Hi,

Can anyone tell me whether it is worth spending 120 dollars and buying a macpass?

Thanks

Yes, especially if you will be living in residence.

Most of the events you need a Macpass to go, especially the big ones like faculty day and faculty night. If you want to meet and make friends with people who will be in your faculty/program these are really great events to go to.

Also with the Macpass you get all kinds of useful free swag including a residence t-shirt and a faculty t-shirt as well as stuff like umbrellas or waterbottles, keychains etc, whatever your faculty decides on.

If you want to meet lots of people and make friends I would suggest getting your Macpass and going to as many of the Welcome Week events as possible. You won't regret it.

A lot of people complain about how some events are slack at checking Macpasses but big stuff like faculty day/night definitely check and those are the best events. Also if you don't buy a Macpass that hurts the quality of Welcome Week. They need that money to put all the great events on and buy all the great stuff for the students. If you don't buy it you may be able to sneak into an event or two but how good will the event be if no one puts up the money to help pay for the awesome welcome week events.

I bought one and thought it was a good choice.

it's SO worth buying. you get a whole laundry bag full of swagg including a your residence's themed tshirt and your faculty tshirt. you get free passes to the concerts and all the activities. def spend the money or you'll be left out during welcome week for the most part.

No. I didn't think it was worth it. You can be involved in WW without one, I know a few people who didn't.

Unless you actually like the bands playing, it's really not worth it. From my experience first year, at most events they didn't check for wrist bands because of the large number of students. I basically ended up paying $120 for a bunch of stuff that I didn't use - except the calendar, which is $10 at titles and to see Sam Roberts. My mac sci umbrella broke after a huge storm ;__;.

It's up to you really.

except you'll look really lame when you're the only one on your floor who doesn't have a residence tshirt.

Originally Posted by janeller

except you'll look really lame when you're the only one on your floor who doesn't have a residence tshirt.

Not really lame, just kind of out of place. Plus you'll want a res and faculty t-shirt. It's a great memory of Welcome Week.

You won't have much a chance to notice the lameness though since you won't actually see or meet most of your rez mates since they'll be busy having Welcome Week fun.

You won't have much a chance to notice the lameness though since you won't actually see or meet most of your rez mates since they'll be busy having Welcome Week fun.

Too bad you can still participate in WW without the wristband. Moot point.

except you'll look really lame when you're the only one on your floor who doesn't have a residence tshirt.

I certainly hope that's not the only reason for getting a pass. :|

Jeremy, you can still get res/faculty gear during the year. Some of the sweaters are actually really nice.

Originally Posted by janeller

except you'll look really lame when you're the only one on your floor who doesn't have a residence tshirt.

is there no other way to get the residence and faculty t shirts?
i know it might sound a little weird but are the t shirts available for all sizes?

Originally Posted by goelk

is there no other way to get the residence and faculty t shirts?
i know it might sound a little weird but are the t shirts available for all sizes?

I don't know about residence shirts but some faculty shirts are available to buy after Welcome Week. It's just whatever they have left over though.

They make the shirts in all different sizes but it's first come first serve though. Like whoever picks up their Macpasses first gets first choice and once they run out of a size that's it. They tend to run out of the small sizes first from what I remember though.

Jesus you keep saying you can get into lots of events without the Macpass but for most of the big/popular events this isn't true. Also if you go to an even without a Macpass and then they do check you're out of luck so you'll miss out on something you were planning to go to. I think after all the complaints they've gotten over the years they continue to try harder to check Macpasses at events, it's just a hard job with so many students.

Originally Posted by jesus

Too bad you can still participate in WW without the wristband. Moot point.



I certainly hope that's not the only reason for getting a pass. :|

Jeremy, you can still get res/faculty gear during the year. Some of the sweaters are actually really nice.

But can you get the t-shirts that you sweated in all week? The t-shirts will be soaked in memories!

And yes, they did run out of smalls last year, luckily I got one ^-^

Get the Macpass. You'll want the shirts definitely so that you meld into the crowd. It's awkward enough having to be in a new social group meeting lots of people for the first time, you don't want to be sticking out on top of that because you don't have your residence/faculty shirt.

Faculty day (which you need your shirt for) is also lots of fun.

I'd highly recommend you buy it.

Originally Posted by jhan523

But can you get the t-shirts that you sweated in all week? The t-shirts will be soaked in memories!

And yes, they did run out of smalls last year, luckily I got one ^-^

Well it's better they have bigger sizes available anyway. You can wear one that's too big but you can't wear a t-shirt that's too small for you.

Originally Posted by sew12

Well it's better they have bigger sizes available anyway. You can wear one that's too big but you can't wear a t-shirt that's too small for you.

That's true. It always baffles me how stores in Canada have so many L, XL, XXL and even XXXL. But I am finding a lot more smalls and mediums this summers, so maybe they finally realized we are not America? Or maybe it's because I've change which stores I buy things at.

So you can still buy the faculty T-shirts and sweaters and such throughout the year? Thanks guys btw.. you convinced me to get the MacPass as well.. Wouldn't wanna miss out