Because of reasons.

1. The Glendon campus is beautiful! We have trees all over the grounds, adorable wildlife – raccoons and squirrels, a picture perfect rose garden and a forest to walk through anytime! Additionally, Glendon students are free to visit the Manor, the estate of the Wood family who donated the property as the founding campus of York University. The area where Glendon is situated is also lovely; we’re right by the Bridle Path, always a nice place to go for a stroll or a run.

2. Glendon has small classes! When I was looking into various universities, it seemed to me that the average university class had at least 200 students. This fact worried me because I was afraid of getting lost in the system and simply becoming a number. However, this is not a problem at Glendon because classes average 25 students which still allows for a personal learning experience where you can get to know your professors and classmates and feel comfortable speaking up in class.

3. The small campus is less intimidating, with only 3,000 students, compared to the Keele campus, which is frequented by some 50,000 students. I felt much more comfortable getting involved on campus in the Glendon College Student Union (GCSU), Residence events and committees, Glendon Model United Nations and I even wrote an article for ProTem, our campus newspaper! Having less people around also means you get to know a large majority of people; walking down the halls of York Hall (our main school building), you’ll quickly find you recognize more people than you would have thought.

4. The perfect program! I love languages and although I have yet to choose my future career, I am currently in the most ideal program ever – I’m majoring in Spanish, minoring in French and pursuing a certificate of trilingual excellence. Plus I am in the iBA program, which adds an extra international component to my degree allowing me to study abroad for a whole year!

Those are a few of the main reasons I love Glendon, others include Lunik – our student co-op café, the friendliness of everyone on campus, the sense of community, the crazy D-frosh team, the awesome ResLife team and more, but I’ll talk more about all that later!

So, why did you choose Glendon/ What’s your favourite thing about Glendon??