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pigrescuer

University Accommodation

Jun 09, 2009 21:39

I have to choose what university accommodation I want to put my name down for, and I am stuck between two options:

Option A
£76 a week. Old seventies rooms, washbasin, kitchen and bathroom shared between 7 or 8 people. Directly over the Student Union. Right in the centre of campus

Option B
£95 a week. Built in the last decade, washbasin, 4 kitchens ( Read more... )

money, university

Comments 59

tearoha June 10 2009, 04:12:10 UTC

Not that I have massive amounts of experience, but the closer your accommodation to where your classes are, the better. Otherwise, you have to drag around the massive textbook bag of DOOM. That said, three minutes probably won't make a world of difference.

I *never* heard of any room advertised with a washbasin when I was looking for uni accomodation either. Maybe it's a Brit thing?

*bops along to the Gen song*

pigrescuer June 10 2009, 09:40:28 UTC

Lol, thanks, but the campus is a very tiny one. It would take about 40 minutes to walk the length of it. If you were walking slowly.

Plus, all the rooms are in the north bit, then the middle is the central stuff with the library and the bank and the food places and the bars, then the southern bit has the carpark and the science buildings. And the lake.

So they seem to want to separate the science buildings from everybody anyway. ^_^

and seriously, you guys don't get washbasins either? How do you brush your teeth!?

pigrescuer June 10 2009, 09:45:50 UTC

Oh, wait, you're staying with your aunt and uncle, aren't you? Well, how do most people brush their teeth?

bluestalking June 10 2009, 14:49:12 UTC

The communal bathrooms? are on every floor. They have sinks. And toilets. And showers. We brush our teeth with water and toothpaste. It is the standard way. America: not that bad off. Although the washbasins were nice.

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bluestalking June 10 2009, 14:40:05 UTC

Secret truth: In America there are NEVER washbasins. My friends and I were stunned when we were in Yon British Isles. Stunned by the washbasins.

jade_sabre_301 June 10 2009, 16:07:43 UTC

1) WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

2) I think my dorm room has a washbasin...I do not feel like googling it, but my dorm room has a sink in it, and that's it as far as that sort of thing goes. The communal bathroom down the hall has the toilets and the showers. (Some of the older dorms also have bathtubs, but I don't think anyone uses them.)

Now in a lot of newer dorms, they're building these suite things which are two bedrooms that share a bathroom, so you're only sharing with three or four others or whatever.

ANYWAY MY ADVICE: you don't want to live directly over the student union. There's a reason it's so cheap, and that reason probably has to do with the LOUDNESS THAT IS THE STUDENT UNION if it's anything like ours (and I understand that in other places they have like bars in them which would make it worse than ours).

I would go for option C if you're worried about cost, and if not, option B.

pigrescuer June 10 2009, 18:19:49 UTC

1. BATH. You can come and visit me and pretend to be in a Jane Austen novel.

2. In the UK the Student Union is essentially a cheap bar. I think this is something to do with the drinking age? As students can all drink. :)

I've noticed that all the newer rooms are en-suite! What happens when they knock down the old ones and you're forced to pay for an expensive en-suite, eh?

jade_sabre_301 June 11 2009, 04:35:35 UTC

1. I actually found that a very exciting thought.

2. That's what I understood (read: the kids that went to Glasgow came back talking about condom dispensers and bars), so uh, I would NOT LIVE OVER THERE. Unless you are secretly a CRAZY PARTIER.

...room and board are included in our tuition? So I guess you do pay for it, but it's not really a separate thing? Or it's something you pay for all at once, not weekly.

eta: just looked at your music on your post and LOL, that is exactly what I think every time that song comes on. :-D

pigrescuer June 13 2009, 13:08:37 UTC

1. It's a very, very exciting thought!

2. Condom dispensers are, um, standard issue. At least in the bars I've been into. I guess it's better than the STI-riddled alternative.

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rozzietheaussie June 10 2009, 20:36:47 UTC

firstly, tell me a bit more about the second one. My friend laura over at newcastle uni doesn't have a washbasin in her room but there are 6 of them and it's more like a flat then anything.

The accomodation I live in is 60's I think built and it's so run down. my bedroom is nice a big so it's fine but I can't stand the kitchen, the internet connection is not too good and the common room is just uncomfy. Plus the only shower is an attachment thing and there is no where to put it when you need to put it down to wash your hair.
Also being abouve the student union if you want to sleep is a bit meh! however, also very handy

I would go for the second one. I like living right on campus but even being 3 mins away may help as it's like you can get away a little bit if you are sick of uni if that makes sense? plus it sounds a LOT nicer.

what uni are you going to BTW have you decided (well I guess you have)

and what are you studying is it medicine still?

pigrescuer June 10 2009, 20:42:55 UTC

No, Natural Sciences.

Why has everybody decided the other one is off the campus? Did my description make it sound like that? All the first year accommodation is on campus, it's a very tiny campus. :D

The rooms I think I will go for (a new one appeared this morning - £90 with washbasin) have been recently renovated, so they shouldn't be too shabby. :D

Lol, of course I've decided! It's June! I am going to Bath. Three As. Which means I should go to bed since I have c3 and Chemistry in the morning. ¬_¬

Um. I was thinking of visiting Hollie in August. Are you doing anything then? I realise you've been up there tons of times, but I haven't been sinc eI grew hair! Leila has no money. I haven't got round to asking anyone else yet.

rozzietheaussie June 11 2009, 17:00:52 UTC

August is my 4 weeks of from uni so I'm on holiday for most of it aside from my last week but I'm planning on spending that at home and doing london related things sorry

and hope the exams went well today good luck

bath is a very nice place I hope you get in :)

hanelissar June 11 2009, 00:03:23 UTC

Bristol is clearly extortioning me! My accomodation (if I get the one I want) is going to cost £162 a week - how can that POSSIBLY be justified?! (Yes, okay, I am going for catered because I am lazy and for an en-suite because...well I guess also because I am lazy but still, ridiculousness!) Even the most horrible, wash basin-less and in-the-middle-of-nowhere places are still £90 a week. I am being robbed!

But to get back to your actual question, uh, option B sounds best I think. Over the SU I can imagine much noise and madness which will be fun and great at all times until exams. (And I think it is a human right to have a wash basin and cannot understand these strange US places with no sinks.)

pigrescuer June 13 2009, 13:06:56 UTC

£162 sounds fine if you're including food and your own bathroom! You lazy person.

Bath is not in the middle of nowhere! It's 30 minutes from Bristol! I can come and stalk you. ^_^ And also find the Being Human house, which I intend to do one day.

hanelissar June 13 2009, 16:50:11 UTC

I know, I am horrendously lazy...but on the other hand, I am also (kind of) rich after working all year and am going to indulge myself!

Sorry, I didn't mean Bath was in the middle of nowhere, I meant the grottiest of Bristol's accomodation. Do come and visit - we can find it together! Although it will probably be the first thing I do so you will have to be speedy! :D