If you’re in ECE, here’s your plan for Reading Week. Study! While everyone else is enjoying their week off, their week to go somewhere warm, ski, do nothing, visit home, whatever else people want to do for their one week of freedom; you get to study. Our department has come to this quite astounding conclusion that we should actually READ on Reading Week. I mean…READ? Why ever would we do that? Oh yes…because of that wonderful thing known as hell week. Those five midterms in five days. So, enjoy your break and see you in hell.
Amanda LeDuc:
The best thing to do on reading week is to get way the heck away from this cold land we call Canada. My sister and I have taken this idea to heart and are heading to Florida for reading week. Reading on a beach is much more enjoyable than reading on a snow bank. Also, a week in the sun will raise those vitamin D levels and get you all re-vitalized for midterms. A week in the sun will also cause a tan, which in my case means my pasty skin will finally be the same colour as everybody who didn’t see the sun, or I’ll come back the same colour as a tomato. Either way, a warm reading week sure sounds awesome to me.
Roy Lee:
What do to over reading week? Go home hang out with old friends from high school or something. Reconnecting with past friends is quite a shocker sometimes; it is like opening a time capsule. By doing this you will probably find how much you’ve grown in the last few years or even how much you haven’t grown. Then, depending on who you are or who you were, you might be very disappointed in the choices you have made and will set out to make amends where you can, or you will be extremely happy with what you have made of yourself. Either way you will probably be more attuned to what you want and where you are going with your life.
Michelle Croal
Between co-op and midterms, I’ve had only one reading week here at Waterloo and I spent it in Fulcrum Lab in E2. Late last year, there were talks of going to Mexico or Finland, but in the end I think I’ll just be splitting my time between home and Waterloo. Before heading off to Chemical Valley last summer, I grabbed copies of every issue of The Iron Warrior that I had written articles in (a decent sized stack), with the intention of putting together a scrapbook. Anyway I never got around to it, but with all my decorative paper supplies at home I think I’ll finally make it happen. I also got a book on scrap fabric dolls – think teddy bears out of socks type of thing – so I’ll get the sewing machine out and be creative!
Kate Heymans
Go visit your friend’s home…. Yes, you know that friend who’s been offering you invitations to his/her(it’s) house since you were a frosh? Well now you finally have time to go visit them. Best of all they’ve got a nice home that’s not too far from Waterloo and offers all the wonderful benefits that we live without on a daily basis; heat, food and water. So accept their invitation and discover a new charming little town or a nice big city. For those of us that like shopping it allows new findings to be made or if you prefer other activities cough*drinking*cough , you might just find a new favourite hideout for your hobbies.
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