[Randomized]

Surely i can't be the only uni student who is dreading the 3 month summer break?

I like my uni city, love my halls, have plenty of friends and a part time job and knowing i'll have to wave goodbye to all this in a few weeks is really upsetting me As in, physically breaking down and crying (sometimes in front of people).

All of my friends are really excited to see their friends and family, spend time with their boy/girlfriend, go on holiday, start a summer job or a placement etc etc but i have **** all to go back to. No friends, a family that won't speak to me, few job opportunities and a town with very little for me to do on my own. I haven't gone home once since i moved in to halls of residence and i don't miss it in the slightest.

Whilst i have a lot of friends here i can't see us speaking much over the holidays because i'm not particularly close to any of them and they'll have better things to do with their time. I've always been a quiet/shy person but not having anyone to talk to for 3 months will make things so much worse.

Wtf can i do here?

[fortunecookie]

Get a job abroad or a job where accommodation is included?

[Alexandra's Box]

Be an au pair!

[zaliack]

Why don't you rent a student house with some friends from uni?

[KJane]

Same. I love Uni and am so going to miss Halls and my friends. I stayed in touch with like 3 people from back home and hate my hometown. I'm happiest at Uni, I've just tried to book as many trips as possible during the holidays with friends, and hopefully I'll get a part time job, as my current one is with my Uni, which I won't be able to continue over summer.

[killa78]

Most of my Uni friends are local hehe.

There was a benefit to commuting

[Raj K]

im worried about missing my grades FOR uni ); that's why i aint looking 4ward to the summer ):

[aja89]

Screw uni, I've got Euro 2012, Wimbledon, the Olympics, a music festival and Disneyland Paris to be getting on with!

[LaBelleEtLeBete]

A lot of student houses will have reduced rent for the summer period (because it's so hard to get occupants for that time). So you could stay where you are, rent somewhere and work there if it's so horrible at home.

[diamondabroad]

Hi everybody,

I am new here - and actually not a student :-(

But I am here to get in contact with young people since I relocate to Germany at the end of June with my young family after living abroad for many years.

We would like to have an au-pair, so our 4-year old daugther will not be "loosing" her English. We also have a 2-year old daugther.

So if you know anyone who would be interested to be an au-pair in Germany (Frankfurt) for 12 months starting in August/October

or

if you wish more information please send me an email.

Best regard,

da

[Origami Bullets]

At home, there's more responsibility, less fun, fewer friends, no sport / societies, the need to find a full time job . . . and the fact that I have to spend 3.5 months straight with a family that I have barely seen for more than a year. In that time, I've changed, and things at home have changed to . . . not looking forward to this

[Origami Bullets]

(Original post by diamondabroad)
Hi everybody,

I am new here - and actually not a student :-(

But I am here to get in contact with young people since I relocate to Germany at the end of June with my young family after living abroad for many years.

We would like to have an au-pair, so our 4-year old daugther will not be "loosing" her English. We also have a 2-year old daugther.

So if you know anyone who would be interested to be an au-pair in Germany (Frankfurt) for 12 months starting in August/October

or

if you wish more information please send me an email.

Best regard,

da

Hi Da,

To get the best responses, you need to start your own thread. I'd suggest you either do it in the jobs subforum http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=148 or the gap year subforum (this is the sort of job that is standard for someone on a gap year to do) http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=88

Alternatively, you can post on workaway.info and helpx.net, both of which are full of people looking to do just this sort of thing. Although you may find that a lot of them don't want to stay for a whole year, they'll invariably just be working for bed and board.

[confused98]

Hi ive been in a similar situation before, last year, and i know exactly how you feel.

Last year i just stayed in halls until my contract was up,(mid-july) taking my stuff back home now and again. Im guessing your contract is up though, personally i would suck it up and go home and start looking for a job to occupy yourself or doing SOMETHING to get out of the house like volunteering, and it looks good on your cv.

I dont think its worth paying extra rent over the summer, because you dont like it a home, after all wouldnt you be in the same position? (friends have gone, uni is over and nothing to do). Use the extra money to ENJOY yourself! After youve gotta pay it back.

You could always arrange a big meet up over the summer, just to have something to look forward to too.

I feel you about the having to live in halls again, but its quite common, although people arent screaming about it, maybe not ideal but realize its not always as amazing as its cracked up to be.
And another thing that is pretty common is people dropping out of house-shares and such, so all hope isnt lost.

[james1211]

I'm looking forward to it. I live at home during uni (which i love) and everyone i know is around here for the summer. I've got lots to do, a 2 week holiday, lots of sports such as mountain biking with my mates, sailing etc, and i can keep down a part time job when i go back to uni because i'll still be here.

It's shaping to be a good summer!

It's funny how it's always the people waffling on about how you must must must live the "student experience" who are now worried they have bugger all to do in summer!

[RabbitCFH]

Totally not looking forward to it. I'm graduating and I have to find a job. Being an adult sucks.

[james1211]

(Original post by Randomized)
Yeah it's up on June 30th. The thing is, it is true what you've said but i prefer being here. I have two jobs here and it's a better city (more to do, better links to other places). One of them will earn me a vast amount of money come the summer, and the other i enjoy. I get along with the people there so at least i'll be socialising with people. I'm already a quiet/shy person and i dread to think what 3 months of not speaking to ANYONE (which is what it'll be if i go home, literally don't have anyone) will do. So i'm obviously reluctant to give them both up as it took me long enough to find them!

I'm not so bothered about the house situation because my friends will still live close to me and they've said i am welcome to see them




I don't recall ever saying that.

Besides, even if i did, when your home life is a **** as mine of course you're going to want the ''student experience'' to see what you've been missing out on.

Oh i wasn't suggesting you said it. Just some people do. For some people moving out is an escape from home life, but when people go on about how if you stay living at home you're ruining your life it gets tedious

[jhuntley93]

go to queens then eastbourn then wimbledon for 2 weeks, then poland/ukraine. (obviously we wont do very well summer sorted

[jhuntley93]

(Original post by aja89)
Screw uni, I've got Euro 2012, Wimbledon, the Olympics, a music festival and Disneyland Paris to be getting on with!

you're forgetting queens and eastbourn! oh and the one in birmingham. #summerofsporttocheeryouup

[(:Becca(:]

Me! Really don't want to go back to living with my strict Christian parents in the arse end of nowhere for 3 months.

[catlover14]

(Original post by Raj K)
im worried about missing my grades FOR uni ); that's why i aint looking 4ward to the summer ):

I am the same- I know I won't be able to fully enjoy myself over the summer because I'll just be thinking about whether I have done enough to get the grades I need