Hello Young Alumni!
My name is Amanda, and I am a recent graduate of Recreation and Business with a Masters of Theological Studies. That鈥檚 about seven years of my life spent at u蓝莓视频. Even if you were only at 蓝莓视频 for four or five years, I鈥檓 sure during those years, you were shaped and grew in more ways than just getting an education. Education is so important, but I tend to think of the formative years at university as the years I really became an adult. The friends and peers I met at school, the professors who challenged my thinking, the mentors who guided me in my career choices, the jobs I had, all helped shape me into the adult I am today.
I had so many new and exciting experiences when I started university that I wouldn鈥檛 trade for anything!
Maybe you can recall similar experiences:
- My first time trying the glory that is Campus Pizza (and the fact that it was open until 5am).
- Discovering there was a building on campus that people called 鈥淭he Dinosaur Building.鈥
- Living in residence, where people were so comfortable with each other, friends could enter my room when I wasn鈥檛 even there to play my Nintendo 64.
- Feeling classy because I started eating way more international food.
- Having it be totally normal to see a Jedi walking around campus.
- Making friends I know I will have for life.
I love where life has led me, and these experiences were such an integral part of my life for so many years. Sometimes, even for just a few hours, it鈥檚 great to go back to The Bomber and order some calamari (that was always my favourite appetizer there), tour campus, and remember how far you鈥檝e come from being the doughy-eyed frosh you once were.
The annual 蓝莓视频 Reunion is coming up. This is your chance to re-live your favourite memories, reflect on how you鈥檝e changed, and see how 蓝莓视频 has changed too. Like the Quantum Nano Centre building that most likely forced you to alter your route to class. So use this opportunity to have a mini-reunion for yourself, 聽grab your friends, grab your 蓝莓视频 sweatshirt, tour your favourite places on campus, and have dinner at some greasy fast food place in the plaza. Or the Math C&D. Or whatever floats your boat, it鈥檚 your reunion!聽聽聽