Glasgow Accomodation

okay... one more question about the accommodation .. do you get lock on your door?

*Sniffle* Murano has changed a bit- we used to have rather fetching brown carpet around 2004/5 time. Cairncross still bears the closest resemblence to the good ol' days. Ah, the memories... :-)

Did you have the dark brown furniture too? Some of the buildings (Ochil at least) still had that when I was there. I heard they've finally been renovated though.

My friend's sister is coming to Glasgow in September so she went on the applicants tour with her. On the Murano one, the flat they were showing was one of the basement ones in Pentland, a.k.a. The Dungeon flats! So much for trying to impress applicants.

Yup, it was the dark brown rubbish. Actually thats not technically true, it was a random collection of furniture, most of which was dark brown. My mates bed was a good six inches narrower than the rest of the flat too, god knows what happened there. We were in Ochil (well, I was only there for half of the year, but thats another story involving highly illegal activity that the university don't know about...) and in the dungeon flats- the view was out onto the wall below the GP surgery, it was smashing. I cannot believe that was four years ago that I was in there- summer was totally the best time, those £4 barbecues were the business! If I could do it all again, I'd go Cairncross or QM/Winton though...

Which ochil were you in? Sounds like you might have been in 15 if you were looking onto the wall below the GP surgery.. im in ochil 15 atm
also when do these £4 barbeques happen? not heard anything about bbqs argh so annoyed they're having the summer street party thing the day/night before my last exam! can't decide whether I should go or not!!

15?! Have they changed the way the numbers work? Ochil didn't go up to 15 when I was there- we had a door number, ours was 1, then it was split into letters for the flat. If you're walking across the bridge with the common room infront of you and veer to the left, our flat was the ground floor right next to the path into Murano. It wasn't the quietest of flats...

I've applied for accomodation and I hold a conditional offer. Does it seem likely that I'll get into a 10 person flat in Murano? It's my first choice, so if you put Murano down as your first and second choices, is it basically certain that you'll get in?
Sorry for being clueless!

15?! Have they changed the way the numbers work? Ochil didn't go up to 15 when I was there- we had a door number, ours was 1, then it was split into letters for the flat. If you're walking across the bridge with the common room infront of you and veer to the left, our flat was the ground floor right next to the path into Murano. It wasn't the quietest of flats...

As for the BBQ- these were the temporary throwaway ones that cost £3.99 from the esso garage. Add farmfoods sausages to that mix and you have yourself a winning combination! I'm not sure if there is or will be official Murano BBQs, that'd probably require someones initiative and clearing it with the warden, and those first years aren't known for having initiative!

My application was confirmed on the 7th. I'm getting so impatient waiting on hearing back lol.

Mine was confirmed on the same day! Still waiting. So impatient. Don't think there is any way i'm gonna get my first choice (Queen Margaret) .

Lol, that's weird, my first choice was QM too
Fingers crossed, but I doubt I'll get it either, it was just worth a shot. I'd be happy with anything really as long as I don't have to share a room.

Completly given up on QM now. Was speaking to a friend who said that one of his friends had not gotten into QM even though it was his first choice.

Probably gonna end up in Murano now!

Hi~ i guess its time to post in this thread too ^^

I would like to ask which place has a toilet and a shower that are being used by maximum 3 ppl... i get the feeling that there are not many... /o

and also whats with this "Do you prefer mixed or single sex accommodation? *"

does it mean that im living in a room where there are both girls and guys or does it mean that in a flat there are for example 5 rooms and in each room there are boys or gals? confuuusing~

but the main thing that concerns me are the showers *doesn't like sharing shower a lot and queuing for using it*

I hear that murano and queen Margaret are the most often picked choices, which one is better? - i dont care about noise, i just want to know that there are no mice in the bed and i can share a bathroom with less ppl



Geri.