Durham General Chat Thread

There were 300 spare bed spaces last year, and more stuff has been built for this year as I understand it. Asides signing a contract now is insane, the chances are there will be one person in your grouping that you wont get on with by the end of the year.

DSU tells you that, what they fail to mention is that most of those spare places are in the deepest darkest corners of durham. If you are happy to live in gilesgate then i guess you have a good plan. Don't be under the impression that you can easily get well located housing in march or later though.

Gilesgate isnt really that far, its a 20 minute walk from the science site I understand. How soon does most of the housing actually go, I take it is well after January?

That depends on which part of Gilesgate. If you're living not far off the roundabout, it's probably about twenty minutes to the science site. If you're living further in, on the main part of the estate, it's a lot further out. Plus it's fecking terrifying in the evenings.

That depends on which part of Gilesgate. If you're living not far off the roundabout, it's probably about twenty minutes to the science site. If you're living further in, on the main part of the estate, it's a lot further out. Plus it's fecking terrifying in the evenings.

People are weird, and even though you may feel really close to people in first year, you don't really know them until you live together.

You have to STUDY female genital mutilation? I couldn't do that, I'd get too angry at the world.

Becca, I enjoy your avatar, although the panda dog appears not to have any legs.

Its a bit early to be worrying to be honest, loads of people havent bothered getting into groups yet. Plus people who are in certain groups will fall out with each other etc, slots will become free. Why are you not going with your flat anyway? I thought that was supposed to be one of the advantages of Butler?

If you get on with your flatmates, that is...

Hows all your shizzle going Stevie? I'll not traipse all the pages of chatter I've missed, but rather trust all is well for you and your storming first class degree?

I suppose there is that little catch.

Yes . I could potentially share with one of them, but the others have all signed already without even talking to each other, which I think speaks volumes about our flat unity!

Is there no one from your course that you know well enough?

Yes . I could potentially share with one of them, but the others have all signed already without even talking to each other, which I think speaks volumes about our flat unity!

Hmm, how did Butler manage to put such a mismatched group of people together? I thought there was some sort of system of matching people up in accordance with interests and the like.

Most flats have clicked, but there are a couple that seem to be full of the "left-overs"! The general word on the streets, so to speak, is that most people aren't sharing as a flat, although generally housing groups seem to contain little groups of 2 or 3 from one flat combining with another.