With no roommate-matching system, Queen’s assigns first-year roommates at random, turning the first-year ‘roomie’ experience into a game of chance. Every year in early September, the intersection of Collingwood and Earl is filled with lines of parents and students hauling boxes from their cars, all on the same mission: to set their child free to fly the coop straight into independence at Victoria ‘Vic’ Hall—Queen’s most notorious party residence. When it comes to first...
