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Quick post to recap what I learned during my exchange experience!

I wanted to share five impactful learnings I was lucky to discover during my co-op at Shopify, one of the biggest tech companies in the world and one with a great engineering culture.

Fun fact: Ontario, Canada has over 330 provincial parks and more lakes than anywhere else on Earth: 20% of the world’s freshwater supply is stored in Ontario’s 250,000 lakes alone!

The University of Waterloo Debate Society had the incredible opportunity of competing at the Panama World Universities Debating Championship 2025.

Prologue # During the past weekend, I went to compete at the Léger Cup 2025.

I really enjoyed studying with some YouTube mixes this term.

I wanted to share a few lessons I learned during this co-op search that aren’t immediately obvious:

As a part of CS 348, Introduction to Database Management, we had the option to create a project using a database.

I spent the winter break in Vietnam competing at the World Universities Debating Championship 2024, and also filmed a vlog for it!

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Last weekend, The UW Debate Society went to McGill Canadian Central Novice Championship 2023 and had a great time!

Project-based learning is one of the most enjoyable and effective ways to learn new skills.

If you haven’t yet, make sure to read A Case for Digital Minimalism.

A while ago, I was reading The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, and came across this footnote.

While I was writing a Facebook post introducing my friend David as director of a debate tournament, I started thinking about the creative writing process and whether AI would be able to do it or not.