gaming in uni halls

Anyone know what Oxford Brookes network policy is?

And yes.... one needs games the morning after.

Uni is next year for me (assuming i get of the forums and go revise :( ) and my first priority will be socialising, second socialising and third scraping by to get into the next year.

I have an extremely present minded attitude :P
 
ChrisJSY said:
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BluZiff said:
spoken clearly by someone whos never been to Uni.
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Agreed with by someone who's currently at uni. I don't particularly like going out, I've yet to go to a club and somehow, I've got friends in my year :eek:

For me, I'm at university for the education, not the socialising. Quite happy spending my evenings at home, playing games and doing coursework.

EDIT: And to the OP, my friends had some problems getting games to work in their first year but found a tunneling combination that they ended up using which worked fine.
 
NightmareXX said:
Agreed with by someone who's currently at uni. I don't particularly like going out, I've yet to go to a club and somehow, I've got friends in my year :eek:

For me, I'm at university for the education, not the socialising. Quite happy spending my evenings at home, playing games and doing coursework.

EDIT: And to the OP, my friends had some problems getting games to work in their first year but found a tunneling combination that they ended up using which worked fine.
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I'm going to university next year, and I sound exactly like you. I don't really enjoy the drinking, 'going out' culture most people seem to like, so gaming is the perfect thing to do if nothing else is happening. Yes, I am sad.

Anyone at Sussex/Kent and know the internet situation btw?
 
ChrisJSY said:
You come across as very naive in the fact that you think everyone is the same.

Believe it or not, this may come as a huge shock to you so sit down, (yes I know I am being patronising) but, I don't like "clubbing" or "going out" at night like that.

When I see my friends, real friends not some odd aquaintance, we do not go out solely to clubs/to get mashed or whatever it is you are insinuating.
I don't drink acohol, I abhor night life where the dredges and low lifes of society meet up with decent people to create this horrible mix.

I don't want to go out and meet more friends, I have enough and it's not about how many I can fit on my facebook list.

If I was actually going to uni (and I still can at my age, I can at an even older age) the last thing on my mind is going out with my friends (or lack of, I'd not know anyone to begin with) at night to get slaughtered every night.
I do prefer to stay in and do, you guessed it, things I like not what you assume I should like.

Why is it that hard for some people to understand we don't all like doing what you do? We are each our own person and like our own things, I know what I like better than you.

You sound like you have no idea what you are talking about and the advice is simply, instead of wasting time gaming, go out and get some night life and waste it there instead?

Uni is about socialising? Thats what I hear from all the people who don't really get that far, uni is for academic purposes first, socialising second.

Don't you have friends outside of uni you can do that with?
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No my advice is not to be a boring geek sitting on your on in your dorm playing wow or what ever you like to play missign out on some of the best years of your life and to go out and meet people and socialize and enjoy life.

Dont try and claim my advice is wrong or im naive because your in the minority and the majority of people enjoy socializing and going out. Beleive it or not :O

You dont ahve to work every day. Odly enough going to see new people doesn't make your other older friends obselete :O They dont suddenly dissapear!

You can have moer then online friends or old friends as you might say.

Funny i know people just like you from college, they would say the exact same as you. And everyone considers them boring with no life.

You have totaly missed the point. UNI is very much about socilizing and meeting new people and having fun. You can work at the same time. And told try claim people fail who do this because my sister is doing dentistry at leeds and is in her 4th year and is one of the top in her group and oddly enough has a ripping social life. well not so much in 4th year. Workig getting a bit heavy. But certainly first and second was very active. 3rd and 4th die down a little. But hey was fun why i lasted no? Well not that youd know.

I was just trying to be nice tbh, but you brought it on your self.


BluZiff said:
spoken clearly by someone whos never been to Uni.

Only the complete sad acts stay in all the time. Everyone joins in in first year and its a great laugh. I have friends now getting firsts in final year engineering degrees that still manage to go out regularly. I don't go out more than once a week as Im much worse at managing my time (finalist E+E eng degree).

Uni is life experience 1st, degree second for me, ill still be getting a 2:1 this summer though.

Before I got here I had very much the opinion that you do, but it changes very quickly.

gaming was unblocked and not against any rules and reg's in the hall i stayed in.
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Yeah tbh, i didn;'t consider my post that insulting. And he trys to degrade me like taht and only makes him self look like a well.. "sad act" as you put it.
 
