Hi Blog  Readers!

In this blog post, we are going to take you through the day of a typical St. Jerome’s student! The purpose of this piece is to give incoming students a look at life at St. Jerome’s. As well this post will be a road map of blog posts posted earlier in this term that can further show you what the SJU community is about!  At St. Jerome’s residence your day will start by waking up in your room. In each residence room, the following amenities and items are provided. A bed, desk, wardrobe, and dresser. As well each room has a sink and a large window within. The rooms come either in a double or single format. For myself personally, I am an early riser and am typically awake before the cafeteria opens, so when I wake up I have a snack that I have in my room, and proceed to get ready for the day (getting dressed and packing my bag).  Stepping out of the door, each floor has two pods that each have 30 beds for students on each side, and each pod has their own don and are generally split into one side being female and one being male. Each floor is designed by the dons into a theme, for example, Monsters University or books, dogs, cars, etc. As part of getting ready you might take a shower and use the bathroom of your floors pod. The bathrooms are located in the middle of your sides of the floors pod, and it has one row of showers and one row of stalls. The bathrooms have two entrances, one on either side of the floor, and the mirror in residence is a place where your don may leave messages for your floor. Currently, my don puts a new word every week on the mirror as well as the upcoming intramurals schedule.

Once you are ready for your day you will head down to the cafeteria, which you can read all about in the blog post that was made on Dana Hospitality the catering company for the St. Jerome’s Cafeteria, https://www.sju.ca/blog/dana-hospitality  For breakfast your options include, toast with a gluten-free option and house-made jams and spreads. as well, cereal, fresh baked goods, coffee, tea, eggs, oatmeal, fruit and more.  Once you have had breakfast you might head on off to classes. Classes can take place here at St. Jerome’s in one of our two academic buildings, or they can take place on main campus. Your classes held on SJU campus can be within one of the 10 faculties that we have here on campus! You can find out about the faculties in a previous blog post made here, https://www.sju.ca/blog/faculties-st-jeromes. Classes themselves are held in two academic buildings, and the class sizes are generally smaller, around 30, and encourage engagement from all students. The largest lecture hall on our campus can hold around 200 students.   

After class, you will be back in the cafeteria for lunch. Lunches always include a hot table entrée that changes day to day, a salad bar and a deli bar where students can make their own sandwiches.  When you are at lunch you may run into a graduating student who is studying and / or visiting the cafeteria. Such as the graduating students we have interviewed in previous blog posts! Meet Natalie, Bethany, Cameron Gabrielle, and Maya!

https://www.sju.ca/blog/meet-natalie-graduating-student

https://www.sju.ca/blog/meet-bethany-graduating-student

https://www.sju.ca/blog/meet-cameron-and-gabrielle-two-graduating-students

https://www.sju.ca/blog/meet-maya-graduating-student

After lunch, you may check-in with the faculty in the student affairs  hallway in Sweeney hall. Walking down the hallway you will pass by the experience centre which is experience guides and ceos headquarters. Learn about some of our new experience guide in the following blog post, https://www.sju.ca/blog/introducing-new-members-experience-guide-team. Additionally down this hallway, you may run into the PAL desk! You can learn about the PAL team in the following blog post, https://www.sju.ca/blog/meet-pals.

Alongside the PAL’s and Experience Guides and Ceo’s the people that you will meet in this hallway are as follows:

Media Folder: 

Media Root

After another possible round of classes, you will return to the cafeteria for dinner, which again includes a rotating entrée, a salad bar, and in place of the deli bar the food fare which is a live-action cooking station where you can have various create your own meals, from pasta to pancakes. In my first year, everyone would come at 5:00 to have dinner and the round tables would all be full of people sitting and talking together. The cafeteria and dinner specifically is really the social space and time at St. Jerome’s. It’s the time where everyone comes together at the end of a long day.

After dinner, you can participate in events held by the SATs, for example, paint night! In my first year, a member of the SAT team was a fine arts student, and she would host paint nights where students were provided with painting materials and we all followed along with her instructions as well as adding out own twists and interpretations to the pieces.  To read more specifically about some of these events like this one held on our campus visit our blog post about frost week, https://www.sju.ca/blog/frost-week

At the end of the day, you go to bed in your room and wait for it all to start again tomorrow!

If you have any suggestions for content that you would love to read about on our blog, please send an email to outreach@sju.ca! We would love to know what our students are interested in reading and knowing more about. 

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