Science One is a difficult first-year program at UBC, which contains around 75 avid students. Its claim to fame are integrated classes that take place in one room, where professors switch out every hour instead of students, and there are term-end projects among other extra things that you have to do, that you otherwise wouldn’t do if you were in the normal science program. I mean, yes – this included tougher schoolwork, but there was also a field trip at the beginning of the year where I met some pretty cool people. And spending time with the same students helps lower the obstacle of meeting new people, especially when we all bonded by suffering through studying.

At the beginning of the lecture I gave a huge thanks to my Science One biology professor Celeste for inviting me – and to the other professors who surely thought this was a bad idea.… read more