Anybody here been to bristol uni? MechEng specifically.

[FreeStream]

Sheffield will be the best place to study engineering hands down, I say this from experience as Sheffield has loads of actual engineering jobs for you to do once you graduate.

That very much depends on *what* you are looking for.

- university hall & Hyatt bunker: if you weren't from these halls you were considered a toff by some
- wills hall - rah rah rah!
- Churchill - I actually heard some of them chanting "eton"
- dulldum (at least 9 years) - boring manchilds
- gay dock - wheeeey for the lads!
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Oi! I went to Badock. We weren't all lads you know

The bar was the best of the bunch tho.

I do Aerospace Engineering, Graduating this year.

Glad I went to Bristol over Bath or Imperial, Bath is a nice place to visit a few times, but it's not Bristol by any stretch of the Imagination.

He wasn't booted from the university. He was kicked out of Wills. He went to one of the other StokeB halls, Badock I think.

Correct!

 

[RomanNose]

So which of the halls is the quietest?( I am not a party creature)
Also do all the halls have self catering and catered blocks?

 

[FluffySheep]

You had berks in all the halls in stoke bishop really and the stereotypes were at least partially true:

- university hall & Hyatt bunker: if you weren't from these halls you were considered a toff by some
- wills hall - rah rah rah!
- Churchill - I actually heard some of them chanting "eton"
- dulldum (at least 9 years) - boring manchilds
- gay dock - wheeeey for the lads!

You have to give Hiatt Baker halls it's proper name - hmm, how to do that without getting banned? First worst, slang term for faeces, pronounced with the 'e' at the end, and the second work is safe, simply bunker. Work it out yourself.

I remember some antics at UH - room turfings. Urinating from a balcony only to find the hall warden seeing the flow. Water fights on the stairwells using free wine that came with delivery takeaways. They're just the ones I'll admit to knowing about!

[none involved me directly!]

FluffySheep

 

[FreeStream]

So which of the halls is the quietest?( I am not a party creature)
Also do all the halls have self catering and catered blocks?

Badock/Wills/Churchill are completely catered (You get Breakfast and Dinner - at least that is what I got at Badock) and then 'Formal Meals' every so often. More often at the 'Posher' halls however...

University Halls (Poverty Halls) is laid out in floors of five with a kitchen/bathroom between you.

As for quietness, to be honest, that is a lottery.

I had friends in every unit of Badock and each one of them was woken up at some point due to various student activities.

UH possibly would be the quietest, as you don't have long corridors people can run up and down.

You might not be a 'party animal' but DO get stuck in, you eventually land up with the right group of people.

 

[int]

Durdham has been known as Dullham for the past 2 years at least. UH is the 'party' hall of the self catered in SB.

I heard that it was like that prior to our lot arriving and it calmed down the year after. The wardens and "helpers" (I forget what you call them, they're the students who chose to live in halls past the first year...) often told us we were the loudest bunch they'd had in a long time.

That being said, of the 4 blocks they had there (A-D), only B and half of A would ever come out and do something, the rest were locked away being socially awkward.

It was a shame really as we got to know some of the C and D lot towards the end and they were great people, but they'd been lumped in with their "own" people (read: same ethnic group) by the people who allocated rooms.

 

[Nitefly]

You have to give Hiatt Baker halls it's proper name - hmm, how to do that without getting banned? First worst, slang term for faeces, pronounced with the 'e' at the end, and the second work is safe, simply bunker. Work it out yourself.

FluffySheep

Dude, come on, as if I didn't know that

Roman nose, if you are opting for Stokebishop, all have their niceties and your experience will be totally down to who you share your corridor / flat with. A flat will allow you to be quieter whilst a corridor will instigate wider socialisation.

I didn't stay there, but the Wills old quad has 6 rooms per block, which I thought allowed a good mix between both styles. I stayed in the new quad (by choice, I was concerned about being over-rahhed) and it was 'ok', a huge 52 person corridor. I think on reflection the old quad would be better.

 

[Disco Boy]

If you want quiet then go Clifton hill house or Goldney. Closer to everything too.

 

[Nitefly]

Meh, I think University is the time to learn to not be quiet anyway. Go to somewhere noisier for a year - you will move to a quieter flat / apartment in 2nd year with friends anyway.

 

[FluffySheep]

Dude, come on, as if I didn't know that

true, you would, but the non-Bristolians here probably don't and they need to know what they are getting into if they go for a place in the bunker. There were plans to knock that place down in 1999 that I know of!

FluffySheep