Hannah
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Hi, my name is Hannah.
I'm in my fourth year of university
and my hometown is Toronto, Ontario.
I came into university in my first year.
I walked into the residence and
I came in with huge expectations,
so huge that they weren't realistic.
And I kind of just expected
that, you know, I'd walk in
and then all of a sudden I'd have
like all these friends coming over to me,
and I found that I didn't really
click with my tower right away
because I felt that at the end of orientation
week I didn't have a solid group of friends
that I'd missed the
boat and that that was it
and I was just not going to
have any friends during university.
I would just go to sleep, wake up,
do work the whole day, go to class,
and I would just stay in my room.
And I didn't really make an effort
to go out and talk to other people.
I really just expected
them to come to me.
And when I went home during the winter break
and I got to see all of my friends from home,
it made me realize
that I'm not a shy person.
It's not something that's
necessarily wrong with me,
but I need to
take an active role
and I can't just expect
people to come to me.
Life isn't like that, you have to go out
and get the things that you want,
so when I got back to school then I started
to reach out to people in my classes
and started to form
study groups with people
and through those study
groups, I formed friendships.
You have to take an active role.
You can't just expect
that the things you want are just going
to come to you with little to no effort.
Life's not like a movie. You're not going to walk out of
a coffee shop and someone spills their coffee on you,
like that's not how it works. You have
to actively go out and seek those things.
So, for instance, I would always
have my door open just expecting,
oh well my door's open so
someone should come in and say hi.
But other people's doors were open
and I never went over to them,
so I think for me,
the big takeaway
and the takeaway I hope
to give to future students
is that yeah, you have
to take an active role.
You have to go out
and get what you want.