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momochi_g wrote:Yea.. 8 months each year for 4 more years! This is why it is truly a big deal.
But I digress, I want a meal plan pretty badly. The convenience is so alluring. Who lives in residence for 4 years?
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who doesn't?
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momochi_g wrote:who doesn't? Everybody at Laurier except Dons? I have friends at a bunch of other universities as well and it is rare that people stay in residence for more than first year.
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Same for Western. I don't think anyone actually chooses to live in rez for all four years. One year is good enough for most.
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I'm sorry, you're gunna have to provide some proof to back up your statement. Last time I checked, many people from all kinds of universities stay in residence for more than first year. To top it off, just because you're not living in residence doesn't mean you don't eat the cafe food. People eat cafe food at lunch, between classes, and after classes. Heck, they might even stay for dinner and leave after they eat. All in all, cafe food is an intangible at any uni.
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I am pretty sure that there aren't any published studies on the proportion of students moving off campus after first year versus staying on campus, but I can assure you that at least 95% of students leave. Just check out any university's off-campus housing website... you will see many, many listings.
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momochi_g wrote:I'm sorry, you're gunna have to provide some proof to back up your statement. Last time I checked, many people from all kinds of universities stay in residence for more than first year. To top it off, just because you're not living in residence doesn't mean you don't eat the cafe food. People eat cafe food at lunch, between classes, and after classes. Heck, they might even stay for dinner and leave after they eat. All in all, cafe food is an intangible at any uni. I just told you my proof. You can't live in Laurier residence after first year. It's the same with a lot of universities, and most people wouldn't want to even if they could. Out of the hundreds of people I knew from high school, not a single one is was in residence after first year. Nobody really eats the cafe food after first year either. They might eat on campus a few times a week but they generally just grab Tim Horton's, Mr. Sub, Harvey's, or something like that. Considering you aren't even in university yet I'm not sure why you are so confident about this... Laurier gave me a $200 credit onto my empty meal plan this year and I still have like $100 left, and most of that $100 was just spent on drinks from vending machines. I think I've eaten like 3 times on campus this year.
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Something is not making sense. Everywhere I go, I hear people raving on how good it is to live in residence. If it's so good, why don't they stay for more years? Where's the logic?
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momochi_g wrote:Something is not making sense. Everywhere I go, I hear people raving on how good it is to live in residence. If it's so good, why don't they stay for more years? Where's the logic? It's fun for the first year. After that, it's time to move on. Most people move into a house or apartment with some friends. Plus, it's cheaper to live off-campus, especially since you can cook your own meals.
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momochi_g wrote:Something is not making sense. Everywhere I go, I hear people raving on how good it is to live in residence. If it's so good, why don't they stay for more years? Where's the logic? Also, many universities don't have room for the upper years so people have to move on. However, now that the double cohort has moved on there appears to be more room for upper years. Many universities build residences for upper years and students are taking advantage. When I went on the tours last week many universities were saying that staying in residence longer is becoming more popular. These were the universities which had upper year residences. They built them because upper years were asking for them. They are not dorm like places though. I wouldn't mind staying in some sort of upper year residence for my remaining three years. Queens ghetto really does not appeal to me.
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It seems like most of my friends who go to univs other than UW are now living off campus. Actually, I can't think of anyone who's living in rez this year. But from those that go to waterloo, more than half are still living in rez (not out of all upper year students, but from all my friends in upper years). I think, like some ppl have mentioned, it partly depends on the availability of residence for upper years. For instance, a friend of mine who goes to WLU, wasn't very happy b/c upper years can't live on rez. Anyway, both rez and off campus housing have their pros and cons.
As for food, in my first year I lived in a traditional style rez, so 80% of the time I ate on campus. But now that I'm living in a suite style, AND across from a plaza, I do eat less on campus, even though I'm still in rez. I'm quite satisfied with UW food, but you probably shouldn't take my words for food.. 'cuz I'll say about anything edible is good. I do hear a lot of people complaining about their own univ's caf food, but that's partly b/c they eat similar stuffs everyday, and they just get sick of that.
