Hello (and goodbye) UW! This will be my last IW update as President; I can’t believe how short sixteen months can feel!
This week we are holding our last event of the term, the End-Of-Term (EOT) Party, in POETS. It will be held between 6 and 8pm on Thursday, before the start of the long weekend. This will be the last chance to see the grads at an event before they move on to bigger and better things! The Tool will also be there for those of you who are ringed, and want to see it one last time before you graduate!
We also recently held our first ever General Meeting on B-Society, and four motions were ultimately passed. It was great to see lots of new faces and hear new voices in the meeting, and I hope that this will continue in the future! Minutes of the GM will be available on the Society’s website (engsoc.uwaterloo.ca) shortly.
Something else I’ve been working on closing out is the aftermath of the E7 Referendum. I’ve been meeting with the Dean and the faculty to discuss next steps, and the conversation has been extremely encouraging. The Dean is committed to creating the necessary space for students, and all the same space is being implemented for students to enjoy. As a consequence of the referendum failing, the Engineering Society will not receive naming rights for the study room, but we will still have space to run our shops, as well as casual social space and lots of room for students to learn with the implementation of seven new lecture halls! For more information on ways that you can show your support for the building and make a contribution, contact the Office of Advancement, or stay tuned for future fundraising campaigns!
I also just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for a great term as President. I really enjoyed meeting all of you and working with you, whether you were members, reps, directors, commissioners, colleagues from other student unions, from the faculty of engineering, from the university administration, from a neighboring EngSoc, or from the community. I’m really grateful that I had the privilege of being President this year, and I’ll be staying involved in my fourth year as well, so I hope to continue to work with all of you! I also want to give a special shout-out to my team, Melissa, Permeg, Sarah-Rose, and Mathieu, and our counterparts on A-Society, Leila, Kevin, Puneet, Josh, and Heather. Most of what was accomplished in the past 16 months would not have happened if it weren’t for the help of these wonderful people. I am very excited to pass the torch to Hannah Gautreau, my successor, and her team of executives, and I am excited to see what they will do in the coming year!
As always, if you have any questions, or have anything else you’d like to hear about or ask me, please don’t feel shy to send an email to president.b@engsoc.uwaterloo.ca before this term ends, or anytime during the co-op term, and either Hannah or I would be happy to chat! See you around, B-Soc!
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