Are your best friends at uni your flatmates or people on your course?? +Poll
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I'm feeling nervous about uni already. I dunno whether my true friends will be the ones on the course or my flatmates. What's everyone's personal take on this (aimed at the ones already at uni
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Thanks
I'm feeling nervous about uni already. I dunno whether my true friends will be the ones on the course or my flatmates. What's everyone's personal take on this (aimed at the ones already at uni
).Thanks
It's easier to co-ordinate with coursemates, you'll have at least one thing in common and can rely on one another for help/notes and the like.
Although flatmates are closer proximity, are more likely to offer impromptu invitations shopping/to the bar and you'll probably see them the most during the first week.
Although flatmates are closer proximity, are more likely to offer impromptu invitations shopping/to the bar and you'll probably see them the most during the first week.
Really hoping people say course mates 
I'm closest with my flatmates and know them better than my course mates, but that's because we've lived together for a year. 
I'm really good friends with a few people on my course too.
My two closest friends are my flatmates, but a few others I'm really close to are a couple course mates and someone who lived in the flat below us.
However, your flatmates might not necessarily be your closest friends. Most people I know at university decided to split off into groups from their flat to form new ones for second year housing. I was just lucky to have such great flatmates.
I'm really good friends with a few people on my course too.My two closest friends are my flatmates, but a few others I'm really close to are a couple course mates and someone who lived in the flat below us.
However, your flatmates might not necessarily be your closest friends. Most people I know at university decided to split off into groups from their flat to form new ones for second year housing. I was just lucky to have such great flatmates.
In my first year I would have definitely said flatmates: Our flat got on surprisingly well and I didn't really know anybody too closely on my course (though there were a few exceptions).
Second and Third year though my partner and I lived off-campus, and I quickly got to know many of my coursemates much better. I guess this happened because we were working in smaller and more specialised groups and because although I was still friends with my old flatmates I just didn't see them often enough.
I guess it really all comes down to the people in your flat/course/societies and how friendly they are. You'll make some great friends at uni, but how it all happens is completely random.
Second and Third year though my partner and I lived off-campus, and I quickly got to know many of my coursemates much better. I guess this happened because we were working in smaller and more specialised groups and because although I was still friends with my old flatmates I just didn't see them often enough.
I guess it really all comes down to the people in your flat/course/societies and how friendly they are. You'll make some great friends at uni, but how it all happens is completely random.
Both, my flatmates are also on my course
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I wasn't close with my actual flat mates, but I was good friends with the flat above and along from us and a few of them I'm still very good friends with. Though most of the ones I'm living with, we no longer see eye to eye.
One of the ones I'm good friends with is on my course, and my boyfriend was, but he's changed course and gone back to first year.
A word of warning, landlords try and influence you to have you're second year housing sorted out by December/January, and there's no guarantee that you'll still want to live with the same people come August... You'll have only known these people for 4 months, and you'll be signing contracts, so be careful.
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One of the ones I'm good friends with is on my course, and my boyfriend was, but he's changed course and gone back to first year.
A word of warning, landlords try and influence you to have you're second year housing sorted out by December/January, and there's no guarantee that you'll still want to live with the same people come August... You'll have only known these people for 4 months, and you'll be signing contracts, so be careful.
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I'm going into second year and still don't know half the people on my course group :/
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I'm going into second year and still don't know half the people on my course group :/
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Really? How many people are on your course?
I wanna know as many people as I can on my course.
Reading take roughly 100 Pharmacy students a year, so I'll be happy if I know at least half of them!
I think we have 250ish on our course. I know maybe, 20-30. Of those, I like about 10...
It's luck of the draw really, I'm sorry I don't have better news.
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My best friends from uni are probably on my course and one other we share lectures with, we just seem to have more in common. So me people get really lucky with flatmates, but from what I've seen, most of the flat mate "groups" don't stay in touch as much after uni, whereas those who are friends for another reason do.
My course is really cliquey though, so while my best friends are on my course, I'm probably only really friendly with about 25% of people on my course.
I think the difference is you can be happy without really getting on with anyone on your course, but if you start falling out with your flatmates then things can get really miserable as you do have to live together.
My course is really cliquey though, so while my best friends are on my course, I'm probably only really friendly with about 25% of people on my course.
I think the difference is you can be happy without really getting on with anyone on your course, but if you start falling out with your flatmates then things can get really miserable as you do have to live together.
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Really? How many people are on your course?
I wanna know as many people as I can on my course.
Reading take roughly 100 Pharmacy students a year, so I'll be happy if I know at least half of them!
I wanna know as many people as I can on my course.
Reading take roughly 100 Pharmacy students a year, so I'll be happy if I know at least half of them!
Think there is maybe 12 in my course group. I know about 8 by name, I only really speak to 5; not sure why I don't know any of them. We seem to stay in our own groups and not do much else. I know more people in the other group for my course then I do my own :/
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Both, I introduced my course mates to my flat mates and we all get along
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Original post by James A
Really? How many people are on your course?
I wanna know as many people as I can on my course.
Reading take roughly 100 Pharmacy students a year, so I'll be happy if I know at least half of them!
I wanna know as many people as I can on my course.
Reading take roughly 100 Pharmacy students a year, so I'll be happy if I know at least half of them!
One of my housemates does Pharmacy at Reading. He says they're a sociable bunch but of course it may be different since you'll be with the first year lot. Oh and I'm not sure if it's the industry or what, but the ratio of girls to guys is about 80%-20% according to my friend. Reading uni itself has a lot more females than males too. Get in there son.
You probably have more in common with people on your course, and so more to discuss, but those you live with you see every day for a significant chink of the year, so in some ways you'll feel closer to them as well. I'd probably say pon balance people on my course, but my closest friend at university is both a coursemate and a flatmate.
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One of my housemates does Pharmacy at Reading. He says they're a sociable bunch but of course it may be different since you'll be with the first year lot. Oh and I'm not sure if it's the industry or what, but the ratio of girls to guys is about 80%-20% according to my friend. Reading uni itself has a lot more females than males too. Get in there son.
haha, yeah Reading uni is known for having more females than males xDD
Freshers week, yhhhhhh boiiiiiiiiiiii
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