trinity college dorm tour!!! 

ok this is taken directly from my payment account to the university, not from the Trin website: my non-tuition charges (so residence and meal plan) comes out to $18, 660.00 (CAD)

*for the 2022-2023 academic year I should also add that fees are very different between domestic (Canadian) and international students! I am Canadian so that is the Canadian cost.

cosgrave is right beside my old section (seager) - the details like the doors, shape of the windows, carpet, layout of the bathrooms are all different but in their own cozy way!

From what I can tell from talking with older students, a lot of upper class students do come back and live in trin! it's not unusual at all. Some people get a 2-year residence guarantee when first offered a spot in trin, but most just enter the lottery/waitlist. Just a few days ago the res application for 2022-2023 year opened, so I entered the lottery and so did nearly all my friends who also hope to live in res next year.

Hi Mary! firstly I just want to say I totally understand your fears and I was pretty close to choosing UOttawa instead of Trin/Uoft because I was worried it would just be too hard and I wasn't smart enough to succeed at UofT. I was scaredddddd. But my heart was telling me Trin. I knew making a decision because of fear of failure was not how I want to live my life, so I took a bit of a leap of faith I guess haha. I do humanities so I can't comment directly on how hard sciences are but many of my good friends do it and they have social lives, friends, etc, and do well! Despite what you read on Reddit, which I would avoid, it isn't impossible to do well here (in fact, everyone around me seems to be doing really well lol). UofT is challenging. I won't sugarcoat it. People are stressed, put too much pressure on themselves (me included), tired, stuck in libraries all day,... buuuuuuut I wouldn't say the university doesn't care about our mental health. Profs are typically good with extensions, there are supports available, and the family you build will help you so much. Personally, if I were faced with your choice, I would go with Trinity rather than Mississauga because you'll a small community to belong to rather than nothing. Plus the St George campus is gorgeous lol. I'm from the area so it's downtown all the way over Mississauga. Just a last piece of advice, you're clearly smart enough to succeed if you got in, so don't doubt your abilities. You can achieve balance - one of my best friends has incredible grades, participates in tons of things and goes to bed by 10:30 every night - and still succeed here.

@@bela.at.trinity You are so sweet thank you for your advice! Since I'm a transfer upper-year student, I was wondering if it would be possible to live at another college/residence if ever I'm not given a spot at Trinity's residences? Also, what areas at Trinity/St. Hilda's College, would you recommend? I've heard that some bathrooms are quite old so that's something that I'm concerned about :)

@@maryco5030 I honestly don't know a good answer to your question haha. I know that this year, (2021-2022), some Trin people didn't get a spot in Hilda's/trin proper and were sent to live in the Chelsea hotel/Chestnut residence. And I didn't get to choose which part of Trin to live in but if you do have that choice, the bathrooms in Owens are absolutely to-die-for. But Owens is also over the kitchens and gets really hot though. I'd say the worst bathrooms are in the Cosgrave section of Trin proper lol. Honestly for me the bathroom sitch was quite traumatizing at first but you get used to it haha. For me it was less so age and more so uncleanliness - but I'm also a bit of a clean freak so take this with a grain of salt!

how exciting!!!! all the best with your first year! I think triple room are super rare (I've never been in one myself) and I think they only exist in the front of Trin, in the more castle-y part. I think they have big bay windows??? I'm sorry I don't know more :((((

Hmmmmmm. You only apply for res once you have your acceptance, so I’m assuming that if you’re just seeing that option, it is one of the first stages of applying for res. You get assigned your room by the summer. I wish I could be more help, I suggest emailing Trin and have them walk you through it.

@@bela.at.trinity ohhh! okay, tysmm!!

hmmm it's hard to give an easy answer to this. I would say most people use technology(either typing on a computer or writing with an iPad) for taking notes rather than a physical notebook. It also really depends on the subject. My best friend and I both used paper notebooks for our economics courses since mathy stuff is better on paper I think. For my history and politics classes I typed my notes, as do most people I'd say. But for my earth science class I exclusively used my iPad to annotate the presentation slides and a physical notebook for learning and memorizing concepts. So it really varies per person and subject.

Most of my friends have singles and we all love having our own space sooo much. It's especially nice for being able to study in your room because you can stay up as late or wake up as early as you like without being disturbed/disturbing a roommate. Just personally, I would never want a roommate lol. I know a few of my friends who got doubles with friends this year and now those friendships are pretty much gone. That's obviously not everyone but I have seen it happen a lot. I'd say if you get to choose and can afford it, get a single. I've heard the argument that you can make a best friend for life from your fist-year roommate but I don't really agree with that. I've made best friends and we have wonderful memories in each other's rooms but then it's nice at the end of the night to go home to your own space. Plus if you have a relationship, having your own room is obviously much better. I hope this helps in any way :)

when I did my uoft application, it asked me to rank my choice of colleges. I ranked Trinity first, and then was asked to fill out Trin's separate application.

