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Sidney Smith Hall
Category: Education Colleges & Universities Colleges & Universities [Edit]
100 St. George StreetToronto, ON M5S 3G3
Neighbourhoods: University of Toronto, Downtown Core
3 reviews for Sidney Smith Hall
3 reviews in English
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Review from Vivien L.
2/9/2012
This Uoft building houses many main offices for things such as the Department of Linguistics, Department of Psychology, Department of History and Department of Political Science. The building is layout is quite odd but you get use to it. Once you go through the main doors, you will see an open space with some chairs, tables which a lot of student groups use to advertise their club, and a second cup.
There are also two main study areas that are kind of on the opposite side of the building. On the side that faces St. George Street, there are smaller tables and it seems to be quieter there whereas the other side which faces New College and the AC has bigger tables but it's generally noisier. This building also contains the Sid's Underside Cafe where there's a food court you can buy food to eat from places like Tim Hortons and Spring Rolls.
Lecture halls here are alright.. nothing too fancy. They do look old though. And also, I don't think it's safe to drink the water from the fountains here.. Once I filled my bottle and the water was actually cloudy! Overall, a nice place to chill in between classes =) -
Review from Dishan W.
2/18/2012
Sidney Smith (SS) is sort of a melting point for all sorts of random sciences courses at UofT, it houses the main admin offices for the faculty of arts and sciences, along with the Arts and Science Students Union, hosts Anthro and Pysch labs in the basement and has classrooms for other sciences courses and seminars as well, and also includes a typical UofT food court, a lobby area that is popular when the football world cup rolls around, has a second cup and quiet study spaces.
With all that going on it does give me a sort of "swiss army knife" type of feel, but lacks the elegance of anything it does. I think it's an ugly dull building that does little to even try to appease the student's mind in to entering (a stark contrast to some of the older buildings on campus and the newer fancier looking buildings by Queens Park Subway).
I give it 2 stars of having a lot of things that one would require (a rare on campus ATM as well) to quite spaces, but it's nothing special and it's a building that I do not fancy myself to spend a lot of time inside. -
Review from Susan G.
2/14/2012
Sidney Smith is nothing special as far as UofT buildings go.
The issue with this campuses buildings is that while some of them are historic and beautiful, built in the 1800s, some of them (cough, this one) were built in the age of concrete and weird shapes - and they have remained that way since.
Sid Smith is home to ASSU (Arts & Science Student Union), Psychology, Linguistics, Arts & Science, and much more. The building layout makes about zero sense - avoid the basement unless you really understand their colour-coding walls.
They have a cafeteria in the basement which has spring rolls, pizza pizza, and the busiest Tim Horton's on campus. They have seating there as well, and as it was just redone about 2 years ago (cafeteria only), it's actually still quite nice. They also have a Second Cup just inside the main entrance.
So, while it's not my favorite place on campus, it has enough lunch time seating that I find myself there regularly anyway - and it really isn't SO bad!
