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This is a continuation of my introduction to the Canadian university from which my daughter graduated two years ago.

UBC has over 44,000 undergraduate students and nearly 10,000 graduate students and has produced four prime ministers and seven Nobel laureates, including the current prime minister, Justin Trudeau. The campus is so large that many students have to ride bicycles to get from one building to the next, sometimes missing their next class when they are far apart. If you look at the foot of the campus, you will see salmon painted on the drains and maple leaves designed on the stairs. Above the picture of the salmon is Leads to Fish Habitat, and below it is Do not Pollute. Water entering this drain goes to the fish habitat. It means "Do not pollute. It is typical of Canada, which cares about the natural environment.

Since the school was founded in 1908, there is an old stone school building, and the interior is arranged in a modern style. The campus is lush and green, and the new buildings and old buildings blend well together. There are several dormitories, ranging from single rooms to four-person rooms. From the second year, students have to find their own rooms on or off campus. My daughter and her friends moved to a quadruple room with a view of the campus in her second year; a single room has a bed, desk, and closet, but a quadruple room has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a common living room, kitchen, and a large refrigerator. The single rooms have the same hangers that you hang on the doorknobs of hotels when you don't want to be disturbed by housekeeping, but here, as in a student room, it says "Studying in progress" under Please do not disturb.

Every school sells something with that school's logo on it, but my daughter liked it and bought this T-shirt. It says my daughter and money goes to UBC.