Uni - Living at home?

i lived away from home, best thing i did, felt sad to come back home after uni, you learn so much more responsibility away from home, paying bills, having to look after your money, and you make more friends, i had a few units with a guy who lived at home, most obnoxious guy i ever met, spoilt rotten, never had a job, used his parents as taxis, and just lived up to the only child stereotype. that's not to say you'll be the same, but can you imagine meeting some girl in a bar, let's go back to mine? my mum can make us breakfast? ;)
 
Nitefly said:
One house I knew made something they called the doom throne, which basically had 2 broken lazy quest packs attached to it. It occationally beeped or went off by itself in the corner...
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Haha Nitefly that is great!

Our little random thing in the flat was a giant (im talking 4 foot tall here) pink teddy bear that one of the lads bought for a lass who dumped him a week later. In a daring night raid on her room we stole it back one night.

We shaved all its hair off with a razor apart from giving it a mohican (obviously pink) replaced his eyes with flashing red LED lights, we whittled down sticks to little sharp spears and stuck them into his hands using superglue and then spray painted "Time To Die" on his chest in red paint.

We called him Freddy Bear and he was really, really scary. Freaked even me out never mind the randoms who came round not expecting him. I will try and find a picture of him for you
 
Marky said:
I'd stay on campus - take in the uni culture :p
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Do this, part of the fun is causing havoc in halls, trapsing round town blind drunk and waking up god knows where. You'll also meet so many more people living away from home and it's very beneficial in that it prepares you for when you have to move out and fend for yourself (to an extent).
 
Can only echo what people have said about moving out. I've just moved back to the rents for the summer after 4years of wasting away with fellow wreckheads and it's annoying to say the least.
 
Interesting thoughts in here... I'm also applying for entry in 2010 as well.

My local uni (Kent) is about a 10 minute walk, so is it a bit pointless (assuming I go there) to stay in halls? Surely I can just stick with people up there until late anyway and come home to sleep/eat?

I don't think its worth the hassle for a 10 minute walk...but I don't know. Obviously if I get into a better uni, I will live in halls anyway. Just not sure what to do if I get into Kent.
 
I also stayed at home when i went to uni. I made loads of friends the first dasy at uni. All you have to do is walk upto people and talk :)

Once you have made some friends you can stay on there floor for nights out and stuff.

You don't miss out by living at home, well i didn't feel i did anyway.
 
There's no answer that is right for everyone here, I moved out and loved almost every second of it but I know other people who just didn't get on with the experience at all. However whether you fit into the former category or the latter it strikes me as a worthwhile thing to do as you'll probably learn something about yourself either way - your first year is generally the least important in terms of weight for future gradings so provided you pass you've achieved the main objective.

You can make either option work for you but it very much depends on the type of person you are, that's not something that any of us can really advise on without knowing you.
 
Hmm.. I'd go stay in halls, you'll probably have the best time of your life if you're the social type.

To be honest, even if I lived next door to Bournemouth uni, I'd still pay £3k just to stay in halls... (even though that wouldn't be possible - gotta live over 8 miles away or something).


Go to uni and stay in halls. Do it!
 
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I'd highly recommend staying in halls at least for the first year, you meet so many people and get involved in all kind of shenanigans, if you stay at home i'm sure you'll still have a good social life, but you'll have to work a lot harder to meet people and you'll still miss out on the spontaneous events. The best part for me was having so many people so close, so you could just wander through and see what they're are up to etc.
 
Having just finished Uni, I wouldn't bother if you're going to live at home and you may as well go straight into full time employment.
 
Scythe said:
I think I'll take this approach. How do you cope, have plenty of money for nights out during week etc?
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In the first year I was pretty much just scraping through, but comfortably (If that makes sense!?). Basically, I had enough money to go out when I wanted to, and to live. I restricted myself on the 'luxuries' front quite a lot, but I already had a good pc/360/lcdtv etc. etc. so I didnt need to spend any money. I found that getting your loan/grants and then splashing £500 on tv/amp/whatever was impossible.
I don't really see how anyone can get that, considering the loan doesnt even cover accomodation! I am entitled to the maximum (I believe, or near enough. Widowed parent on low income etc. etc.) loans/grants and accomodation sucks up the whole of the loan at about 3.5k for the year. Expect this to be a lot higher in modern halls or other unis, can be lower aswell though! The on campus halls at UWE have skyrocketed to £110 a WEEK!

Anyway, with about 2k in grants across the year, plus my money saved I did just fine. It is getting tougher though as accommodation prices only seem to be going up.

Kreeeee said:
Having just finished Uni, I wouldn't bother if you're going to live at home and you may as well go straight into full time employment.
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Have to agree with that. Its not going to make or break your career going to Uni, if your even vaguely intelligent and driven you can do just aswell NOT going to uni. IMO, ofcourse :p. I was set to be doing an electrical apprenticeship at Volvo until I randomly got an unconditional offer through for Computer Engineering, and took it really for the social experience. I don't regret it one bit.
 
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I wish I had lived in halls in my 1st year. You can only get a pass anyway so why bother working hard, just party hard. Then I would have moved back home for the other 2 years. But instead I commute in all the time.

What is worse is that for a 9am lecture I have to leave my house at half 7, whereas my friends in halls leave theres at 8:55am, lol.
 
Kreeeee said:
Having just finished Uni, I wouldn't bother if you're going to live at home and you may as well go straight into full time employment.
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A bizarre comment, frankly. Whilst the social aspect of Uni is hugely important (And not, contrary to popular belief, the exclusive affair of those living on the campus), it's not the only benefit of going.
 
Kristoph said:
Thats fair enough, however the attraction of uni was just as much the social life and development of myself as a person as it was the fact I'd be leaving with a degree and furthering my education.
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Same. A degree is not the be all and end all as Labour like to promote it as.
 
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