Orientation Week
All incoming Trinity College students are encouraged to participate in Orientation Week, held each Fall before classes start. Orientation Week is an opportunity to get to know other newly admitted students, upper-year students, faculty, and staff, all while exploring Trinity College and the broader University of Toronto campus. The week is planned by Trinity College student leaders under the direction of the Office of the Dean of students and with input from community through the Orientation Advisory Committee. The week is designed to help facilitate your social and academic transition to university life. While orientation week activities differ from year to year, a number of traditional events, supports, and resources are provided annually.
Orientation 2025
The Orientation 2025 Program is being planned for Monday August 25th – Monday September 1st. While we recommend attending to all (or at least most) of the programming we strongly encourage all students to attend on Monday August 25th for our Opening Ceremony, tours, and Matriculation (a traditional welcome to the college similar in style to your convocation which happens at the end of your academic experience). More information about the schedule and programming will be available before July!
Orientation Coordinators – James Han (left) and Camila Luiz (right)
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Welcome all first-year students to Trinity College. We are excited to be your Co-Coordinators for Orientation 2025 and part of your transition to university life! My name is James Han (left), and I use he/him pronouns, I am entering my 3rd year at Trinity in Computer Science. My name is Camila Luiz (right), and I use she/her pronouns. I am entering my fourth year at Trinity in Psychology and Public Health. We are not alone in this journey. With the support of our exceptional executives and leaders, we are excited to bring you the best Trinity College orientation week. Enjoy your summer break, and we can’t wait to see you all in August!
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Please note that the Trinity College Orientation Program is being planned as an in person experience. To attend these programs students will be required to register and must adhere to all University of Toronto guidelines. Should public health recommendations change between now and August our Orientation team will be in touch via e-mail with all registered participants.
Your Orientation Executive team is made up of the Orientation Coordinator and a team of Orientation Executives who bring experience from various years and programs.
Orientation Schedule
Check out the Trinity College Orientation Schedule for 2024 below! While this won’t match up exactly with our plan for this year, it does provide a general idea of what the week might look like for this year.
For additional details the Day to Day reminders were uploaded to Instagram (@trinorientation2024). Our Accessible schedule pdf is available here: Final Schedule Accessible Version
Coming to Campus
Planning to attend Orientation in person this September? Our Trin101 Online Orientation outlined a number of helpful tips and tricks. If you’re not a newly admitted Trinity College student, some key pieces are below!
Public Transit
Explore Transportation options on the St. George campus (Links to an external site.)
There are three subway stations surrounding UofT campus. For an interactive TTC subway map, please click here. (Links to an external site.)
| St. George Station – 8 minute walk to Trinity College | |
| Museum Station – 6 minute walk to Trinity College | |
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Queens Park Station – 11 minute walk to Trinity College
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Toronto Transit Commission (TTC)
The TTC is Toronto’s public transportation system.
Fares
The TTC posts its fares online (Links to an external site.) for everything from single tokens to weekly and monthly passes.
Post-secondary students can purchase a discounted monthly Metropass (Links to an external site.); a Metropass allows you unlimited travel in a specific month on all regular TTC services. If you purchase a Metropass, you must obtain a Post-Secondary TTC Student Photo ID (Links to an external site.) as your discounted Metropass is only valid when accompanied by said ID; there is a small fee for the photo ID card.
The TTC offers priority seating (Links to an external site.) on all TTC vehicles for customers with disabilities.
Service Updates
Stay up-to-date with TTC delays and service updates by following the TTC Notices Twitter account (Links to an external site.) and find real-time schedules of buses, trains and streetcars using the Transit App (Links to an external site.)
GO Transit
The GO Transit (Links to an external site.) system is the regional public transit service for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, with routes extending to communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe.
Fares
GO Transit posts their fares online (Links to an external site.). You can use a PRESTO card (Links to an external site.) to obtain added savings. With PRESTO, the more you travel, the more discounted the fare is. You can also use the PRESTO card for the TTC in place of tokens. Information on GO’s Student ID is available on the TCard website.
Most students take a GO train or bus to a TTC subway station and then take the TTC to Queen’s Park Station (Links to an external site.).
Maps
GO system maps are available online (Links to an external site.).
Accommodations
Please contact the Office of the Dean of Students directly regarding accommodation of highly sensitive or personal information (deanofstudents@trinity.utoronto.ca) including any accommodations (e.g., dietary, mobility, interpretation services, etc.) required for your participation in Trinity Orientation Week.
Please note that we do our best to meet our community’s accessibility needs, but will require advanced notice to ensure that we can make these arrangements in a timely manner.
Questions or Concerns?
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding orientation please e-mail: trinity.orientation@utoronto.ca for more details.