Life is a Beautiful Disaster

The last few days have been a whirl of activities, too much healthy food, assignments, networking, tests, not sleeping and negotiating [arguing] with companies.

Absolute fun!
It is kind of difficult at times though…I can’t wait for the day I get a P.A. who can handle my schedule!

Highlights of the week have been:
*Credit Suisse information session – I have to say I was really impressed with their firm representatives, and a lovely lady [with a gorgeous Louis Vuitton handbag!] spent a great deal of her time talking with me which I really appreciated. The company as a whole really seemed like a place I could imagine myself working at….but of course we’ll just have to see what happens.

*Negotiating with my computer company. They did a very minor screw up on my new computer and so after a wonderful discussion [easier to break than Motorola] I am getting some free stuff from them 🙂

*Talking to friends -shoutouts to PXW and his lovely friends I chatted with outside the Ballieu the other day, along with my gorgeous friends S. and JS….I have also made a really nice new friend this semester, JL, who is really friendly which is cool. We talk over our notes for PBL together and actually HELP each other. Uni is so competitive that it is very rare you find someone who will be willing to speak honestly with you about a subject.

*Receiving an invitation to PXW’s 21st Birthday Party at one of the most exclusive and sophisticated clubs in town….Moral Decay it will definitely be darling!!!!!!! Have to figure out my outfit; the theme is 1930s/mafia style/cocktail!!!! Wonderful, just wonderful!

Of course amongst all these fun things there have been a few tougher elements. Namely being my high levels of energy which are preventing me from sleeping. On holidays I am fine, but when I am at uni I have major issues sleeping because I just have so much to think about! I plan on sleeping as much as I can before my life of IB starts thank you very much!!! So have been working on that with some more exercise; namely swimming and walking.

I also had a major assignment issue last night. To cut it short, I submitted [the physical copy] of an assignment a day early for Organisational Behaviour then had super big issues in regards to submitting it for plagiarism analysis online yesterday [despite having submitted a test draft online the day before] consequently I feared I would lose 5% of my total mark for the subject as a whole which had me in majorrrr stress out last night. However I emailed my tutor and spoke to my lecturer this morning and supposedly I’ll know on Monday what is going to happen, but the worst case scenario as told by lecturer Scott Seibert is that I supposedly will lose half a mark on the assignment.

Now when you’re trying to achieve an H1 average that could still mean a lot but I’m not stressing right now. You just have to move on and focus [had a test for law 9am this morning so couldn’t afford to wake up this morning worrying]. The fact of the matter is that no matter what, this assignment will not determine the final outcome; proof being that last semester I received a crap mark on a group assignment for BPA…..[I’ve ranted on group assignments before], but anyways – the fact of the matter was that I came out of that subject in the end being one of the top students due to my exam mark. So I think the main thing is to never give up in yourself or your abilities. Sometimes circumstances will force you into less than perfect situations….but the best thing to do is to make some lemonade.

Perhaps I am getting a bit too philosophical here….but…I really think the key to life is to expect reality, but to never give up on your dreams.

My Father taught me from a young age that the biggest failure one can make in life is to be too afraid to try.

The concept of ‘impossibility’ is merely a human-created idea; its purpose being to control and constrain…
If you think about it, 500 years ago the computers, internet, mobile phones – they would have seemed impossible, and yet they were not.

So to anyone reading this, I hope you make the most of everything – your comfort zone is your worst enemy! Don’t be afraid to follow your dreams. Just imagine how cool it would be to achieve what someone else may have deemed impossible?

-Sophie