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The 411

Best place for a nap: The Pit in Lady Eaton College

Best cheap lunch: El Camino’s, or any burrito in town, really

Best hangover breakfast: The breakfast special at Whistle Stop Café

Favourite campus food: The Ceilie

Favourite watering hole: Pig’s Ear Tavern (RIP)

Perks: The Quaker Oats factory makes the whole town smell like fresh-baked cookies

Where to live: Downtown

Best place to study: Window seat overlooking the river in Bata Library (with an outlet!)

Worst place to study: Bata Library during exams

Coolest electives: Indigenous Studies

Best campus event: Head of the Trent Regatta

Best live-music venues: The Spill, Historic Red Dog Tavern, The Gordon Best

Weirdest tradition: East vs. West Bank hockey tournament

Best spectator sport: Rowing

Unofficial school motto: ‘Bleed green’

Official school motto: ‘Nunc cognosco ex parte’ (‘Now I know in part’)

Most notorious bus route: West Bank Trent Express

Best campus event: Head of the Trent

Most original social event: All night study night at Lady Eaton

Best cultural event: Cultural Outreach

PROFILE: Trent University | Peterborough, Ont. | Founded 1964