Describe the ISC Experience in 3 Words or Less:
-   This life rocks!
-   Fun, crazy, challenging
-   Middle of Nowhere
-   Castle, travel, badfood
-   Purple Monkey Dishwasher
-   Experience, Opportunity, Curiosity
-   Crazy mad fun!
-   Live to travel
-   Eat.  Sleep.  Procrastinate.
-   Fantastic!
-   Utterly Incredible
-   Bitchin'
-   Coach bus
-   Where's the alcohol?!
-   Surrealistically inapprehensible
-   Fun, amazing, beautiful
-   Europe Rocks!
-   High School but University
-   Drunk.  Tired.  Badgers.
-   Passed too Quickly
-   Very different atmosphere
-   Friends who complete.
-   Who I am.
-   Inexplicable to anyone not here... it's more than three words.

Living with a rommate means...

-   widening musical tastes.
-   sleeping with the light on.
-   hearing about how you talk/scream in your sleep.
-   justifiable homicide.  I know what I'D do for a single room!
-   talkng on MSN with someone 3 ft away.
-   living, loving, hating, growing together.
-   suppressing my neat freak tendencies.
-   not being afraid of the ghosts at night!
-   HELL!! And messy rooms.  And no sleep.
-   staying awake until 4am while she slams on her keyboard.
-   agreeing to live in a sauna.
-   always having someone around who knows you far too well.
-   being at a sleepover every night of the week!
-   expected the unexpected.
-   accepting others.
-   learning more about yourself.

Would you consider your time at the ISC a success?
-   I learned about humanity, me, Europe and the world!
-   Yes!  I made fantastic friends and saw the UK on my own terms.
-   I have never felt more proud to be a Canadian.
-   It presented me with many challenges and I feel richer for them.
-   Yes, I met my hetero-life mate.  (My roommate)
-   Indefinately.  Not any one of my friends at home have had anywhere near the experiences I've had. 
-   I met alot of great people.  I feel like I have expanded my realm knowledge... like who   knew you could make so many things with hot water and a mircowave?
-   I doubt I will ever meet another group of people who mean so much to me.  This year has been a life changing one and I will never forget a moment.
-   I wouldn't pass it up for the world and that's what I got here.

Advice to Future ISCers:

-   Travel.  Always.  Bring money.
-   Go to the Pub.  Rich gets lonely.
-   Stay away from the Brown Sauce.
-   Bring air freshener.  Does anyone else's room stink all the time?
-   NEVER skip History or Politics... they know who you are and where you sleep.
-   Organise your time.  Sleep is a must.
-   Bring lots of underwear - it means you have to do laundry less.  Socks too!
-   The walk from Bader to the castle is not as short as advertised. 
-   Enjoy EVERY moment you have here.
-   Keep your tupperware locked up!

What would you do differently?
-   I'd be rich when I got here.
-   Travel more, worry about school less.
-   I would make intricate and ingenious plans for a coup d'etat... take that you believers in democracy.
-   My homework.
-   Actualy study for a change.. and watch Alias instead of the OC.
-   Nothing - no regrets. 
-   Try it again with another group of close friends.
-   Appreciate the experience more in the first term.
-   Get more involved in the community.
-   Go to more events.
-   Worry less about what's going on at home.
-   Take more chances.

What won't you miss?
-   Living between a cow field and a sheep field, aka the boonies.
-   The food.  THE FOOD!  The deep fried vegetables, left over lunch and dinner... and breakfast
-   The muddy paths.
-   Waking up for 8:30AM drama class.
-   The fire alarms.
-   The B1 boys washroom.  Enough said! And the awful stench of D1 and D2.
-   A 15 minute taxi ride costing 25 dollars!
-   Drunken people up and down the hallways at all hours of the night.
-   Rainy, windy, grey weather.

What did you do when Bader got Boring?
-   Many hours of watching Gilmore Girls and the OC - and I did occasionally enjoy drinking too.
-   www.addictinggames.com
-   I think we wore out the Scrabble board.  And have you READ Student Chat lately?
-   Kicking eachother down the halls is always fun, and random nudity.  Can't forget random nudity.
-   Midnight hackey sack in the parking lot.  Seeing howmuch you could creep out your roommate.
-   D3 was always a great hallway to procrastinate in.
-   The Art Room!
-   Finding out what Johnny P is up too is always enjoyable.

What will you miss most about the ISC?
-   Mostly the travelling, and the sheep.
-   Everything about it.
-   4 day weeks.
-   Waking up to the sound of cows.
-   Being able to say, "Well, I think I'll head back to the castle now."
-   Arthur and Johnny P
-   That weird sauce they drove all of their food in the dining hall.
-   Going next door and seeing your friends.
-   Being able to say, "Going to <instert amazing country here> see you on Monday!"
-   The chemistry/friendship between students and staf, and the faculty too.  Oh, and the cinnamon sugar.
-   Late night hours discussing EVERYTHING with EVERYONE.
-   A place where everyone knows your name.
-   The most AMAZING people that I met there.
-   Impromptu hall parties.
-   Field Studies.
-   Late night walks home from the pub.
-   Karaoke.
-   Running into familar faces in the streets of London and Paris.
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