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January 14, 2005
University of Waterloo
I recently went on a tour of two Ontarian universities, which explains Oleg’s recent complaint to me about not having written much in a while. The conversation goes like this:
O: you know what Adrian, you haven’t been posting much lately
A: No, I have not.
O: slacking off
A: I was going to write something tonight [now] though.
O: I will cut your salary in half :(
I was at the University of Waterloo for the last weekend and in London (where the University of Western Ontario is) for Monday through Wednesday morning. First, my impressions of Waterloo.
To all of you from UW, I’m sorry. You have one of the most depressing university campuses that I have ever been to (bear in mind that I go to school in Ithaca, New York, which is a hellhole if there ever was one). It’s one thing to be like Cornell and have one industrial brutalist building on the university, but to have a campus full of them is just painful. Unfortunately (rather fortunately), I haven’t many pictures of Waterloo - two notables are the arts library and the math/computer science building.
Another strange phenomenon that I have noticed with respect to Waterloo is about the weather. While all I have is a semi-complete inductive proof to this phenomenon - perhaps we can say that all I have is the proof for n equals 1 - that the sky at Kitchener/Waterloo is always overcast and gray. I have been to the University of Waterloo thrice (including this excursion); each time, the sun was obscured by clouds. As for this trip, just look at the pictures. They are consistent with my observation.
I realize that the topic of my trip to Waterloo was not promised in my last entry, but heck, promises are made to be broken.
Posted by aSo at January 14, 2005 10:13 PM
Comments
your building at cornell isn't nearly as ugly as some of the ones at the university of calgary.
Posted by: jess at January 14, 2005 10:57 PM
I remember those two Waterloo buildings from my visit there. Funny how they both look like prisons.
Posted by: Tout at January 15, 2005 01:08 PM
Well....it was at least sunny when I was there. So your induction fails. However, you forgot to comment about the infestation of geese at Waterloo.
Posted by: Richard Peng at January 15, 2005 02:46 PM