[Becca-Sarah]

Congratulations on getting into medical school!

It's tradition that pre-freshers do not post in the Current Med Student's thread until they've actually matriculated, so until then, this is your thread Use it to discuss the big decisions - the colour of bed linen, the best time to buy a stethoscope, and which fancy dress to take for freshers' week

A few resources you might find useful:
Immunisation for medical students
Textbook recommendations on the wiki and in this thread
TSR's Fresher's Pack

2012 Freshers:
laurie - St Andrews
ChangedMyMind - Dundee
Hype En Ecosse - Edinburgh
Steerforth - Newcastle
CraigKirk - Manchester
Normandy14 - Manchester
myyrh - Liverpool
ViceVersa - Keele
manderson - Keele
sumsum123 - Nottingham
maherro - Nottingham GEP
fallenangel - Leicester
NP473L - Imperial
lepnauy - Imperial
Tzarchasm - Kings
apple17 - Kings
rsp - SGUL
tania<3 - SGUL
doctork2 - Soton

[Iepnauy]

First

[Beska]

(Original post by Iepnauy)
First

Congrats.

[Tzarchasm]

Third.

[Penguinsaysquack]

Brilliant discussion going in here guys, riveting conversations


Where are all the excited fresherlings?

[Tzarchasm]

Guys, quick question. King's policy for accommodation is that if you live within the M25, your chances of obtaining a spot is incredibly unlikely (hence, why I'm staying at home). I live on the outskirts of London, which takes me roughly an hour and a bit to get to King's. Considering the amount of time that I need to invest just to get to social activities/lectures, do you think this will have an impact on my social/academic life?

[Penguinsaysquack]

(Original post by Tzarchasm)
Guys, quick question. King's policy for accommodation is that if you live within the M25, your chances of obtaining a spot is incredibly unlikely (hence, why I'm staying at home). I live on the outskirts of London, which takes me roughly an hour and a bit to get to King's. Considering the amount of time that I need to invest just to get to social activities/lectures, do you think this will have an impact on my social/academic life?

Shouldn't have too much of an impact on your academics, provided you put the work in.
However it is unfortunately likely to have an impact on social life. You can still have a social life obviously, just that travelling to/from nights out is likely to become a pain, and you won't get the same friends that you get from living with them.

If you're commuting a fair distance then it might be worth thinking about private accommodation?

[myyrh]

I'm In too

[Tzarchasm]

(Original post by Penguinsaysquack)
Shouldn't have too much of an impact on your academics, provided you put the work in.
However it is unfortunately likely to have an impact on social life. You can still have a social life obviously, just that travelling to/from nights out is likely to become a pain, and you won't get the same friends that you get from living with them.

If you're commuting a fair distance then it might be worth thinking about private accommodation?

I won't have the same night-life other uni students seem to be raving about? Awh man.

I was considering private accommodation but central London is way too costly. According to a little booklet I have, it would cost me around £10,000 a year (I'm not sure if that's accurate but it seems to be correct).

[Becca-Sarah]

(Original post by Tzarchasm)
I won't have the same night-life other uni students seem to be raving about? Awh man.

I was considering private accommodation but central London is way too costly. According to a little booklet I have, it would cost me around £10,000 a year (I'm not sure if that's accurate but it seems to be correct).

Central London would cost you something in that region, but most students don't live there. You could live further out for far less money, but still be a lot closer to uni than you are now. Check out the KCL forum and find out what areas current students tend to live in.

[Steerforth]

Congrats to all who got the results they needed today!

http://doc2doc.bmj.com/assets/survivemedicalschool.pdf

Have a read of this - it made me chuckle!

[ViceVersa]

Hey

[Beska]

(Original post by ViceVersa)
Hey

Well done.

[ViceVersa]

(Original post by Beska)
Well done.

Aww thanks a lot

[Escapade]

I'm in as well!

[Beska]

(Original post by Escapade)
I'm in as well!

Congratulations.

[apple17]

Hey everyone! GKTer here. Congrats on making the offers.

[laurie:)]

i'm in

so excited! just as well that i move in on the 8th, i dont think i could wait any longer

[doctork2]

SOTONer here Who's with me?

[maherro]

Mine went unconditional a couple of weeks ago but a huge congratulations to the undergrads!