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Social Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Dunefar on January 01, 2011, 03:26:12 AM
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Just curious to how everyone's year went. I like to reflect on the past year come New Year's Eve, it's a good time to feel how your life is going.
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2010 was a complete turnaround year for me. Going from an okay, but ultimately short-term job to government work in an area I never expected to be was quite a shock. However, it's also brought me tons of amazing experiences, a great environment to be around in spite of the high tension and, of course, a good paycheck along with myriad benefits. It's like I suddenly had to jump straight into adulthood from the stilted childhood I lived for my whole life. This has been quite the ride, and I can only hope I can grow as much as I did in 2010. Here's to a great year, hoping the next ones will be just as fruitful.
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Pretty good. I'm as completely befuddled to my future as always, but I did a ton of travelling and got over a couple of tough spots with education. So hey.
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My year was great. It was good professionally and personally, with a lot of fun had in most spheres. I sorta dread 2011 since the early signs for it are poor. Losing a good boss and the person that covers you when you're off at work in the same week blows.
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Decent enough year for me. But a really, really, FANTASTICALLY shitty one for some of my closest freinds. So...eh. On the one hand I'm alright. On the other...well.
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Not so great for me. Had to move a bunch, my friends lives back in Oregon are shit, my dad makes a lot less money than he used to, and I am still without a job. But hey I got my foot in the door at college and still get by.
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Pretty good overall. Massive improvement over 2009.
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Despite home financial issues, I've done things I had never done last year. This is definitely a plus. I also had a better social life.
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Somewhere between good and okay. A couple of high points (mostly the summer and finding out that I passed), but it was filled with loads of tedium and several months of basically not doing much. It was studying but tedium studying.
Still see Capt. K. Much much better than 2009 which was terrible aside from graduating from Masters. 2010 had some decent surprises but several low points. Doubt any year will be as good as 2008, but hey, who knows.
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Hi crushing depression/sleep issues/desire to rip the world apart
you aren't gone yet?
well guess that sez it all
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Shitty. Likely worst year of my life.
At least until you ask me again in 365 days.
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I won some awards at work and have stepped up the things I do at no extra pay, so I guess it was technically a good year career wise heading towards the career I never wanted.
Had a great holiday this year though, so it was worth it. I just wish I could do my good holidays and still be able to take some other time off during the year. 5 day weeks constantly just completely takes it out of me. I probably invest to much of myself into my job, if I was lazier it would work better, but someone went and gave me some shade of work ethic that haunts me. It certainly isn't as strong as it is in my parents or my elder brother, but still there. The sad thing is we aren't even brought up Protestant.
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You want haunting work ethic? We should swap brains for a week.
EDIT: Also, less than five-day work week? You people are spoiled.
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Okay?
I don't really remember anything in particular happening, which is pretty reflective of the year as a whole. 2010 was all ideas and very little execution. And then shit hit the fan at the weirdest times, derailing what fragile plans I had made. Well... yeah.
Glad it's over, I guess? Not sure if I'm quite ready for another year yet, but here goes anyway!
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On the whole, bad. Mucho problems with depression, college, friends, family and being forced to move out. On the flip side, I have this nagging thing in the back of my mind telling me the year wasn't completely crap, so I guess it could have been worse? Besides, I can remember some specifically good moments, so I'll just say :(.
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Hi crushing depression/sleep issues/desire to rip the world apart
you aren't gone yet?
well guess that sez it all
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Had a good year. Naturally I had my fill of less-than-stellar moments, but when things get terrible at least you know things can only get better. My family is mostly in good health, I'm still on track with everything, I've made friends and lost a few. Overall I don't dislike the year. Sure, wish I would've had a better ending, but that just means the start of this year'll be better when it gets good. I'll be able to appreciate it more rather than take it for granted.
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A busy year. Just as stressful as 2009 for me, which is saying a lot, but I've managed to push through the worst of it and I feel like I'm getting somewhere in life. That's a pretty damn good feeling, and it goes a long way toward making what has been a really grueling experience in law school worth it.
