u/bqrncle

Sharing this because somebody in this channel shared it before and honestly it changed the direction of my life..

Honestly in high school I always knew I wanted to do something. The thing is I was always just focused on trying to get the best grades and maybe to do some clubs here and there and all that other stuff. I realized in my grade 12 year when applying to some random jobs I saw on LinkedIn that the real world now doesn't fully value those grades as opposed to actual experience (btw ended taking a gap year)

I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Honestly when I came across a post about how you are who you surround yourself with, it is really true. For me during that gap year I ended up just doing new things and trying and exploring, putting myself in new circles. Whether it is with tech, entrepreneurship, public speaking, vibe coding or whatever, I would learn so much from these people. Next thing you know I felt like I was going with their momentum and so I feel like my ambitions developed from there.

Now honestly I'm in the process of actually trying to apply to do an internship actually in New York and San Francisco, even though I never actually thought I would end up doing it but here I am. I don't know, the rooms you're in matter a lot so I think it's really good for you to surround yourself with other people who are curious and ambitious. For sure I think that's an important takeaway. Soo when your comfortable in your own circles challenge yourself!

For context i just graduated highschool last year and am now in my first yeat of uni but I always knew i wanted to do something that mattered. not just a job. actual impact. but for the longest time i just felt lost. like the ambition was there but i had no idea what to do with it.

so i just started saying yes to things. programs, competitions, whatever i could find. not because i had a plan but rather because something in me said go.

and every single time i walked into one of those rooms i was like. bro. these people are on another level. someone had already built a company. someone flew out to compete internationally. someone was interning at a really cool company and i'm just standing there with nothing on my resume thinking what am i even doing here..

but something about just being around those people got to me. like it just rubbed off. i can't really explain it

fast forward to now. i just landed an internship and i keep thinking about how none of this would have been possible if i hadn't just kept showing up to rooms i felt unqualified for because honest the rooms you put yourself in change you. that's it. that's the whole thing..

So I got bumped from my flight in Toronto, and they offered me basically $800 in travel vouchers. I lost my receipt, but they said that the receipt is just temporary; it's just for my own personal copy. They said that they will just send an email to me later down the road. Is that correct? I just wanted to ask if anybody has experienced how this works.