September 2010–Welcome to Totem Park and Place Vanier!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

August 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 OPENING DAY
• Move in, get settled.

First week in residence… • Meet roommate and

floormates.
• Meet your Advisor.
These events are a sample of the kind of activities • 5–7 pm floor dinner in
dining hall
Student Housing and Hospitality Services planned for your arrival in September!
• 8 pm floor meeting

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• All unpacked? What else
do you need? Ask your
Advisor where to get it.
• Meet your floor, stop by,
introduce yourself.
• Rez Parent Orientation
Morning (Totem Park)
• Eat in the dining room with
your floor.
• Hang out in lounge.
• Campus tour — check
with your Advisor
• Find meeting location for
IMAGINE. Need help? Ask
your advisor.
• Go to First Night
Barbecue with your floor.
• 8 pm House meeting
• Question and answer
session with Advisor
• Outdoor movie
• IKEA trip
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• Leave rez by 8:40 am and • Go to class. • Under the Stars Dance • The weekend is here! • Meet up with your
go to IMAGINE! • Check with your instructor Party • First Week Extravaganza floor to raise money for
• Main Event Carnival regarding labs this week. • Dodgeball Extravaganza Shinerama!
• Welcome Back Barbecue
(Koerner Plaza) • All-ages pool party (UBC REC) • Concert at SUB
• UBC Improv Night • UBC Improv Night
(Vanier) (Totem)
• Come back from
IMAGINE to meet your
floor and head to the
Vanier or Totem Park
dining room.
• After-dinner activities

• Get a First Week bracelet • Legendary First Week

comedy show
• 8 pm House dessert social

Other things to do: Things to look forward to:

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• Check Commonsblock
map for time/place of local
worship services.
• Sports in the field, grab a
Frisbee.
• Trips into the city (See
what Advisor planned.)
• Roommate bootcamp!
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• Pick up books from Textbook Reservation
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• Colour Wars in Totem Park and Vanier Olympics
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• Intramural Events – Day of 18
the Longboat
Service. in Place Vanier (September) and Storm the Wall (March) make
up the two biggest intramural events in Canada.
• Go to a Residence Life program. • The first dance in rez
Other large events include UBC Triathlon
• Grab needed books from Bookstore. • Totem Park and Place Vanier sports leagues – Duathlon, Insomniac Softball at BC Place, and
men’s, women’s, and co-ed
• Recruit Shinerama team. the over 6,500 students that participate in our
• Residence Involvement Fair league sports program. Check www.rec.ubc.ca for
• Sign up for residence fitness plans.
information.
• Pay tuition. • Campus Craze – the campus comes to you in rez
• The Museum of Anthropology, www.moa.ubc.ca • AMS club days in the SUB
• Sign up for Intramurals with floor. (See Advisor
and/or house president.) • The Belkin Art Gallery, www.belkin-gallery.ubc.ca • Shrum Bowl — the annual grudge football match
UBC vs SFU!
20 21game, www.athletics.ubc.ca22
• Go and see a varsity 23www.chancentre.com
• Chan Centre concerts, 24 25
• Get your UBCcard and U-Pass. Card valid after • Drama in the Frederic Wood Theatre or the • Imaginus poster sale
August 15. Telus Theatre, www.theatre.ubc.ca • Annual UBC Botanical Garden indoor plant sale,
• If you haven’t done so, check with Telus re: • Recitals at the UBC School of Music, September 16 and 17, 11 am to 6 pm,
27 phone connection.28 www.telus.com/student 29 www.music.ubc.ca 30 www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org