{"id":24186,"date":"2015-04-24T09:23:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=24186"},"modified":"2015-04-23T14:25:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:25:38","slug":"soaring-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/04\/24\/soaring-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring, Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"Ah, my last post on the blog. I really don\u2019t know what path to take with my goodbye. Do I want to end it off with inspiration? Humor? Tears? Motivation? A metaphorical mike-drop?\r\n\r\nBecause let\u2019s be honest, where do I even begin with this goodbye? Imagine the Spice Girls breaking up. Or Zayn leaving One Direction. OR JUST DRAKE. What I\u2019m saying is that I just have a lot of feelings.\r\n\r\nI was a first-year who came here thinking that I would be superwoman. I would attend all my lectures and tutorials. I\u2019d ace all my classes. I\u2019d be involved in extracurricular activities. I\u2019d volunteer at a hospital and work a summer job in the science field for four months. I\u2019d repeat the process every year, and then I\u2019d be accepted into medical school and repeat the process again<\/em> (except more\u2026medically). I had my whole future planned out.\r\n\r\nAnd here I am 3 years later. I sometimes sleep through my morning lectures by accident. I consider it an accomplishment to finish an assignment one hour before the deadline. I might get a not-so-stellar grade in a class. I don\u2019t even know what I\u2019m having for lunch tomorrow.\r\n\r\nBut here's the thing ...when I think about\u00a0first-year Api and compare her with third-year Api, I still feel as accomplished as I wanted to be, just not in the way I planned.\r\n\r\nI\u2019m on the community crew to share\u00a0my own student experience here at U of T. And guess what? Sometimes, it wasn't so great. It\u2019s frustrating to get bad grades. It\u2019s intimidating when it feels like everyone around you has it together. But here\u2019s the big secret I later found out: not everyone does have it together. That doesn\u2019t mean I was going to pass on some of\u00a0the amazing opportunities that this school has to offer.\r\n\r\nI've focused on doing thing's I enjoy. Just because thing's didn't always go the way I wanted, I still tried to keep my head in the game. We had some great posts that reflected this very idea. Missing final exams<\/a>, dropping courses<\/a>, flunking courses<\/a> \u2013 it all happens. I could dwell on my setbacks, or I could work to solve them, and move forward. Setbacks for me were just the start of something new.\r\n\r\n