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momochi_g wrote:Something is not making sense. Everywhere I go, I hear people raving on how good it is to live in residence. If it's so good, why don't they stay for more years? Where's the logic? Most universities in Ontario do not have the residence space for significant numbers of students to live in residence for more than 1 year. Many can't even fit all of the first years who want to live in residence and residence accomodation is far from guaranteed. At many schools it is simply not an option to stay in residence past your first year unless you are working in the residence as an RA/Don, or perhaps if you have a physical disability that makes it harder for you to live off campus. Now, removing those restrictions, at Acadia, where there is more than enough space to stay in residence, upper years get to pick exactly which room they will be in, and many people do stay for 2 years (and some for 3 or 4 or 5) I would say the #1 reason people moved off campus is getting tired of the food, or because it's cheaper to live off campus (mostly because of the food). Another consideration is that residence can be a fairly noisy place, and a lot of people don't want that in their upper years, although some places do have residences where it's all or mostly upper years (which sorta applied to one building at Acadia) or quiet hours, etc. I do think that if Acadia had one building that was appartment style with no required meal plan more upper years would stay in it. They were stupid not to build their newest building appartment style (given that they built it at all, they didn't need it..) Oh, and I never once ate in the main meal hall after I left residence. Although that had more to do with the cost, it was over $10 for a meal there (all you can eat) if you paid for it individually, and, well, there were other places I could spend $10 at and get better food. I did buy stuff at the little places around campus though. If I could have gotten a plan where I could buy a bunch of lunches at like $6-$8 I totally would have used it.
 
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At Queen's there are like 14 residences buildings (Waldron, Addy-Ban-Righ, Chown, Leonard, Gord-Brockington, Morris, Legget, Watts, Victoria, Harkness, and West (I think it is split into a couple different buildings).
Watts is all upper year. There are a couple floors in Leggett for all upper-years, a couple random upper-years that are scattered around, and upper years on exchange or whatever in Harkness. I always assumed it was those people who did not have friends to move in with second year who stayed. Yikes.
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Does anyone have any experience with the food/caf at Brock University??? I am thinking of going there and I was just wondering if anyone had any possitive or negative experiences with that scene. If so, do you have any advice on meal plan size/type??? Thanks a million!
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BeccaTree wrote:Does anyone have any experience with the food/caf at Brock University??? I am thinking of going there and I was just wondering if anyone had any possitive or negative experiences with that scene. If so, do you have any advice on meal plan size/type??? Thanks a million! I don't know about the meal plans but Brocks food is notoriously the worst in Canada 
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momochi_g wrote:I'm sorry, you're gunna have to provide some proof to back up your statement. Last time I checked, many people from all kinds of universities stay in residence for more than first year. To top it off, just because you're not living in residence doesn't mean you don't eat the cafe food. People eat cafe food at lunch, between classes, and after classes. Heck, they might even stay for dinner and leave after they eat. All in all, cafe food is an intangible at any uni. Laurier only provides rez to first years, and then only if you're a don, or if you're reallllllllly lucky (emphasis on really) eating caf food and having an apartment can be REALLY expensive as well, and seeing as that if I have to pay a 12 month lease, even if i'm only staying for 8, I'm not going to waste money when i can stay in my place and eat cheerios for cheaper. sorry. just doesnt swing that way for us wlu folks, don't know about you tho.. 
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Alright, I've eaten at several universities and I can list them in order of best to worst in my opinion.
Queens
Guelph
York
U of T
Western
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Alright, I've eaten at several universities and I can list them in order of best to worst in my opinion.
Queens
Guelph
York
U of T
Western
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I heard from a lot of poeple that Guelph has the best food by far!
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Carleton has a great Oasis Restaurant. They serve delicious healthy stir fry as well as healthy sandwiches and snacks daily.
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