“It’s not about how we live our lives to make bad things not happen. It’s about, as we get older, taking the bad events and making better decisions on how we handle them.” See that quote? That quote is by far one of my favourite things I have ever been told. And today we’re going to talk about it. Last week I went out with my boyfriend for his birthday with his mother and some of her coworkers. The table conversation had turned onto breakups and I told a person at the table a

This weekend I sat in a room with several hundreds of kids under the age of 18 who were some of the best and brightest in the country. They had traveled abroad, had impressive GPAs, were leaders in their schools and communities, and were semifinalists for the same scholarship as me. That’s right, I’m included in these students. Go me! As I was sitting with these other students, feeling overwhelmed by the amount of accomplishments being thrown in my face, I was thinking about

When you are looking for universities to attend, people always tell you to ‘look for people that look like you’. And that’s important. When I look at universities, I want to make sure I’m not a pasty white girl in chunky sweaters sitting with a thousand tan kids wearing booty shorts. If you’re going to go to school somewhere, you want it to be somewhere where you know you’ll most likely fit in. Today I went to a university preview day. And, even though I usually hate the idea

Ever since we were little kids we’ve been learning. Whether it was from our parents or those silly little cartoons we always watched, they were there to teach us lessons. But there are some lessons that they can’t teach you, but you can only learn from experiencing them. Lessons like those, to be it quite bluntly, suck. You have no way of knowing what to expect or how to deal with it. You just have it stick it out and hope you do it right. And trust me, no matter how many of