thoughts

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:

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!

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.

If you implement these three tips, you will increase your chances of being accepted.

This is what I learned about studying and lifestyle during my first study term in Software Engineering at Waterloo!

Please read: this is not about relationships.