I thought I'd contribute as someone who has actually lived there. I've had a great experience living there for the last two years - I won't be back in first semester though as I'm on exchange, but otherwise I would be.
What type of organisational set up do they have? SRs, committies, etc?
He'res how it worked last year. It may be a bit different now that there's two buildings. We have CAs - community assistants - who are reps for sports, social, pastoral care... that type of stuff. These are positions appointed by unilodge - they had interviews at the end of the year. Then there is a residents committee, meetings are fourtnightly and anyone can show up, have a say, be involved etc. There are also elected reps: president, secretary and treasurer who run the meetings, organise events and whatnot.
How's the social life there?
I enjoy the social life. You have lots of privacy for when you need to study and such, but there are always people around. The commonroom is where lots of stuff happens, there are always people there. Last year there were some great big events - Masked ball, halloween party (where they put on a bar tab for the after party), bollywood night, trivia, bachelor auction... plus interhall stuff, and people throw their own house parties all the time.
And there are O week activities this year.
You do have to make a bit more of an effort to be social - activities aren't thrust upon you like at the other colleges.
Do they get involved in the interhall activities?
Yes. But not all, the sports we did on a per event basis - if we could get a team together then we'd participate, same for arts.
What's the first year population there like?
Not sure what it would be this year, but the last two years first years have been well represented. But one of the things I like about it is it's not all first years, you meet later year people and post grads who are very awesome.
