In first year I remember…

• meeting Liz and Shawn at Bomber during frosh week
• having a crush on several frosh leaders; the wet events certainly didn’t help
• quickly finishing Stats homework with Shima, so that we can party down with the Konja kids
• admiring the hot and polite Japanese exchange students
• working on design projects with Shima, Liz, Shawn, and Jeff C in the V1 Great Hall
• receiving a 69 in ENVS 195 (Intro to Environmental Studies)
• cramming for my economics final with my roommate Chris three hours before the exam
• going to Fed Hall one too many times
• having "tofu chicken" at the REV cafeteria
• returning to my dorm room smelling "housemom fresh"
• having LAN parties with floormates, playing Warcraft and Counterstrike
• playing mahjong with floormates in the wee hours of the morning
• doing my laundry having forgotten to put detergent
• learning that Louie’s is a dirty place, but still continuing to go
• eating poorly and eating like mad, without getting fat
• falling in love with the sausage-egg muffin at Modern Languages
• performing a skit with Shima in PLAN101 tutorials; I was Oprah, and Shima was a sad personified city needing talk-show attention
• seeing my roommate embarrassingly smashed when he returned home from a night out
• learning to do the Figure 8 from Liz
• feeling eerie about the REV Great Hall upstairs
• walking Tiff T home from a night out at CLT, and realized how far she lived
• not sleeping because Chris would be up all night; ear plugs were not discovered until third year
• rolling my eyes each time I heard the word “sustainability,” because it’s a word used without much value
• waking up to puke on my face
• discovering that REV (the night club) is a tad overrated
• missing my family
• humping Paolo and Jeff M’s garbage can

In second year I remember…

• being depressed because I lived so far from campus
• being depressed that I didn’t receive many interviews
• being depressed that I didn’t get a planning job
• being introduced to coffee, and have not turned back since
• getting very mad when Paul, my roommate, would not clean the dishes
• riding my bike funny
• welcoming my newest hot roommate, Gary, who rented Jaime’s room for $200 a month
• doing the dreaded tree preservation project with Shima
• moving Gary’s car each morning, so that Jeff’s car could get out
• laughing when my housemates Tiff G and Jeff would wrestle for fun
• going to Spongey Lake, a bouncy regional aquifer
• deciding stupidly to take ECON 201 Intermediate Microeconomics, and did poorly
• checking out the hot construction worker guys who lived upstairs when my roommates subletted their rooms in the summer
• waking up at 5 am when the hot construction workers would stomp their heavy boots as they got ready for work
• our night out on Halloween at Fed Hall
• discovering that Morty’s had the best wings in my history of eating wings
• losing bitterly two crappy bikes
• almost killing Jaime’s hamster with my foot
• building a great model of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin with Shima, Norio and Laurence
• screaming at Laurence for his then poor work ethic
• Jaime almost causing a fire in the kitchen by blowing into a flamed popcorn bag
• procrastinating with Leo on the weekends
• discovering the joys of 105.3 KOOL FM
• gathering a group called "MeMe Planners," which stemmed from the fact that it was easy or “Mickey Mouse”)
• working on my portfolio last minute to show my work for an interview with Brutto; ended up being flustered during the interview
• being happy about being matched with a job at Queen’s Park
• becoming web editor at Imprint

In third year, I remember…

• being happy about living at Eby Hall in the Winter and Woolwich Court in the Fall
• having fabulous, quiet, and responsible roommates, Abhishek and Jacob
• preparing a marketing plan for a dog breath strip product called Pooch Smooch
• playing email tag at work with Tiffany, who worked at another ministry
• meeting some great coworkers at PIR, many of which I continue to hang out with
• writing countless briefing notes about transit and transit investment, many of which were revised to no recognition
• learning about Waterloo’s LRT plans and the Regional Growth Management Strategy
• admiring the hot prof who looks like Richard Gere, who solidified my understanding of watershed management
• going to “A Whole Lotta Gelato” with Shawn, Shima and Ram
• falling asleep in almost all of my classes, especially those held in the afternoon
• returning to work at Queen’s Park
• hallucinating when attempting to complete my Research Methods group assignment with Margaret in the wee hours
• Shima’s wine and cheese party
• admiring Tiff’s pastry-making skills
• learning to cook using the oven
• realizing how rarely I go out to have fun; but did frequent trips to Bomber
• listening in on all the complaints students would make in our Research Methods class
• getting frustrated about the linear programming tools in the MS Excel Analysis Toolpack
• tabbing almost all the sections of my Law notes for the midterm
• discovering the joys of Shandiz Persian food
• being introduced the Places to Grow and Greenbelt Acts, which was later discussed ad nauseum
• being matched with a job with the Toronto Transit Commission

In fourth year, I remember…

• going on an exchange to Oxford, obviously
• working at the TTC for eight months crunching numbers all day
• meeting awesome OMB groupmates, Noel and Maggie
• drooling on the bus daily en route to work
• spending too many hours with Shawn, my unlawfully-wedded husband
• having crazy social and messy roommates, which would later drive me insane
• Jaime hooking up with Dan at the Still
• spending tearful hours preparing for grad applications, scholarships, and retrieving reference letters
• feeling sad because the majority of the ‘cool’ people like Shima, Liz, Greg and Paolo are gone
• meeting Vanessa, the “Miracle Lab” girl, the lab that work miraculously gets done
• working at the MAD Helpdesk, the sweetest job in the world
• frequenting the Grad House, a fabulous coffee hangout
• jumping over the Bomber patio fence so that we could get in; they wouldn’t allow us to enter because it was past 1:30 am.
• being a teaching assistant for GIS, which was truly a great experience despite being time consuming
• listening to Shawn’s rants about the Professional Practice class and its instructor
• realizing that group work in urban design turns me right off
• being project manager for my OMB group, which was insanely stressful but incredibly satisfying
• admiring the power, money and sexiness that is Land Development Planning; made me want to become a bigshot developer
• discovering the studio is a great place to do work
• … the list of fourth year memories is still in progress