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Best place to live when at Uni?
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Hello, I know I'm looking slightly far ahead... still doing my AS levels, but just wondering where is the best place to live when at uni?
I don't mean the town that you live in, but rather the uni accomodation, own flat, flat with friends you already know or at a relatives house?
I like the idea of having my own flat. IE: Doing what I want when I want and walking around completely naked xD, but I have a feeling it'll be very expensive...
Anyone got any suggestions (or if you had your own flat at uni, was it overly expensive)?
I don't mean the town that you live in, but rather the uni accomodation, own flat, flat with friends you already know or at a relatives house?
I like the idea of having my own flat. IE: Doing what I want when I want and walking around completely naked xD, but I have a feeling it'll be very expensive...
Anyone got any suggestions (or if you had your own flat at uni, was it overly expensive)?
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personally, i'd live in halls for your first year. its a good way of meeting new people and really getting involved in everything. it does depend on what sort of person you are though, halls arent for everyone.
depending on what uni you go to there will probably be quite a wide range of accommodation available to you. if you don't think halls are what you want, you'll probably have the option to live in a house with other students.
as for living with people you already know, well that will be up to you but it probably isnt that likely that you'll be going to uni with your current mates.
that way, after first year hopefully you will have made a few firm friends to go on and live with in the next 2/3 years
After that, in a shared house.
4 at least I say.
Halls for the first year definately. There's a good chance you'll be near people you know anyway from school or home plus loads of new mates from all over the world. Definately a good experience. Then shared house after.
then you should move into a shared house from second year.
i lived with 10 girls in the 2nd year and 7 girls this year (some have graduated).
ive known of a normal occurance of 3-5 people in a house
- You can walk around the house naked and no one will mind.
- You can fart with impunity.
- You can live on a diet of junk food.
- Er, that's it...
around 4, but i'm living in a 14 bed house next year so it varies.
if you can, live in halls in your first year. it's the main way you'll have of meeting new people and is part of the uni life. don't live on your own in a flat, you'll get bored and not meet new people.
i say this from experience as in my first year i ended up living in a shared house with 3 other people. while it was alright, i think i've missed out by not having experienced living in halls.
just to be nosey, how much do you pay a week roughly in london for rent?
but that is a surefire way of slashing the chance for a new social cricles, so I'd say halls. Than you got to a shared house in your 2nd and 3rd year.
It is nice having the freedom of a house, and it does feel more 'grown-up'. But to be honest, when you're a fresher you don't want too much responsibility, you want to just chill out and have fun! Bills etc are a bit of an arse and I wouldn't have wanted to deal with them in the first year, I think I've grown up a lot since then So my recommendation would be to go into halls!
the home students are lepers unless they are girls
What about the people who are actually there to study, rather than live like a student and go out drinking/partying?
you can do both.
i don't think anyone would really go to uni to just get pissed all the time. it's too much like hard work with all the work you have to do.
i'm there for many reasons. one of them being for the experience. nowt wrong with that.
i'd rather go to uni and do my degree than say do it through OU.