At University of Waterloo engineering.
I was just wondering what you guys thought about your first week of school (frosh week, no classes) as compared to the rest of your university experience.
In some ways I LOVE it here:
- NO PARENTS (my parents were not strict at all, but they still drove me crazy. it's nice to be alone. single room)
- been partying a lot -- dancing, drinking, fake gambling, cheering (we are, we are, we are the engineers...)
But in other ways I feel really SAD. I don't miss my home or my bed or my parents. I've only called my parents once since I got here, actually. But I miss my friends back home. You just can't replace twenty well developed friendships with twenty new acquiantances very quickly.
I do have some interesting observations, though. I'm beginning to realize that a lot of people back home liked me for what I did for them -- tutoring, computer work, driving them around, whatever -- or liked/admired me because they thought I was smart. Here, I don't have that foundation to play on. And really, how many times can you have the 'what faculty/residence/city are you from?' conversation?
Girls are fairly easy to meet, but so what? Unless you're going to ask them for their dorm phone number in the first few minutes or it's love at first sight, you'll never talk to them again unless they're on your floor or in your classes. And in that case you didn't have to go out of your way to meet them anyway.
Meeting girls while clubbing/dancing is silly because the 'players' dominate there and I'm looking for something completely different. I spent a few hours with a girl the other day but she didn't know what a mobius strip was and didn't find it interesting when I made one out of my cloth key necklace, didn't think monty python was funny and laughed at the thought that I might be looking forward to the math prep test. Anyway, you don't get that level of depth dancing. So I just dance to dance (and drink) but I don't really meet anyone.
So I'm sitting in my dorm right now while everyone else is out doing the last of the frost events. I know if I go it will just be another exhaustive round of meeting people that I will never see again, and I'm beat.
I'm really looking forward to classes. I think I'll just bury myself in the work. It seems like that's a requirement for Comp Eng anyway. And I'll enjoy it. I guess everything just isn't quite as I expected.
I was just wondering what you guys thought about your first week of school (frosh week, no classes) as compared to the rest of your university experience.
In some ways I LOVE it here:
- NO PARENTS (my parents were not strict at all, but they still drove me crazy. it's nice to be alone. single room)
- been partying a lot -- dancing, drinking, fake gambling, cheering (we are, we are, we are the engineers...)
But in other ways I feel really SAD. I don't miss my home or my bed or my parents. I've only called my parents once since I got here, actually. But I miss my friends back home. You just can't replace twenty well developed friendships with twenty new acquiantances very quickly.
I do have some interesting observations, though. I'm beginning to realize that a lot of people back home liked me for what I did for them -- tutoring, computer work, driving them around, whatever -- or liked/admired me because they thought I was smart. Here, I don't have that foundation to play on. And really, how many times can you have the 'what faculty/residence/city are you from?' conversation?
Girls are fairly easy to meet, but so what? Unless you're going to ask them for their dorm phone number in the first few minutes or it's love at first sight, you'll never talk to them again unless they're on your floor or in your classes. And in that case you didn't have to go out of your way to meet them anyway.
Meeting girls while clubbing/dancing is silly because the 'players' dominate there and I'm looking for something completely different. I spent a few hours with a girl the other day but she didn't know what a mobius strip was and didn't find it interesting when I made one out of my cloth key necklace, didn't think monty python was funny and laughed at the thought that I might be looking forward to the math prep test. Anyway, you don't get that level of depth dancing. So I just dance to dance (and drink) but I don't really meet anyone.
So I'm sitting in my dorm right now while everyone else is out doing the last of the frost events. I know if I go it will just be another exhaustive round of meeting people that I will never see again, and I'm beat.
I'm really looking forward to classes. I think I'll just bury myself in the work. It seems like that's a requirement for Comp Eng anyway. And I'll enjoy it. I guess everything just isn't quite as I expected.
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