Looking across the cozy mess of my bachelor suite, I have taken some pictures to better illustrate where I will be living the next 8 months. I had already spent three days unpacking and sorting the many bags of junk I should never have dragged to Vancouver. At some point I would get bored from studying and clean, but right now my alternative is to curl up and let my eyes glaze over the temporarily free cable…too late already cut off.

How to Make the Most of Your University Experience
Steps:
1. Take elective courses that interest you and are outside of your major.

2. Play or watch varsity and intramural sports.

3. Go out to clubs and bars frequented by students.

4. Eat at the campus and town hot spots.

5. Read the books, magazines and papers that students talk about most.

6. Stay up late at night discussing controversial topics with friends.

7. Attend special lectures, panels, speeches, plays and/or concerts.

8. Ride a bike and walk around campus. A lot.

9. Listen, play, sing and/or dance to music often.

10. Study in a foreign country for a quarter or semester.

11. Join a student group that is passionate about something.

12. Protest something at least once.

13. Take wild spring break trips.

14. Go to professors' after-hours sessions to ask questions.


Tips:
Do a lot of everything, so long as it's legal and relatively safe.

GOING TO HAWAII


Here is Charlene Parrott and I after the National Triathlon Championship race giving Team Canada our info to confirm our spot for Hawaii. Sweet ass!! We both made the team and are off to Hawaii to compete against the top athletes in the world at the 2005 ITU Triathlon World Championships.