Although we love our campus dearly, and we were so excited when we decided to attend school here… no one can get through four (or more) years without a few minor speedbumps. For all University of Waterloo Collegiettes, the following struggles are all too real:
1.Nightmares of geese mating season.
Who run the world? GEESE!
2.Having ten minutes to get to your next class.
Your next class is at St. Paul’s, but you just left RCH? May the odds be ever in your favor.
3.You would trade in your WatCard balance for a place to nap between classes.
A Hogwarts-infirmary-esque nap building would be ideal after pulling an all-nighter.
4.Finding a study spot is never a simple task, especially during exams and midterms.
When DC and DP are not an option, we recommend trying some of the libraries located at the University/ College campuses, like St. Jerome’s or Renison.
5.Connecting to Eduroam is not a job for the faint of heart.
We all know the struggle.
6. Science and math jokes will always trump movie jokes.
Mean Girls jokes get old… but “Got to get down on Pi-Day” is forever.
7. The psychological experiment they clearly came up with when designing PAS.
Maybe we’ll all have that one figured out by graduation… maybe.
8. Only knowing buildings by their abbreviations…
PAS… RCH… BMH… CIF… the list goes on.
9. What is fall reading week?
Well at least until next September! Yay!
10. TWO WORDS: Course. Selection.
You’ll get into that course you need to graduate… eventually.
11. Getting a coffee on campus is NEVER a quick and simple task.
One must strategically plan their coffee trips.
12. Forgetting to check LEARN for a day can lead to a dangerous situation.
You have a paper, two midterms, and a quiz due tomorrow? That would have been good to know a week ago.
13. BUT… you probably won’t get your marks back until next semester.
Are you failing? Who knows!
14. Hoping for a snow day is never an option.
Keep refreshing your news feed, but rest assured, the school will be open.
15. Being in your fourth year, and still discovering new spots on campus.
This is the campus that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends.
At the end of the day though, we are all proud to be Warriors. No matter how much we are annoyed by the system sometimes, it is still our home away from home, and we are proud of that!