{"id":6641,"date":"2019-06-11T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T06:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=6641"},"modified":"2020-06-23T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T01:55:29","slug":"how-to-survive-in-canadian-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2019\/06\/11\/how-to-survive-in-canadian-college\/","title":{"rendered":"How to survive in Canadian college"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reeve – Bishop’s University, Canada<\/h3>\n

Semester 2, 2017
\nBachelor of Business<\/h4>\n

Frosh week \/ O week <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Frosh week started off with team selection day, where you would go around to every team (consisting of older students) and learn a bit about them. There were heaps of teams for people with different interests, with some stressing the fact they love to party and others – being all girl\u2019s teams – centred around making friends. Every team had their own house, which was your meeting point for weekly activities.<\/p>\n

During frosh week, your aim is to complete challenges to get your team points. One of the challenges I completed was to wear a shower cap of shaving cream on my head for a night, one guy shaved his head and another guy was painted green for the week. However, you definitely aren\u2019t forced into any challenges you don\u2019t want to complete. There were a couple of concerts held in the quad during frosh week and a swamp day where you had to get as messy as possible being covered in gross foods. The week was amazing and was great with helping me make friends instantly. With the week ending with a team performance and football game.<\/p>\n

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University campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Halloweekend<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I definitely consider Halloweekend one of the best events from my time at Bishops. Its three nights of different Halloween parties, all with different themes. The first night consist of everyone going to either the school bar, residence parties or different house parties. Night two was held at Animal House (probably the biggest party house of the university) and night three was the official event held by The Gait (on campus bar).<\/p>\n

Residences<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I can\u2019t stress enough how important it is to live in Lennoxville. So many exchange students (including myself) originally made the mistake of living a bus ride away from the university in Sherbrooke. Living in Lennoxville is extremely social and convenient. It\u2019s also extremely rare that students don\u2019t live near the university.<\/p>\n

Bishops campus is practically all of Lennoxville, so even if you are unable to get a spot in residence, living in one of the many party houses or in your own apartment is a great way to still get that real college experience. Join the Bishops housing page and find a couple of other exchange students looking for housing and contact Carl, who is the land lord of all the apartments in Little Forks (circled- I can provide Carls phone number if requested).<\/p>\n