Water water water
Aptly named, this is the only major street on Waterloo campus.
Ring Road
This frontier AI model is available primarily through Project Glasswing, an initiative to fix critical security vulnerabilities in open-source software.
Mythos
This friendly cartographer hums cheerily when approached in Hollow Knight.
Cornifer
Despite the name, no rodents are harmed in making this flattened fried-dough staple of a Canadian winter.
Beavertail
In 2026, this prediction market became an official partner of Madison Square Garden, even getting the arena’s sixth-floor concourse renamed after it.
Kalshi
These two student housing residences at Waterloo are technically not on the main campus.
UWP and CLV
Angela has been a Hyatt Globalist for 2 years and running. How many nights are required to qualify for this status per year?
60
This void-possessed enemy is the final boss of Act 3 in Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Lost lace
For generations of Ottawa students, a sufficiently cold January could turn this UNESCO World Heritage Site into part skating rink, part commute.
Rideau canal
If a stock’s highest buyer is at $99.95 and its lowest seller is at $100.05, this 10-cent difference has this name.
Bid-ask spread
A favorite of Angela’s, this seafood spot is actually located closer to Laurier campus than Waterloo.
The Poke Box
This frequent flyer program features over 50 partner airlines, more than any other in the world.
Aeroplan
In Hearthstone, drawing from an empty deck inflicts continuously increasing damage. It takes this number of consecutive fatigue draws to kill a player from full health (30).
Eight
Once billed as the ‘longest street in the world’ by counting its connection to Highway 11, this Toronto thoroughfare begins near Lake Ontario and runs north through the city.
Yonge St
A sportsbook lists both sides of an evenly matched game at -110 rather than +100; this built-in edge is commonly known by this three-letter nickname.
Vig
Stimulating topics such as multi-threading, paging, and SSDs are core components of this upper year engineering course.
SE350 / Operating systems
Calling all programming nerds! In C++, this kind of T&& parameter can bind to both lvalues and rvalues, enabling perfect forwarding.
Universal refs
T1, formerly SKT T1, is widely regarded as the winningest team in League of Legends, with this number of World Championship victories.
Six
Ontario’s 13% HST is made up of these two percentage-point components: one federal and one provincial.
8% provincial, 5% federal
This controversial practice, central to the Robinhood business model, involves a market maker compensating a broker for routing customers’ trades to it.
PFOF
Located on the west side, this building frequently houses introductory chemistry, biology, and statistics courses, as well as the campus’ only Starbucks.
STC
Created in 1959, this programming language still handles an estimated 95% of ATM transactions and 43% of US banking systems.
COBOL
In Undertale, this skeletal pair of brothers—one an aspiring Royal Guard, the other a joke-cracking slacker—are each named after the typeface used for their dialogue.
Sans and Papyrus
A promise and commitment to quality, this French slogan is prominently featured in the traditional oval Tim Hortons logo.
Toujours frais
In options markets, this Greek is the rate at which delta changes with respect to the underlying price—and is why a market maker’s hedging can itself amplify price moves.
Gamma