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April 24th, 2020

This time in our Career-Life classes, we are asked to do some interesting personality quiz of ourselves in order to get a better understanding of what areas we are doing good at. The results are somewhat responsible for our future career choices.

I received a “Gold” personality in my true-colour quiz, which I think some of the descriptions fit me well, while others don’t. I believe a particular person is complex and has many sides so his/her charaters cannot be simply determined by a few results of such quizzes. For example, I don’t think I am an organized person when I’m on vacations or simply not at school. Moreover, I regard breaking the rules is fine if necessary or the rule is unfair. It is true that I loved to help others and do everything with conscience. So public service maybe the best career choice for me in the future.

Like I have said before, topics about nature and biology always attracts my attention since I first take step into the back garden of my neighbourhood. Though my “word smart” and “music smart” scores are even higher than the “nature smart” which surprised me most, I determined to pursue my longing dream of life, biomes and the Nature who nurtured all these fantastic beings on the whole Earth since aeons ago. My values encouraged me to work out some contributions in the field I belong to, whether big or small, and the topics about conservation and sustainability of the environment are the right ones for me.

I chose architecture for the topic of this aritcle because there is no such introduction of something like Biology or life science in the list of folders. What’s more, some of them even cannot be opened! Though this one may not “fit my appetite”, it still sounds interesting to me. That is why it became the subject and I would like to write something about it.

Schoolmate Yu Yang’s mom shared about her experience studying, also working in the fields of architecture. She learned about, and was favor of art since a very young age. Her hobby promoted her to take the path of being an architect. After taking the course, she found herself enjoying the feeling of creating original building models in her projects. Making one’s unique design out of nothing sounds creditable to me. Furthermore, as she have said in her presentation, the architecture field is getting more and more welcomed by the municipal department. It is a kind of career which has its prospects brought by originality which could not be replaced by the rapid developing AI technologies. This will do a great benefit for any of the career paths in such an era which AI is grudually taking the place of humans and causing unemployment problems we are in.

I have to say sorry as I always regard Biology is the right path for me, so there’s few chance I choose architecture to be my major. However, I am still very thankful to Yu Yang’s mom for her excellent presentation and it broaden the horizon towards career and life of mine. Here I wish to express my thanks to both her share and her meticulous preparations.

Among all these interviews & presentations, the one focused on double major in Food and Nutritional Sciences attracted me most. As I have said in my own introduction, I had a keen interest in studying knowledge associated with Biology at a young age. Through Crystal’s introduction, I found out that UBC provides student with one of the best education can be found worldwide, and that contains applied biology.

My mother once told me there’s few chance for foreign students to study animal science in Canada or something like that. It seems UBC gives me the oppotunity to have access to my longing dream! I also learned from the interview that University of British Columbia has a wide range of after class activities and various clubs to choose from, as well as well-equipped arena for students to do some workout! This will be the perfect chance to meet new people and experience a whole new type of life. What’s more, Crystal strongly recommends the food either from the school canteen or local resturants. After reading her introducion, I felt we have the very same appetite by comparing our opinions of Nanmo’s lunch. Unlike many of my classmates who were picky-eaters, I accept the meal fairly (at most times, not when the dish is mistakenly spoiled). I’m looking forward to enjoy the life in UBC, anyway!

For the last (and also the most important thing to reckon with),

Name: Maggie Lu

Identity: A student of Shanghai Nanmo model private school, also the creator of this blog

Gender: F

Age: 15

Birthday: 2004/05/21

Constellation: Gemini

Height: 5ft 1in (155cm)

Weight: 47kg (still changing)

Density: approximately 1.0 grams per cubic centimeter

Hobbies: Reading fantasy novels, playing hockey & frisbee, listening to music, spending time with animals

Favorite animal: Sunny the hamster, of course!

Ambition: become a vet, zoo keeper or dolphin trainer

You are always welcomed to communicate with me in friendship!

「In our Career-Life Classes, we designed a “road map of life”. It is a special kind of painting showing our experiences in the past few decades. At first, I made a sketch of the zigzagged shape of the road. Then, I made some changes to it in order to make the picture look more symmetric and appropriate. After that, I chose some of my most precious events in life and arranged them in chronicle order. As the criteria of this project suggests us that adding some extras such as legends to our map would possibly led to a higher score, I used different kinds of signs including stone carvings, mile stones, signposts as well as plant sprouts & trees to show different meanings of these life-influencing things.」

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「During creating, I feel like that I put one of the six competencies into practice, and that one was called “creative thinking”. There’s a requirement in the criteria said that we shouldn’t leave blank spaces on our painting, as a result, I gave the background of my artwork an kind of super-realism vague and named it “The pillar of skies”. This including the road propped up on dozens of stone pillars, a island seemed to float in the middle air, with a delicate lighthouse and a waterfall. On the either of this paper, a colorful sailboat and a pale-white seagull came into sight.」

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「What’s worth talking about, the biggest difference between my assignment and the others’ is I presumed what will probably happen in twenty year’s time in the future. Though this is certainly not a precise predict of my later life, I still hope getting a thorough preparation for all the obstacles and challenges yet to come is not a bad thing to do, especially when I still have plenty of time & energy pursuing my dreams.」

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