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Wednesday, September 3
u of m 1:17 PMToday I breathed out mist, for the first time in my life! The winds are getting chillier and sometimes the cold's rather unbearable. Did I mention that I wore my long john top last night (when it's not even winter yet)!? Anyway, I think I should do more winter training in these 2-3 weeks. Brr.
Today's not bad cos we finally settled our admin stuff for school. Some things at U of M are really inefficient cos students keep getting directed from one office to another and things get messy. Most students also pay their fees in person, so almost everyone has to queue up at a puny office just to pay! It doesn't really make sense for us I guess, but we had to do the same anyway. Fortunately the queue thereafter for making our student ID card was quite empty by then, so it was done pretty fast.
Anyway, I mentioned it's orientation for freshies so school's getting rowdy and noisy as they cheer, shout and march around school. It's very different from what we have in SMU, we don't see them playing games or having camps, but yea.. it's quite interesting watching what they do, especially when U of M has a rather huge mix of students from all over the world (many Chinese nationals here too). Student groups also set up recruitment booths and we visited some of them (cos some had free food and coupons and we were abit lost anyway, so we went to say hi), haha.
SMU vs U of M?
Some things we saw at U of M, which are rather cool:
1) The Manitoban - is The University of Manitoba Students' Newspaper. It covers issues both big and small, articles are very much varied and pertain not only to the school, but to students in general, young adults and Canadians. It is really different from and more informational than BLURT and others.
2) The U of M Bookstore - is very big. selling all kinds of fiction, non-fiction, stationery and textbooks. They have a cool service here, where students enter their student ID number and the system looks up your enrolled courses and generates your booklist straightaway (books are fixed for every course regardless of Prof). So you don't wait till 1st lesson to know what book you require! But anyway, textbooks are super ex here, like CAD 120 per book. I'll photocopy.
3) The Student ID Card - is so much nicer than what we have, prolly cos it's more colourful. It even has my signature imprinted on it!
Wah! I only took 1 time and it turns out much nicer than the 2 SMU cards that I've ever made! ROAR.
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