How was residence at First Year like?

For my first year, I stayed at the Lawyers Hall residence. On the day I first arrived, I took a picture outside my window. 

View of Downtown Brantford, circa September of 2011

Throughout the school year, construction was happening around Lawyers Hall to renovate the neighboring defunct Brantford Expositor building into a new residence. Eventually, the alleyway between the residence (as well as the quickest route to my classes) was blocked off by construction. The workers were very diligent, beginning their work in the early hours of the morning, and throughout the day, usually when I was studying. When the Winter semester ended at April, I took another picture of generally the same view at the last day I spent at Lawyers Hall. This is what I saw outside my window:

View of Downtown Brantford, at the end of April 2012

Of course, the construction was only around my res at the time. Looking back at this picture, I now notice that I never went  to that sub store just across the street, though I did have an interest in checking it out eventually.