All eyes are on Canada these days, particularly Vancouver, where the 2010 Winter Olympics are well underway. (Did you see the Opening Ceremonies? So cool.) In true Olympic spirit, I was pretty pumped to see Canada’s Alexandre Bilodeau win a gold medal in men’s moguls on his own turf, even though he did beat American skier Bryon Wilson.

I hear it’s pretty fun to go to college in Vancouver in general, but how awesome would it be to be a college student there now? If students don’t have the chance to break away from campus to go to any of the events, I’m sure there are tons of opportunities for on-campus viewing of the Olympics.

Let’s take a look at some of the colleges and universities in British Columbia where they are cheering on the “true North strong and free”:

• Emily Carr University of Art & Design
• Corpus Christi College
• Douglas College
• Drake Medox College
• University Canada West
• University of British Columbia
• Arbutus College
• Eton College
• Fairleigh Dickinson College—Vancouver
• Langara College
• La Salle College
• MTI Community College
• New Image College of Fine Arts
• Pacific Coast Community College
• Royal Canadian College
• Simon Fraser University
• Vancouver Academy of Music
• Vancouver Academy of Dramatic Arts

That’s just a short list. I haven’t touched all of the community colleges and career colleges that are part of Vancouver and the greater British Columbia area.

So it seems that American high school students aren’t the only ones with lots of choices when it comes to higher ed. However, when it comes to campuses with Olympic spirit, it seems that colleges in Vancouver have everywhere else beat—at least until the torch is extinguished.

–Barbara Bellesi