Laptops! Facebook! The beautiful new SUB space! Being a student sure has changed a lot. What part of your student experience would you happily trade in for a more modern student experience?
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Memorizing my student number, then using a ruler to figure out my bell curve score on a giant piece of paper full of numbers with scratched-across pen lines on the wall outside my professor's office.
- Verena Hoskins, '97 BEd
Google, the internet and a computer! I remember searching through rows and rows of card catalogues, falling asleep in the library because it was so quiet, wishing I could have a coffee to stay awake. Now everything is at your fingertips; you can do your research at home, with coffee when you want and in your pyjamas if you want!
- Tracy Innes, '94 BEd
A place to get coffee that wasn't a machine.
- Terry Donovan, '88 BA, '03 MLIS
Back in school now and loving the ease of online periodicals. In the 1990s, I spent hours in the stacks, narrowing down the ones to take home on overnight loan. Many a night on the LRT with a 50-pound-plus backpack.
- Elizabeth Gleason, '00 BA
Getting to university was a great chore. Three to four buses and we were jammed in like sardines. Several times I was inside the bus but my books were hanging outside of it. … And people complain about the LRT.
- Cosima Vicente, '75 BEd
The courage to take the courses I wanted, even if viewed as unnecessary by peers and family. Looking back, I should have just gone and taken them.
- Jennifer York, '97 BSc, '01 BCom, '14 MBA
I wish I would have had a deeper relationship with the river valley. It barely registered that it was a few steps away.
- Donna McKinnon, '87 BFA
I remember the lonnnnnnng lines! And buying all the texts at the bookstore and then trying to walk home with them.
- Janice Epp, '92 BScN