Mini-Project #2: University Days

My main goal for each mini project is to complete what I call: 5Top5.

My Top 5 in 5 Categories:

1. Stories
2. Photos
3. Mementos
4. Accomplishments
5. 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:

1. Fed Hall Days (favourite campus dance bar)
2. Meeting my future husband
3. I'm a DJ! (campus radio station)
4. 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. 
5. Technology (typing essays, renting VCRs, working at printing business, telephones, records)

2. PHOTOS:

First day in my residence room.
Pretending to be on the phone calling home.
So many memories in this photo.

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.

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.

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.

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

1. Olympic Petro Canada glasses
2. CKMS cassettes (recording of my radio show)
3. 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.
4. Sugarcubes CD and concert ticket (my first Toronto concert)
5. Painted t-shirts from Queen Street West (I no longer have the t-shirts but have photos of them)

4. ACCOMPLISHMENTS

1. Overcoming first year challenges to graduate with a Bachelor of Science.
2. Member of diving team and pushing myself to the limit of my fear.
3. Weekly radio show on campus radio station
4. Jobs during last (part-time) term: Microbiology teaching assistant, Manager of word processing business and tennis instructor
5. After graduation research position in the Chemical Engineering Department which included co-authoring two scientific publications.

5. PEOPLE

1. Future husband-to-be 
2. Roommates and Floormates
3. Co-workers (hometown summer jobs)
4. Friends (esp. J, C, K and R)
5. 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.