parties, other people\u2019s \u2018editing\u2019 work, whatever it is that you don\u2019t really want to do.\r\n\r\nBe confident.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nChances are, most people next to you are also just faking it until they make it - \u00a0not just in the behind the scene assignments you might be submitting but be confident in the way you walk and talk (not in a totally obnoxious way but you get what I mean). Once you learn to be more comfortable with who you are and what you want, everything starts making more sense, things go more smoothly, and doors keep opening.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nYour GPA is a very small part of your life ahead <\/strong>\r\n\r\nGrades are not everything. That one bad mark is not the end of the world. This doesn\u2019t mean strive for the best you can, it just means that failure is okay. Accept it, be okay with it, move forward. Do better next time. Take it as a lesson not as a downfall. In most careers, your transcript is looked at maybe for the first job or so, after that, no one really cares.\r\n\r\nEducation is more than our fancy \u2018U of T\u2019 degree<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s more than the numbers at the end of each semester. It\u2019s an experience. It\u2019s learning and accepting new perspectives and new knowledge. It\u2019s learning the basics in life (like taxes? I still don\u2019t know how to do those). It\u2019s character development, it\u2019s growing as a person, not just ticking the life check-marks.\r\n\r\nChill.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt will all be okay. Things will always sort themselves out.\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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