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Klo said:
I'm going to university next year, and I sound exactly like you. I don't really enjoy the drinking, 'going out' culture most people seem to like, so gaming is the perfect thing to do if nothing else is happening. Yes, I am sad.

Anyone at Sussex/Kent and know the internet situation btw?
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Doesn't have to be clubbing though, i mean you can go to the pub, then chinnese or what ever.

If youve not been yet, keep ya eyes open. Seriously first month or so the uni usualy actively trys to get you all together holding events and that so you can all get to know each other. Youll meet some cool people and youll just start hanging out with them and exploring the city or where ever you go. Probably change a lot more then you think like the other guy said. He went to uni with the same view.
 
In my first year my halls (Chamberlain Hall, Birmingham) had NO internet access at all in the rooms, and the only net access was available in a small computer room in the basement.

Funny how no internet made us turn to all sorts of crazy entertainment :D
 
mks2005 said:
In my first year my halls (Chamberlain Hall, Birmingham) had NO internet access at all in the rooms, and the only net access was available in a small computer room in the basement.

Funny how no internet made us turn to all sorts of crazy entertainment :D
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damn that sounds pritty bad. NO MSN :O:O:O:O

And now youve said it i expect stories now :P
 
8igdave said:
No my advice is not to be a boring geek sitting on your on in your dorm playing wow or what ever you like to play missign out on some of the best years of your life and to go out and meet people and socialize and enjoy life.

Dont try and claim my advice is wrong or im naive because your in the minority and the majority of people enjoy socializing and going out. Beleive it or not :O

You dont ahve to work every day. Odly enough going to see new people doesn't make your other older friends obselete :O They dont suddenly dissapear!

You can have moer then online friends or old friends as you might say.

Funny i know people just like you from college, they would say the exact same as you. And everyone considers them boring with no life.

You have totaly missed the point. UNI is very much about socilizing and meeting new people and having fun. You can work at the same time. And told try claim people fail who do this because my sister is doing dentistry at leeds and is in her 4th year and is one of the top in her group and oddly enough has a ripping social life. well not so much in 4th year. Workig getting a bit heavy. But certainly first and second was very active. 3rd and 4th die down a little. But hey was fun why i lasted no? Well not that youd know.

I was just trying to be nice tbh, but you brought it on your self.




Yeah tbh, i didn;'t consider my post that insulting. And he trys to degrade me like taht and only makes him self look like a well.. "sad act" as you put it.
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Hmm, I don't think this makes him look like a sad act. Your standpoint makes me laugh thats all; thinking going to pubs and clubs to socialize and "enjoy life", is the proper or more righteous/honourable way. :D
 
jmc007 said:
Hmm, I don't think this makes him look like a sad act. Your standpoint makes me laugh thats all; thinking going to pubs and clubs to socialize and "enjoy life", is the proper or more righteous/honourable way. :D
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no socilizing with people is, theese happen to be an example of some of the places you go in uni. Genearly the first year of uni you spend a lot of the time out and about theese sorts of places. I never said it was limited too them.
 
Derby (or at least my halls) had ports blocked. Teamspeak, BF2, Trackmania, COD 4 and others were blocked but WoW, TF2, CS:S and Grid worked, which kept me tied over for the year.

And just to wage into this little war going on, everyone is different. Like to think I'm a good example seeing as I've just completed my first year of computer games programming. You have to go out clubbing first few nights to get to know people. I don't like it at all either,but you're screwed if ya dont really. I mean group I was in halls with did go out quite a lot, but then we also did nights in for movies and Halo/Left 4 Dead, bowling, cinema, pub down road, even a rollerblade disco (only fell over 3 times)

Compromise really, like I said go out first few times, get to know people and then settle down as uni starts. I'm good friends with my hall lot, we'll be meeting up a tad next year (will be waiting for all the phone calls asking for help to set up internet in everyones new houses lol)
 
because of my halls not allowing online gaming i went from playing CS pretty much every day to not playing it once in the last 2 years :eek: even when i went out of halls into a house with mates i just never felt the need.

so all in all... uni cured my CS addiction. just a shame about the crack one ive picked up by hanging around with the low lifes of society
 
ChrisJSY said:
You come across as very naive in the fact that you think everyone is the same.

Believe it or not, this may come as a huge shock to you so sit down, (yes I know I am being patronising) but, I don't like "clubbing" or "going out" at night like that.

When I see my friends, real friends not some odd aquaintance, we do not go out solely to clubs/to get mashed or whatever it is you are insinuating.
I don't drink acohol, I abhor night life where the dredges and low lifes of society meet up with decent people to create this horrible mix.

I don't want to go out and meet more friends, I have enough and it's not about how many I can fit on my facebook list.

If I was actually going to uni (and I still can at my age, I can at an even older age) the last thing on my mind is going out with my friends (or lack of, I'd not know anyone to begin with) at night to get slaughtered every night.
I do prefer to stay in and do, you guessed it, things I like not what you assume I should like.

Why is it that hard for some people to understand we don't all like doing what you do? We are each our own person and like our own things, I know what I like better than you.

You sound like you have no idea what you are talking about and the advice is simply, instead of wasting time gaming, go out and get some night life and waste it there instead?

Uni is about socialising? Thats what I hear from all the people who don't really get that far, uni is for academic purposes first, socialising second.

Don't you have friends outside of uni you can do that with?
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Ok fair enough, you don't like drinking, clubbing, pubs, bars or such like. You do realise you have stereotyped us. Thats not all we do, we even go join sports clubs, gyms, art stuff, museums and god knows what else.

What I meant to say was, uni is for trying new things, gaining new life experiences. Doing things you would never have dreamed of doing with your home mates.

Not playing endless mixes of Dust2 with other randoms from the enternet.

Your choice of course, just please do consider thinking outside of the box. :)
 
"andy" said:
so all in all... uni cured my CS addiction. just a shame about the crack one ive picked up by hanging around with the low lifes of society
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hahaha, i cured my css addiction by getting banned from my favourite server i used to play on almost every day for being under the age of 18. *shrugs*

Oxy said:
Ok fair enough, you don't like drinking, clubbing, pubs, bars or such like. You do realise you have stereotyped us. Thats not all we do, we even go join sports clubs, gyms, art stuff, museums and god knows what else.

What I meant to say was, uni is for trying new things, gaining new life experiences. Doing things you would never have dreamed of doing with your home mates.

Not playing endless mixes of Dust2 with other randoms from the enternet.

Your choice of course, just please do consider thinking outside of the box. :)
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Why should he listern to you, your a low life of society.

And yeah i do agree though, there so many clubs you can join at uni its unreal. And if they dont have the one you want for some bizzar reason, you just get some peeps together and make it.

I cant wait to use the uni gym though. Really cheap and well equiped. Should be great, though the one in brummy supposidly had a group of like 3/4 really tanked up black guys who took a whole area to them selves because no one would go near them lol. Hoping to go to leeds though :) One of the best nightlifes save for london too ;)
 
in my halls, the internet was lousy and the ports were ULTRA-RESTRICTED. i think the only open port was 80 slight sarcasm, so, no online gaming for me.
 
I hardly used the internet in my room, uni was all about getting with random burds, football team, student union and about 4 weeks of studying per year before exams.
 
I'm just finishing my first year now, in the middle of exams. I used to go out quite a lot when I first got to uni, maybe 3times a week consistently. But it got old so fast, same places, same routine - boring.

Now I go out maybe once every 2 weeks. Some of my friends still go out 2/3/4 times a week spending at least £20 a night and it's crazy. I've recently bought quite a few nice techy items and my friends are asking me where I get the money from, and it's simple - from not spending it all on alcohol!
There's this false image that all uni students are stuck with awful food and no money but if you don't spend stupid amounts drinking it's an easy life!

So if you're like me and don't like drinking a lot, and only go out in moderation then you'll be sorted!

It's not about either social or education first... it's about getting the balance.
 
Microwave said:
I'm just finishing my first year now, in the middle of exams. I used to go out quite a lot when I first got to uni, maybe 3times a week consistently. But it got old so fast, same places, same routine - boring.

Now I go out maybe once every 2 weeks. Some of my friends still go out 2/3/4 times a week spending at least £20 a night and it's crazy. I've recently bought quite a few nice techy items and my friends are asking me where I get the money from, and it's simple - from not spending it all on alcohol!
There's this false image that all uni students are stuck with awful food and no money but if you don't spend stupid amounts drinking it's an easy life!

So if you're like me and don't like drinking a lot, and only go out in moderation then you'll be sorted!

It's not about either social or education first... it's about getting the balance.
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At what uni is this though? As some unis dont ahve the best night life and thus get boring. Essex would be such a bore it would be unreal there is hardly anythin around here.

Leeds has more places to go then there are days in the year with many different places having student nights every day. Thus there is always somewehre new to try and always student nights on, thus cheap.

But i agree, to get the blance right you must decrease your social life as you go through the years anyway.
 
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