Advice To My Younger Self (First Year @uWaterloo)

I started my first year in the middle of the pandemic and ended up spending most of my time grinding for grades, all so that I could get a “good” coop job. I worried about not being enough, worried about things that were clearly out of my control, and cared too much about what traditional “success” looked like. I am now a bit older, and hopefully wiser and met plenty of amazing people that took many different paths in life. If I had a time machine, I would tell my younger self that: