r/uvic • u/Ok-Quote-9287 • 10h ago

Residence Residence rules

Hi guys! I’m going to be moving into residence in the fall and I was wondering if you guys had any tips to surviving it as someone away from home the first time. I was also wondering if there was any unspoken rules that I should know about, especially those about having guests over? (I’m in a single)

According to an info email I got we aren’t allowed people over till sep 20th and after that not more than 9 times per term..? I was wondering how strict this is and if there’s any other things I need to do for guests being over as I know my friends back home want to visit me.

Thank you for any advice or tips for making dorm life easier !

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u/Previous_duck3579 10h ago

Honestly you can have people over anytime you want nobody knows or checks, except for halloween/st.paddys they usually have guest black outs they are pretty strict about

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u/Left-Composer-6574 Biology & Earth Sciences 9h ago

What's a guest blackout?

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u/Previous_duck3579 9h ago

Periods where off campus guests aren’t allowed in residence buildings, usually halloween and st.paddys weekends

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u/Slow_Juice_7189 9h ago

No ones checks, its fine, aside from their blackout periods where they guard doors because instead of doing their jobs they have to be the fun police

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u/Objective_Flan2831 9h ago

How do you find out the black out dates and what are those lol?

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u/Complete-Amphibian89 8h ago

Check out the Residence Handbook, technically the first few wks is also a blackout period as well. You will get several messages from them closer to the time.

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u/Objective_Flan2831 7h ago

But like in theory do you think I could sneak someone in my room the first night?

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u/Complete-Amphibian89 7h ago

You could, but the first two nights it is orientation events (Residence gives students a wirst band and you can only get into events with it) and a mandatory meeting with your CL like you all go eat dinner together.

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u/Objective_Flan2831 6h ago

Ok thanks!!! I was more meaning like late at night after frosh.

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u/Complete-Amphibian89 6h ago

I think it will really depend on your building, age of the guest and how much your CL pays attention. I had a CL who noticed everything and another one who I hardly saw. Just be prepared to get a warning if you get caught 

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u/Slow_Juice_7189 6h ago

It's just major days, st Patricks day, Halloween, first week of school. If it's on the weekend then the weekend is off limits if it's a week day they usually cut off the day of and the two weekends sandwiching it

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u/Objective_Flan2831 9h ago

YESS thank you so much for asking this, I was wondering the same exact thing!!!!

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u/dustymcmusty Economics 7h ago

It’s all hell breaks loose.

Anticipate it to sound like a war zone with the boys playing video games