{"id":74322,"date":"2024-02-26T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/?p=74322"},"modified":"2024-02-26T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:31:06","slug":"life-in-sait-residence-has-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/2024\/02\/26\/life-in-sait-residence-has-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in SAIT residence has challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Life in residence:<\/strong> Mackenzie Blais in her dorm in Begin Tower on SAIT campus. Blais is a second-year legal assistant student and has been living in residence for two years. (Photo by Laura Horvat\/The Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

W<\/span>hether they come from a different country or live in the same city as their post-secondary institution, many students choose to live in residence.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Utile Statistics<\/a>, eight per cent of college students reside in residential buildings due to the costs and other expenses like food and utilities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Begin Tower<\/a>, one of the SAIT residences, is also home to students from Alberta University of the Arts and Bow Valley College. <\/span><\/p>\n

Students who reside within Begin Tower have mixed opinions about their dorm lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It’s easy to meet people, lots of fun, relatively cheap and easy to get to classes,\u201d said second-year legal student Mackenzie Blais. She describes dorm life as community-driven.<\/p>\n

Celena Reinhard, a business administration student, also enjoys residence life.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou meet everyone, you get to know everyone on each level and yeah and make lots of friends,\u201d said Reinhard.<\/p>\n

However, Reinhard mentions how sometimes utilities are not operating correctly but can be fixed quickly by giving a call to maintenance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are good. I mean they are functional and they work most of the time,\u201d Reinhard said. \u201cBut our drains do get clogged once a while, then we just call maintenance and they come and fix it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beign Tower has many accommodations for its residents including yoga and art studios as well as cardio rooms. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Begin Tower dining centre also offers all-day meal plans for its residents, students, guests, and staff members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While some enjoy dorm life, other students say there is room for improvement.<\/span><\/p>\n

First-year AUArts student Austin Newcombe says that the food in Begin Tower is not cheap and there are a few things regarding utilities in the dorms that should be changed or maintained better.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe sinks don\u2019t drain all the way and the toilets don\u2019t flush for some reason,\u201d Newcombe said. <\/span>\u201cThe beds are also way too high off the ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Newcombe says that he will explore other residential buildings at SAIT.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNext year, I’m going to go to East Hall<\/a> and see if it has better living conditions,\u201d said Newcombe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aubrey Hodder, a culinary arts student at SAIT, pointed out how some things in the dorm rooms can not be controlled.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou don’t get a lot of control over a lot of things like temperature and you can\u2019t open your window right now in winter,\u201d said Hodder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although meal plans are provided by the Begin Tower, Paulo Gallera, a power engineering technology student, saves money by making his meals.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLearn how to cook your food so you can save a lot of money,\u201d said Gallera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Blais agrees that the most affordable food for students living in residence ranges from groceries to fast food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would say buying your own groceries is the most affordable, but secondly, probably Tim Hortons, fast food and that sort of thing,\u201d said Blais.<\/span><\/p>\n

The present students who are attending college and living in Begin Tower also shared some advice for newcomers considering moving into the dorms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTry to make as many friends as possible,\u201d Blais said. \u201cGet out there and do the activities that the dorm staff puts out for you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Automotive service technology student Nathaniel Bisschop provides another suggestion for new students living in residence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGet to know your roommate pretty good,” he said. <\/span>“If not, it’s pretty awkward. Living in someone else’s house is weird.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the start of their college career, many students choose to live in dorms whether they come from a different country or live in the same city as their post-secondary. According to Utile Statistics, 8 per cent of college students reside in residential buildings due to the costs and other expenses like food and utilities.\u00a0 [ READ MORE ]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":74354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ef_editorial_meta_text_assignment-slug":"S2 Life in Residence LH","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life","8":"category-opinion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74322"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74889,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74322\/revisions\/74889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saitjournalism.ca\/thepress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}