{"id":48057,"date":"2023-03-31T13:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=48057"},"modified":"2023-03-31T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:09:09","slug":"tales-from-an-existential-crisis%f0%9f%a4%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2023\/03\/31\/tales-from-an-existential-crisis%f0%9f%a4%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from an Existential Crisis\ud83e\udd29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of my majors is Bioethics which requires me to take a bunch of Philosophy courses. Which, unfortunately(?), has led me to be more cynical and question everything. It\u2019s like the more you know, the more you realized you don\u2019t know. Along with this are weekly bouts of an existential crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently this has been surrounding my academics, career and future. I chose to study Global Health and Bioethics because I believed it would help prepare me for a future where I\u2019m able to influence policy making and make healthcare more accessible. Unfortunately, if you were to ask me exactly what I wanted to do, I couldn\u2019t tell you. It\u2019s even harder when you hear other people tell you about their 10 year plans, what they\u2019re planning on doing and when they plan on doing it etc. I on the other hand, am trying to get through the next week that filled with midterms \ud83d\ude2b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, as they always say, to every dark cloud there\u2019s a silver lining. In this case, the silver lining was the Human Biology Student Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After doing a deep dive into the Human Biology (HMB) department to find out more about the resources available, I came across the HMB Union and they were planning a panelist event featuring past students of the HMB department who spoke on their experience navigating their careers! It\u2019s not everyday you get a chance to actually chat with people that have been through the study you are in and chat with them about their journey\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But first, introducing the panellist\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n