Introduction to rezONE First Year Experience Program


rezONE begins the day you accept your offer of residence with UofT Mississauga. This award-winning transition program is specifically designed to give students the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in first year. In fact, our research shows that students who complete rezONE achieve a significantly higher GPA than students who do not complete. Furthermore, research shows that students who complete the program have significantly more completed class credits after four years than students who do not complete.

rezONE is composed of five parts: Academic Living Communities, rezPALs, Seminars, Facilitated Study Sessions (FSS), and a Capstone Project. Each component is aimed at providing you and with the information and skills needed to address various challenges that arise in the first year of living and learning away from home.

Experiences vary among students depending on their academic majors, but you can expect to further develop reading and writing skills, master fundamental research techniques for your discipline, understand your individual learning style to better prepare for tests and exams, all while learning valuable life skills for living away from home for the first time. Before you arrive in residence, you will be matched with a group of 25 other first year students in the same of similar academic discipline to your own, and placed in a first year residence community. Our Academic Living Communities are residence communities built around academic disciplines. In your Academic Living Communities you will have the opportunity to know other students in your courses, organize study groups in residence, or simply meet other students with similar interests.

Simply by virtue of being a first year UofT Mississauga residence student, you are automatically connected to the rezONE program and the variety of supports associated with living on campus. While rezONE is designed to provide you with the support needed for success, it does not restrict you from defining your own experience. The experience is yours to create.