What are my best chances at getting a single room for residence at Vic (Upper/Lower Burwash is ideal)? The residence application only asks questions like “Do you prefer to study in your room or in the library?” and “How important is tidiness to you?”. Strangely, there’s no place asking about having highly contagious diseases and social disorders, so faking those are out of the question. I’m thinking if I make myself out to be a clean-freak with few coping skills and a need for complete silence constantly, I’ll be good. Also, Does first-come first-serve have anything to do with it?
I’m not really sure how it goes, but I know that the Dons and Residence Life Staff Members always have some sort of say in who lives where, etc. In my opinion, it wouldn’t hurt to have it in as early as possible. The best thing to do, and this advice comes from my dearest Aunti who has been in school/doing exchanges forever, would be:
Make yourself seem like the biggest loner in the whole entire world. You do yoga at 4am. You are extremely tidy and spend all of your spare time cleaning. Find a way to subtly put in that you snore at incredible volumes and have had a pillow smothered in your face at camp before because it had been such a problem.
though to me, you were on the right track by making yourself seem like super librarian. Good work. I’m proud. Just take it to the next level and be hella intolerable.
5 Comments
Gloria
I’d say a big wad of hundred-dollar bills stuck in the application envelope is your best bet.
dr.truth
WRONG. If you say you are a loner they WILL put you with a roommate to get you to socialize. ROOKIE MISTAKE.
Ally
I’m just wondering… what if it backfired?? I too would love to have a single room, mostly because I just… don’t like sharing my space. However if I lied like that on my application in order to attempt to get a single room and it backfired? What if I were to end up with a person just like “me”?? I would go INSANE. I’m the messiest person on the planet, I haven’t seen the floor of my room since grade 9… I don’t even WANT to know what’s under all of the clothes in my room. To be put with a neatfreak would be absolute hell.
Gloria
Rule: If you don’t want to do stuff you don’t like, don’t go to university. People make you do all kinds of crap you don’t want to do.
Or get a job and rent a room near campus. It’s almost CERTAINLY cheaper.
Chantal
Mission accomplished: single room in burwash. God bless you, Askastudent. If I knew who you were, you’d be receiving a basket full of cocoa chocolate chunk cookies right about… now. 😀