Hi!!! So September and early October are typically hot but luckily fall 2021 it wasn't unbearable. I had this cute little retro fan that I kept going in my room and always had my window open. I know pretty much everyone in res had some type of fan. I'm from Ontario so I can handle the heat well but I know some people found no AC a bit more uncomfortable. My friend who lives in the attic had it the worst but she survived haha. Overall, I'd say it's not really a major issue and it didn't factor into my decision to live in res. But everyone is obviously different :)

@@bela.at.trinity Thx !!

the cleaning staff! I'm pretty sure they're supposed to do it every day but that's a bit questionable

I lived in Seager for two years and I had no idea there were even double rooms so not sure I can be much help unfortunately. I hope my videos can help give an idea of the furniture/vibes of Seager though!

hiiiiiiii, so when they ask you to vacate you just need to take what you need for the 2 or 3 weeks of break and you hand in your keys because no one is allowed on res during the break! But it is still your room, you return to the same one for the winter semester! I think there is a super rare case where you could be assigned a different room for the fall and winter semesters but I don't know anyone who had to do that, but it is a possibility. On Starrez you can see if you've been assigned the same room! I never had to move all my stuff out haha, that would have been soooo hard to do at christmas time lol.

@@bela.at.trinity oh thank goodness, that reassured me plenty, haha - thanks so much! And yeah I can totally imagine that moving everything is a nightmare :)

When you apply for residence after getting accepted to Trin & UofT, you rank preferences for res. My res floor was an all-girls floor and a girls bathroom. Some halls are mixed gender with mixed gender bathrooms. You rank on your residence application what you want. Across the university, as is the norm in Canada, there are male, female, and all-gender +accessible bathrooms. Trinity is the most academically prestigious college at the university and while academics isn't the only reason you get accepted, I don't know a single person at Trin who didn't do exceptionally well in high school. I don't know about my friends' averages as that is pretty irrelevant once you come to uni but mine was in that range.

@@bela.at.trinity Thanks for the detailed explanation, I think I understand the situation better now! Really gonna have to lock in this semester 🙏🙏

The University of Toronto has a 1st year residence guarantee!

I don't have the floorplans that were passed around the freshers group chat last summer anymore but perhaps try google? Sorry I can't be of more help.

hiii sorry, I've been busy this summer with my study abroad course, hopefully one day lol?

Math & History are both interesting, but they don't go well together as a university education, because of the obvious fact that they don't lead to profession. You will regret this decision when job recruiters ask you about your study choices. I'd recommend STEM if Maths is your Major.

@@JuicexlxLook at the work of Statistics Canada where the do link the two. Statistics is the desired focus for mat. Lots of jobs for data majors.

If you’re talking about Trinity One, that is not a “prep” course for Trin, that is just a special stream of courses you could take in first year that any uoft first year can apply to take. If you’re talking about Trin Orientation stuff that they do in the summer, you’ll get emails for that.

It is selective. You have to do a separate application for it and I know very intelligent people who haven't gotten in. I would say yes? haha

literally a copy of my floor! a few times I would make the mistake of trying to open what I thought was my room but turned out to be the wrong floor lol.

@@bela.at.trinity ohh I got it! Thank you so much! I love your room decoration so much! ❤

you're so sweet, see you around in the fall!@@victoriacao5707

yeahh!!!@@bela.at.trinity

each hallway has a community bathroom, you will share a bathroom with other no matter what type of room you have.

Hi! Without seeing Starrez in front of me, I'm not sure how much help I can be but we can try. What are the two options they give you? From what I can remember, choosing a single room is a few pages into the residence application, so maybe you just aren't at that section yet?

@@bela.at.trinity hey thanks for replying just want to tell you that I have been enrolled in the Langley branch. Also can you help me with the total number of semesters per year?

I have never heard of the Langley branch. Are you sure we're talking about UofT? There are other Trinity Colleges in the world, one in America and Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. That's my only thought!@@nanditamiglani

it was a female section of Trinity proper

I'm under the faculty of arts and science - I study history + European languages and politics

@@bela.at.trinity I wanna talk to you so plz share any social media accounts

It's honestly bigger than all my friends' rooms who go to uni in the US or at other Ontario unis!

@@bela.at.trinity Able to fwd email? Profitez de votre ete benediction, Bela.