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The Lessons I Learned Fumbling My Way Through Life After University

Back in university, I worked as a Residence Advisor. As a Residence Advisor, my responsibility was to be the ‘leader’ of the floor. I monitored quiet hours during exam season. I organized social events for the students in the residences. I held meetings with the students to let them know of the different events happening and to answer any questions they had.

One day, I was working on a poster and I noticed a fellow Residence Advisor working on what looked like a poster that described how laundry was done. The students in his residence had never done the laundry before! You would think this is a skill that everyone knows, but for some of these students, they had no idea what soap to use, to separate the whites and colours, the laundry wash cycles and what they mean, or not putting in certain fabrics into the dryer. As he explained why he was creating this poster, I and a few other RAs started chuckling, but it made me think about how much I took for granted while living at home.

Fast forward a few years later, and I was living by myself in an apartment in a new city. Reflecting back on my first few years out of university (which was in…