What a great day at Shad Valley UBC! These first days have flown by so fast; it feels like only yesterday we all arrived here and first became friends. Through the first ten days, we have had many lectures and guest speakers, and the experience so far has been exceptional! I am so glad that I chose to come to Shad at UBC (arguably the best Shad campus :P).
Today started just like any other day, off to breakfast and as always, it was delicious! Bacon, hash browns, fruit, scrambled eggs, what a combination! Then we took part in our two lectures for today. First, all 52 of us Shads went to a lecture from a representative from the mining corporation Teck. He introduced us to careers in mining, and how his company is trying to be good to our environment, a truly interesting topic! Then for our second lecture, we had one of the UBC business professors give us a presentation on marketing and research which will surely help us with our research and development of our products throughout the program.
At lunch, UBC’s cafeteria outdid themselves with another delicious meal! We all sat around and ate and chatted about the upcoming events, one of which was a campus wide game of ‘The Amazing Race!’ called ‘Campus Chase!’ Everyone was paired up and given a list of tasks that had to be completed, including crossing a ‘mine’ field (actually tennis balls), blindfolded, and helping a restaurant sell cookies to three different people. Most teams dressed up for this event, and there were many very great costumes.
After this we all met up and went for supper. After supper, was a night of Shad Speaks. We had many presentations on various topics of different Shad’s interests. Overall, it was another great day at Shad UBC!
Thanks for reading everyone! Stay tuned for more from more great Shads!
Philip Hillier, Shad University of British Columbia
Hometown: Corner Brook, NL
