Living at home whilst at uni

I got myself a house under private rent with the missus! Best move ever!

Rent is a meagre £500, so £250 each, for a house with 2 floors and a conservatory.

Halls at Edinburgh Napier is like £550p.c.m for a box. I feel I have beaten them bang for buck XD

Living at home is cool, but living out is... Cooler I guess... :P

And if I wake up at 2am and want to make steak, who is there to say no? No one! (bar the missus..)
 
Given your results I wouldn't rush off to uni unless you are REALLY sure that you can hack it. If you can't perform well in exams then you are pretty much ballsed in academia.
 
Morgoth said:
Given your results I wouldn't rush off to uni unless you are REALLY sure that you can hack it. If you can't perform well in exams then you are pretty much ballsed in academia.
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This is very true. You are likely to waste a lot of money and time if your rush off to uni now.

Your A-level grades are going to seriously hinder your employment prospects regardless off how you score in your degree.

If you do not think your a levels reflect your ability, then resit them, either this year or whenever you feel comfortable. Generally speaking uni exams will be considerably harder than a-levels - if you are struggling with your examsmanship i suggest you sort it out before going to uni.
 
Getting bad grades at A-level is nothing providing you know you can do better. I hated college and as a result got C/Ds... I went on to get a Merit in a MSc.

From my experience employers will generally look pass A-level results if you have a degree, most want laboratory experience, so I'd suggest a sandwich year.
 
If I ever go to Uni, halls would drive me insane. It would be like hanging out with a bunch of kids who just got back from watching Jackass. The further I am from them the better.
 
When I went to Uni I stayed the first year in halls ... Absolutely hated it practically the entire time.

After that I rented some rooms in a house off a landlord and his wife and it was pretty reasonable most of the time.

My friends were a mixture of live at home or rent (either in groups or alone / with partners). The only real difference between them was that the ones living at home tended to still have social lives with the people from there whist the people who had moved out tended to just be social with those at Uni more.
 
Moses said:
To be blunt, couldn't those seven lever arch files just be full of rubbish?! :p

What grades were you expecting? / What do you think you could have realistically achieved? Did you do any mocks where you didn't spaz out? What did you get?

Did you ever go and talk to your tutors about how to improve exam technique? Go to them now and ask how they realistically think you can do?

Where were the offers from? Unless they're impossible to turn down, I'd take a couple of years out and sort yourself out, if I was you.

(Been there, done that, btw).
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Was expecting BBB or BBC.

If the fees weren't going up I would retake the year.

Also sort myself out how?
 
flibbage0 said:
Has anyone lived at home whilst at uni or know someone that has.

Is it a good idea?

I know I save a lot of money but I feel like I will miss out on a lot.

Also happened to come across this http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/jul/17/highereducation.students

It says that students that live at home are less confident and less likely to get a graduate job :(

a bit of info about me, I don't drink, don't like clubbing and the whole idea of getting wasted, so maybe it isn't that bad after all?
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Lived at home and saved a fortune (didn't feel like I missed out, at all). And as a result, managed to own a house a few years after graduation. The idea of living in halls, getting drunk, not having any money does not appeal to me.
 
The majority of my uni mates I still see 7 years after graduating are the people I lived with in halls rather than those on my course.

As others have said living away is a big part of it as it makes you grow up very quickly as mum and dad aren't there to do everything for you.

I'd look at doing halls the first year then possibly moving home the second so that you get to experience a bit off everything. I remember my parents saying 'school days are the best days of your life' when I was younger, they never went to uni! ; )
 
Moses said:
What was the expectation of BBB/C coming from? Blind expectation, or did you have a reason to think that?

Sort yourself out, as in not rush into anything + get into a good mindset for performing in the academic environment university is.
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Its university of Greenwich, Teachers said I could achieve it.

Woo 2000 posts.
 
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On topic - I don't think that you're cut out for university based on how you struggled with the pressures of A Levels. Go to college, it'll be easier for you and you'll be able to see if you can handle it. I don't know if anywhere local to you do 2+2 courses, but it may be worth checking out.

Moses said:
Living costs in the UK can be covered by maintenance loan + maintenance grant + bursaries + job.

Living costs outside the UK can't be covered by the student finance maintenance grants or loans, I imagine any bursaries there are will be mega competitive and getting a job would be hard as there would probably be a language barrier.
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Unless you're domicile in Scotland ;).
 
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