Did anyone live at home for uni?

Andr3w

Andr3w

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Inspired by the living in halls at uni thread, i wondered if you are still able to have a good time/enjoy the atmosphear if you live at home and commute to uni? Huddersfield UNI is about 20minutes bus ride away from me and does the course im looking to do (interactive multimedia), it would save me money here, but would it suck big time?
 
You'll save money but will lose out on a lot of the nightlife if you're not constantly around your studenty buddies.

It's not bad travelling 20mins on the bus to get in there but I can imagine it being much more convienient to be living in the city centre/outskirts if you're on a night out.

Tis all common sense really.
 
I lived at home for the majority of my uni years. Obviously you don't have the same freedom as a pad of your own, but providing you get on fine with the folks I don't see any problem. Save a few pennies too:)
 
lived at home for my first year, moved out for my 2nd. just about to go into my final year.

my advice?!

MOVE OUT!

my next piece of advice - if you have a girlfriend that you're not thinking right at this moment now "i want to marry her and spend the rest of my life with her" etc. etc. you get the picture. then finish it, and start again at uni a fresh. i wish i had done now after what my ex ended up being like when she was moving away to uni.
 
no.. you cant...and yes it will suck...(you'll miss all the late night gettogethers in the halls... ah ! happy days. 3-4 in the morn stoned as a duck! :D .. ( I make a point that I no longer do that type of thing now) ;)

I did (move away)and loved it made lots of friends as you have nothing else to do..... My gf however didnt(lived at home) and found that instead of hanging around pubs and stuff of an evening passing the time, she had a place to go( home) so did..and in doing so missed out on the best part of Uni,
her Sister and brother did the same and they said the same thing.!

I'm not saying you wont have a great time , but you will make more friends when you all in the same boat. any way Going to uni is the best excuse to leave home( ushually comes with a bit of help from the olds as well(financely))



bullit
 
SidewinderINC said:
lived at home for my first year, moved out for my 2nd. just about to go into my final year.

my advice?!

MOVE OUT!

my next piece of advice - if you have a girlfriend that you're not thinking right at this moment now "i want to marry her and spend the rest of my life with her" etc. etc. you get the picture. then finish it, and start again at uni a fresh. i wish i had done now after what my ex ended up being like when she was moving away to uni.
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or just play around :D
 
Im starting uni next year if everything goes alright.

Im living at home as im 5 minutes away from the town centre where the uni is :D
 
Hey, im going to huddersfield Uni myself and its a train ride from my house (Dewsbury) so im moving to Aspley Hall right across from where i'll (and probably you if your doing multimedia) studying.

Really can't wait to move in and i agree the halls thread has got me really eager to get there now :D

Cya There :P
 
ArmyofHarmony said:
even if i lived next door to the uni i would take halls
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Well said. Uni is barely about getting the qualification now; it's just as much about the experience of living away from home and doing all the things that you simply cant do at home, no matter how liberal your parents are.

I can understand why its tempting to some but seriously - DON'T do it. You'll miss out on so much, especially in the first year. Live in halls for the first year and then decide if you want to share a flat or move back home. I'm betting you'd share a flat in your second year, unless somehow you didnt make any friends.

Sure, you'll save money by living at home, but what good is that? I had two good friends on my course who both lived at home. They were both loaded compared to me, but what good was it? Even though one of them only lived 30mins away it was always a pain for him to get into town and it always took organising. Then there's there thing of whether to drink or drive etc etc.. none of that hassle could be worth it, compared to halls where its 12:15 at night and you decide to go out!! (Heres the bit where everyone posts their random halls experiences* :))

Add to that all the skills you learn outside of the lecture halls (cooking, bills, socialising etc.) and you really do miss out if you live at home. You'll only get thrown in the deep end when you get a full time job and have to move out anyway - halls/uni is a great halfway house to all that.

Don't do it!
 
It's gonna be so good been able to decide to go out at that time of night and them stumble the 5 mins back to halls, or just into the 24 hour lab in the uni if I can't find my room lol.
 
But on nights out, i could just crash at a friends flat with a sleeping back, then get a bus home the next day?
 
You really do lose out if you live at home, I think fox lived and still does live at home but commutes to uni.
 
Suppose you could but it would be so much better to sleep in a bed and not the floor and not worry about having to get up and go get a bus home when u wake up.
 
Andr3w said:
But on nights out, i could just crash at a friends flat with a sleeping back, then get a bus home the next day?
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If theyre in a flat maybe -- but do it too often and they'll probably want money towards bills/food you eat. In halls the rooms are so small you'd probably be unwelcome. Let me be perfectly blunt; if you live at home you'll be the one ringing up people every night to find out whats going on. If the people you meet are anything like most of the people i met at Uni you could ring them once at 6pm and they wouldnt know what theyre doing.. ring them again at 7pm and they'll be smashed and unable to talk to you let alone tell you where they are. If you get into town they'll have moved on anyway.

To be even more blunt, you'll probably get forgotten about. If you're not there when the decision is made to go out, i doubt anyones going to ring around and get you out. I'm sorry, but thats the way it will probably happen. It'll be so much effort for you to organise going out you'll eventually start doing it less and less, until they forget about you more and more, and you hardly ever get out to see them.
 
just tried speaking to my parents said if i went to uni id want to move out and live there, had a massive ******* argument, they are dissapointed in me and all this crap, dad started yelling as loud as he could. Stuff was said to me that bascially, it makes me want to cry for the first time in years...holy **** :(

It's as it isnt my decition to go to uni. Sure i can understand it will cost them a lot, but i said i would be able to pay with my loan etc...ffs im just going to get a ******* job stocking shelfs for rest of my life :(
 
And what he said I guess, last year only 2 or 3 nights out were organised in advance. Usually it would be a spur of the moment decision to go out somewhere.
 
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