University of Cambridge Freshers Megathread 2016

Original post by physicsmaths

I just hate my room and my kitchen and my location.
So not really the college but most things tied to it lol.

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Dirty fridge is really unfortunate. If you're sure those food doesn't belong to someone already in the corridor, speak to House-keeping manager or a porter and ask them to sort it out for you. It helps if you put your name on to all the food (packaging) that's yours, so that they know which to throw away. A bedder usually do not touch inside a fridge when someone started living in a corridor, so it's better to do it through 'official' route, I think.

As for the room size, it's not just Homerton but at many colleges fresher's rooms are often the smallest. It comes as a shock when you first see it because it's a sort of size and shape you don't usually see in an ordinary house. When I first saw my daughter's room, I couldn't stop laughing.... :tongue:

As @alow suggested, if they can change it for you because of your height, that'd be great. But if they can't, don't despair. You'll get used it. You may not want to :tongue:

, but you probably will. :biggrin:

And at colleges with small fresher's rooms, things usually improves later years........fingers crossed!

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Original post by vincrows

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Dirty fridge is really unfortunate. If you're sure those food doesn't belong to someone already in the corridor, speak to House-keeping manager or a porter and ask them to sort it out for you. It helps if you put your name on to all the food (packaging) that's yours, so that they know which to throw away. A bedder usually do not touch inside a fridge when someone started living in a corridor, so it's better to do it through 'official' route, I think.

As for the room size, it's not just Homerton but at many colleges fresher's rooms are often the smallest. It comes as a shock when you first see it because it's a sort of size and shape you don't usually see in an ordinary house. When I first saw my daughter's room, I couldn't stop laughing.... :tongue:

As @alow suggested, if they can change it for you because of your height, that'd be great. But if they can't, don't despair. You'll get used it. You may not want to :tongue:

, but you probably will. :biggrin:

And at colleges with small fresher's rooms, things usually improves later years........fingers crossed!

Yeah Homerton's rooms for second year + are much larger. My room in second year wasn't ensuite but it must have been twice the size as my first year room (which was a fair bit bigger than physicsmaths' current room, thanks to the angled roof meaning the 4th floor rooms have loads of the room cut off and the room being a lot shorter).

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Original post by alow

Yeah Homerton's rooms for second year + are much larger. My room in second year wasn't ensuite but it must have been twice the size as my first year room (which was a fair bit bigger than physicsmaths' current room, thanks to the angled roof meaning the 4th floor rooms have loads of the room cut off and the room being a lot shorter).

Yeah, same at my daughter's college and a few other colleges I've known of.
I think it's much better that way than the other way around like some colleges I don't dare to name here atm...... :tongue:

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Original post by physicsmaths

Who do I complain to?
I am 6 foot 3 so it should help.

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Should be better than this.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nAbKu41Vc

This guy was really unfortunate. No other room is as small as that, apparently.
Obviously they didn't know how tall he was when they allocated the room.......

So you're 6ft 3 and not rowing? What a waste.......

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Original post by vincrows

Should be better than this.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_nAbKu41Vc

This guy was really unfortunate. No other room is as small as that, apparently.
Obviously they didn't know how tall he was when they allocated the room.......

So you're 6ft 3 and not rowing? What a waste.......

ha ha literally praying I get one of the rooms in the renovated block at Fitz because the old rooms are pretty dire to say the least :frown:

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Original post by josephinemar25

ha ha literally praying I get one of the rooms in the renovated block at Fitz because the old rooms are pretty dire to say the least :frown:

Yeah I had a look at the renovated room and kitchen&sitting area. They look really nice. :smile:

I wonder how far the renovation has progressed.
But someone I know who was at fitz a few years ago said she'd miss sitting on the corridor floor with her friends with a bowl of food in their hands....... You can never win.........

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Original post by vincrows

Yeah I had a look at the renovated room and kitchen&sitting area. They look really nice. :smile:

I wonder how far the renovation has progressed.
But someone I know who was at fitz a few years ago said she'd miss sitting on the corridor floor with her friends with a bowl of food in their hands....... You can never win.........

Hell no!!! The renovated rooms and kitchen are like different worlds away from the old ones. Currently its 50:50 renovated to old for incoming undergraduates. so I have a 50% chance but they wont tell you till you arrive (so fingers crossed). Are you going to Fitz then??

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Original post by josephinemar25

Hell no!!! The renovated rooms and kitchen are like different worlds away from the old ones. Currently its 50:50 renovated to old for incoming undergraduates. so I have a 50% chance but they wont tell you till you arrive (so fingers crossed). Are you going to Fitz then??

I'm not an applicant. :wink:

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Original post by vincrows

I'm not an applicant. :wink:

so your a current student???

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Original post by josephinemar25

no a natsci

Where did you get this booklet from????

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Original post by 12284

Where did you get this booklet from????

I got emailed it by college. Maybe not all colleges require/want there students to do it. IT was just like A level Maths questions so not too bad :smile:

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