October 6, 2006
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Res.
Alot of people choose to go to York University because they love home, they love Toronto and wouldn’t want to have their university experience anywhere else other than in this beautiful city. This makes York one of the biggest commuter school there is. However, into the second year, commuters (including me) is starting to realize what the real deal is, and some hard feelings and possibly regret dwell over us. “It’s just not the same“, R claims. And I could’nt have agreed more.
I think res is a big part of the university experience, and I hate to admit that I’ve only begun to realized that now. It’s so hard to keep in contact and build friendships at York BECAUSE it’s a commuter school. You have people coming from Ajax, Brampton, Newmarket, Mississauga, etc and as if being working students with a jam-packed schedule is not enough to provide a big enough hindrance for a growing friendship, the proximity makes it merely impossible to even hang out outside of school days.
It’s actually quite sad, because the many friendships I’ve made last year are forgotten or have fallen into the silenced stage — where neither party wants to make the effort to see each other — because we can’t! Different interests, different schedules, different locations, ultimately different lives. And sometimes that makes me think if school would just be a little more enjoyable if I could just step out of my dorm room and be able to walk into a dozen of open arms of friends. And maybe, bonding wouldn’t just be talking about homework and the course but about our lives, about our lives under these roofs together first as strangers, but now as friends and soon to be family. R and I wonder, what it would truly be like to finally step out and be independent for once.
Many of you are probably saying, “So why don’t you just live on res then“. I don’t really know, maybe because I don’t want to eat $1000 worth of res meals. But I’ve been definitely thinking about renting an apartment/condo with close friends for the third or fourth year of university, even if it means that I’ll spend all this money with no investment made at the end, I still think the experience and memories made will be extraordinary.
What’s your take on res? Was it a positive experience? Negative? Waste of money?
Comments (5)
Res was definitely worth it!! well especially since I live in toronto and go to waterloo…ahaha But yeah you meet TONS of people just by living in res…it almost felt like camp!!
During my 1st and 2nd year at york I stayed with a friend on and off at his rented townhouse just outside the campus. It was a lot of fun no doubt there, but the one thing I did notice was that I couldn’t get any work done. It’s a 50/50 thing with res. You either love it or you hate it. I loved it for the fun times and parties and hated it because the next day I would end up with double the workload because I didn’t get any done the night before.
my older brother went to york and i think he had a horrible time because it was so lonely and isolating. my little brother feels the same way about york
you meet a lot of people in res, but you can also meet a lot of people online.
I wish I could’ve lived in Res. It was too expensive though.
Plus my mother would never have helped me pay for it since I live in Toronto anyways.