International Peer Community

When you join the International Peer Community you'll be connected to other international students and have upper-year volunteers supporting you. They can help you navigate questions like course selection, how to make an appointment with Health Services and so much more.

During the online winter term, you can stay home and stay connected. Events will be scheduled each week and include:

• Coffee Chats
• Art Attack
• Pop Culture 
• Games
• Food Friday
• Speed Friending
• IPC Pop-Up Events

Registration for the winter term program is now open. Apply and join our Facebook group to stay connected and learn more. 

All international students including undergraduate, graduate, and exchange students are welcome to apply. 

International students may identify as:

• study permit holders,
• having attended high school internationally,
• being new to Canadian culture, or
• developing their English language skills.

“Being a student is difficult and being an international student has its own challenges. These challenges mainly involve language and culture differences, but IPC is a perfect opportunity - an invisible hand of guidance that helped me transition to this new culture. It also provided me the avenue to make amazing and long lasting friends during the initial period. All in all, if you are an international student, IPC is the place to start off.” - Muhammad, winter 2019 participant, Engineering student from Pakistan

 

"You'll find some of your very first friends in Canada in this community. Moreover, the Community Leaders and Group Facilitators will be more than happy to help your transition by arranging some fun activities, providing tips about the university, student life, etc. This community was very significant during my transition period (i.e. first campus term) and I'm grateful to be the part of it!" - Rafael, fall 2018 participant, Engineering student from Indonesia 

Please email ise@uwaterloo.ca with any questions or concerns.