"Simalleyaile;c-16803253" wrote:
@Movotti - never heard of residential colleges? They're all over the place, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Cairns, Perth, even smaller country towns with Unis- even the town I live in now where my husband works at a University has residential colleges. Most people I knew lived in residential colleges at least the first year, even ones that lived in the Uni town. It's pretty common for Aussies to leave their home town, even go interstate to get their tertiary education. I lived in QLD for high school, but went to NSW for Uni. All of my high school friends went off to Uni and stayed in residential colleges. I met a lot of my friends from all around Australia that way. A percentage of accommodation is put aside for overseas students, but the majority is taken up by us. It's not "odd" at all. You must live in a town/city that has a Uni. Most Australians don't.
I think we had something similar at my university, and I'm in the US. I didn't live in one because they didn't have one for what I eventually got my degree in, but if I remember correctly they had separate dorms for people that were majoring in music, science, education, broadcasting, etc... I think most people only stayed in them for their first year before choosing to move off campus and into their own houses/apartments.
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