It was Homecoming Weekend at McMaster, my roommate Stam from our university days and I went down for the football game between McMaster and Guelph. It has been awhile since Stam had been on campus, the last time might have been when Susan and I got married and we did our photos on campus. A lot has changed since then. The rain held off and Stam, Angela, Gillian and I stayed until the end. Mac won 27-15 and are now ranked 8th in the CIS rankings.

Afterwards we headed over to Matthews Hall, our residence for the first two years, it had been 30 years since we lived there, of course it has changed just as much as the campus has. Angela had one of her friends get us into the residence, and Stam and I gave Angela and Gillian a quick recap of some of our shenanigans. The concrete room in the basement that we use to play cave hockey in, is now a study room, with windows to the hallway and carpeting and lots of lighting. This is the bottom of the stairwell in Matthews, they have even repaired the floor since the first time we came with Gillian for a residence tour in grade 12.

During our time Matthews was divided into five houses, we lived in North House, today it is now referred to Matthews North. Of the other four houses the only other one that remains is Centre, the other three no longer exist. Stam only has four more years before his daughter will be heading off to college or university, who knows maybe she’ll end up at her parents alma mater.