Wade is a second year Kinesiology student in the Multidisciplinary stream. He hopes to work as a PE teacher in a secondary school when he graduates, and sees this career choice as a “great opportunity to combine my passions for both teaching and coaching.” Wade recently served as an Orientation & Transition Leader for UBC Jump Start and the Virtual Collegia Programs, and is currently working as a student leader on the UBC Reading Week Project.
Wade joined the KIN Mentorship Program to “explore what other career options the health and sport industry has to offer in addition to medicine and physiotherapy.” He also wanted “to meet new inspiring people and to learn from them.” Wade recommends that other students apply to the Mentorship Program as he believes that “whether you have decided on your [career] pathway or are still exploring it, you can learn a lot from both the mentors and mentees. It is a judgment-free environment where you can learn not only about the industry but about yourself, professionalism, building a network, and more.”
One of the most important things that Wade has learned so far in his degree is to “have no fear of failure,and to seek to surpass no one but yourself. Because at the end of the day, it only matters if you have become better than what you were yesterday.”
