My Top 5 in 5 Categories:
- Stories
- Photos
- Mementos
- Accomplishments
- People
My university days included a four year degree plus two years working in research at the University.
I really enjoyed recording the stories while walking my dog. I'm happy that the stories are recorded so that they are available if I want to write them out some day.
1. STORIES:
- Fed Hall Days (favourite campus dance bar)
- Meeting my future husband
- I'm a DJ! (campus radio station)
- Stats take-home exam I did without a computer because I went to Toronto to help my future husband who ended up in the hospital. I think I chose well to help him instead of maintaining a high mark.
- Technology (typing essays, renting VCRs, working at printing business, telephones, records)
2. PHOTOS:
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| First day in my residence room. Pretending to be on the phone calling home. So many memories in this photo. |
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| Couple of months into first term. Changed up the room by lifting my bed and shortening my hair. One of my favourite sweaters that my Mom knitted for me. |
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| 4th year: meeting my husband-to-be We weren't dating yet but chatting at Fed Hall. A friend of his came in between us for a photo taken by another friend who was taking photos for the Math Society I think. |
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| Walking back from the Molson Indy. I'm wearing the shirt I bought that day. I think I was a little cold by this time of day. I was probably wearing a black and white crop top and shorts. We decide to have a little fun on University Ave. Took a few photos with funny faces; artistic ones like me lying down on the grass and just my knees. |
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| I love this photo because it is the time where I loved my hair the most. I used to take it to hairdressers to try to replicate it, but I never did get it this great (in my eyes) |
3. MEMENTOS
- Olympic Petro Canada glasses
- CKMS cassettes (recording of my radio show)
- My top scoring test (Science of Aging) and essay from correspondence course I took during my summer in my hometown (Pollution from the Pulp and Paper Industry). The test is in long answer form so love seeing my writing. My daughter asked why I don't write as pretty as I did then. Perhaps I should improve my penmanship. The second was a typewritten essay and has all kinds of feedback from my professor. The memories of typing and making sure there were no mistakes are priceless.
- Sugarcubes CD and concert ticket (my first Toronto concert)
- Painted t-shirts from Queen Street West (I no longer have the t-shirts but have photos of them)
4. ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Overcoming first year challenges to graduate with a Bachelor of Science.
- Member of diving team and pushing myself to the limit of my fear.
- Weekly radio show on campus radio station
- Jobs during last (part-time) term: Microbiology teaching assistant, Manager of word processing business and tennis instructor
- After graduation research position in the Chemical Engineering Department which included co-authoring two scientific publications.
5. PEOPLE
- Future husband-to-be
- Roommates and Floormates
- Co-workers (hometown summer jobs)
- Friends (esp. J, C, K and R)
- Professors in my research position
I am also excited to have completed putting photos into my childhood to university days photo albums. I originally had one album that I expanded to three albums. I included certificates, report cards, ribbons, ID cards and other mementos with the photos.
I haven't journaled in the albums yet but having the photos and mementos preserved is really rewarding.
Mini-Project #3 will be about my Toronto Days from the time I moved from Waterloo to the time we had our first child.
