Everyone knows that Waterloo students aren't all there. In Waterloo, that is. Or even in Canada, for that matter. A third of the university is away on co-op at any given moment, and some students choose to work abroad. Spending a work term down in California, in particular, is a blast.
Silicon Valley is a popular destination for computer students.
The valley stretches from San Francisco down to San Jose, a 60 mile urban stretch made up of various towns such as San Mateo, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and Los Altos. Yeah, there's a lot of computer companies here. If you look at the addresses of a random selection of computer companies, chances are it'll be in one of the towns just mentioned. But the computer scene's not the only one happening down here. Northern California is just a cool place to be.