It is a very exciting time! I always question how well I’m handling things and whether I could be doing it better, but I’m feeling generally good.
- Talking about submitting an appeal to get that English minor. Despite my show of giving it up, I got some advice and am now pursuing a student-initiated appeal to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Curriculum Committee. Good times!
- Starting to make post-school plans. I’ll be in Hong Kong for a month in June and early July, spending time with family and perhaps swinging my Shanghai.
- Starting to talk to people about potential work! It’s all up in the air and who knows what will come out of it. They are all doing neat things in different capacities and asking for different things from me. Perhaps I’ll grab some career counselling while I’m exploiting all those neato student resources that I’ll soon be without.
- Talking to TransLink finally about Transit Camp. I’ll have lots of good things to tell them about the event in Vancouver, the people I spoke to in Toronto, and what I’ve heard from the people I’ve spoken to. I’m a little wary, I must admit – I imagine that the job descriptions within TransLink aren’t amenable to the sort of cross-department projects that I’d like to see them do. But I’ll see what I can do in the time I’ve been given.
- April 22 and 23rd, I’ll be participating in a panel of undergraduate students talking about online social networks at the BCNet Conference at everyone’s favorite conference-venue-slash-SFU-campus, Harbour Centre. The conference focuses on networks for research institutions. I haven’t skimmed the conference program yet but I’m looking forward to learning more and hearing from other people my age, on what they think of this stuff. My thinking on the use of technology in education and life, has matured to the point that my opinion really is not typical anymore, and I need more opportunities to be reminded of that.
- Volunteer and work projects are continuing to proceed at their respective paces. Their meetings are almost the only things in my calendar ever.
I’m also glad to say that the writing is starting to flow a little more steadily. Not quite the river yet, but a respectably bubbling brook of written activity. It couldn’t come a moment sooner, since I’m presenting in … two weeks!
