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Ok, for uni, they've really put me out in the sticks...
I'm in this place called Sycamore Cottage, (there are two cottages) and it says about the cottages: "two cottages on the site have been converted to provide two single rooms for undergraduates and a small flat for a resident dean or tutor in one cottage and six single rooms in the other"
Why am I worried that I'm going to be with some unsociable bookworm/s and going to be bloody miserable? Everyone says how great the experience of living in halls is, but looks like I'm not exactly going to get that. I don't know, too early to complain really.... what would you guys think though if you were with a dean and one other person outside the rest of the campus???
I'm in this place called Sycamore Cottage, (there are two cottages) and it says about the cottages: "two cottages on the site have been converted to provide two single rooms for undergraduates and a small flat for a resident dean or tutor in one cottage and six single rooms in the other"
Why am I worried that I'm going to be with some unsociable bookworm/s and going to be bloody miserable? Everyone says how great the experience of living in halls is, but looks like I'm not exactly going to get that. I don't know, too early to complain really.... what would you guys think though if you were with a dean and one other person outside the rest of the campus???
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I live in a 21 floor tower block, a hall of residence on campus. The SU bar's underneath it and there's been a party on at least one floor every night.
Tbh, you're accom sounds pretty sucky, but give it a chance.
If you can make friends with people from a different hall, you can party with them.
If not, tbh, I'd think about moving personally.
That said, I assume you filled out a preferences questionnaire when you applied for accomodation, so maybe this is genuinely the kind of living arrangement they see as being most suited your specification. I'd give it a chance and see; if you're very unhappy and unsuited then you could look into changing halls... a lot of people dropped out in my first couple of weeks and people moved into their rooms. It's not all set in stone just yet.
It is not really in the spirit of this thread; but I'd just like to say that the freshers here are doing my tits in this year. They have descended on Newcastle like a plague of locusts. But maybe I'm just bitter because I amn't one anymore
I'll have to see how it goes...
Depends on the person mind.
Same with Manchester... I'm sick of going in my favourite club and all the students gong 'So, what are you studying?' ERR, I'M NOT AT UNI, I LIVE HERE
I know exactly where it is
I'm sure when there I can find someone elses flat to have parties in
i kept getting people assuming i was a fresher. i'm the age of a fourth year. :crying:
but yeh i understand why people might be annoyed about students gatecrashing. i know a lot of places do student only nights which is a bit unfair.
Think about it like a flat like loads of undergrads live in in halls, it's no different really.
(For people who put in for quiet accommodation, they usually get assigned Goodricke D Block, which is like a prison. The corridors are about 70cm wide and painted hospital green. The bedrooms are the size of a double bed if you are lucky. Not that you get a double bed. I mean that the size of the room is a double bed.)
Or Derwent! They were ming :sour:
:yes: and from what you say about the location shyboy, it doesn't sound half bad
But I was looing forward to sleeping on the kitchen table because I was too drunk to stumble to my room kinda thing. But hopefully I can find someone who'll let me sleep on theirs
I don't think there was anything wrong with the actual college, well, at least, I never heard Jimmy complain about out. His mates had little geeky Derwent hoodies
Saying that though, I have a uni hoodie :chin:
Might see ya around the campus though from time to time when I head over to see my fella there.