It's hard to believe that exactly one week from today, all 48 of us at MUN will be leaving and returning to homes thousands of kilometres away from each other. This last week, we could really feel friendships being cemented and memories, the kind that you can always reminisce about, being formed.
So I guess it's a good thing that every day at Shad feels like a week. With the due date of the business plans for our projects looming in the near future, these few days have been even more exhausting than all the others. The program director must have realized that, seeing as we have been allotted time to "sleep-in" tomorrow.
Even so, lectures (on mining and swarm intelligence) and seminars (statistical misconceptions) continued as usual. We found time for other activities as well, such as creating an epic hopscotch the likes of which have never been seen before. At night, the program assistants surprised us by letting us watch the Princess Bride when they had said we were going to a lecture.
We have one week left - let's make it the best one of all!
Sophia Wen, Shad Valley Memorial University of Newfoundland
Hometown: Richmond Hill, ON
