Applying to Uni for 2024? Find your Uni here and chat with others! >>

University College London

London

This thread is closed

UCL Dorm Rooms (Please post a pic of your room)

Scroll to see replies

Reply 40

holmes221

Noémie

yeah the water gets stupidly hot in the taps in my room sometimes, like burning my hands. the water in the showers takes a while to heat up - you have to turn the nob for AAAAAAGES before it gets warm. it's never been HOT, like how i really like showers. idk about other halls' showers.

Thank for posting those pictures of accommodation! how/when do did you apply for it?

University College London

London

Reply 41

FatZam

reneewe

I second that! John Dodgson pics anybody?

pleaaaase John Dodgson?

Reply 42

kellllybelllly

hawkridge pictures anyone?

Reply 43

vintage_007

Hi everyone!

I'd started another thread as I didn't realise this one existed! Will paste what I orignially posted here:

Hi guys!

I remember, when I was trying to make my accomodation choices, I was desperate for photos which were pretty hard to come by! Have just taken some pics in case you guys are feeling the same way.

As they're too big to upload to TSR, I've created a Flickr account especially - commitment to the cause, huh?!

The web address is...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49496336@N05/?donelayout=1

Sorry I only have ones of AT - my friends in Ramsay, John Tovell and Astor are still away for Easter.

Hope that helps!

:biggrin:

Reply 44

Scabo0o

vintage_007

You, vintage_007, are a very nice person indeed! I'm happy to have put "Please put me in Arthur Tattershall" on my application, because that place looks wonderful! :biggrin:

Could you tell me what it's like? The good and bad points, I want something to get my hopes up over. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Reply 45

cristinam

liljaforever

because I'm lazy:

7) I vote Astor>Schafer (I prefer long corridors :biggrin:

), and if you're ok with sharing, it's definitely AT.

why AT?

Reply 46

jamz0770

Am I right in thinking the shared rooms in John Tovell are very similar to AT? :smile:

Reply 47

vintage_007

Scabo0o

You, vintage_007, are a very nice person indeed! I'm happy to have put "Please put me in Arthur Tattershall" on my application, because that place looks wonderful! :biggrin:

Could you tell me what it's like? The good and bad points, I want something to get my hopes up over. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Haha thanks! You're very welcome!

Aww I hope your note works! Sometimes they consider thenm,sometimes they don't it's just luck of the draw!

I've lost gist of what I've written about AT and where, so I'll do a quick refresher :smile:

SIZE
There's between 6-9 rooms in each flat, meaning 6-12 people (some of whom share, obviously!). Those who share are always either under 19 or International students - so if you don't fall into one of these brackets, the chances of getting a shared room are pretty slim I reckon. Either way, as I've sadi before, sharing a room really isn't that big a deal - you soon get used to it and, providing you're both considerate people, it's pretty easy to get along :smile:

LAYOUT
I'm not too sure about the layout in some of the flats below or in the other houses, but our's (top floor, 119) is laid out in a 'T'-shape, with all the rooms along one corridor and the kitchen at the end of the other, with showers and the bathroom along the way. Providing you don't have a really noisy neighbour, everyone gets along pretty well, noise-wise. Word of advice: If your room is next to one of the walls which leads to the next house, prop it open with the fire extinguisher or else you will never sleep!

KITCHEN
Our kitchen is huge in comparison to some so that's really luck of the draw too. Con-wise, it's exceptionally hot though! We've also discovered that we get pigeons if we leave the tops of the windows open so, another pointer, open them from the bottom, where the grates are, to avoid flying feathers! The kitchen, and other communal areas such as showers, toilets and corridors, are cleaned every weekday - they get pretty annoyed if you leave washing up and things around but are otherwise usually amenable :smile:

LOCATION
As someone else has said, for the proximity to UCL, there's no place better than AT - I can see the Anatomy building from my window, which is next to the main Quad. Basically, it should take you around 2 mins to get to lectures, providing the're on main campus (unlike mine :frown:

!).

Being on Gower Street, which I was once told was the most polluted street in London (not sure of the legitimacy of this 'fact' though, is noisy at all times of day - due to both pedestrians and traffic - but it's also prime location for many things as well as uni :smile:

... Tottenham Court Road basically runs along the back of the house, Oxford St is 10 mins walk, there's Hyde Park, Regent's Park and Green Park within 15 mins walk, plus lots of random green squares.

Covent Garden is 15 mins away and the 4 nearest tube stations are: Euston Square, Warren Street, Goodge Street and Russell Square, which we are almost smack in the middle of. So, even when Warren St is closed at the weekends, is easy enough to find somewhere else. Also, with King's Cross and Euston only 10-15 mins away, trains to outside places are easy enough to get to.

