http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/U...364/story.html There's a huge ruckus on how this university plans to fund/deal with varsity/competitive sports vs. rec. club sports for the students. I was amazed that every student must pay the obligatory $200.00 annually as part of their tuition fees, just for varsity-rec. sports funding. Not sure if it includes rights for every full time student to use the campus facilities. (ie. as a full time student you get to use the library facilities...which includes the expensive research databases that cost millions of dollars to support the licenses.)

It got me thinking: as a university student when I went to 2 different universities over 5 years...I never once made use of the gyms. I didn't even investigate any of the exercise programs to see if they were free or what their cost was. I was so focused on my academic studies ....and later socializing with some people.

It terms of fitness...the only thing I did was walk to and from where I lived and campus daily. I did that 80% of the time. lst university was a daily walk of 8 km. 2nd university was daily walk of 2.5 km. round trip. I also walked to go the grocery store to get food. I never lived in any of the dorms for pre-set cafeteria food.

That's all. But it was helpful...I walked off my study stress. I also went for long walks 3-4 times per year: each campus had some huge beautiful green park spaces. Lovely in fall and summer. And no, I didn't have a weight problem: I couldn't afford to buy pizza, pop.

Looking back, I would have now at least checked the gymn situation.