Residence Tour: International Living/ Learning Centre (ILC)

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so right now we're standing right in

front of our international living

learning center or ilk for short

although the title includes

international in the name it doesn't

mean that you need to be an

international student to apply here you

can still be domestic and from canada

and still be considered we're going to

check out two different room cells today

which is the single and the double let's

head on inside and take a look

a fun fact about the international

living learning center is that it used

to be a hotel until it was bought by the

university

so it's a really neat type of room style

which we'll be checking out all of the

suites in here do have bathrooms which

are inside the bedroom units

so it's great if you're looking for a

little bit more privacy in that regard

we do have our elk lounge over to the

side which is a great area for if you

want to go ahead and do school work with

friends or just want a place to hang out

while you're doing some of your

daily tasks working on school work or

just want to grab a bite to eat

we also have the cafeteria here on the

ground floor which we'll be taking a

look at in just a moment

here is one of the cafeterias that we

operate here at ryerson residence

this one is located within the base of

elk but it's open to all students across

our buildings so no matter where you're

living you can still go ahead and access

here we have drink machines here on the

side

lots of space for eating

and then we have

a sign right here dedicated to how we

really support local foods and

incorporating that into our processes

so here in elk if you are living in this

building you would be enrolled in the

seven day meal plan however students in

the five-day meal plan are also the flex

option for just having dollars loaded

onto their account but a declining

balance would also be able to access

this

as you can see right here we usually

have a salad and soup

we have

options which are provided on a daily

basis

and then we also have a lot of different

factors which go into consideration for

allergy allergies dietary restrictions

and also just different options that

rotate throughout the week so that you

don't become bored

and let's go ahead and go up to the

residence tower where we can go ahead

and take a look at the rooms

so now we're standing in front of the

resident security desk for the

international living learning center we

provide 24 7 security at all of our

residence buildings with elk included

within that so we usually during the

school year have a student member during

the school day located here at this desk

who's able to help you with mail

packages or anything else that you may

need during your stay including signing

in guests

they will go ahead and allow you to go

ahead and scan your residence id right

here before you go ahead and take the

elevator bank up to see the residence

tower let's go ahead and take a look

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all right so right now we're just

stepping onto one of our floors here in

elk so let's go ahead and take a look at

what that looks like

we have our common lounge when you step

out of the elevators which would be a

great area for you to go ahead and meet

for

uh weekly meetings with your residence

advisor and you can see all these

opportunities right here which would

usually be located on the calendar so

come to school here it is full to the

brim with everything happening each day

here in elk we also have a common lounge

area which is fantastic for going ahead

and fitting all your cooking needs so

even though you're enrolled in the seven

day meal plan and have the cafeteria

down below just right on the ground

level

you also can use this at any time if you

want to cook a late night snack or

to store some food for your own use

let's go ahead now and take a look at

what some of our room styles look like

here

great so now we're going to go ahead and

access elk at which you would also use

your key insert it right in the door and

then take a step in

so as you can see it's a very bright and

sunny unit

when you take a step in you can take in

the view

which is great of the downtown

here would be your bed which you could

go ahead and customize the way you want

with putting a lot of pictures behind

you a lot of students like to string up

lights in their units do anything that

really just makes you feel like you're

at home

there's also all the furniture that you

see here included with the unit

so there would be

all of

these dressers

desks

which interesting fun fact that you

might not realize but this is a cork

board which you could go ahead and

pin things to if you want to have your

calendar reminders to-do notes anything

that might be useful to you

each unit here also comes included with

air conditioning and heating which you

can go ahead and change yourself right

here

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storage is included on both sides of

this unit which would allow you lots of

space to go ahead and hang up your dress

shirts

or jackets whatever you may have to face

the canadian winters

let's go ahead and take a look at the

bathroom unit which is right here

so as you can see here in elk you do

have your personal bathroom which is

great for your use

it's really nice for the privacy

purposes of just having this located

right inside your unit so if that's

something you're looking for it's a very

unique setup that is specific to our

international living learning center

now let's go ahead and take a look at

what else elk has to offer

one more thing that is really close to

the resident service desk is also your

mailbox so if you're living here at elk

you'll go ahead and be assigned a key to

one of these mailboxes which is great if

you want to get snail mail from home i

really loved it during my first year

getting postcards from family members

and friends

and it's really convenient too if you do

want packages

they're going to be sent to the

residence service desk where you can go

ahead and get those for pickup

alright so now we'll be heading outside

of elk once again

thank you so much for visiting us on

this tour of elk we do also have double

rooms which we're not currently showing

off during this tour but we do have

diagrams which are available and we'll

be posting right now

so just to recap we have our

single bedroom

and we have our double bedrooms which

are available within elk

all of these units come with the seven

day meal plan which can go ahead and be

used at the elk cafeteria located on the

ground level

or also at the pitman cafeteria if you

wish to switch things up

we also have a lot of really great space

here in the common lounge to go ahead

and spend with your residence advisor in

academic link for different programming

and this building is home to living

learning communities

including entrepreneurship and

innovation

as well as fashion

thank you so much for tuning in and we

hope to see you in our next video take

care

you