Who enjoys long walks in the park, friendly picnics with all reusable containers and wading through streams in search of interesting objects? The Faculty of Environment, that’s who! This often overlooked faculty occupies the Environment buildings, surrounding themselves with living things: geese, plants, geese, river creatures and naturally, because this is the University of Waterloo, more geese! They aren’t hippies, just people concerned about the health of the planet.
Bio/ native habitat/ lifestyle: The environment is important to us all, especially to environment students. They chart it, draw it, and take samples of it. But hippies they are not. They realize that often times there are no differences between recycling and throwing things in to the trash. To maintain their links with the environment at all times Environment students surround themselves with wildlife, sometimes even in the form of fellow students. Although they maintain their links with the natural world (sometimes by building living walls), Enviro students often feel the need to return to the wilderness. No wonder we never see them!
How we interact; who doesn’t like bonfires and campfire songs? Enviro students are very relaxed students, being outside and surrounded by crisp fresh air makes environment students awesome, easygoing people. In the future we may work closely to environment grads in design projects, probably in environmentally-sensitive areas.
Common areas of interest; Landscaping anyone? Like most people at UW Enviro students are usually interested in their area of study. Although the Environment Faculty is not well represented in numbers they do get to explore the complexities of modeling for a variety of environmental situations. The biggest difference? Enviros take English! (Oh, the terror. Please no!)
Verdict: Enviros are like ninjas, they are around, but you never see them. They are definitely pretty cool though, a definite three green thumbs up!
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