Or I was allowed to party and have fun with my friends just as hard in my parents house?Serj said:
Glad to hear it
Umm, how? If your allowed to do whatever you want at home, hows it any different to living on your own, or with mates?
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willd58 said:
As someone that lived at home (with lots of freedom), and lived in halls, I can safely say that you ARE missing out, hall life is just in a league of its own.
Its not about the freedom, because I also had that at home, its the fact that you are surrounded with and live with 200+ likeminded students all the time, which can only happened once in your life, and its brilliant.
When you're living at home, having a good social life is harder, and when everyone goes out, you miss out on all the drunken fun back in the hall afterwards, which is the best bit!
willd58 said:
Well in that case you are not partying hard enough
I can't play my music anywhere near loud enough at home.willd58 said:
Living at uni is just completely different, you get all the random banter that you can't get at home.
gurdas said:Ahh History, one of my good friends has just finished her first yearBuses are all you need, you'd be crazy to take the tube from kings x to euston square, just no need on such a short distance. Area is ok, just a bit out the way really, you don't really want to be walking past kings cross at night by yourself. Also i'd not get too hung up about ensuite, you hardly even notice it at Ramsay and the halls are the best, most sociable too and everyone is a first year there. I still say you give Ramsay a second thought once you have got started because by the end of term 1 everyone in all the other halls wanted to be there.
Well, I might go and take a look at the place if I can on monday. A friend of mine is joinign too and he's got a place at John Dodgson house I think and we were gonna go take a look at the place. See what feeling I get and go from there. At present, I really do like the idea of en-suite, but as you said, after a term, I can decide what I like and what I don't and go from there
Trying at the halls, or another house or back home or something.Thanks for the help
Anything else that would be useful to know for going there? All advice appreciated
First time going to be away and what not.Also, in response to Willd58, yea, I had a few of the same questions because I have a lot of freedom at home and aren't really restriced from doign anything. So was wondering if it made a difference. But every single person I spoke to, told me it's a completely different experience regardless of everything and as someoen else pointed out, the fact that your surrounded by friends all the time. Even my parents encouraged me to go stay at uni. And anyway, if you don't like it, you can always go back to parent's house or something. That's what my parents told me anyway, so i'm going with that. Everyone says its a fantastic experience, so i'm gonna try it out and if I don't like it, I can go back to this house. Just a bit worried about the whole making friends thing and all cause i'm pretty shy (after moving about 4 or 5 cities and shifting from another country, you'd thjink i'm used to it
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Serj said:How's it different for you then?
Unless you live in an annex or in the space above the garage like Boner in Growing Pains (Anyone? Boner? /Scrubs) then i can't believe you can stumble in drunk at 4 without waking your parents. I also doubt you can make as much noise as you want with a girl without your parents caring too much, and i'm sure they won't try and be louder than you like my housemates do
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Interesting house layout I guess but it pretty much means I can come and go as I please, do what I like, and bother nobody, plus my Dad works away during the week so the house isn't exactly packed with people. Several times a week I'd come in at 3am and it was no problem whatsoever.
I'm not saying it's better than living at Uni, it's a subtley different experience (Although not that much, becuase given that I don't drink I was able to do pretty much everything I would have done had I lived in a student house bar be skint all the time - at night the Union is a 13 minute drive, whereas it's a 15 minute walk from most student houses), but it's certainly not miles worse, in some ways it's actually a little better.
I think probably the only thing I couldn't do was hold a house party in the middle of the week but this was hardly a problem as I just.. went to someone elses
Damn, the fact everyone is now away on placement sucks
Looking forward to my next year SO much.Id have to play my music loud enough to annoy my neighbours to annoy my parents, and im not that inconsiderat, even in my new house when my nieghbours arnt as botherd about that kinda thing.gurdas said:Well in that case you are not partying hard enough
Even when we have everyone to ours instead of going to other peoples house party's, the music isnt that loud, all things considering, with the ammount of people in a house at any one time (60+) and how much intoxicating drinks and drugs people have taken.
Man what? You dont talk to your friends when there at your parents house?gurdas said:
Ok, chatting to people in the morning when theyve just got up isnt the same, but thats about it, and if anything i find my house mates just get in my way of my grumpy morning self, rather than my parents making me breakfast and being very cnosiderate.
Not only that, but moving out means iv moved into a hell of a lot worse area, iv had to park my car in the street instead of garaging it, i have to pay rent, the house isnt decorated to any kind of standard, i have to pay gas and elec bills. I miss my dads big Tv and surround sound kit, i miss having my own shower rather than sharing 2 showers with 6 other people. I dont like the way its awkward with my real old school friends and my housemates who dont know each other. I dont get to talk to my parents as much as i could and considering there reaching 65 soon, there on there way out so i should be cashing in on that as soon as i can.
