Orchard Commons:
🏠Orchard Commons is one of UBC’s newest and tallest residences for first-year students. Orchard Commons has 2 mixed-gender houses (Braeburn and Barlett). The majority of the rooms at Orchard Commons are connected single and shared rooms with a limited number of single rooms. Just like the other two residences for first-year students OC rooms do not come with a kitchen, meal plan is mandatory for all residents (not only for the Orchard Commons dining room; it is valid at more than 30 places to eat!)
🍔Open Kitchen
Hero Coffee + Market
Custom Kitchen-Stir Fry
Global Bowl
Vegetarian Kitchen
Square Meal Kitchen
Grab & Go
Sandwich Bar
📍Nearby places:
Faculty of Forestry
Life Science building
Faculty of Computer Science
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Totem Park:
🏠Totem Park is mainly for first-year freshmen -- 10 buildings, 939 single rooms, 540 connected singles with shared bathrooms, and 282 double/triple rooms. Coquihala Common Block is the center of residential activity in Totem Park. Coquihala includes restaurants, fitness rooms, music rooms, dance halls, study areas and convenience stores.
🍔 Feast
Including a variety of cuisines such as:
Made-to-order burritos
West Coast salmon burgers
Stone hearth Italian pizzas
Vegetarian food
📍Nearby places:
College: the Engineering, Science, LFS, and Forestry buildings.
Landscape: UBC Botanical Garden
You can go to Engineering building to buy Starbucks between classes
With UBC Thunderbird Arena and sports field (basketball court and badminton court)
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Place Vanier:
🏠Place Vanier is one of the first-year student residences in UBC located at 1935 Lower Mall. Place Vanier provides 1089 single rooms and 183 double rooms. Vanier’s Common Block has a fitness room, a study room, vending machines and a shared washroom. Gather is on the second floor of the commons block. Vanier provides a good atmosphere of making friends because it has a huge green ground for outdoor entertainment.
🍔Gather
Grillhouse-Burgers
Gyaza-Poke Bowls
Grab & Go
Sandwich Bar
📍Nearby places:
Department of Asian Studies
Department of Geography
Sauder School of Business
Earth Science Building
Wreck Beach
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Ritsumeikan-UBC House
Ritsumeikan is also one of the first-year residences. Students should be 18+ to apply Rits. There are 50 four- and five-person units, 5 one-bedroom units. The nearby Commonsblock is shared with Orchard Commons. There is no mandatory meal plan in Rits.
📍Nearby places:
68 Bus Station
UBC Campus Mailing Services
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
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