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Visit Your Residence/Living Off-Campus
This was a very informative part of SL 101 and I found the experience to be quite useful. Annabelle and I parted here, as she will be living in V1 next year and I will be living in UWP. The Applied Health Sciences Experience Leaders led us to uWaterloo Place, Beck Hall, in order to learn about the residence. We went there as a big group, which helped me realize that I am not alone. Everyone here is going through the same transition to residence life!
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This is Annabelle and her roommate Shirley. Annabelle came a little bit later and we immediately greeted each other because we each knew what the other looked like through Facebook! |
At Beck Hall, we learned about the basics of residence as well as toured the building and our tour guide’s room. Our
tour guide discussed the role of a Don and told us about how they are available to help us and answer our questions and also how they organize residence activities for us each week to keep us entertained. We also saw where the laundry room, common areas, and front desk were located.
Our tour guide told us about ResNet, which is campus-wide WiFi that is available to UW students. She also told us about the weekly grocery shuttle that travels from UWP to Food Basics and Zehrs. I plan to use this grocery shuttle a lot because I plan to cook! I was very happy to learn of this super-convenient service.
We were then led to our tour guide’s room to take a look at the living area. I found the room to be very cozy and apartment-like, which gives it a very homey feeling. I liked that I was able to see what my residence would look like before I moved in.
Dinner in Residence
We had an exciting chance to practice using our WatCards at the V1 cafeteria for dinner. Although I won’t be using a meal plan during my first year, I enjoyed this fun experience with a cafeteria-style meal. After having my shiny new WatCard dangling around my neck for the whole day, it was neat to see it being put to use. There was a lot of variety with the food in the cafeteria and it is definitely more convenient than cooking for myself.
This was an excellent opportunity to make friends, ask the upper-years some questions, and talk over some good food. The thing about Student Life 101 is that it lets you feel as if you are already a university student, which I think is very special.
Meet with Your Experience Leader
It was nice to relax and just talk with the Arts students after a day of learning new things, having new experiences, and walking around everywhere. Our Experience Leaders, Sammie and Clark brought us back to REV for a little debrief. We all shared what we liked or disliked about the day and reflected on everything that happened. We were all given a piece of paper to write whatever we wanted about SL 101 for Sammie and Clark to read, whether it was a question or comment. Our Experience Leaders then shared these anonymous notes with everyone and addressed all of them. I enjoyed this get-to-gether because it allowed me to get a sense of how everyone else felt about the day. The general mood was positive and I was happy to learn that just about everyone, like me, enjoyed the day so far.
Evening Social
This was the longest activity of our day, but I wish it lasted longer! This was a chance for all of us students to relax, have fun and get too know the people with which we would be spending the next four or five years. We had the choice of playing sports outside, taking part in a trivia challenge, or watching a movie.
Annabelle and I both chose to take part in the exciting trivia challenge. We chose to be part of two different teams. I was a in a team with an Applied Health Sciences student and three Engineering students! It’s always interesting to meet students from different faculties so you can share different interests and experiences.
The two hours passed by extremely quickly and our group did not do so well (we came in last!), but I had too much fun to worry about winning or losing! Having fun is not impossible at school, especially with so many young students your age going through the same milestones in life as you are. The Evening Social gave me a taste of life outside classes and assured me that Waterloo, though very academically driven, would not be an all-work-and-no-play school!
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