Me, Michelle and Maths Chris are all re-applying for university halls next year but none of us had heard anything despite being told that we would get a decision between mid-March and mid-May (there was a date in May, I think it was the 15th which was two days ago). So myself and Michelle went down to accommodation services today to ask them about it.
They had a check to see what was what and I was informed that I had been allocated room 20 in Ellerslie which is awesome! I’ll go on about that a little later when I’ve talked about what is happening.
Michelle hasn’t got a decision on Henry Price yet as the warden who manages it is out of the country. As she is an international student she is guaranteed accommodation anyway though.Maths Chris is applying for Bodington again and apparently they handle all their applications internally. But we were told they have mailed out rejections so if he hasn’t got a rejection he will pretty much have a some kind of offer on the way to him.
So yeah, I’m in Ellerslie. I haven’t been given a price yet though, guess I will get that when they mail me out all my stuff which apparently they are still waiting on. The cost is anywhere from £3,800 to £4,500 so it could be anywhere although I asked for one of the cheaper rooms.
Room 20 seems like a good number depending on the floor plan. Being on the 3rd floor at Bod means it is more secure (not that there are much security problems at Bod as it’s miles away) although it does mean I have to go up a lot of stairs. Room 20 might be first floor if they have a lot of ground floor rooms which I’m guessing they will do if it’s the main building. First floor would be cool as it’s not many steps. Also room 20 sounds a decent distance away from the entrance, which if you are right next to it’s a killer as everyone knocks on it as they go past when getting home at 3am.
It’s going to be absolutely sorted next year though. Living on campus means I don’t ever have to worry about making sure I don’t miss the bus. I can do whatever I want and not have to think about the fact that if I miss the 3:10am bus I am screwed.
Although I guess that means everyone will be hanging out at mine :P. But then Michelle will be living on campus too and she has a big living area in Henry Price, albeit with 9 other flatmates to share it with. But yeah, it’s going to be really cool, The Terrace will be my local and it will be really easy to organise stuff, none of this timing buses as I go past Michelle’s as we will be able to see each others buildings :D. Sarann really needs to move closer, it’s just inconsiderate of her to be so far away ;).
It’s going to be a different exeriance to Bod I think, in some ways. There will only be 120 of us there compared to 1,200 at Bod so it’s the kind of place you can almost know everyone. Although within Grant House I know pretty much everyone so that’s basically a smaller version of Ellerslie. The difference will be at meal times and such. I think that will be good as I should be able to go for meals at any time and have someone to sit with as I will know pretty much everyone :D.
Funding this is going to be the real problem. I really need to get a job over summer. To the point where I recently applied at Subway. I submitted it to the Albion Street store though which said it would be reviewed by the store manager so I wonder if I should go down and talk to the other stores or something.
But I can worry about the later, after all I have exams to worry about now. I have my first one starting in just under 2 hours. Might do a bit more revision between then and now but then I know it all really. I would be better off doing SY but then I was worried I might loose my focus on DB if I did that.
So yeah, next year will be cool. It should also reduce going out costs if people want to crash at mine as then they don’t have to taxi it home. I dunno how many people would want to, Fonze crashes sometimes as it’s cheaper to bus it back to Bod and go home next day, and if you can walk a minute down the road from the union to crash, even better. I’m never going to get any sleep or work done – it’s going to be awesome :D.
Think of the extra time I will have as well. No having to get up at 7:30 for 9:00 lectures. I will be getting up at 8:50, 8:55 if I want to sleep in. Seriously, I will be able to get up 10 minutes before a lecture, how cool is that? And no having to spend an hour travelling home (ok it’s not that long but it’s still journey time) in rush hour.
Plus Bod meal times are starting to annoy me. If I’m at uni I need to head home at 6, get back about 6:30, have dinner then get back to uni to go out at 7-7:30 meaning I’m back for 8. Which is a two hour block of time taken up for dinner. If I can just run home in 5 minutes it will be much easier. I miss a fair few meals at Bod because other activities get in the way of me getting home but if I’m on campus it shouldn’t be such a problem.
That kind of situation comes up quite a lot really. Well, not that specifically but the whole travelling to uni and back and later travelling to town and back to go out. I could really down to cut that time out it would free up several hours per day in my schedule which is absolutely loads of time if you think about it. That’s like the same amount of time I spend in lectures!
So yeah, I’m set for accommodation next year pretty much. Just need to sign and return the contract when it comes. Oh and find a job to fund it. I will save on bus passes which is cool although there is an £80 internet connection fee thing. I need to win the lottery, that’s a cool career.
EDIT: I want to add some more stuff. Just saw the post for the first time, I know I rambled on a lot (for like 20 minutes or so lol) but I didn’t realise I wrote that much!
Anyway I’m just looking over the photos and the rooms look huge. That is probably the annexes, which Jersey Matt is in and he does have a pretty huge room, I dunno what they are like in the main building but if they are anything like that I could fit loads of people in there.
Michelle suggested I go round to Ellerslie and find out who lives in room 20 and ask if I can have a look round :D. I was temped but it just seemed freaky. I would ask Claire to take me I guess but then it would spoil the suprise in September.
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