Not living in halls in first year

are there no more rooms available?

I've been offered catered accommodation at the moment and there's a really small chance that I'll be able to swap it for self catered. That's why I'm considering sharing a house with other students, most likely second years

Are there others that may not be living in student halls in the first year? Also if anyone has had this experience, did you miss out on social life?

That's lucky that you're sharing with your friends. What course are you doing?

You can affiliate with a hall if you are living off-campus but wish to be involved with fresher activities. You'll probably be best off just looking at which one is geographically closest to you if you don't mind which hall to affiliate with.

How do you associate with a hall, I'm struggling to find out how to

Once you are registered as a student, you should be able to get into your lsu.co.uk account. Once you can log in, go to the page for your hall (the full list is here). There should be a set of buy buttons, one of which is for "Affiliates" or "Affiliation with hall". I'm afraid I can't be more specific as it is up to individual Hall committees how they run things in terms of budgeting and website design. In general, this should be accurate enough.

In this case I'm not staying in uni halls (sorry i forgot to mention, I'm staying in private halls) i phone Loughborough uni to tell them and they said it would be best to associate with a hall.

I'm guessing i could just do what you suggested and it'll be fine, or is there any special circumstances since I'm not staying in halls.

You can affiliate with a hall if you are living off-campus but wish to be involved with fresher activities. You'll probably be best off just looking at which one is geographically closest to you if you don't mind which hall to affiliate with.

When you've affiliated with a hall, how would they know that you've affiliated with them? Also, does the affiliation fee cover the fresher's week activities that each hall organises?

As I'm staying in a private hall, when and where can I collect my student ID?

To answer your first question, when you affiliate you are buying the status of affiliation, which is attached to your student account. Your affiliate hall committee will be notified and receive your student email address. This means that when emails go out about events, you should be added to them. It is worth contacting the hall committee as well, to introduce yourself and to ask about any Facebook groups you should join to help stay notified.

I am pretty sure that affiliation should cover fresher's week activities, but I cannot say so with 100% certainty as each committee runs things their own way. If in doubt, contact the committee of the hall you are interested in over the summer to find out more. I also found this handy LSU page about affiliation which might help to answer your questions.

I am currently finding out information about Student ID collection and will get back to you as soon as I can. I am afraid I will possibly be without internet for a couple of days, and that at any rate the University may not get back to me until Monday at the earliest; but I will try to get back to you as quickly as possible.

Do I have to affiliate before arriving to uni or can I do it once I get there so I have an idea which hall my flatmates affiliated with? Thank you!

You can affiliate with a hall if you are living off-campus but wish to be involved with fresher activities. You'll probably be best off just looking at which one is geographically closest to you if you don't mind which hall to affiliate with.