They’re Back, Look out!

Well this last weekend marked the annual frosh move in rush. This year I didn’t have to work since I’m not really a ResNet office guy any more. As I outlined in a previous post I’m now the web guy here in our department.

It is always interesting to see all the first years and their parents. It seems that the parents are attempting to control their kids lives to a later stage and it seems like the kids are letting them. I’ve read an article or two that speaks to the same findings. Parents are calling up universities in droves trying to do all the work for their kids education that for certain the kid should be doing themselves. Also is it just me or do parents get angry really fast if things don’t go the way the want? “Do you know your sons student number?” “NO!, Why the F*** would I know that!” “We need it to bring up his information” “**grumble**, **swear**” (Under breath)”You son might know it if you let him talk.” Sigh. The last two years everything has gone so smoothly its scary. We have techs just sitting around waiting for something to do.

The return of fall means the return of the Parkour scene to Waterloo. It was also going in the summer but for some reason I was pretty lazy and didn’t get out much. This year we will have a whole new set of frosh joining us and learning, it should be a lot of fun. If your interested keep an eye on the forums on pkto in the Guelph/Waterloo section for meet times and locations.