The UCL accomodation thread

AHHH i am getting soooo stressed about this!! Just sent them an angry email, lol. I can't believe I haven't even been ASSIGNED YET, this is ridiculous.

Just out of interest - is it a woman that answers the phone?

...they have thousands to get through, why are you pissed that you're not assigned yet?

jealous! i wanted arthur t. it's beautiful from the outside at least. but i have a single at ramsay so life goes on.
arthur t is on gower street, literally across the road from waterstones. it's good. i assume it'd be a bit noisy because it's a main road.

i know they have thousands to get through but there are people who got their results the same time as me who've already been assigned...i sent it off in january - how hard can it be? But no what actually annoys me, which might sound ridiculous because it's not my situation, is people who put catered down and have been put in self-catered places/asked specifically for a single room and have ended up with a twin/had their slip LOST by UCL so now they have to basically wait right at the end of the line. I've just never heard of an accommodation office being so inefficient and messing things up so much.

I know exactly what you mean. I put Intercollegiate Halls as first and then I wanted a hall which has close proximity to the campus. I am given Ifor Evans, which is not an intercollegiate and it is 'miles away' from the campus. I do not know how they do it...

I want a room

Can you email? I hate ringing people.

Yep it is a woman.




Does anybody know anything about Camden, is it a nice place?
All I know is that I am desperately in love with Bloomsbury.

Out of the 3 emails i've sent them this year, they've replied to one. I hate ringing too but i had to to get anything out of them. I can't be bothered to ring again because i'm not getting anywhere with the person on the end of the line so i'm planning on just re-sending the email i sent them every day until i get a reply. (I know, I'm their nightmare student )

Camden is pretty cool. There's lots to do there; you've got the market, high street and there's loads of pubs and the nightlife is pretty decent. If you're living there, there's a massive Sainsburys and Morrisons. =] Only problems I can think of is that it's a bit busy on the weekends with the tourists and whatnot, but that's not really a problem. It's a bit dodge at night, but it's usually drunks that you can ignore.

Out of the 3 emails i've sent them this year, they've replied to one. I hate ringing too but i had to to get anything out of them. I can't be bothered to ring again because i'm not getting anywhere with the person on the end of the line so i'm planning on just re-sending the email i sent them every day until i get a reply. (I know, I'm their nightmare student )

Ok, thanks very much fait for the concise summary. Another worry I have is that since I will be living so far out maybe I will be 'missing out' on the fun. I know that it may be just a silly worry I have but the distance to the campus really does worry me.

Twin room Arthur Tatterstall house - just rang up to find out - not sure what this means yet - I'm about to do some research

No problem.

Nah, I wouldn't worry about it too much. You can take the bus, which take like 5 minutes from Camden to outside UCL's campus. And if you walk, shouldn't take you more than 15-20mins, maybe less.

Nope, Shcafer, Astor and Campbell house east + west had the cheapest rooms last year. It was about £116 for a single (except for Astor which was cheaper). I'm assuming all of schafer and campbell house have had the same increase in price. I don't think there are that many rooms in shcafer that are double and the letter seems quite clear that if you refuse it you will not get another offer. If you really want to get a double you'd be better off asking around for someone to swap because I bet there's loads of people sharing who would want a single!

At least this way we'll get used to living on the budget we will be on for the next 3 years though!
In second and third year I think there is no way at all we would find accomodation for £86 something a week