In the Life of a University Student
While I was taking a English Lit Class in Term One in the Fall. I got to really learn to appreciate many different forms of writing. With that being, I was learning a few different styles of poetry from many well known Poets from many different periods within the years. This Poet to me has to be one of the most strikingly gifted poets within history and is still today a very talented musician, of which recently performed here in Hamilton.
This is just such an amazing piece of music & art. Such a true master piece of poetry & the soulful Jazziness of Jazz!!! ♥
McMaster does Gangnam Style
McMaster rowing team practices on campus puddle
By Kaleigh Rogers, CBC News Posted: Feb 28, 2013 3:23 PM ET
Last Updated: Feb 28, 2013 4:58 PM ET
"When life gives you a lake, you row it."
That was the motto several McMaster University rowing students were sharing Thursday when the team held an impromptu practice on a giant puddle in the middle of campus.
Rather than serious drills, the demonstration was intended more to attract new recruits to the team. Including all novice rowers, the team currently has 87 members, but is always on the lookout for fresh talent, according to coach Aubrey Oldham.
"It's been successful so far. A few people have asked us about the team. We're always looking for new recruits and it's just something fun for the guys and the girls," he said.
About a dozen of the team members showed up in uniform for the demonstration, where they raced around on the foot-deep water and even allowed some first-timers to try their hand at rowing.
Rower Kyle Conahan, a second-year kinesiology student (seen in the video above), said rowing on the flooded field was a unique experience.
"I've never done anything like this before. I've rowed on rivers and lakes, but nothing in the middle of a university campus," he said. "[With] all the slush and ice in there right now it felt like rowing the Titanic."
Oldham got the idea after watching a video of a group of McMaster engineering students who hit the water — now dubbed "Lake McMaster" — in a canoe Wednesday afternoon.
The area floods for a few days every year after a heavy rain or melt, according to Steven Toniolo, one of the canoeists.
"The flooding is because there's a really big drop in terrain and a lot of pooling goes on there," the third-year chemical and bioengineering student explained.
He and his friends, Yassin Strinic, Ross Willett and Corey Bastarache, have wanted to canoe "Lake McMaster" since they discovered a photo hanging in the engineering building that showed students in the late '70s hitting the flooded field in a canoe. When they saw conditions were right on Wednesday, they borrowed the canoe from Bastarache's aunt and portaged it from her house in Westdale to campus.
"She said, 'you can borrow it, just don't break it,'" Bastarache told CBC Hamilton, adding the group didn't totally explain to her what they intended to do.
The boys ferried several people across the flood plain to get to class and became somewhat of a spectacle on campus as students paused to snap photos and take videos, like the YouTube clip, which had about 60,000 views Thursday afternoon.
"We thought it would just be us and maybe some of our friends would notice; it was just something to cross off of the bucket list," Toniolo said.
"But it made a lot of people's day. A lot of people are talking about it. It's been kind of humbling."
Lake McMaster — at McMaster University.
Transporting students across Lake McMaster!!! — at McMaster University.
And then, finally making it all the way into The Hamilton Spectator!!!
Lake McMaster — at McMaster University.
McMaster Showcasing the amazing Marauders School Spirit of University Life
A McMaster Student being a serious meditative Guru. This method would be extremely effective when it comes to mid-term papers & exams. And of course with all those course finals & major term papers!!!
Just been noticing lately that Mcmaster is definitely getting into the Marauder life of the University Spirit!!!
McMaster has definitely been getting into the Marauder Spirit, with Lake McMaster's social events of practising they're rowing and recruiting new rowers, surfing done right & at its finest, and not but least transporting students across campus so that they could make it to classes on time!!!
And of course, Terry from the Tim Horton's in the Student Center where she was doing her amazing Roll-up-the-Rim Winners dance & song for all those winners of a free coffee. She still continues to be in the spirited mood weeks after the video, of which was captured & put up on YouTube, and widely broadcasted like wild fire across the social-media networks of Facebook, Twitter, and of course landed in a few broadcasted sources of that being from The Hamilton Spectator, CHCH News, Channel 14 News, Much Music and it reached all the way out to New York City on MTV. And apparently someone posted this on the Tim Horton's Fan Page:
