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I’m Late to January (It’s Fine)
I have a complicated relationship with the new year. There’s something about January that makes me suddenly obsessed with new routines and becoming a slightly improved version of myself overnight. I usually feel the pressure long before January arrives. It begins sometime in November, when the days get shorter and my thoughts get louder. That’s actually […]
I have a complicated relationship with the new year. There’s something about January that makes me suddenly obsessed with new routines and becoming a slightly improved version of myself overnight. I usually feel the pressure long before January arrives. It begins sometime in November, when the days get shorter and my thoughts get louder. That’s actually […]
December 2025 I I Don’t Know Where I’m Going, But I’m Going
It started with a conversation about Vancouver bus routes, one of those unexpected detours that happens in the middle of a meeting. Carolyn pulled up Google Maps to help me make sense of my poor direction skills and general confusion about how to get anywhere in this city. Soon we were zooming in and out […]
It started with a conversation about Vancouver bus routes, one of those unexpected detours that happens in the middle of a meeting. Carolyn pulled up Google Maps to help me make sense of my poor direction skills and general confusion about how to get anywhere in this city. Soon we were zooming in and out […]
November 2025 I “Spoiler: She Didn’t Hire Me…”
The first message I ever sent on LinkedIn was a carefully crafted paragraph singing the praises of a marketing executive at a communications company. She had written a post about how nervous she’d felt looking for a job after graduating, and I thought: finally, someone real on this app. So I spent a week drafting, […]
The first message I ever sent on LinkedIn was a carefully crafted paragraph singing the praises of a marketing executive at a communications company. She had written a post about how nervous she’d felt looking for a job after graduating, and I thought: finally, someone real on this app. So I spent a week drafting, […]
October 2025 I The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any)
The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any) October feels like that part of the semester where time starts to blur. One day I’m opening fresh notebooks, the next I’m staring down midterms, looming deadlines, and an inbox exploding with workshop and event invites. Among them? The Arts Amplifier’s entrepreneurship panel on Oct […]
The Art of Making Time (When You Don’t Have Any) October feels like that part of the semester where time starts to blur. One day I’m opening fresh notebooks, the next I’m staring down midterms, looming deadlines, and an inbox exploding with workshop and event invites. Among them? The Arts Amplifier’s entrepreneurship panel on Oct […]
September 2025 I Plotting Possibilities (Career Curiosities Edition)
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
Hi! I’m Marjorie Rugunda, the new Communications & Programming Assistant at Arts Amplifier and a second-year PhD student in the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. I’m also an avid reader, professional napper, day-dreamer, and occasional “out-fit repeater.” When I began my master’s, the word career barely crossed my mind. “Career? I’m […]
How Arts students are using entrepreneurial thinking
From 12pm-1pm October 21, 2025, join us at Arts Compass Hub to hear from a panel of UBC Arts students and alumni who will share their experience taking their academic training in an entrepreneurial direction and maybe you’ll leave with motivation to pursue your own projects and ideas. To be an entrepreneur means to take […]
From 12pm-1pm October 21, 2025, join us at Arts Compass Hub to hear from a panel of UBC Arts students and alumni who will share their experience taking their academic training in an entrepreneurial direction and maybe you’ll leave with motivation to pursue your own projects and ideas. To be an entrepreneur means to take […]
