CONVOCATION

Last week we celebrated my convocation for Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University. Here's a recap on the celebrations.

ENGINEERING II // RING DAY

On March 17th (yes St. Patty's day) I had the honour of ringing in my fellow lady engineers during the spring Ring Day. Here's a #throwbackthursday about the celebrations.

ENGINEERING

It's amazing to think that 4 years came and went by so quickly. I'm proud to say that I'm officially done my Bachelor of Engineering, in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability, at Carleton University.

TRANSFORMATION

It's been a minute. Just kidding it's been almost 4 years, but life has flown by. While I was mostly having fun, life has been up and down, I've experienced a lot and I'm just reflecting on it now (and again).

November 24, 2012

In the spirit of love, I want to use this post to reflect on my relationship with Liam. Seeing as I've made my peace with the past, I thought I could finally reminisce on the good of our relationship. So sincerely Liam, thank you for the loving memories. See you around.

BACK TO SCHOOL

While school technically started yesterday I only just had my first classes of my fourth year today.

CURRENT ASPIRATIONS

In no particular order here are a few of my current aspirations for the rest of 2016.

SUMMER

While the month of April was completely taken over by school and exams, I am now free from school until September yet again.

I spent this past weekend moving from one apartment to the next, and then moving back home with my parents over the summer. We managed to get my new place all set up; ready to take me in September. I'm already excited for the new apartment, new roomie, and to be even closer to finishing university.

This summer I'm back home working my butt off to save money for school. However, I do plan on having a great summer filled with friends and adventures.

Here's to Summer 2016!

BALANCE

Throughout my university life, I've come to the realization that I'm a big believer in a balanced lifestyle. That "work hard, play hard" phrase really started to resonate with me when it came to my everyday routine.

I think having a balanced lifestyle is a definite key to a more peaceful and rewarding life.

UNIVERSITY

For me personally, university... especially engineering has been a challenge and sometimes a struggle. High school came easy, so I honestly never really expected to have any difficulties in university.

Last term during my third year I was the most stressed about school than I have ever been in my life. High school had come relatively easy to me and I never expected university to be as challenging as it was... naive I know.

Whether it was the commute, money, time, work load I constantly I felt like I was drowning, and my mental health was seriously at risk. So for once in my life I decided I should give myself a break, look at my situation long term and slow myself down.

By rushing myself and constantly pushing myself to just make it by, without truly retaining anything was my downfall. I decided to rearrange my school schedule and take an extra term in order to slow down and take my time to really be able to focus and most importantly learn. Then I could potentially have more time for my studies as well as a balanced life style and even eventually enjoy what I'm learning more because I understand the information.

This is where I am now, starting fresh in the second term of third year, seeing how this "slow down" goes.

I've thought about it time and time again, is this program right for me? am I really doing something I will love in the future? and overall what I am studying, the values and theories behind everything I am learning - I can truly say that whatever field I go into that involves the environment, conservation, and sustainability I will be happy. I just need to get through school in order to get to the place I need to be.