University of Waterloo Student ID

University of Waterloo Student IDrefers to a photo of two college student IDs belonging to University of Waterloo engineering undergraduate Arman Alam showing that he is smiling in his first year and looking withered in his second year. The side-by-side comparison, which alluded to his struggles in college, went viral online in the early 2020s. It became amemetemplate used by others to represent a transition that leaves someone jaded. The original photo was posted by Alam on Twitter / Xin late July 2022.