Themed Floors & Communities

Engineering Living Learning Community

General Engineering Floor

Did you know that more than 50% of Chestnut residents are engineering students? These floors will have 100% engineering students and we do our best to have an upper year engineer as the Don of these floors.

Events on these floor are planned to align with the engineering assignment schedule and support engineers.

These floors fill up fast. If you don't get on one of these floors, don't fret because there are many events and supports for Engineering students at Chestnut no matter what floor you are on.

Open to: APSC Faculty students only. Themed floors are what you make of them, so please consider if you are excited about the theme and would be willing to commit to attending one event per month on the floor.

Social Science and Humanities

Are you hoping to major in a subject in the arts, social sciences, and the humanities? This is an opportunity to live on a floor with other residents with similar academic interests.

As well as living with students in similar programs, once a term, your Don will run an academic success workshop curated to the needs of humanities and social science students. If you're more interested in Plato than Pluto, then this is the floor for you!

Open to: All students registered with the Faculty of Arts & Science, however, the floor is aimed at students hoping to declare a major in social science or humanities. Themed floors are what you make of them, so please consider if you are excited about the theme and would be willing to commit to attending one event per month on the floor.

Architecture Community

If you’re a Daniels student looking to live and connect with other architects and designers to-be, then this may be the floor for you!

We do our best to have an upper year architecture student as the Don of this floor. As well as living with students in your faculty, once per term your Don will run an academic success workshop curated to the needs of architecture students. Your Don will run lots of fun events too, such as lego building competitions or urban design walking tours.

Please note: The rooms on this floor are standard, but we are currently working to establish work spaces at Chestnut that meet the needs of architecture drafting assignments.

Open to: Daniels Faculty students only. Themed floors are what you make of them, so please consider if you are excited about the theme and would be willing to commit to attending one event per month on the floor.

Arts and Culture Community 

Sports and Wellness Community

Are you passionate about sports and wellness? Whether you are a varsity athlete or just enjoy healthy living, this could be the floor for you!

Students living on this floor often bond over their common interests in sports and love of movement. Events on this floor may include activities such as going to varsity games, skating at Nathan Phillip Square, or learning about how to make healthy food choices in residence dining.

Open to: All students. Residents of all fitness, ability and skill levels are welcome. Themed floors are what you make of them, so please consider if you are excited about the theme and would be willing to commit to attending one event per month on the floor.

Variety Floors

All our other floors are variety floors, which means they don't have a specific theme. That comes with many bonuses too! You get to live with a variety of students from all different programs and with all different interests.

This gives so many opportunities to learn and discover new things, which is a big part of what university is about.

Together with your Don, you get to decide what kind of community you want to build on your floor. They say opposites attract, so give a variety floor a try and you may just meet your new best friend.

Open to: All students.

All Woman Community

If you’re a woman who wants to only live with other women, this is the floor for you. Other genders are allowed on the floor as guests.

Open to: All students registered at University of Toronto as woman

Quiet Community

At Chestnut our building-wide quiet hours are from 11PM to 8AM on week days and 1AM to 8AM on weekends. If you’re looking for a living environment with 24hr quiet hours, this floor may be a good fit for you.

Students who live on this floor must make a commitment to maintain quiet hours at all times and ensure that their guests do the same. Quiet conversation is allowed in rooms, but louder activities should be moved to the common areas.

The Don on this floor will help create a community standard of quiet on this floor, but the quiet standards are largely self-regulated.

Open to: All students, students committed to maintaining 24 hour quiet hours