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Corryms

Anybody staying in St. Patrick's this year?

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Reply 1

Jimbo1927

Yeah man, I am! Looking forward to it

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Reply 2

Corryms

that's 2 people accounted for!
where's the rest of ya?!

Reply 3

SophieGC21

I'm in St Patrick's too! Any idea what its like? I'm going to be studying English Language :smile:

Reply 4

vieea

I'm in St Patrick's! Cant wait to find out my room number and get everything sorted!

Reply 5

SophieGC21

Looks like its just the four of us haha!

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Reply 6

Sour Suga

Make that the five of us! So what are you guys studying? I'm doing Biomed.

Reply 7

Naut

Original post by SophieGC21

I'm in St Patrick's too! Any idea what its like? I'm going to be studying English Language :smile:

I was in St Pats last year, you're in for a blast :wink:

Reply 8

SophieGC21

Awesome! Are you here this year to help students to move in? Can you tell me anything about St Pats that I need to know?

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Reply 9

Naut

Original post by SophieGC21

Awesome! Are you here this year to help students to move in? Can you tell me anything about St Pats that I need to know?

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I'm not, but some of my friends are. Freshers week, you'll all be rounded up and go out as a hall - so don't buy any of the RUSU bundles; the JCR will sort you out. The JCR really help with trying to break the ice (and get you drunk :P). You make friends for life in halls, so take the opportunity to meet as many different people as possible.

Urr, one warning is - don't use the kitchen to store stuff; it'll likely get taken and you'll never see it again. :P. So keep the stuff in your room! :P

Also, pretty sure there's a facebook group somewhere that you can join to meet people. Tap in something like St Patricks Hall Group 2013-2014

Reply 10

SophieGC21

Thanks for your post, can you tell me a little bit more about the catering side of St Pats as I preferably wanted self catering.

You mentioned don't store things in the kitchen, do you really mean that? Not even my pots, pans and the odd bit of food? How many share a kitchen as are you allocated a cupboard and part of the fridge each?

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Reply 11

Naut

Original post by SophieGC21

You're not really allocated anything, you just take something if it's free. The fridge and freezer are pretty small and you share a kitchen with a floor of your block. Which is about urhm.. 12 people? I had stuff stolen a lot, so I just stopped bothering using my kitchen.

Cupboards aren't locked or anything like that, so anybody can access your stuff. But tbf, if you're catered it doesn't really matter that much - you'll only ever be using it for weekends if you run out of money on your campus card.

Reply 12

Lucy0894

How many people share a bathroom? I have been put there and I know absolutely nothing about it! So I'm scared.

Reply 13

Naut

Original post by Lucy0894

How many people share a bathroom? I have been put there and I know absolutely nothing about it! So I'm scared.

In each floor of a block there's a shared single toilet. (This is New Court btw, I have no clue about old court). Then on the bottom of each block there is either a male or female toilet, with 4 shower rooms and more toilet cubicles. I very rarely was waiting for a shower in the morning, so there are enough :smile:

Reply 14

SophieGC21

Does anyone know when we will receive our university email address?

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Reply 15

Zolatine

Original post by SophieGC21

Does anyone know when we will receive our university email address?

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Go here http://mail.live.reading.ac.uk/ (or if that doesn't work go here https://live.auth.reading.ac.uk/ - the university recently changed the email system so I'm not sure which one will be working for new students). Your username and password should be the same as the one that you use to log into RISIS.