Insurance acceptees and their accommodation whinage

No one *needs* a car at uni. So lack of parking permit is not a valid excuse for whineage.

The most important thing is that you don't come to Bristol with a negative attitude. If you come to Bristol wishing you were at Cambridge, you're almost guaranteed to hate it. If you make yourself believe you had a lucky escape and didn't want to go to Cambridge anyway, and really throw yourself into it and make lots of friends, you'll love it.

It's true; cars are more hassle than they're worth down at uni. Parking in Bristol is impossible (I'm not exaggerating), and the city council charge through the roof for their spaces.

Cambridge reject here too! Then again, Insurance people are only really going to come from Oxbridge I should expect, no?

However, I'm really going to throw myself into Bristol... the only thing that I'm really that annoyed about is not having all that lah-di-dah formal hall stuff... which apparently Wills Hall has. (though obviously I'm not going to apply there. Badock is my first choice. I'm hoping that they think "wow - someone wants to come here?" due to their low ratio of applicants to places.)

Then again I'd only get bored of formals after a few weeks anyway, and getting drunk on cheap wine is what it is.

Anyway - sending the form of tomorrow morning with all the stamps and stuff.

I guess I actually am whining. It's really strange, because they sort the accommodation out so that insurance people have to bloody crap their pants waiting, when the insurance people would generally be better qualified than the Firm people. I don't particularly care, and I'm not bitter at all, but it does appear that I, and people like me, are being punished for being offered a place by Oxbridge. Surely it couldn't hurt to delay the process by two weeks?

As I say - just an observation - it was, after all, only me who missed my offer, and thus didn't live up to my potential. My fault.

I guess I actually am whining. It's really strange, because they sort the accommodation out so that insurance people have to bloody crap their pants waiting, when the insurance people would generally be better qualified than the Firm people. I don't particularly care, and I'm not bitter at all, but it does appear that I, and people like me, are being punished for being offered a place by Oxbridge. Surely it couldn't hurt to delay the process by two weeks?

As I say - just an observation - it was, after all, only me who missed my offer, and thus didn't live up to my potential. My fault.

Yeah, its like Wowbagger said - its not about qualifications, its about loyalty. People that put Bristol as their firm should have advantages over people putting Bristol as their insurance because it is their "first choice". I think its a fair system, and I would still think its a fair system if I had gone my to insurance (Cardiff). Why should people who decided they were going to Bristol ages ago wait longer to find out their accomodation?

For me it was the icing on the cake when I found out I got into my first choice accomodation a few days after results day. I had a really good time celebrating and to be told that soon was really nice - I wouldn't have had the same experience if it was put on hold sorting insurance people out aswell.

I really don't think accomodation should be about people being better qualified or not. There will be people who put Bristol as their firm with grades the same as yours/better than yours but just because they didn't get an offer from oxbridge, or didn't apply there in the first place, doesn't mean they are less qualified than you.