1) Â Â Â You run into the same people every day.
The fact is, there is a far higher population of students in university than in high school. Most high school seniors accept the preconceived idea that they will never have the experience of bumping into familiar faces in the hallways again. However, university students’ schedules stay the same throughout the semester (in most cases) and they tend to spend time in the same areas. It’s natural and nearly obvious that you’re going to make a routine and you’re going to constantly run into people whose routine overlaps with yours at some point.
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2) Â Â Engineers play euchre.
I’m not sure if engineers have an exceptionally collective culture or if they are just constantly finding themselves frustrated with brutal workloads, but they always play euchre. Is this an international phenomenon or just a UWindsor quirk?
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3) Â Â Â You learn how to play pool.
Before the semester even started, frosh week invited all freshmen to experience campus life. When there weren’t parties, competitions, or other events to get excited about, it became evident that there needed to be another mode of entertainment outside of the dorm room. The solution? Pool. If you haven’t already learned how, you will soon. It’s a communal, relatively physical, and competitive way to spend an afternoon when you should be studying.
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4) Â Â Â People from other programs can actually help you.
Engineers need help from English majors to edit their papers. Business majors need help from sociologists to explain cultural patterns in advertising and consumerism. One degree is not adequate to answer all questions. Needing information gets you talking to people in other faculties, can increase your interest and knowledge of that program, and expand your talents and usefulness. Knowing people in other faculties also creates a more diverse and interesting friend group.
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5) Nurses do crazy things for fundraising.
Enough said.