First things first, welcome to Mount A! No doubt if you have reached this site you are either trying to figure out which residences to apply for OR you are lucky enough to have already been selected into Trueman or maybe even you are a Trueman alumnus who wants to see how the house has been holding up! Either way, this section is for you and will give you an idea of what living in Trueman is like!
The basics of the house are pretty straight forward for Mount A living. A fully co-ed dorm with males and females living next door to each other and an array of single and double rooms that has a maximum capacity of about 180. However this year that number will be substantially lower with the addition of the brand new Campbell Hall, meaning many of the rooms that were normally doubles, will be turned to singles but this is primarily for the upperclassmen who are returning to the house. As in every house on campus, quiet hours are enforced and ours start at 10:30PM on weekdays and 1:30AM on the weekends. Laundry facilities are all in the house and you'll need a dollar to wash, and a dollar to dry your clothes. As with every other residence there is a no smoking policy throughout the entire house. Should meal hall not be doing it for you one night or if you crave a little late night KD, there are 3 kitchenettes that are at your disposal! There are also 4 washrooms per floor, 2 male and two female. The lounge is on the ground floor next to the laundry rooms and is quite spacious and houses a TV that anyone can use, it's also where all full-house meetings take place. Last but not least, Trueman is the only house on campus that has a sauna. That's right, we have a sauna.
Trueman, like every other house on campus has an elected executive and a hired staff of monitors to help keep things in line! Go to the exec and house staff sections to meet all of the monitors, and exec members!
But more importantly than all the stats and facts about the building is what goes on inside and out when you put this many people together. Believe it or not, the house has an amazing sense of community and everyone knows everybody else! People come from all over the Maritimes, Canada and the rest of the world to live in Trueman, chances are you'll have a neighbour or floor mate from a different part of the world! Last year we had students from every province in Canada, as well as the United States, Bermuda, Japan, China and many others! For the entire first semester we have MASSIE students who are on exchange from Japan to get a taste of the Canadian way of life and learn a little english along the way! These students live with other members of the house and are some of the most incredible people you will ever meet!
Many of our residents are super involved in the athletic teams on campus, student government, the newspaper, radio station, drama productions and are all around great students! If something is going on somewhere at Mount A, you can bet a Truemanite has his or her hand in on it!
Most of the first year students will have roommates! Sure it takes getting used to living with someone, whether you know them from high school or if you are just meeting them for the first time! But in no time, you will have found a life long friend and will have learned a lot about this "real world" living that parents and teachers have been raving about for years!
While Trueman has it's quiet hours, most students find it easier to walk across the street to the library to get some much needed studying done as the rooms are sometimes not the best areas to study in, however it's not impossible!
Most importantly though, Trueman doesn't have the flashiest of rooms. The furniture is all anchored down and unable to be moved, and they are certainly some of the smaller rooms on campus! But don't worry, there is enough space to store just about everything, even girls who have 20 pairs of shoes and half a million pairs of pants find places to put everything! There's lots of wallspace to work with and put up some posters to make your room a little more "you".
So bearing all this in mind, if you are excited to meet lots of new people, get involved, live with a roommate, don't mind studying at the library and are willing to forgo a bigger, more modern room to live in the most awesome house on campus, not only will you "get by" at university, you'll have one of the most amazing experiences of your life!
Now... if you've already been convinced to live in this amazing house, what do you BRING!?