on Thursday, Jonathan and i cycled to the MUA campus to check it out. i have a super cool odometer thingy on my bike. it told me that the trip from my front door is almost exactly 4 km and took us 17 minutes.
what the wee computer didn’t say is that we were cycling into strong wind and up a shallow grade almost the entire time. i was pooped. and the ride home was obviously an easy coast.
i’m going to need a lot of coffee for that commute first thing in the morning… !
Hi Jen
One of my former grad school colleagues has been hired by the U of S College of Medicine as an instructional designer. Her medical education blog might be of interest to you: http://blogs.usask.ca/medical_education/archive/2007/05/teaching_about.html
Good luck when school starts!
haha! the university campus here sounds like a similar bike-ride – mostly uphill, into the wind, and even at only 15 minutes, it feels never-ending first-thing in the morning! BUT I find myself more alert in classes, and tapping my toes all day in anticipation of the mostly downhill (albeit kind of cold, damp, and foggy) ride home that somehow only takes 10 minutes…
you’ll be biking circles around the island in no time :)
i used to bike to university, only i had to battle the snow and ice ;-) ahhhh, it does sound so wonderful … xox
[...] i struggled with every single one of these issues way back in September when i first arrived. in fact, the initial “oh let’s see how far it is” trip that Jonathan and i took on our bikes from my house to campus really really really really really sucked. it only took about 20 minutes, but felt like FOREVER. i was hot. and slow. and sweating like a maniac. and disappointed. this super cheap good plan of mine to save on transportation cost might not actually work out after all. [...]