A fellow alumnus was in town recently, so it seemed a great opportunity to spend some of my soon-to-be-lost vacation hanging with a friend, seeing the old campus again and taking Zipcar’s MIN Convertible out for a spin!
The convertible is a lot of fun, by the way… if you can figure out how to operate it! Took us an hour of fiddling and being on the phone with Zipcar support, but it turns out there’s locking latches in the trunk that need to be set, or the computer refuses to take the top down (it will operate the sunroof only). In addition to locking the latches, the onboard computer only “re-detects” the latches if the sunroof is closed AND you restart the engine. Restarting the engine with the sunroof open doesn’t reset it.
There’s not much to say about Waterloo, it’s all about the pictures and resultant nostalgia really. For example…
The campus seemed smaller somehow… I’m pretty sure I was in better shape then than now, so perhaps it was the weight of the books or the sleep deprivation that made it seem larger. Interestingly, I seemed to remember most of the shortcuts and relative position of buildings – once I got within reasonable range anyway. Here and there, I spent a few moments reliving those halcyon days…
I did keep my photograhy class assignment in mind, so many shorts were taken with “interestingness” in mind, as you can see from my commentary in the description.
