Queen's University
Nov. 9th, 2008 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bitchy_merlinSo, yesterday we went to Queen's University.
OMG, I am going to kill the person who invented 5:30 in the morning. >.<
But anyway, we got there at 9:30 and due to my ineptness, found out that the tour didn't start till 12:00. Cue parental meltdowns and me running off to cower near the Tim Horton's.
Having nothing else to do, we sat in on a presentation about Big Decisions (yes, that was the title). The speakers (2 upper-year students and an alumnus) were incredibly good orators. One girl - Alex - was a third year Linguistics major, which was coll, cause that's one of the programs I'm thinking of applying for. (Though I'd honestly never heard of it until Carleton U sent me a package on it in the mail.) I really wanted to ask her questions about her courses etc., but by then it was 11:50 and we had to rush to another room for our tour.
The Queen's campus is massive! ...well, ok, it's a university, duh the campuses will be huge. But still. And our tour guide had a very authoritative voice; I felt like she was narrating my life at me. "AND THEN WE GO OVER HERE-!" A phrase here meaning "this is your life BECAUSE I SAID SO". But we got to witness a meeting of the Urban Snowboarding Team (yes, you read that right). They imported snow from god knows where and spread it out on a small hill and stuck a rail on it, and went boarding. Ridiculous and wicked awesome at the same time (as such things often are). I was envious of their skills, as it has been proved that the only rails I can do are the one-inch-high ones, and even those cause problems.
The one res we toured was nice (actually luxuriously so). There were individual sinks in each of the rooms, and communal kitchenettes located... somewhere in the building.
I don't know, though. I mean, sure Queen's has the outstanding reputation and everything... but they carry on forever abour their school spirit and I was kind of expecting something to come of that. Nothing really happened. Personally, I think Guelph had a much more welcoming atmosphere (and not just because of the dancing).
Overall, Queen's is very fixated on academic excellence (which I understand), and possibly binge-drinking (which I frankly don't understand why. 12-6 every Friday afternoon, engineering students? Really?)
Also, all through the day I kept my eyes open for S., hoping to see her (since I haven't since June). No such luck, though. Until we were on our way home and my phone decided to work again (jerk-ass piece of technology) and informed me that I'd gotten a text message at 12:00 from her saying we should meet up after the tour. Talk about shitty timing.
So far: Guelph>Queen's, although Guelph has no Linguistics program, AFAIK.
Up next: U. of Western Ontario.
OMG, I am going to kill the person who invented 5:30 in the morning. >.<
But anyway, we got there at 9:30 and due to my ineptness, found out that the tour didn't start till 12:00. Cue parental meltdowns and me running off to cower near the Tim Horton's.
Having nothing else to do, we sat in on a presentation about Big Decisions (yes, that was the title). The speakers (2 upper-year students and an alumnus) were incredibly good orators. One girl - Alex - was a third year Linguistics major, which was coll, cause that's one of the programs I'm thinking of applying for. (Though I'd honestly never heard of it until Carleton U sent me a package on it in the mail.) I really wanted to ask her questions about her courses etc., but by then it was 11:50 and we had to rush to another room for our tour.
The Queen's campus is massive! ...well, ok, it's a university, duh the campuses will be huge. But still. And our tour guide had a very authoritative voice; I felt like she was narrating my life at me. "AND THEN WE GO OVER HERE-!" A phrase here meaning "this is your life BECAUSE I SAID SO". But we got to witness a meeting of the Urban Snowboarding Team (yes, you read that right). They imported snow from god knows where and spread it out on a small hill and stuck a rail on it, and went boarding. Ridiculous and wicked awesome at the same time (as such things often are). I was envious of their skills, as it has been proved that the only rails I can do are the one-inch-high ones, and even those cause problems.
The one res we toured was nice (actually luxuriously so). There were individual sinks in each of the rooms, and communal kitchenettes located... somewhere in the building.
I don't know, though. I mean, sure Queen's has the outstanding reputation and everything... but they carry on forever abour their school spirit and I was kind of expecting something to come of that. Nothing really happened. Personally, I think Guelph had a much more welcoming atmosphere (and not just because of the dancing).
Overall, Queen's is very fixated on academic excellence (which I understand), and possibly binge-drinking (which I frankly don't understand why. 12-6 every Friday afternoon, engineering students? Really?)
Also, all through the day I kept my eyes open for S., hoping to see her (since I haven't since June). No such luck, though. Until we were on our way home and my phone decided to work again (jerk-ass piece of technology) and informed me that I'd gotten a text message at 12:00 from her saying we should meet up after the tour. Talk about shitty timing.
So far: Guelph>Queen's, although Guelph has no Linguistics program, AFAIK.
Up next: U. of Western Ontario.
