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<\/a><\/p>\r\nOutbursts exhibiting your best \"crazy\" face really won't be necessary this year, \u00a0and there is simply no need to scare the new froshlings about the future either (froshlings is an acceptable term since hearing \"class of 2017\" will make you feel old, very old).\r\n\r\nSecondly, you've probably realized that even if you wanted to escape the incoming batch of hives you feel after hearing the words internship, law school, real world or future, you can't. These are just words that, as you\u2019ve learned, carry more emotional weight than they need to, but don't let them take more of a toll on you than they should. I feel like you're panicking even as you read this! While I don't encourage you waltz your way through your last year without any whims of what you'd like to do in the future (because a plan is always good), feeling the pressures of future plans can be more all-consuming than the plan itself. Be the Nik Wallenda<\/a> of keeping ambition and anxiety in check for fourth year. A careful balance always wins.\r\n\r\nThen there is the habit you picked up in first year (thanks Wikipedia<\/a>) which also helped centre things during times of duress: biographies! You\u2019ve read enough biographies to know that a person\u2019s career is rarely a straight-edged narrow path, but instead is a road full of a million different turns, cities, not-so-great to incredible experiences and hard lessons.\u00a0Senor Chang<\/a>\u00a0actually started out as a doctor before realizing his real dream, remember?\r\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/files\/2012\/08\/o-COMMUNITY-570-156x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\r\nWalt Disney was fired from a job for not being creative enough and Hilary Clinton was once a Republican. None of these paths were very stagnant or matter-of-fact, and were clearly filled with obstacles along the way. Not to mention, you know as well as anyone that there's still time to find (or not find) a passion<\/a>, figure out a personal focus, and more importantly to allow change to happen.\r\n\r\nDo stop and appreciate your campus for what will be some of your very last times as an undergraduate. How many other times in your life will you need to rush through beautiful\u00a0Queen's Park <\/a>to get to a lecture?\u00a0Or spend hours reading about Edward Said in the Rhodes Room<\/a>? Or even more hours spent with your favorite people in the backdrop of \u00a0a campus ranked\u00a0#1 in Canada<\/a> - oh how that saying will always sound like sweet music to your ears!\r\n\r\nThere may have been plenty of sweat and tears involved, but all of those hours spent at the library, every moment of dedication and hard work, alongside all of the countless times you gave that essay every fibre of your intellectual being, was in the grand scheme of things a very long process that shaped your very identity. The end results are visible in who you are going to be as you leave the U-of-T-verse for the real thing, taking all of the hard lessons learned along the way (because even ROSI<\/a> was able to teach you many things; namely patience and organization).\r\n\r\nAs you approach life on the other side, if there is anything you have gained from being here, it's that you were here long enough to know that you could leave with:\r\na) your soul intact\r\nb) enough memories and tagged pictures on Facebook to last a lifetime\r\nc) knowing that, future endeavours aside, this place will always be your first love.\r\n
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