im at uni and desperate to live in halls! help

You're not missing much tbh. The only "experience" is immature children running around screaming at 4 in the morning.

im at uni and as it was my insurance choice i didnt have a room on campus. I put my name on the waiting list 3 weeks ago but i havnt yet been called about a room even though i know someone else who did.

anyway i really want to live in halls as i feel im sort of missing out on the full experience. Does anyone know when there is more of a chance when people are likely to drop out of halls for e.g. is december a good month for having more of a chance that people may move out of halls and move back home or is a a really slim chance now?

Halls are awesome,
Quite often we'd go to a club and take over it (160 in my house) or have movie nights with about 30 people, or ping pong tornements.
I organised paintballing for us too and had 30 go to that.
At dinner with 20-40 people from our each day.

Our house was extremely close though.

December is a good time people will drop out. The problem may be going to halls and people being less friendly as they have their friendship groups etc.

We had a guy join after christmas in our house, we made him welcome and he really enjoyed his time.

Ignore this ..

Halls is a good experience, yes, especially if your someone who enjoys going out and having a good times. (no, that doesnt mean you HAVE to drink for some sad act people who think that, you can go out at uni and stay out late without drink).

You will have a more sociable life.. at my halls we are the main flat out of our group of mates so frequently have our flat of 6 boys in our lounge area, and our doors always open so have atleast 5-10 other people in here at all times during the day and when were going out we have atleast 15-20 others too , we just chill out.. you won't really experience this at private houses, not unless you plan it a lot more.

Private houses arent a bad thing, usually cheaper, usually get better stuff such as double beds and wifi and whatever other random 'luxuries' some/most student halls wont have. You may have to 'put in' a bit more to have a good social life if your in a private house, but thats not that hard. You'll still have a perfectly good social life it just wont come as naturally to you like in halls , for example where people just walk around to meet people.

As for when people drop out, my experience is a few weeks in.. and just before xmas, this is from my experience and what i've heard/ It is a ahrder choice to drop out the further in the year you get so the chance gets smaller.

i have heard that december is a good month for drop outs but do you know why people would drop out in december? wouldnt they have dropped out already if they were miserable?

No no no no. Do not ignore what he quoted. That is exactly what halls is like.

Way overrated. You get no sleep, it's noisy as hell, and yes you do get people running up and down at 4 in the morning. If you want to act like a child then i'd recommend you move into halls. If you value your sleep and sanity, stay where you are!

staying up late on nights out does not make us children.

No, it doesn't, but making a godawful noise and shouting and knocking on doors and playing loud music, totally inconsiderate of anyone else is childish/immature.

Sorry, i didnt realise your one experience stood for every single persons at university who live in halls.



We live in a very lively halls building, never had people run around and knock on our doors. We can never hear anyone playing there music loud, even if we KNOW they are, we cant hear it unless we are at there door or near it in the hallway, which is irrelevant anyway as you wouldnt be there.

So ya know.. dont go telling people halls is for immature and such people when your one experience is not the only one, k?

So ya know.. dont go telling people halls is for immature and such people when your one experience is not the only one, k?

To be fair here, your post is saying that halls is a good experience. That's true for you, but not for everyone - your experience is also not the only one.

It does say its good especially if you like all the going out and staying up

Wouldnt you agree that the general average experience at halls is good? some are amazing, some are awful.. but the average normal one is good.

And..? my whole flat stays up til one four, so do all the flats around me.. no1 cares.

We know no1 cares because everyone joins us ..
How is staying up and having a laugh, maybe watching some crappy film, having a good banter with people and such a thing a child does?

Its university for god sake, have some fun.

Fair enough if you dont stay up this late but dont call people who do children, i am mature for my age in what i do and so are a lot of people i hang around with and us staying up late on nights out does not make us children.

I thought my post was quite justified, i said if the OP likes going out and staying up late they would like halls.. if they dont, it may not be the BEST option, but its not like its the worst.

i have heard that december is a good month for drop outs but do you know why people would drop out in december? wouldnt they have dropped out already if they were miserable?