Im seriously considering moving back in with my parents next year to save on all this.
So explain to me, why im having so much more of a good time not at home
Sudden said:Well, I might go and take a look at the place if I can on monday. A friend of mine is joinign too and he's got a place at John Dodgson house I think and we were gonna go take a look at the place. See what feeling I get and go from there. At present, I really do like the idea of en-suite, but as you said, after a term, I can decide what I like and what I don't and go from there
Thanks for the help
Anything else that would be useful to know for going there? All advice appreciated
Just see what it's like, there is no rush. JD halls are nice, a decent location, my sister was in there when she was at UCL. If you ever feel like going to some asian nights then don't hesistate in contacting me and i'll sort your guestlists out
Uni is fun and make sure you are out everynight for the first few weeks at least. Remember everyone is in the same position so it will be easy meeting people
shimy182 said:i just thought...
do a lot of people have large tower cased computers at uni? or TV with a games console?
my uni life is coming up in a year time and im very excited. And i plan to take THIS pc with the logitech G25
Most people have laptops at uni, I took my tower and my laptop and found that I was using my tower for very little, only internet browsing and being hooked up to my speakers. So this year i've got rid of the tower and shall be using my laptop only.
Often, though, the uni experience living away is pot luck. Of my group of friends, a few of them got into brilliant houses and had a fantastic year. But two were stuck in an awful house with rude, inconsiderate housemates and had a thoroughly miserable year as a result.
gurdas said:
Just for god sakes take your speakers! That amount of people who are satisfied to listen to music on their tinny zero bass response laptop speakers astounds me. They turn it up really loud so it distorts under the strain of overloaded high end and think they are awesome.
If you are using a laptop, get yourself some speakers. A cheap set of 40-60 quid creatives will do you fine.
willd58 said:Id have to play my music loud enough to annoy my neighbours to annoy my parents, and im not that inconsiderat, even in my new house when my nieghbours arnt as botherd about that kinda thing.
Even when we have everyone to ours instead of going to other peoples house party's, the music isnt that loud, all things considering, with the ammount of people in a house at any one time (60+) and how much intoxicating drinks and drugs people have taken.
Man what? You dont talk to your friends when there at your parents house?
Ok, chatting to people in the morning when theyve just got up isnt the same, but thats about it, and if anything i find my house mates just get in my way of my grumpy morning self, rather than my parents making me breakfast and being very cnosiderate.
Not only that, but moving out means iv moved into a hell of a lot worse area, iv had to park my car in the street instead of garaging it, i have to pay rent, the house isnt decorated to any kind of standard, i have to pay gas and elec bills. I miss my dads big Tv and surround sound kit, i miss having my own shower rather than sharing 2 showers with 6 other people. I dont like the way its awkward with my real old school friends and my housemates who dont know each other. I dont get to talk to my parents as much as i could and considering there reaching 65 soon, there on there way out so i should be cashing in on that as soon as i can.
Im seriously considering moving back in with my parents next year to save on all this.
So explain to me, why im having so much more of a good time not at home
It's hard to describe, it's just a different atmosphere/lifestyle. Living out is just a lot more fun and random, especially if you are at a proper uni in a big city for example.
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get a micro hifi.
thats what ill take for me music.
cant listen to music through laptop... hideous.
thats what ill take for me music.
cant listen to music through laptop... hideous.
Locrian said:
My entire life, my family's been my parents and my grandparents, all living together. I don't really find anything wrong with living with your parents, regardless of your age.
I'm building a hellishly expensive rig and am taking that with me to uni
I just hope I use it enough, otherwise it's way too much money down the drain. (even if I can find enough time to game 3 or so hours a week, i'l be happy )gurdas said:Uni is fun and make sure you are out everynight for the first few weeks at least. Remember everyone is in the same position so it will be easy meeting people
Well, i'l certainly try. I am pretty shy though (yes, i know, shouldn't be and all that but it's not that easy to change a personality trait
) but not so much that if everyone is going somewhere, i'l refuse to go or something. Either way, no point in plannig things like that now, jsut go there and see what its like!My biggest worry is food
I've taken self catered, but have no idea how to cook (i'm so smart)
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Sudden said:My entire life, my family's been my parents and my grandparents, all living together. I don't really find anything wrong with living with your parents, regardless of your age.
I'm building a hellishly expensive rig and am taking that with me to uni
Last years setup was a 17" lcd/tower/keyboard/mouse and my logitech speakers with my 12" iBook for using in lectures, internet browsing etc. etc. The only thing my tower was used for was the music collection so it was a waste of computer and space.
This year i'm taking a 20" widescreen apple cinema display with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse, all connected to my Macbook, with the speakers using the macbook's optical out. A much tidier setup, only one machine that I can use in my room for music/dvds on a big screen and then simply take it away for weekends and use in lectures.