ironically, of all the places my friend and i chose to explore while on a break from university, it was a university. uqo, aka université du québec en outaouais1.
okay yeah, the only reason we went there was because my friend wanted to use the washroom. valid.
it was cool to see though. here, i present to you tiny rocks on the sidewalk2.
it was kind of cool that everything was in french. the only english there was on the elkay water fountains.
as if we couldn’t get enough of universities, we went to carleton as well.
i’ll have to admit, walking through a library without the burden of course deadlines felt pretty weird. everyone else was studying because it was finals season. the macodrum library was nice and modern, though, so it was cool to see. definitely a nicer building than dana porter and davis center (sorry, waterloo).
we also went to see the campus tunnels. they were also different from waterloo’s tunnel system because every building is connected. i guess carleton students don’t have to deal with wearing a jacket yet still being cold and having to wear snowboots all day.
we also went inside the dunton tower, a 22-floor building. we tried looking for a window view, but when we got out of the elevator, it was just a hallway in a square loop. the classrooms/offices were either locked or had no windows. and, all the floors we got out on were pretty much the same.
i forgot why we chose to go there on a sunday, but we didn’t want to get back too late.
it just happened to be that we would either have to run to the next stop or wait like 30 minutes for the next bus. we ended up running3. i was completely winded. guess that’s more evidence that i need to work on my short-distance-but-fast stamina.
Footnotes
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i do not speak french, but i would like to learn some more languages some day. ↩
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okay, maybe this is technically not the inside of the university, but it was on the campus. ↩
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commuting by foot again. see wearing shorts in the arctic and the museum of winter 2026 ↩