Did anyone live at home for uni?

ArmyofHarmony said:
even if i lived next door to the uni i would take halls
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this man speaks the truth.

amen brother!


i could not think of anything worse than missing out on the experience of a lifetime living with friends on campus and then in a house in second year etc. sooo many great memories, i get sick of living at home after a couple of weeks even though i get on really well with my folks etc.


get on campus, i can't believe anyone would even consider otherwise.
 
It isnt going to cost them a lot anyways, thats what student loans/ grants / overdrafts are for. You only end up paying it back when you are earning over 15k a year anyways.

Im paying for mine with my loans etc, althought my parents are giving me money to help out thats their decision and I would still be able to get by even if they werent helping out.
 
Andr3w said:
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 :(
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Your parents are dissapointed in you because you want to move out to university, be independant and make something of yourself? I think you are the one who should be dissapointed in them mate. As an aside why should they pay for anything?
 
Scam said:
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!
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What he said ^^

Although it'll probably save you shedloads of cash and seems convenient, if you can afford it, i'd urge you not to stay at home. There's something so special about the first year, and although it may seem the easy option to commute every day, you may miss out on one of the greatest years of your life.

As others have said at least try halls for your first year...then decide whether to move home or not.
 
Andr3w said:
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 :(
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do get down mate.. you will still have a good time... just because you live at home wont ruin your life.... you will still meet good people. dont worry. it is a shame you cant move out... but not everyone can... there will be people there like you.

its a shame your parents are taking it that way though, i think you should be given a good reason why you cant.. i mean you can apply for the money... its not like they have to pay for everything... and if you get a part time job you can pay your own way sort of....think they are being unfair
 
if i paid for it myself i wouldnt be able to afford it, as my parents earn too much i dont think i can get more than £1000 or something,thats what my sister got
 
Strange!
Im at Hudd uni and i just finished m 1st year in Interactive Multimedia!
Living in halls was fun, but at Huddersfield there are no on-campus halls, Storthes hall is 4.4miles away, you have to get a bus ride everyday, its a pain in the ******* ass, i ended up driving in a lot and it cost a lot! But living up there was a hell ovalot of fun!
DO NOT live in Ashenhurt, they are renown for being like cell blocks!
if you want to get halls id say live in Aspley or little aspley, course mate did and they were nice ;o

you`ll miss out a lot if you stay at home though, one girl did it from my course, missed out on qutie abit.
best thing to do:
Get in halls for 1st year
if you don't like it you can either stick it out for the year then move back into your house for 2nd year, or advertise you have a room for rent, rooms always get taken up in huddersfield so you can move straight back home and wont be paying the rent for when you're not there!

and btw, grahem watts is a ******* **** ( visual design )

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btw if your parents are having a go at you for wanting to move out, just ask them, would they prefer 10months of you rolling in at either 3:30am after Tokyo closers, or at around 7am when Rouge closers, im sure as hell confident my parents wouldn't have wanted that! <3 £5 taxi to Storthes hall at 7am! :D
Oh and btw, 88 Noodle bar is your friend after NME @ Tokyo on a wednesday! :D
 
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Aspley Hall is where i'm going to be staying, looked great when I looked around, The gym and pool look well sweet ^^

Edit: haha i heard about the £5 storthes taxi thats well good if u live up there
 
thanks tsinc80697, i hear tokyo is a good place to go.

Whats the actual course like though? Any good? What sort of stuff did you do in your first year, more importantly - is there a mixed male/female class?With lots of ladies?
 
I thought i was gonna use the gym in my first year......LOL like that happened !

The course is decent i reckon, never had problems with it except the workload is just stupid.
As theres no exams , its constant assessment, but its not constant. For literally 7weeks out of 12 you can sit there and do nothing in and out of uni, but then the last 5 weeks you will get handed 6 assignments each "requiring" 25hrs+.
So i did no work for 2months then got butt raped, ended up staying up missing 2 nights sleep on the run every week for a month, it kills you.

Tokyo is decent on a wednesday, i hated it at first but started liking it near the end.
Visage was good the first term, its a club on a tuesday, gets ram packed adn bottles are £1, but that went down the pan completely after xmas, i never went after xmas hols, no one else did, so Tokyo got hammered.
Best thing on a wednesday is Tokyo 11-3, go 88 noodle bar, then jump into rouge till 6:30, taxi home, wake up at 8am to get bus back into town for uni. orrrrrrrrrrr just sack the uni part like most did! :D

if i remember correctly there were 36 people on the course, it was split into A and B, 18 and 18.
A, which i was in, had around 12 lads and 6 girls, most of them sound.
B, had about 17 lads and 1 girl, or maybe just 18 lads.

I hardly ever went out with people on my course as a lot, weren't so much geeky, just not my type of nightlife people. They mainly seemed to like abit of drinking, not an 8hour session of booze and all sorts!

Course tutors are sound as, matthew mantle will be your course leader, proper sound guy!
only person i hated was graham, as his module, visual design, was about creating a brand name, logo, business card etc. But there was not as much as a whiff of a markscheme, that module was totally opinion based, if he didnt like it, you got 40%, didnt matter how much time and effotr you put into it :/

if you want any more info or anything just whack ure msn down here and ill add you :)
 
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tsinc80697 said:
I thought i was gonna use the gym in my first year......LOL like that happened !
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haha, yeah, be warned, you WILL put on lots of weight in your first year.

beer, kebabs, pizza, hall food... your belly will never forgive you :p
 
Do they have any sports teams at the Uni? Thats the reason i wanted to use the gym to get fit again and get into footy again.

nealw said:
haha, yeah, be warned, you WILL put on lots of weight in your first year.

beer, kebabs, pizza, hall food... your belly will never forgive you :p
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Sounds like my kinda food :D need to put on abit of weight anyways heh
 
huddersfield had rugby, netball, footy, and all other sports really, you can make your own society if there isnt one for your sport.

Footy trialouts were the funniest thing i have ever witnessed. They didnt do them at start of the year when people were at their peak, oh no! They waited about 2months, until you'd smoked about 1500fags, drank more vodka than **** knows and snorted more drugs than your nose can take.
So you've got really talented footy players off their face doing a "footy trial" which was just a fitness test, as they knew everyones goosed lol.

so even if you are a retard at footy, aslong as you stay off the fags n drugs, and can run for a while, you`ll get in :p
 
I can't run for **** i'm goalkeeper so tend not to run asmuch even though I need to be fitter than anyone on the pitch ><
 
R34P3R said:
Do they have any sports teams at the Uni? Thats the reason i wanted to use the gym to get fit again and get into footy again.
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Haha, i went to Loughborough, sports teams is all we do :p

I imagine most uni's have a general mix of popular sports, check the union website.
 
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