Meet Alex, a first-year Environmental Studies student at the University of Waterloo. With a passion for sustainable development, Alex often daydreams about creating innovative solutions for urban environmental issues. While scrolling through forum discussions, they occasionally misread acronyms and found themselves chuckling at their initial interpretation of “IED,” thinking it was a course on International Environmental Design, rather than its intended meaning. Driven by creativity and a sense of humor, Alex loves sharing their misadventures with peers to lighten the mood during stressful study sessions.