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Has anyone received their Imperial Accom form?

Also on the overseas tuition of UK schools, the difference from domestic fees is the greatest!! I meant compared to the schools in US, Canada, etc........do residents pay that much tax?

Reply 21

Jojoba86

Nope, the UK unis are just under-funded :smile:

. Probably UK residents pay more tax than US, we have more state funded stuff, e.g. NHS. I don't know how much you know about the whole fees debate at the moment, but they're basically putting fees up to £3,000 a year (variable) for English/Welsh/N. Irish (?) students. The Scottish universities have no fees for Scottish students!

Reply 22

koolboarder

Jojoba86

Nope, the UK unis are just under-funded :smile:

. Probably UK residents pay more tax than US, we have more state funded stuff, e.g. NHS. I don't know how much you know about the whole fees debate at the moment, but they're basically putting fees up to £3,000 a year (variable) for English/Welsh/N. Irish (?) students. The Scottish universities have no fees for Scottish students!

Overseas ppl pay an additional £10,000 on top of that £3,000 per year!!! Btw, correct me if i am wrong, both cambridge and oxford are public schools?

Btw, where is that "£" sign on my keyboard?? Haha

Reply 23

BossLady

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koolboarder

Overseas ppl pay an additional £10,000 on top of that £3,000 per year!!! Btw, correct me if i am wrong, both cambridge and oxford are public schools?

Btw, where is that "£" sign on my keyboard?? Haha

public=state funded to you? or public=old school private? People here used public=old school private, whereas in the US and other places they use public=state funded.
Anyway oxbridge are not private, they're in the hands of the government, as with all British Univs, apart from Univ of Buckingham.

Reply 24

koolboarder

BossLady

public=state funded to you? or public=old school private? People here used public=old school private, whereas in the US and other places they use public=state funded.
Anyway oxbridge are not private, they're in the hands of the government, as with all British Univs, apart from Univ of Buckingham.

Icic..then i was thinking of the term state funded........

Now back to the initial ques, has anyone received their Accom forms?

Reply 25

Mysticmin

10

Buckingham...one word: Why?!??!

Reply 26

not1

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koolboarder

REally depends on what kinda roommate you get, I had fun with my last roomie, but I knew him as a friend beforehand though.........

yes, my friend who's there now studying bio has a roommate from hong kong, and he would stay up in the night talking/laughing loudly in hongkongese, which was rather annoying for him. i advised him to tell him to shutup, he did, he did, and now they get on better.

Reply 27

TheWolf

15

edders

yes, my friend who's there now studying bio has a roommate from hong kong, and he would stay up in the night talking/laughing loudly in hongkongese,

*cantonese* :tongue:

thats very inconsiderate of him btw! :eek:

i think id rather have my own room...my sis is at ic at the mo and had her own room in the 1st year, but its bloody small!

Reply 28

hildabeast

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I don't think I could stand sharing a room. I tend to wander round in my undrwear and stay up all night posting multiple times on student forums, so I think I would just piss my roomate off.

Reply 29

jiefei_ma

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hildabeast

... stay up all night posting multiple times on student forums, so I think I would just piss my roomate off.

usually i wont turn off the light until 2 am (during holidays, it is on over night), and my CD player is turned on as long as i am in the hall~~

Reply 30

jiefei_ma

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koolboarder

Overseas ppl pay an additional £10,000 on top of that £3,000 per year!!! Btw, correct me if i am wrong, both cambridge and oxford are public schools?

Btw, where is that "£" sign on my keyboard?? Haha

see, we are actually funding the UK universities :rolleyes:

Reply 31

koolboarder

When it comes to living together, everyone has a really weird habit or two. My ex-doormate's a trumpet music major who's a dead sleeper. His alarm used to went on for hours (No, knocking on his door, he cannot hear :eek:

). EVerone woke up for his morning alarm except himself. I almost asked him not to lock his door, so i can slap him in the face each morning to wake him up.

But turn out that his alarm battery went out and he didn't know.

Reply 32

Kalypso

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koolboarder

EVerone woke up for his morning alarm except himself.

There's a person in my corridor at uni like that :mad:

I have NO idea how he can sleep through it! normally I'm up, dressed and leaving the building while the alarm is still beeping!

Reply 33

BossLady

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Right....just rang up the accomodation office people! It seems the accom forms will now be sent in May.
Whoever recieves it first....do tell us!

Reply 34

Mysticmin

10

Does anyone know how they allocate the rooms? Because I really want Beit hall, it's the only one wth 34 weeks rent...

Reply 35

BossLady

OP

Mysticmin

Does anyone know how they allocate the rooms? Because I really want Beit hall, it's the only one wth 34 weeks rent...

I really want Beit Hall too...!!!

Reply 36

Jojoba86

Mysticmin

Does anyone know how they allocate the rooms? Because I really want Beit hall, it's the only one wth 34 weeks rent...

Yeah, Beit looks great! I think it's done slightly randomly, based on some limited preferences you can specify on the form. What's so good about 34 week rent though? The rest seem to be 38 week, and are much cheaper per week, and work out little different overall. Ok, so if you're not around in the holidays you get more for your money but there's certainley no money advanatage.

Reply 37

Mysticmin

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Jojoba86

Yeah, Beit looks great! I think it's done slightly randomly, based on some limited preferences you can specify on the form. What's so good about 34 week rent though? The rest seem to be 38 week, and are much cheaper per week, and work out little different overall. Ok, so if you're not around in the holidays you get more for your money but there's certainley no money advanatage.

Slight difference but it could come in handy when it comes to the point of buying my next drink or buying food :smile:

Reply 38

xaxa

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Jojoba86

I think all the rooms have broadband, although I've heard varying stories about how good it is. I'll probably go with a new laptop, as my desktop is old and I doubt I can convince my parents to upgrade it, where as I probably could get a new laptop!

I'm definately not keen on the idea of sharing, it might be good some of the time but I think I'd like my own space.

Remember for the price of a new laptop, you can buy a decent desktop and a TFT (flat) monitor, and get more power. And a bigger keyboard, screen etc.

koolboarder

Btw, where is that "£" sign on my keyboard??

US layout? Then you need to press Alt (or AltGr, I can't remember) and type '0', '1', '6', '3' on the number pad. Or maybe just 1,6,3.

If you set your layout to UK, then it's Shift-3 (where you have a # IIRC) but then shift-2 becomes " and shift-' becomes @, and \ | # ~ ¬ move places.

Reply 39

Jojoba86

Remember for the price of a new laptop, you can buy a decent desktop and a TFT (flat) monitor, and get more power. And a bigger keyboard, screen etc.

True, but I want a decent laptop anyway, for portability purposes it should be usefull for me. Plus asking for a laptop will probably get me a better laptop than asking for various computer upgrades :biggrin:

. I can always upgrade my ageing desktop at a later date.

Has anyone received their Imperial Accom form?

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