Excited for my final year!

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Hi everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying the wonderful weather we are having here in Ottawa! One more month of summer left, and then it’s back to school! This summer has been like no other – I feel like I’ve accomplished quite a bit. There’s still a couple of things I wasn’t able to get to this summer – namely, skydiving and white water rafting. These will have to wait until next summer (they will be a graduation present to myself!).

With school coming up, I can feel my stress level starting to change. Nonetheless, I am so excited for my last year! Remember how I said in my last blog that I needed to take a couple of electives this year? Well, as part of those electives I am going to take two languages! I am going to be taking American Sign Language and Spanish. I am unbelievably excited, yet nervous at the same time. I’m already trilingual, so *hopefully* I will soon be multilingual!

My ‘women in science’ project has been going very well. I have been working on designing a booklet for high school educators that highlights the different outreach programs that exist in Ottawa for girls and women in science. I am really enjoying this summer position, as it’s given me the opportunity to explore something completely different.

This past week, I had the opportunity to be a part of the Life After High School initiative, which is a pilot program run by Social Research and Demonstration Corporation and funded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities. It’s a program that will provide Grade 12 students at select Ontario schools with practical support in applying for post-secondary education and financial aid. I was interviewed about my experience in applying to university, about my scholarship and how it has assisted with my studies, as well as what my university experience has been like thus far. The video of my interview, as well as many others interviews, will be available through the online workshop the students take part in. I’m very excited for Ontario students to see this video, and I’m glad I got to be a part of it!

In about 2 weeks, I am going to be moving in to residence for one week, as part of my position for the Math Matters Study Group Leader/Residence Monitor. Math Matters is a program designed for students entering their first year at Carleton in a program that has a math component. It’s a great way to ease the transition into university-level math.

Anyways, I’ll talk you all later!

Keep smiling!

Posted on August 25, 2011 | Category: Amisha