As part of my break from writing one of my papers tonight, I decided to swim around the UBC Housing website and think about where I might want to live next year just for fun.
Turns out it’s not quite as leisurely as I thought.
If you want housing next year and you are a current student at UBC, apply now for the lottery system. Yes, you have to pay $50 and submit an application now just to be considered for a place in housing. Entering the lottery does not mean that you are guarenteed a spot in housing — it means exactly what it says. Regardless, if you do not want to be homeless next year, apply now. The deadline is February 1st, but we all know how we procrastinate. (Plus we go around asking who is wanting to live where. Ask now.)
The lottery apparently opened on November 1. What I want to know is: how come there hasn’t been anything about it? I had the impression that the lottery would open later on in the year, like March or April, because after all, it’s a computer that does the juggling. No posters, no information whatsoever — I just happened to stumble upon it because I was looking for it out of curiousity.
My only other question is how a person might be able to room with friends if they wanted to live in one of the shared residences, such as Ritsumeikan, Gage, or Fairview. There is nothing on the online application that I have seen that has this option, yet I hear of people living with their friends all the time. How is this done?
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Ah-ha, my friend just pointed me to the ever-helpful FAQs:
“Those selected in the lottery can ask to live together, and we will do our best to accommodate those requests. Please note, each roommate’s application must show the identical rankings for residence area preferences.”
So if you are interested in living with your friends, remember to rank everything exactly the same. And preferably, now.
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