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Is Beit the 'Best Imperial Hall'

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There have been many rumors flying about that claim Beit to have claim over the title "The Best Halls in Imperial". This Thread is to debunk that myth. The idea is that "current" students vote to say if they think Beit is the best and who thinks it isn't.
So the motion is set. Beit the "Best Imperial Hall".
Discuss.

Reply 1

Tuva

Bernard Sunley for sure. It is quite ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

Reply 2

not1

15

Tuva

Bernard Sunley for sure. It is quite ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

Seconded by a hopeful BSH reapp. I found out today that after whinging to the new warden about my excessive rent he's moving me into a cavernous room on ground floor. Eat your heart out Aidan; the ladies will be flocking in for my 'movie nights'. :wink:

Reply 3

Tuva

Am I allowed to flock in for you "movie nights"? I don't mean I'm gay...

Reply 4

pole_from_swede

6

Me too!! Me too!!!

Reply 5

Tom H

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Beit is only seen as the best due to the proximety to uni and the hefty price tag, in my opinion.

Reply 6

not1

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Tuva

Am I allowed to flock in for you "movie nights"? I don't mean I'm gay...

lol, of course you can Leon. :wink:

You too Mr Pole, I will be seeing you on Oct 1st. :eek:

Reply 7

Rich

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I'd definitely say Beit is the best by far. Quite a few reasons really:

1. Proximity to the South Ken campus (as long as that's your campus, which for most, it is!). You can literally roll out of bed and be in lectures 5 mins later.

2. Proximity to the union - no worrying about walking back late at night on your own etc. Also, you can get past any guys on the Beit entrance with your Beit card and sneak in to the union without paying on the nights they have something going on.

3. Quality of rooms is very high, like a hotel almost.

4. It's on campus!

5. It's massive - you're bound to find plenty of people on your wavelength.

I could probably think of more if I could be bothered :p:

This is not to say at all that the other halls aren't great - I'm just engaging in some friendly hall alumnus rivalry. :p:

Reply 8

Tom H

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Rich

This is not to say at all that the other halls aren't great - I'm just engaging in some friendly hall alumnus rivalry. :p:

Well in that case let me give some reasons why Wilson House is the best hall :wink:

1. It has top notch facilities. This includes 2 TV rooms, one with a huge rear projection TV, a games room with X-Box and games, a pool toom, darts, table football, sports hall and music room (and starting this year a bar, I believe).

2. It's large. One of the largest halls in fact, 270 people, so gives you loads of people to meet.

3. Crap loads of hall events and parties. All subsidised of course, with the vast majority of the party events with free booze :biggrin:

4. Great community atmosphere.

5. The rooms are good. I'd disagree with Rich about Beit rooms being especially good. I visited one, although I admit it was only one, room on the open day. It was smaller than my room in Wilson and didn't seem in any way amazing. Just average. Then again I haven't seen fisher :wink:

6. All the shops, supermarkets and everything you could ever need are within 5 mins walk. Plus the local tesco has a Krispy Kreme doughnut counter :wink:

Also there's about 8 pubs within 5 mins too.

The only real con is the distance. But really, a 25 min walk is nothing and it's a great time to have a chat to your mates on the way in. Also it's a pretty pleasant walk through Kensington Gardens.

Reply 9

Mehh

OP

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I hope one of the mods can take off the votes that come from Freshers not at uni yet.
Sod it. I'm going to start a list of reasons why Beit suxx0rs.

You live by the union and hence the femented aroma of puke waffs up to your window every day.
Every so often there is a "party" at the union and you can't sleep.
You need to prove you live there every time there is an event there. Otherwise you end up paying to go home.
Its expensive
Its damn expensive
People always invade because when mates get together, oh, so and so lives in Beit...thats close.
31 week lease, means you can't store nout there.
You CAN actually break stuff there, whereas all the other halls are already broken. Thus have fun with your deposit.
Living next to uni means you don't have a seperate 'home' and 'work' place.

Reply 10

pole_from_swede

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And why is BSH "the best"?????

Reply 11

Tom H

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Mehh

You need to prove you live there every time there is an event there. Otherwise you end up paying to go home.

You do? I always thought that the reason they had a guy on the union door to check stamps was so you could get into the quad but not have to pay. I've been able to meet people in the quad during an event I didn't want to go to without having to pay. Just a flash of the Imperial card to the guy on the gate, and just walk past the place where you have to pay to get the stamp.