SOAS is just over the road, Birkbeck is 10 mins away, LSE is about 15 mins walk, and City is somewhere nearby too.

We have the University of London Union (ULU), as well as our own Union (UCLU), which basically means it's over-populated with UCL students as it's nearest to us!
ULU has different offers every night, including 2-4-1 cocktails, all draughts £1.50 etc. There are pool tables and and a small dancefloor, which is basically only used on Friday and Saturday nights when there's a DJ.
UCLU also runs offers each night - 99s on Monday, Sports Nite on Wednesday, Stock Exchange on Friday and £1.50 a drink plus karaoke on Saturday. It has 3 bars - the Pleasure Lounge (don't ask me!), Easy J's and Phineas. There's live jazz music one night - but I can't recall when...

FACILITIES OUTSIDE OF AT
Okay, so by facilities, I mainly mean gyms, as this is the only thing I'm resonably clued up on!

UCL has their own gym - Bloomsbury, above the theatre - which is £96 for 6 months (I think!) and has all the usual equipment; weights, treadmills, bikes, cross trainers, rowing machines. It's sometimes busy but I think waiting for machines is rare. It's closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays and shuts at 10pm on the other days - I think!

ULU also has a gym - it's £30 a month, or £4.50 for a day pass, and includes use of the gym and swimming pool. The resources are more high tech - there's 4 screen at the front of the gym - showing Kiss, E4, BBC News and BBC One - which you can listen too via headphones. Queueing is slightly more frequent - usually around the time that Friends is shown! - but you soon learn when it's emptier! It closes at 10pm, and 7pm at weekends, opening at 7.30am on weekdays and 9am on weekends.

Bloomsbury theatre is owned by UCL and, considering the many West End stages nearby which acts could opt for, we tend to get some pretty good people. Usually comedy, I think this week there's Professor Brian Cox on some improv thing! The drama and musical theatre societies also perform here for certain parts of the year - if not in the Garage Theatre, which is just over the road - smaller, including around 60 seats, and for more alternative productions.

Libraries - on top of UCL's Main Library which, as huge as it is, still manages to be packed during exam season, there's like a million others - I can't recall the exact number (I think it's 16?) but some of the main ones are Science Library, Bartlett (Architechture), Cruciform (Medicine) and Royal Free. The main libraries stay open 24/7 after Easter, n order to allow people to revise whenever they like! We also have access to any UoL library - including Senate House and LSE.

I'm going to stop rambling now - I hope the AT stuff and all the extra was interesting! :smile:

Reply 48

Scabo0o

vintage_007

...so I'll do a quick refresher...

hahaha. Your rambling has been an absolute pleasure to read and I really am getting very very excited!! Thanks alot for all the info. I'm 19 now, and will be 20 by the time term starts, so hopefully I'll get a single room!

I'm now wondering whether I want to pay £96 to use the gym. I look like a rake, but I dont know whether my motivation will appear when I get to uni. Dicisions dicisions...

Thanks again, you're amazing, rep for youuuuu!

Reply 49

The Mute

Scabo0o

It's £140 quid for the year, and you can pause it over the christmas/summer. If you're thin as a rake, get yourself over the the fitness subforum, sign up at Bloomsbury, and bulk the **** up. If you don't do it now, you never will.

woop!

Reply 50

glittergulch

Somebody tell me all about College Hall, please? I know it's intercollegiate, but there doesn't seem to be much information on them knocking around and the accommodation thread is a killer to read through...

Reply 51

PJ991

Noémie

I like the pics. What have people been stealing from the fridge though? :ninja:

Reply 52

Noémie

PJ991

I like the pics. What have people been stealing from the fridge though? :ninja:

A WHOLE JAR OF MAYONNAISE
ONE OF THE BIG ONES
:'(

what else... cheesecake. milk. tomatoes. naan bread. more milk. yoghurts. my reggae reggae sauce. uhhhh more milk. JUST EVERYTHING.

Reply 53

CMJBGBWC

Scabo0o

You, vintage_007, are a very nice person indeed! I'm happy to have put "Please put me in Arthur Tattershall" on my application, because that place looks wonderful! :biggrin:

Could you tell me what it's like? The good and bad points, I want something to get my hopes up over. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

You can run to Biomed lectures at 8.55am and be there by 8.59am it appears! :biggrin:

Reply 54

Scabo0o

CMJBGBWC

You can run to Biomed lectures at 8.55am and be there by 8.59am it appears! :biggrin:

Ohhhhh yes :biggrin:

. Just another added bonus to lovely Mr Athur. I SO hope I get in there!!

UCL Dorm Rooms (Please post a pic of your room)

Related discussions

Trending

Latest