Student Blogs

Hello everyone! My name is Yuna, and I’m a fourth-year student majoring in Psychology at UBC. I come from an East Asian background but was raised in Canada my whole life, which should make me bilingual, but that’s highly questionable at this point (feels more like bye-lingual). Not to mention, literature can sometimes add on […] read full post >>

A MIKEY MADISON FAN RAMBLES (YAPS) ON ABOUT LITERATURE read full post >>

Hi everyone! My name is Zara, and I am a third year student in the Faculty of Science. I am from White Rock, BC. As a result of living near the ocean, I enjoy taking long walks by the beach while listening to music! I am a huge fan of all genres of music (some […] read full post >>

Hi~ my name is Vincie, currently a 3rd year majoring in linguistics and minoring in psychology. This is actually my first time writing a blog, so I feel kinda excited lol. I’m from China, and I speak both Mandarin and Cantonese as my first language. Besides that, I actually quite enjoy acquiring and communicating in […] read full post >>

Hello everyone, my name is Romeo Gelber and I am a third year history student. I was born in Italy in the small city of Gubbio, in Umbria, but moved to the Kootenay region in BC shortly after and grew up there my whole life. Some things I enjoy doing are playing the piano, big […] read full post >>

Hi!  I didn't expect writing a self-introduction to make me anxious. Well, it's a little anxiety provoking but also kinda feel good to get started so... let's actually get started! I'm Por, a fourth year psychology student. It is my last ... read full post >>

Hi!  I didn't expect writing a self-introduction to make me anxious. Well, it's a little anxiety provoking but also kinda feel good to get started so... let's actually get started! I'm Por, a fourth year psychology student. It is my last ... read full post >>

Hi! I’m Laura. I’m from Lima, Peru, and I moved to Vancouver about four years ago. I’m currently a third-year student pursuing a BA in Economics with a minor in Commerce. If you read that and thought, “This person does not scream literature,” you’d be right. I’m not really a “literature” person, and like many […] read full post >>

Hi, my name is Josh Tan. I am a third-year student in the dual degree program, pursuing political science and management under the B+MM program. I took this class as an elective to fulfill my degree's literature requirement, and given this, I expect to... read full post >>

Hi, my name is Josh Tan. I am a third-year student in the dual degree program, pursuing political science and management under the B+MM program. I took this class as an elective to fulfill my degree's literature requirement, and given this, I expect to... read full post >>

Hello everyone!! i’m very excited to start writing these blogs, this whole concept is so cool :)). I’ll start with telling you all about myself – my name is Amanda and I’m a first year currently studying psychology but I’m leaning towards speech pathology route in the future. This course piqued my interest because I […] read full post >>

Hi! My name is Cat. I already wrote this once but I accidentally deleted it because I’m technologically incompetent. Which is not a good sign for my future blog posts… I’m a psychology student in my fourth year, hopefully graduating this semester unless I’ve really screwed something up. I loved reading when I was growing […] read full post >>

Hey! I’m Reika, and I’m a third-year psych major. Don’t want to give myself too much existential dread by trying to lay out what exactly I want to do in the future, but let’s just say exploring the unconscious. I’m from Japan, but my father is half Japanese and half American, making me a quarter […] read full post >>

Hi everyone! My name is Emilia Mazzella, and I’m a second-year student currently double-majoring in Psychology and Linguistics. I grew up in Colorado in the United States, but from a young age, I knew that the United States was not where I wanted to live my life, which is part of why I’m here in […] read full post >>

Hi everyone! My name is Kimberly, but I made the url of my website ‘Wingyun’ because that’s my Cantonese name. I’m currently a fifth year student (this is my final semester) at UBC, studying Applied Animal Biology so I can (hopefully) become a veterinarian. I’ve lived in Vancouver my entire life, and studying at UBC […] read full post >>