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Survival Guide

Top 6 Spots to Study While at Queen’s

Like it or not, you’ll be spending a fair bit of your time at Queen’s studying, and sometimes your rez room with eight million distractions just doesn’t cut it. We’ve compiled a list of the top ten greatest spots on and off to campus to study.
1. Fireside Reading Room (in Stauffer Library)
Located on the second [...]

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Guide to Grocery Shopping in Kingston

A&P:
Rumour has it that the A&P in Kingston is the most expensive grocery store in Canada. They can charge whatever the hell they want because students are lazy. Keep that in mind. One thing to note about the A&P is that they are open 24/7 and around midnight they have some killer sales!
Food Basics:
The Food Basics [...]

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What’s the easiest way to get to Kingston, Ontario?

You Asked: “What’s the easiest way to get to Kingston, Ontario?”
We Answered: I’m convinced Kingston has the perfect geographic location. You’re sandwiched right between three of Canada’s greatest cities (Montreal, Toronto, & Ottawa) and it’s easy to get to all three. If you are coming from further afield, do not fret, Kingston isn’t as hard [...]

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Buying Booze in Kingston

So if that fermented apple juice your housemate made is cramping your style, there are multiple booze buying options close to campus.
LCBO: Your best bet for wine and liquor is the LCBO. It’s located right across from Food Basics and is about a fifteen minute walk from campus.

Other ideas:

The Beer Store: The Beer Store is [...]

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What You Need to Know About Kingston Ontario

For the average Queen’s student, there are really only three parts of Kingston that you might end up visiting:
1) The area around campus
2) Princess street (and maybe NOP)
3) That area “near the mall or movie theatre”; aka the suburban sprawl
Kingston is a fabulous city to go to university in. It’s small enough that you are always [...]

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Getting an On Campus Job at Queen’s

Scoring a job on campus makes your life easy. You don’t have to commute off campus or really worry to hard about fitting it in around your schedule. Plus, the university makes sure that your pay is fair and that you are treated well.
Looking back at my time at Queen’s, I’m very thankful that I [...]

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The Moving to Kingston Guide

For most students, moving into rez or their first ghetto house is a pretty life changing experience. You need dish soap and dryer sheets and coat hangers. When in your life have you ever actually needed those things, they always just appeared.
Getting Your Stuff Here
If you live within driving distance, the answer to this question [...]

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House Hunting in Kingston

I’ll spare you the sugar coating. House hunting is the worst hell on earth. It’s stressful, tiring, and frustrating. Not only do you have to deal with trudging through the snow in Kingston to see about a thousand ugly and disgusting houses, but you have to do be willing to sign a lease at a [...]

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What to Pack: The Ultimate Queen’s Packing List

Before coming to Queen’s I must have spent countless hours listing and re-listing all of the things I was going to need. In retrospect, while exciting, it was a huge waste of time.
Below we’ve compiled a fairly exhaustive things of the must have items to bring with you to residence. What you don’t pack you can [...]

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Guide to Buying Books at Queen’s

First years often wonder if they need to buy their books ahead of time. The truth is, you really don’t need to buy them before classes, you don’t need to buy them on the first day of class, in fact, you really don’t need to buy them until your first assignment is due. Even then, [...]

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