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Shitty. Putting it behind me in a hurry.
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Not a good year for a variety of relatively personal reasons, and a fairly major financial one involving family.
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For the most part great up until about 2-3 months ago, then it crashed and burned kind of hard.
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Easily the most physical pain I've ever been in (manifested in about five varieties throughout the year).
My job closed on my birthday while I was in another country fresh out of the hospital.
So naturally I voted great. (What? It has been! ^_^)
Ought to hang out with Dunie, more, though (have we actually only hung out once? We need to fix this...).
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I kicked this Year's ass so much that my only resolution for this year is not to change.
In summary, I put last year not in a body bag, but an evidence bag.
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Uneventful, so I guess "Okay" option for me.
I have a steady part time job at least, so at least that means I'm better off than I was for the first half off 2009. I swapped my major, and now there looks to be I'm finally going down a track with a genuine end in sight.
That's...about the extent of things noteworthy that happened, I suppose. Well, I guess the last few months were nice cause my brother wasn't in the house <_< >_>
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You can tell that Dune made this topic considering there's only one really good option on the poll. <_<
My year was decent enough. Not spectacular, but nothing truly terrible happened so I'll call it good.
EDIT: Also, less than five-day work week? You people are spoiled.
I can't speak for anyone else in here, but yeah, I have a four day work week of 10 hour days.
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Started off lackluster, but really started to pick up the pace towards the last half. Got myself a job, good friends, decent classes, etc. So far, that stride has lasted through to the new year, too. Let's hope that keeps up!
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Ought to hang out with Dunie, more, though (have we actually only hung out once? We need to fix this...).
Yes. ): Hopefully we'll be able to do such in the coming month. With tax returns, I should be able to move out (depending on my return), and we can hang all day. Or. Whicheva.
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I'm somewhere between the first and the second. I've enjoyed having a new apartment and doing lots of cool stuff, but I've been homesick and not really enjoying school.
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I'm somewhere between the first and the second. I've enjoyed having a new apartment and doing lots of cool stuff, but I've been homesick and not really enjoying school.
:( yeah, first four or so years I lived away from home, I was homesick. I think I'm better at adapting to new locations now, but it takes a long time.
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I've been homesick and not really enjoying school.
It's important to try and separate these two things in your mind. Is your being homesick causing or contributing to you not enjoying school or is it something else? Good question to know the answer to.
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I've been homesick and not really enjoying school.
It's important to try and separate these two things in your mind. Is your being homesick causing or contributing to you not enjoying school or is it something else? Good question to know the answer to.
And also the question of: would you not be enjoying school regardless of which university it was, or does the learning environment in UBC not fit well with how you like to work?
I know grad schools vary immensely. Grad students at Princeton are very driven. Grad students at McGill were very laid back. MIT is apparently very cutthroat. Last time I was at UBC, I didn't know the grad students well, but I knew in the Math Grad department there were a lot of Eastern Europeans, and they tended to perform worse than Undergrads in the same course. I know I've sometimes wondered if I would still be in Mathematics if I had gone to a different Grad School where people around me were more energized.
Also: I seem to recall that you like lab research more than coursework (and the later you get in a PhD, the more it becomes about research, and the less likely you are to be taking any courses).
All that being said: never get a PhD unless you want to be a professor. For all other jobs, Masters tends to be just as good.
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My first full year working a real job and I even actually enjoy it, finally moved out at the start of the year. Pretty easy choice for the top option for me, likely for the third year in a row. Yay!
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I've been homesick and not really enjoying school.
It's important to try and separate these two things in your mind. Is your being homesick causing or contributing to you not enjoying school or is it something else? Good question to know the answer to.
And also the question of: would you not be enjoying school regardless of which university it was, or does the learning environment in UBC not fit well with how you like to work?
