Congratulations to Michelle on winning the Nikon D3000 Camera!It is so hard to condense four years worth of memories into a categorization of "best" memory. I have had such a wide variety of experiences that my true Queen's "experience" is really the accumulation of four years: at the Writing Centre, in the Biology DSC, as a Campus Tour Guide, volunteering, essay writing, Queen's Pub, birthdays, Herstmonceux Castle, scrabble, long cafeteria meals and getting to know my professors.
I am completing a degree in Biology, with a minor in English literature, so I am always trying to find ways to blend art and science together. I will use my new camera to try and produce a photo journal of my final days here - I will try and do portraits of my friends and professors and see how it turns out.
Kingston has been a great city to live in–the restaurants, the water, the people. I would have to say that the movie theaters downtown, especially the Screening Room, have been one of my favourite parts. I love to watch movies, and these theatres do a great job showing less well-known films and encouraging students to go. I am sad to leave Kingston and Queen's, but I have to believe that I did the most I could with my time here.
Like for most graduates, my last weeks here have become heavily nostalgic. So when I think of good advice, I always come back to that scene in Dead Poet's Society where Robin Williams utters carpe diem to his students, saying, "make your lives extraordinary". There could be worse words to live by.
