Students at Humber are offering advice about first year.
Paxton Coghlin is studying electromechanical engineering technology.
Robotics basically, as one could tell from the 3D printer and small engineering projects littered around his room, showing off his knack for the trade.
He highly advises his peers to use resources on campus required for their trade as much as possible just as he has done when he needed equipment he did not own.
Coghlin won the internal competition for electromechanical engineering technology skills and will participate in the provincial competition on May 2.
“We have our own room to train in sponsored by Magna,” said Coghlin.
“I used it 6 days a week and for a time of a month and a half, seven days a week.
“I used it a lot and it is very easy to access because I live on residence and it’s so close, I can see it from my window.”
“If I didn’t have my own resources, I’d be using Humber’s a lot more,” Coghlin said. “I think living in residence makes these resources easier to access.”
Dario Lucchesi, who is Italian, born and raised in Rome, said he chose to come to Humber to study 3D modeling and visual effects for a year.
Lucchesi. who met Coghlin in residence, said he is often either awake late into the night or cooking his own dinner in the student available kitchen areas.
“The kitchen is definitely essential,” Lucchesi said. “The cafeteria does a decent effort trying to bring in different cultures, I’m just someone that has a culinary culture.”
Using the kitchen, he’s able to access that culture from his home and advises other students to do the same, if possible, even if it is just for a small snack.
Access to the kitchen is gotten by checking out a pass at the front desk. In fact, a large part of the help Lucchesi gets is from staff working at the front desk or student RAs.
“Them being human and also being in the same situation they’ll help with smaller things like dealing with people, friendship, dealing with relationships,” he said. “Those rescores are always available for that.”
Paxton Coghlin is someone who Lucchesi met in residence and became friends with.
They both are planning to move into an apartment together with a few other friends after the semester is over at the end of April.
Another student spoke about using public transit hub at Humber that offers bus, subway and train connections across GTA.
Jon Chris is a student studying sports business management from the United States and is a Blue Jays fan and uses the TTC to get to downtown Toronto.
“It’s super good,” he said. “You can go to a bus terminal, and it takes you downtown. I’ve met other people from Toronto who say it’s bad, but I feel it’s pretty good.”
All these resources are highly advised to be used by fellow students, but residence faculty member Celene Naidu has an extra piece of advice to make life on campus that much better.
“Try to get along with everyone, try to make the best of everything.”