Chindie Posted May 14, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2011 If you're going to Aber, good luck getting accom if you missed the deadline. In my final year they were putting up first years that had met the deadline in hotels because there were no rooms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 14, 2011 Moderator Share Posted May 14, 2011 Internet broke. Still is in fact, not that annoying, until I get a letter saying that my uni accommodation offer expired and therefore I have to find some other accommodation. Great. Phone them up on Monday, they'll probably still have places left anyway. Though having said that Halls of Residence are shit anyway. Crap food, no peace and quiet and just like the rest of the population 50% full of twunts Yeah but first year, good to get to know people and easy to get to classes when don't drive, will move out 2nd year, plan to ring them up on Monday Thing is, looking through my emails, I cant find the one offering me the place. I did apply for the halls that actually look nice and not the shite ones, hope I ain't missed out! I spent the second and third terms of my first year actively trying to get thrown out of halls, so I wouldn't have to stay there. You're more likely to meet mates on you course and by joining clubs & societies. Halls just make you hate people in the main as there are way too many people living in one space and mass produced canteen food is always going to be shit. Halls of residence used to be a way of the Uni exercising control over its younger students more than anything practical I nearly succeeded in being thrown out a term early too, until the Hall Governor realised that it was a better punishment to make me stay. Tosser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 But de Jong should have been sent off. Had Howard done the job, holland would have played with 10 most the match which I imagine is a lot more difficult than getting a fee 50/50 decisions not going your way and incidents such as 'puyol should have been sent off' would not then have happened. Nah having 10 men is an advantage. Well at least when Villa play against that many players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 I spent the second and third terms of my first year actively trying to get thrown out of halls, so I wouldn't have to stay there. You're more likely to meet mates on you course and by joining clubs & societies. Halls just make you hate people in the main as there are way too many people living in one space and mass produced canteen food is always going to be shit. Halls of residence used to be a way of the Uni exercising control over its younger students more than anything practical My experience was the opposite. Due to an accomodation crisisI couldnt get in halls as a 1st year, but ended up sharing a room with a psychopath from my poly, who was at a different college site to me, and therefore I frankly rarely saw him (ie not on campus or in library or SU building) unless it was trolling in at 3:00am mindcrazed on cheap vodka. There were only 4 of us poly students, all 1st years, in a house that largely contained university 3/4th years (Hull Uni and poly were adjcent and so in emergency, the uni helped out). I didnt like the other guys in my house who were from my poly very much, and as a result, if you dont make "immediate" bonking mates, by the end of the 1st term, it can drive you almost suicidal. Indeed, my pa reckoned if he'd not packed me into the car and driven me back for the 2nd term, I'd have chucked the towem in. I must admit, I might not agree, but I was "billy no mates", as the other guys in my shared house had nothing in common with me, and I stopped going out with them because of it. I was the private school indie kid wearing blac, ponytail, and frankly crap with girls, and these guys I lived with were all "clone northerners" wearing stonewashed jeans (or chinos on a weekend), black leather jackets that they boasted about the cost of, and denim shirts. It was only making friends with one guy from a chance conversation, who was in halls, and meeting his mates, that my social life took off. If I;d been in halls, meeting people would have been 100 times easier, although in itself, hall life was crap, and they all envied my lifestyle, as Bicks suggests. Halls are great as your forced to meet people, you cant avoid them. They are also crap because they are full of noisy shitheads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Halls of residence was horrendous. I was surrounded by wanky pants retards who couldn't look after themselves and rich kids who looked down on anyone who didn't have the latest flip flops, mullet hair cut and topman scarf. I didn't choose my halls, I was allocated them, they were catered and the most 'luxurious' (and expensive) of the lot but I would have happily traded it for one of the scruffy halls. It wasn't all bad, I had a large bedroom, an en-suite bathroom, a sea view and never had to worry about food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Halls were **** amazing for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 The guy I live with now I lived opposite from in halls, and my other flatmate lived in the same block of accommodation. I hardly see anyone I socialised with in halls anymore but to say I didn't enjoy it, besides the shitty size of the rooms, would be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted May 14, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 