I know grad schools vary immensely. Grad students at Princeton are very driven. Grad students at McGill were very laid back. MIT is apparently very cutthroat. Last time I was at UBC, I didn't know the grad students well, but I knew in the Math Grad department there were a lot of Eastern Europeans, and they tended to perform worse than Undergrads in the same course. I know I've sometimes wondered if I would still be in Mathematics if I had gone to a different Grad School where people around me were more energized.
Also: I seem to recall that you like lab research more than coursework (and the later you get in a PhD, the more it becomes about research, and the less likely you are to be taking any courses).
All that being said: never get a PhD unless you want to be a professor. For all other jobs, Masters tends to be just as good.
I think the root of it is that I haven't really met any female friends I find terribly interesting here and that has kind of made me miss my old friends back home. I tolerate research but I really just want to TA all day. I want to be a teacher but I don't want to teach high school science; I'm probably going to try to get into a more education-focused program after I finish my Masters here at UBC. I think you can theoretically get a job at a college as a Masters person but they prefer PhD. people.
I think grad students work too much. I think part of this is finding my work uninteresting and the other part is because I would rather be hanging out with the elf than be at work until 7 pm. >_>
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I think the root of it is that I haven't really met any female friends I find terribly interesting here and that has kind of made me miss my old friends back home.
Oh, yeah, that's always a huge problem with moving. (Friends in general take a long time to form--you actually probably had things easier than usual by inheriting a bunch of male friends from the Vancouver DL group).
I never got a good set of friends in Montreal. Eventually got good friends from LGBT support groups in San Francisco. Atlanta's going pretty slow so far (although I <3 Dunie). The moral of this story is: become gay! Wait...guess it doesn't work like that. >_> <_<
Hmm...wonder if I could talk some of my old friends into hanging out with you. Most of my university friends went away for Grad school, but I think a bunch of my High School friends are still around. Like...has hanging out with Elfboy and Ryan led you into meeting Dora or Julia yet?
I think you can theoretically get a job at a college as a Masters person but they prefer PhD. people.
I'm not sure about that. Thing is, most employers have rules that they have to pay more for a PhD, but PhD doesn't really mean you're better at teaching a subject--it really just means you know a lot about one tiny area in the field, but have done the same number of broad courses. So...most employers, money-hungry that they are, will lean towards hiring Masters candidates over PhD candidates. Or at least, that's how it works in Canadian colleges.
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That makes me feel better! =) And I have met Dora, but only once! She's cool.
Also, yes, time to turn to lesbianism to meet girls~
I do love Magey and Excal and Ryan and Erek but sometimes a girl needs some girl time, ya know~? <3
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And I have met Dora, but only once! She's cool.
Yes she is!
Next time you see her, say hi to Kitty Kitty Jungle Kitty Mountain Lion Kitten Kitty Jungle Kitty for me. (And make sure to get the name right).
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This entire past decade is one I want to forget completely.
Made way too many mistakes, but hey I come into 2011 without any kids or STDs at least.
Still have mad debt future uncertainty to deal with, but....who doesnt?
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but hey I come into 2011 without any kids or STDs at least.
Man, Scar, when you put a positive spin on things you don't pull any punches!
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The last two months have been pretty good, but the rest of the year was kind of rough. DLcon was fun, but pretty much everything that was worthwhile was an exorbitant drain on my savings. There's this terrible looming feeling of "Everything you do that's fun will cause you pain in the future when you're starving because you didn't save your money".
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I'm just saying. Those things stay with you. I mean, kids are a blessing sure. But if you don't plan for them, one could really screw up yer life.
The STD thing is true, but more or less it was a joke. (It's never good to joke abut such things or something!)
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Anyways, 2011 should be a good year. I think I've found my soulmate. She plays more games then I do. She is in school to be an optometrist which is greta for me since I have fucked up eyes. She is cute and watches anime...
it's just...that...she...
hates....
football!
That can change though. Yessssssssssssssssssss