Reply 12

BossLady

Mehh

Living next to uni means you don't have a seperate 'home' and 'work' place.

This is quite important, and at times annoyed me greatly whilst I was at beit...the close proximity is great in the morning ( though I was always late to lectures as I was washing my hair anyway...), but the constant uni atmosphere was at times clausterophobic...as if we were in some sort of boarding school. Any new beitlings just have to make sure they get to know the surrounding area lots to escape the uni atmosphere when needby. Kensington Gardens is great for this in the summer.

There is no denying Beit is like a hotel though...a guy used to come every morning to clean up the kitchen so even if someone had left it in a tip the night before, it was brand, spanking new for me to fry my eggs and bacon in the next morning. (And there were only 5 people in my kitchen anyway! - though this can be bad in the social sense)

Reply 13

not1

15

BSH is the best:

1. because it's in good as new condition after being refurbished
2. the rent is cheaper than Beit (but it has been hiked this year :frown:

)
3. because it has a big TV, free pool table and 2 smaller TVs.
4. because it's in Evelyn Gardens, which is home to lots of other students
5. because it's near the shops
6. because you get a separate home/work life but are only 15 mins' walk away
7. because at about 80 people, it's small enough to get to know everyone while avoiding those you don't want to speak to

Reply 14

pole_from_swede

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edders

BSH is the best:

1. because it's in good as new condition after being refurbished
2. the rent is cheaper than Beit (but it has been hiked this year :frown:

)
3. because it has a big TV, free pool table and 2 smaller TVs.
4. because it's in Evelyn Gardens, which is home to lots of other students
5. because it's near the shops
6. because you get a separate home/work life but are only 15 mins' walk away
7. because at about 80 people, it's small enough to get to know everyone while avoiding those you don't want to speak to

cool

do you actually have these "hall-parties", that r arranged by reapps and hall managers, together with the other halls in Ev. Gardens, or does every hall have its own events?

Reply 15

Mehh

OP

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pole_from_swede

cool

do you actually have these "hall-parties", that r arranged by reapps and hall managers, together with the other halls in Ev. Gardens, or does every hall have its own events?

Yea halls parties are the norm. Part of your rent pays for 'free' booze and stuff that is brought at the start of the year. Of course it doesn't get shared out evenly. Them crazy foreigners tend to get left out on account of them not being at the parties. Course they end up paying just as much of it :biggrin:

Reply 16

not1

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Mehh

Yea halls parties are the norm. Part of your rent pays for 'free' booze and stuff that is brought at the start of the year. Of course it doesn't get shared out evenly. Them crazy foreigners tend to get left out on account of them not being at the parties. Course they end up paying just as much of it :biggrin:

Our residents were so bookwormy this year we had like 1k left over in the hall fund at the end of the year! :eek:

Just as well I'm still there to make the most of the rollover. :wink:

Reply 17

Mehh

OP

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edders

Our residents were so bookwormy this year we had like 1k left over in the hall fund at the end of the year! :eek:

Just as well I'm still there to make the most of the rollover. :wink:

Your not that halls that begged people to be reapps was it?
Anyways. Your halls ain't that bad. I heard one halls, which is like twice the size of Pembridge brought half as much alcohol and actually managed to make it last. We ran out some time during the election night.
Think it was Holbein, seeing as we know about Holbein's abv the most accurately.

Reply 18

not1

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Mehh

Your not that halls that begged people to be reapps was it?
Anyways. Your halls ain't that bad. I heard one halls, which is like twice the size of Pembridge brought half as much alcohol and actually managed to make it last. We ran out some time during the election night.
Think it was Holbein, seeing as we know about Holbein's abv the most accurately.

Ah, I organised a proper election night party with decorations and cheese and pineapple on sticks and everything. BSH reapps go the extra mile. :wink:

Reply 19

pole_from_swede

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Mehh

Yea halls parties are the norm. Part of your rent pays for 'free' booze and stuff that is brought at the start of the year. Of course it doesn't get shared out evenly. Them crazy foreigners tend to get left out on account of them not being at the parties. Course they end up paying just as much of it :biggrin:

There will be no alcohol left this year :biggrin:

We will have to borrow some from the other halls.
But are these parties arranged for the whole Evelyn Gardens or for separate halls?

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