14, 2011 Halls in my first year was **** shit, and in the third year apart from living with one of my mates it was pretty crap, lived with very unsociable bastards. In second year, it was absolutely fantastic. Lived with some great people, and my mate. Worked out really well considering we only signed up for halls again because we missed out on getting a proper house. Saying that the second and third years were in a house more than halls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 I'm going lancashire not Aber btw but hopefully will get it sorted! I wanted an en suite, I don't hare bathrooms At home so I dont ent too with some people I barely know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted May 14, 2011 Share Posted May 14, 2011 Everyone wants an en suite, they think it's the bollocks. Until you set off the fire alarm 20 times from the shower steam. It also get's bloody filthy, because lets face it your not going to get the Jif out every few days. You'll get rid of all your fears of a shared bathroom after a few weeks, days even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 I've got no fears, I just don't like it. A shit in a bath tub should hopefully Mark my territory early on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 I've got no fears, I just don't like it. A shit in a bath tub should hopefully Mark my territory early on. Do mechanoids defecate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted May 15, 2011 Moderator Share Posted May 15, 2011 I'm going lancashire You should get in touch with @Lizzlsperger92 on twitter, she's a Villa fan at UCLAN and can probably give you some help and advice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 15, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2011 The year I spent in halls was the best year of my life. I guess it does depend if you get put into halls with people you like. Maybe I was lucky, but I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Halls were amazing for me as well. But it is who you end up with. As a general rule, it was the shitter the halls, the better the the people, so don't worry at all where you end up. Rich kids who aren't paying for anything themselves go in the most expensive halls and come with a stinking attitude. I've had so many phenomenal nights because I lived in halls. Either through deciding to go out at midnight cos we were bored or thru coming home at 4am and carrying on pissing around till the early early hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparey16 Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Im in halls at the moment (untill july) its and shite. Im at Derby Uni, and in the set of halls im in, some are amazing (in terms of flatmates, partys and the like) but mine is boring. Im sharing kitchen/toilet/shower with 6 other lads and, 2 have moved out already (asin quit uni) and, i can only think of one i wouldnt mind living with. One is a complete clearing in the woods who i could rather happily smash his **** face in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Uni halls are luxurious compared to Army "blocks" . As shit as they were though I loved every minute. On the weekends all the NCO's would usually go home as they were better paid , leaving all the piss head privates to create carnage from Friday til Sunday . I didn't even get my own room until I got my first stripe and yet students are moaning about not getting a **** en-suite. ! Try 4 to a room, a bathroom with no plugs , a beer can carpet and the sweet smell of masturbation for a couple of years . It builds character ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 15, 2011 VT Supporter Share Posted May 15, 2011 Uni halls are luxurious compared to Army "blocks" . As shit as they were though I loved every minute. On the weekends all the NCO's would usually go home as they were better paid , leaving all the piss head privates to create carnage from Friday til Sunday . I didn't even get my own room until I got my first stripe and yet students are moaning about not getting a **** en-suite. ! Try 4 to a room, a bathroom with no plugs , a beer can carpet and the sweet smell of masturbation for a couple of years . It builds character !Weren't you supposed to keep the place immaculately clean and tidy, though? I thought it was all daily inspections - kit laid out on neatly made beds, running white gloves under the windowsills to check for dust, and having to scrub the floor with a toothbrush if they found so much as a stray crumb? And you get YOUR OWN ROOM for being a lance-corporal??? :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno_2004 Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Revising so much I think I'm actually simplifying things too much. I had such a great structure in my head for the 3 I have this week yesterday but I feel I might have peaked with it. Annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Revising so much I think I'm actually simplifying things too much. I had such a great structure in my head for the 3 I have this week yesterday but I feel I might have peaked with it. Annoying. Take a day off then. I revised so much for a French history exam that I was nearly having a nervous breakdown about it. Called my tutor who said, take a day off and have a glass of beer before bed and don't worry. Got 81 in the exam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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