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There are decisions that won’t change your life in the long run but will feel good and agentic, and for that reason alone you should do it. I think youth so far is just about running experiments, one after the other, learning from it and being diligent in the repetition of that pursuit. In the fall of 2023, I was supposed to do 4 in-person courses in Waterloo. After 8 months of coop work, I was doing three back-to-back school terms and didn’t want to be in waterloo anymore. I wanted to go on exchange but thought I didn’t have the grades for it (turns out they were happy to make me an exception.) I badly wanted to live in Montreal and so I did. The logistics I took my four courses from Montreal and commuted to Waterloo for exams. I’ve always taken great pleasure in the academic experience - going to class, asking questions, late night labs on campus. Thankfully that term, I had no in-person labs and all the materials were recorded from the pandemic. I did my lectures from little cafes i

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• Mathurah Ravigulan
• Matthew Wang
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