Each time I go lane swimming the lanes are full, if not near full.
The University of Victoria’s McKinnon Pool, which has been critical to my routine of swimming in between classes to manage and cope with the stresses of law school, is going to close.
I am not an Olympic athlete. I am a racialized and neurodivergent woman who is the first in my family to attend law school, and am figuring out ways to stay well while achieving completing my law degree. This fails to highlight two of the most important aspects of UVic’s pool – that students can use it with no additional charge other than the athletics fee built into their tuition, and that the pool is located right on campus, allowing students to swim between their classes.
It’s an old building with dim lights jammed with unrelaxed law student energy. I remember once when I was already feeling particularly lost and isolated, overhearing in a hallway, one white-presenting student say to another that they were just going to ask their lawyer mom for help on an assignment.
During my lunch hour, when others stayed in and around the law school for lunch, I walked the few minutes from the law building to the pool and had my swimming routine. What about the stuff you can’t measure with money, like the amount of students that were able to better complete their studies and experience more joy through being able to swim for free in between their classes?
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