I`ve lived here for close to 2 years now and this place is starting to feel more home than my home city. Studying for 3 study terms in a row in Waterloo plus going back to Toronto, at most once a month has really gotten to me. When I actually head back to Toronto, it's like "Oh my god! it's diversity!!". Come on, spending so much time in Waterloo, especially on campus all I see are students everyday, especially Asians. Once I step into the subway there are old people -people of different ages, black people aren't rare, and overall multicultural! Going back home seems more refreshing than familiar.
Right now, it's exam week and I manage to take a break after getting owned by another final. Many sleepless nights, a whole crapload of all nighters since I'm here in Loo. I average out to sleeping around 4am during a week day. Seriously I still have my high school mentality that I can still get things done last minute, and I'm in third year now! Maybe it really takes me to get kicked out of my program to really start working hard! I beg to God, that I able to stay but if I don't I know it's my fault. Once you're in Waterloo, you are smart, well atleast academically. However everyone gets downgraded a level or two. So if you're consider smart before you enter Waterloo, you are now average, or even below. Top student in the school? You're just slightly above average. Actually nevermind... everyone mainly gets downgraded or in rare chances upgraded to average once they enter Waterloo.
Okay back to exam week now, the typical DC-ing (DC = Davis Centre a.k.a Waterloo's social library) that everyone
does. The library has changed to be more quiet during exam week though. Gosh exam week is just so dull and boring. I notice I can hardly get work done alone or with people, I can only work when it's the day before. However I found my new study location EIT (aka Waterloo's dinosaur building, yep real dinosaur), there's no reception so you can stay disconnected from the world, while you study. How convenient.The other day I studied there from like 9pm - 4am. Yes
that's right, 4am. And even then I only worked the last 2hrs and somehow managed to A.D.D myself. I don't know, I always walk alone around Toronto at night all... walking through Waterloo campus can sometimes be a little eerie for me. It's just so quiet, you can hear the vents in the restaurants, buildings, everything's just so empty.But anywhoo... Nayema dropped by my house to head to Mels Diner at 5am. Yep, that's Waterloo -always have buddies that have the same messed up sleeping time as you do.
Walking down University was dead as ever, no cars. Maybe that's why I get a little creeped out here more than in Toronto, at least if I do get raped randomly in Toronto, someone would see.
As boring as my life sounds now in Exam week. Waterloo is actually not as bad and boring as I thought it would be (well in normal days, exam week inevitable). Although I have to admit it when I first got to Waterloo and living in a random dorm room with no one I know around, I was crying on the phone with my mom haha. I never lived independently before and this has made me learn to take care of myself, cook, clean, laundry etc and also managing time (still need to work on it).
Toronto is busy and exciting but Waterloo is more close knit. In Toronto, it's such a large city everything needs to be planned. Whenever you want to hang out with friends you need to make prior engagements make sure everyone's okay with the time, date, and location and you need to figure out what you're doing first. But in Waterloo things just happen spontaneously. I mean Nayema creeping up my house at 5am for food, is a good example of events just happen without needing to always think of what to do because things just happen. Everyone here are students, we all live closeby, not stretches away like in Toronto. And of course you can do whatever the hell you want without parental restrictions -things just feel so liberating here.
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