As we pulled up the the UBC bus loop today, I looked to my left where for the past semester there has been a building going up. The base of the building was hidden by the usual portable construction fences. The sidewalk in front of the building lined with a protective tunnel. Today that is all gone. Not only that but there is a new Shoppers Drugmart in there. It is so amazing there is now a Shoppers on campus but that is another rant that I will not get into.
Have the fences and tunnels been gone for long? Did the Shoppers just open today? I have either bused or biked past it everyday this week but only noticed it this morning. Weird.
University campuses have this way of progressing…changing quickly. Yeah I guess that’s a good thing but the result is that as a student, you are constantly reminded that times are a changing and you are taking too long to finish your degree. Every semester there is a new phase of construction, younger looking students and a sea of new “back to school” clothing that you could only dream of buying because you’re at the point of debt accumulation where you cannot justify anything.
Everything before university was so painfully slow for me. Every year of elementary school and high school felt like a lifetime. Always that one late August day where the realization of summer’s end would sink in and I would get so depressed that it would be like I died. A grade would start and I would come back to school an awkward, inexperienced, newborn person. Clumsily skidding into the classroom; a brand new slippery baby.
That all changed in my first semester of university which still seems like yesterday. I feel like time is out of control. Maybe Shoppers will have a remedy for me.