Advice from New Grads

If I knew then what I know now...

Willemina Stikker-Breemhaar
BA'08, Economics

"Appreciate your schedule! You go to class you do some homework – enjoy the time you spend during the day at home. I procrastinated a lot in university taking two days to think about the paper before I started writing it. If I had actually done it right away I would have had a lot more free time. You can’t procrastinate at work."

Mandy Cookson
BComm'08, Petroleum Land Management

"Once you get into work you think you don’t have any time for events that come about but honestly, it opens up a whole new possibility of different events that you haven’t seen at school. At school, I was always ‘Oh I don’t have time for that, better just push it to the back burner.’ Take part in things in school if you can and when you get out of school don’t just focus on your field. I’m enrolled in kick boxing classes, I’m enrolled in guitar lessons and stuff I’ve always wanted to do and never had the actual time to do it."

More Stories:

• Matthew Yu, BComm/BA'07, Business/Economics
• Sylvia Lole, BComm'07, Accounting
  
• Joanna Pesta, BA'08, Sociology
  

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