By: Vanessa Vanpopic | 4 min read
Vanessa Vanpopic (she/her) is in her fifth year of Honours Arts and Business majoring in Legal Studies. Completing five work terms in four different positions across three companies, Vanessa shares the value of diversifying your work experiences.
By: Janvi Tamakuwala | 2 min read
Janvi Tamakuwala (she/her), a fourth-year Health student, discusses her most recent co-op term as a pancreatic cancer medical research assistant at the Notta Lab under the University Health Network (UHN).
By: Cameron Stirrup | 8 min read
Yatharth Sejpal (he/him), a third-year Honours Psychology and Business student, guides us through his co-op journey, how to achieve the perfect interview and how putting in the time to go above and beyond has made his experience one of the greatest of his life.
By: Cameron Stirrup | 5 min read
Gillian Trasuk (she/her), is a fourth-year Honours Math student, specializing in business and minoring in computing. Her blog displays her shining business pedigree and how co-op was always on her Waterloo agenda.
by Kaitlin Trendel | 3 min read
I think we can agree that co-op is a wonderful opportunity that will provide you with life-changing experiences that can accelerate your growth and development.
However, I think most co-op students can also agree, finding a job is hard and doing so while juggling university is even harder.
By: Fatima Muni | 4 min read
Shraddha Gourishetty (she/her), a second-year Environment student studying in the Geomatics program, gives us a look into her very first co-op term working in social media and shares how this experience has changed her perspective on content creation.
By: Maya Ghion | 2 min read
My name is Maya (she/her) and I am a third-year Social Development Studies co-op student with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies. I have completed two work terms; I have worked for the University of Waterloo as an online learning assistant and at Renison University College as an academic programs assistant.
By: Shelby McManus | 3 min read
Hi there! My name is Shelby and I am a fourth-year co-op student in Health Studies. I am excited to share my experience working with the KW4 Ontario Health Team (OHT) and the useful skills I have gained along the way!
By: Fatima Muni | 4 min read
Sarah Odinotski (she/her), a fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering student, shares her co-op journey working in research at Waterloo. She discusses the importance of networking and tells us about a biosensor device that she created during her last co-op term. Through her hard work, Sarah is also the recipient of the 2021 Engineering Co-op Student of the Year Award!
By: Harshminder Sidhu | 2 min read
Harshminder Sidhu (she/her), a 3B Planning student, shares her co-op experience as a Waterloo Experience (WE) Accelerate student in the D2L stream.