Indeed, it’s the epitome of geeky blogger pride. People sometime elevate me to the status of a campus celebrity, but seeing no photos of myself have made it on my UBC blog yet, I highly doubt it. However, it is a very special/odd feeling when my friends or classmates come up to me and say, “hey! I read your blog!”
There’s a bunch of us blogging for the University of British Columbia (the theme isn’t too sleek and professional, then again, UBC’s edgy like that XD) in fact. The entire blogsquad of 10 or so people is going out for an awesome night of laser tag and sushi tonight =D But I digress. UBC was recently ranked the #34 top university in the world (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge claimed top place, surprise surprise). To make it sound more important than it really is, you might be wondering what it’s like to blog for a world-class university, to be the tech-savvy face for all current freshmen as well as incoming highschool students?
Well to start, we use Wordpress and premade themes LOL. Aside from skimming over juicy details of alcoholic consumption and latenight m/o sessions (ew, gross), we pretty much have freedom in whatever we say. It’s so casual and awesome, I love it. I use the same conversational tone I always do. I’m free to rant and rave as I wish. Recently, one of my entries got featured in a New to UBC newsletters sent to all 6000 first year undergrads. THEY DIDN’T EVEN WARN ME *goes back to edit out all the grammar mistakes* Too bad we can’t put adsense blocks on the site to generate $$$ from all the clicks.
Now the reason I mentioned this is because it’s my excuse for the sparse updates on Ubiquitous since the start of the school year. I’M SORRY PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
P.S. - for those who still remember the university dilemma/drama from a few months back… Berkeley, I’m so over you. UBC’s my new love now =P
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I'm Crystal, a Canadian who thinks she can take on the world simply by getting up each morning. They call me the caffeinated IBer wandering on the Internet. 
I’m offended.
Also, I think I’ve figured out what your real name is. Not that it was difficult.
Gawd, I sound like a stalker.
LOL Arielle… the last bit was especially for you =P
Haha I’m surprised you figured it out so fast! Then again, there are only like two Asian girls on the blogsquad XD
I think I’ve figured out your name as well. Funny though, I never imagined you to have that name.
BTW, I had met a junior from Sauder last month, for HUWIB IBC. I had actually met two girls, but only really talked to one. You should really come to HUWIB IBC next year =)
Oh I heard about HUWIB IBC! We had our own IBC just last week and it was insaneeee being on the organizational committee. I’ll definitely check out Havard’s next year.
Yay for blogging for your university! I wish my uni had something like that! I’d so have been in on it!
Sounds like uni is “funner” than IB.
How is student life at UBC?
And random, but as I skimmed through the UBC blog I got distracted by the post with the spinning figure.
That’s awesome.. maybe it’ll encourage more students in Vancouver to blog more often. I wish my friends blogged. =(
Laser tag and sushi night sounds amazing!
Glad you’re enjoying UBC! I don’t think my parents would ever let me go there, simply because it’d be too far away from them.
Whoa… I’d feel really weird if my personal life and my blog life merged together. I dunno how you can handle people you know in real life talking about your blog. All of the magic is gone!
Omigosh, I’m an IBer as well! (although caffeinated from hot chocolate, rather than coffee).
And I was considering UBC too… how do you like it there, so far?