Another year, another semester.

When I think about it, I really had an awesome semester at school. As far as I’m concerned this was my first “real” semester at UBC. I was here in Fall, but I wasn’t really here. I skipped over 60% of my classes, I was barely ever on campus, and I wasn’t taking any marketing courses – in fact, only one commerce course! It wasn’t that “UBC experience” that I’ve been looking forward to for so long. This semester seemed like a night and day difference.

My Consumer Behaviour course was awesome, mostly because I had the best prof I think I’ve ever had for any course teaching that (she’s also incredibly easy on the eyes…). Market research was a challenge to say the very least, but for some reason, I didn’t push myself nearly as hard as I should have. Very challenging professor, but that’s definitely not a bad thing. Government and Business was a joke, and simultaneously the biggest missed opportunity. I could’ve gotten an A+ in that course had I studied for the final… I still have no idea what I was thinking.

My marketing analysis course (the one I made the video for) was probably the most value-added course I’ve taken thus far in my academic pursuits. It’s a course that forces you to work with random people, and with high levels of ambiguity. Apparently those are two things that students hate. Most students prefer to work by themselves, and most students apparently love to work in situations where there is a clearly defined answer. I’ve always found myself in the former situation, which is why this class was the type of thing that I had always been looking for. Learned so much in that course, and not just about marketing either, but about life, and about dealing with difficult decision making. That course alone gave me that “UBC Experience.”