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Well after doing my first year of uni here in Edinburgh i've just wondered how everybody else had met their friends in uni, they ones that they mostly hang out with.

Do you find that you hang about with a core group of friends say about another 4 or 5 guys or is it all fairly mixed about.

Also where did you meet them? Halls, Uni Clubs, Courses or just randomly?
 
When I was at uni the people I hung about with the most in first year and then lived with for the next two years were ones that lived near me in halls.
I still see several of them fairly regularly and I can't remember a single name from all the people on my course.
 
I met all my friends through having the luck to live with one of my room mates, we are all going to live together next year... Though finding a 12 bedroom house could be hard!
 
Raymond Lin said:
I've always bonded better with people i lived with in Halls than people on my course.
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Same here. I'm doing a new course now and it'd be a more mixed group and bigger compared to my old course. Which frankly had quite boring people.
 
The people on my course were/still are fine, keep in touch (facebook) but its the ones I lived with that I hang out with and see now post uni and go visit.
 
jcb33 said:
I met all my friends through having the luck to live with one of my room mates, we are all going to live together next year... Though finding a 12 bedroom house could be hard!
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I'd try for two sixes really or even smaller groups, no matter how well you think you get on with them having two or three smaller groups will be a lot easier, both to find accomodation for and to live with.

Initially most of my mates were those I stayed in halls with but it naturally expanded to include people on their course and people on my course and then just friends of friends etc. Now it is a pretty mixed bag really, I still keep in touch with a few of my old flatmates from halls but others have just about disappeared off the face of the planet. :)
 
semi-pro waster said:
I'd try for two sixes really or even smaller groups, no matter how well you think you get on with them having two or three smaller groups will be a lot easier, both to find accomodation for and to live with.

Initially most of my mates were those I stayed in halls with but it naturally expanded to include people on their course and people on my course and then just friends of friends etc. Now it is a pretty mixed bag really, I still keep in touch with a few of my old flatmates from halls but others have just about disappeared off the face of the planet. :)
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Yeah, we are thinking of looking for 3, 4 bedroom houses, that way we will have less people to mess the place up and cause arguments etc, the last thing we want is to fall out in our final year hehe! Though I have already been told im living with 2 of my friends (a couple) but as it is now, im there almost every day, and just come home to sleep, so that will be sweet!

We are also going on a gap year around the world after uni, hopefully!
 
I met loads of friends via living in halls, and then as well form the course.

In the first year depending on what I wanted to do in an evening I'd go out with either halls or course mates. Halls guys I went clubbing with, and course mates I went to play pool and to the pub with.

I now live with some of my course mates, and I mostly only hang out with my course mates during a uni day anyway, so it's cool.

InvG
 
Another good tip, is grow a beard, for some reason, once you grow a beard, everyone knows your name, and its a great conversation starter when people are drunk!
 
Also just finished first year at Edinburgh :)

Most of my friends were from my first year accommodation, though not really my flat as such - I only really see one of the four them any more, to go watch football and such. Got to know most everyone else living in my particular residence though, helped that it was set around a courtyard, so you just had to sit outside with a beer and grab people as they came back from lectures :D

Only really got one or two friends off of my course, helps to know someone at least for working through problematic assignments etc, but a lot of them are just a bit too... sensible :p Got a nice mix of friends here really, though I'm already seeing which of them I'll be making an effort to see in future and which will fade away a bit in to random encounters on the street and such.
 
jcb33 said:
Another good tip, is grow a beard, for some reason, once you grow a beard, everyone knows your name, and its a great conversation starter when people are drunk!
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That's 'cause nobody at uni has a beard!

Seriously, out of all the people I know at uni (which is a lot) only one has a beard!

InvG
 
Nash said:
I don't really have any friends at university.
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InvaderGIR said:
That's 'cause nobody at uni has a beard!

Seriously, out of all the people I know at uni (which is a lot) only one has a beard!

InvG
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Its fun to be different! I know lots of people with little things, like a line from hair to chin, but not a full blown beard.... I quite like it, whatever anyone else says... but most people I know love it so!
 
Most of the people I know I met through living in halls and general drunkness at the SU, theres only one guy on my course I actually talk to I find it quite difficult to start a conversation with most of the people on my course for some reason I might take up WOW just to chat to them about it lol
 
jcb33 said:
Its fun to be different! I know lots of people with little things, like a line from hair to chin, but not a full blown beard.... I quite like it, whatever anyone else says... but most people I know love it so!
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Yeah, not saying it's a bad thing, just that nobody does it.

I know I can't be bothered, I like to look scruffy with just the stubble. :D

InvG
 
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