My Personal Productivity Tips and How I (sometimes) Get Things Done
Avoiding procrastination and being realistic about how productive I can actually be is something that I struggle with, but after just over 2 and...
Author: Maddy
6 Things That Surprised Me About UVic
As someone who has lived in Victoria for most of my life and for many years before I started school at UVic, I thought...
Tips for Starting a Semester Online
Between a full online year, a semester back in-person, and now another online start due to rising COVID cases, we can all agree that...
Testing Positive, Getting Boosted, and More: Highlights from my Holiday Break
I look forward to the holiday break between Fall and Spring semester all year. While having a four-month break in the summer is fantastic,...
Where is the best place to cry on campus?
University is a lot of emotions. Sometimes emotions involve crying – happy tears, sad tears, stress tears. It’s all normal! We hope you never...
Why you should shop local this holiday season
The Holiday Season is in full swing, and if you’re like me, you’ve left your shopping until the last minute in the craziness of...
My First Co-Op in a Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic
This past summer I completed my first Co-Op with the Canadian Red Cross working as an Emergency Care Worker in the Langford Covid vaccine...
Reading Break trip to Port Renfrew
Reading break is for reading right? Well, sometimes. In my opinion, reading break at UVic is also a time for everyone to recharge, to...
My Experience in a Kids Help Phone Pilot Program
In January 2021, I applied to be a part of a Kids Help Phone pilot program for their new Peer-to-peer service. This is a...
Tips for Getting your First Co-Op
In late March, after eleven applications and five interviews for different Co-Op positions, I was offered a Co-Op job as an Emergency Care Worker...
An Impromptu Trip to Campus
When I first started writing for the MyUVicLife blog in October 2019, I never thought a simple trip to campus would inspire me to...
Scenes from Lockdown
While online school can be taxing, boring, and isolating at times, I’ve found there’s a little beauty in the mundane everyday tasks of working...
My Favourite UVic Instagram Accounts
I spend way too much time on social media but one way I like to rationalize that is by saying that it’s where I get my information from—which is absolutely true! And one of my favourite places to keep up to date on all things UVic is through various UVic-related Instagram pages.
Staying Sane While Stuck in Lockdown
In case you’ve been living under a rock (or just aren’t familiar with BC news) British Columbia’s Provincial Health Officer Bonnie Henry implemented provincial...
A New Term: Setting up for Success
It’s week two of the semester. Syllabus week has come and gone, and all of a sudden, there’s actual work to do — crazy,...
The Faces of my Workspaces
Before Covid-19, I was someone who tried to avoid working at home as much as possible. I had a hard time focusing in the...
My Christmas Break To-Do List
Christmas Break is a time to relax, spend time with people who you haven’t seen in ages due to the busy semester, and eat...
5 Takeaways from a Co-Op Networking Event
I am currently finishing up the Humanities and Fine Arts Co-Op introductory program before going on a Co-op of my own. To end this...
My UVic Bookstore Haul
While I live in Victoria, with online school I have not visited the UVic campus since the summertime. I was in need of a...
5 Reasons to Make a LinkedIn Account as a Student
In one of my classes this year, Technology and Society 310: Digital Skills for Your Career, one of our big assignments was to create...