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Residence Life

Life in the Student Village (Aka The Ghetto)

Queen’s hasn’t enough residence space for upper-year students (although you’re likely to find a room if you’d like one) and this has evolved into an annual spree where first year students (and those fed up with their second-year houses) hunt for places to nest outside the structural integrity of the Queen’s Campus.
This area is referred [...]

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Off Campus Life in First Year

If you are an older student or just hate people in general, then rez might not be the best place for you in your first year at Queen’s.
But, if you and a bunch of friends from the same high school are thinking that it would be way cooler to live in the ghetto, think again.
Rez [...]

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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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Watts & Legett Hall

Two years ago we last saw the first batch of Frosh moving into the infamous ‘New Residences’ (one is now named Legett Hall .. the other is Watts- both are buildings that will likely see thousands of teenagers puke in their hallways).
If you are lucky enough to end up in these new dorms, you’ve got [...]

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Leonard Cafeteria

If you enjoy food, or need it, like most people who breathe, then you will likely find yourself in need of a place to seek sustenance in between frittering your time away in residence watching whatever Family Guy episode you downloaded off of DC++.

In this case, you can go to Ban Righ for your standard [...]

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Ban Righ Cafeteria

Ban Righ cafeteria is connected to the Ban Righ residence hall and is very centrally located on campus.
The meal plans at Queen’s are all you can eat (unless you are on West Campus), so you will be spending a lot of your time in first year in either Ban Righ or Leonard Caf.
Ban Righ is [...]

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Leonard Hall

McNeil, Morris, Leonard and Gordon Brockington are situated in a U-shape around a big field and are mere steps from the shores of Lake Ontario. Lots of pick up games of everything from golf to fribee to frisbee golf are know nto start up here.

Other ideas:

Most rooms have kick ass views, of either the field, [...]

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Gordon Brockington House

McNeil, Morris, Leonard and Gordon Brockington are situated in a U-shape around a big field and are mere steps from the shores of Lake Ontario.

Lots of pick up games of everything from golf to fribee to frisbee golf are know nto start up here.
Most rooms have kick ass views, of either the field, the water, [...]

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Chown Hall

Chown Hall is considered a medium-sized residence with room for 165 women. And again, it’s super close to the cafeteria .. across the street from the infamous film house .. and extremely centrally located on campus.
Sure, much catiness is likely to occur in these fine residences, but to be honest, catiness is a lot more [...]

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Ban Righ Hall

Ban Righ is a great residence. It’s centrally located, connected to the caf, and has amazing common areas. For some reason or another, lots of girls dread getting placed in an all girls dorm, but in retrospect I sort of wished I had been.
Your odds of making great girl friends are basically doubled by living [...]

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