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Halls - RVC

i have sent off my app. for halls are RVC :
1) college grove
2) mary brancker
3) connaught hall

Have i made a mistake, can you give me honest opinions on all of those choices. I would prefer to hear the bad things because i'm a pesimist and it would humour me greatly to know that i'll be sleeping on a bunch of damp cloths and have to share a bathroom with 30 other people!!

LOL - and its going to cost me like a million pounds a week for that luxury. :p:

Reply 1

nina_100

12

Has everyone sent off applications for accom yet?? How do I go about doing it i don't want to end up living in a cardboard box amongst scouse tramps... although it could be a laugh and I could live right outside the lecture room :cool:

Reply 2

xxxLucyxxx

nina_100

Has everyone sent off applications for accom yet?? How do I go about doing it i don't want to end up living in a cardboard box amongst scouse tramps... although it could be a laugh and I could live right outside the lecture room :cool:

I dont have any application forms to send off lol
are we sent them or was i meant to get them off the website????? :confused:

Reply 3

cazhorsey

1

Hi..I got mine sent through the post...i have sent mine off but havent selected firm/insurance choices yet though...will i still be looked at now or only when i select them??

Reply 4

Hel' in Heaven

mawi99102

i have sent off my app. for halls are RVC :
1) college grove
2) mary brancker
3) connaught hall

Have i made a mistake, can you give me honest opinions on all of those choices. I would prefer to hear the bad things because i'm a pesimist and it would humour me greatly to know that i'll be sleeping on a bunch of damp cloths and have to share a bathroom with 30 other people!!

LOL - and its going to cost me like a million pounds a week for that luxury. :p:

Hey there!
I'm going to fill those forms out soon.. and I will probably put the same first two choices as you! :smile:

I started a thread called "Accomodation at RVC", and got a pretty thorough opinion on the two main halls, so perhaps you can look that up! :wink:

I don't know if I'm going to put a third choice down, because I really have no preference between all the other halls (which are all catered and further away... :redface:

)

Helen x

Reply 5

Hailz88

xxxLucyxxx

I dont have any application forms to send off lol
are we sent them or was i meant to get them off the website????? :confused:

from the letter i got it seems like we will be sent accomodation forms in may, although i read somewhere else that they are doing it online this year, either way i dont think we have to sort it out until may!!

Reply 6

crazy chick

Hi there all!
I'm a gateway student so will be on the 1st year BVetMed course at RVC in Sept and I chose to live in Conaught hall this year which I have found to be AMAZING! I love it loads and wanted to stop here again next year but can''t :frown:

The rooms are a decent size although not as modern as Mary Brancker and College grove but still its definitley worth applying for intercollegiate halls as they're catered ( most of the time the food's good if you get down there early enough!) cheaper than M.B and college grove, its the same distance to college as M.B and I've found it to be much more central than the other halls so much closer to the all important nightlife- the last thing you want after a night out is a long long walk home! It's also great to mix with other students who aren't vets which keeps you sane especially around exam time! And for the girls out there its an all important place to meet some men as you'll soon find out that there's an extreme shortage of the male of the species at the RVC. As for the halls, M.B is v.nice but full of vets and the most expensive option, the friends I have at College grove tell me that they sometimes feel like they never get away from college as they live ontop of it so don't end up leaving there for days!! but on the other hand its ideal for rolling out of bed and arriving at 9 o'clock lectures on time! As I'm sure you know both M.B and College grove are flats of 6 people whereas Connaught you have your own room so you can choose who you interact with most and I know that there can be lots of tension within some of the flats of 6 if they all don't get on! If you choose to live in intercollegiate halls dont worry about not making friends on the vet course as this is 1000% totally impossible its hard not to! Hope this helps you a bit I know this is a really long post but modt of its important info and not just me going on (i hope!)any more questions let me know!

Reply 7

mawi99102

OP

i feel quite a lot that no disrespect to any vets but i dont think i could live with 200 animal lovers so i would in some respect prefer to go to intercollegiate halls, only thing that put me off is that i heard you have to share bathrooms with 8 other people!!! long cue for the shower in the morning, and im definately not an early bird so ill get that crap food!!!!! :p:

Reply 8

-sophie-

11

Hey I sent mine off! EXCITEMENT:
1) College Grove, - had a look around and I thought they were great, clean tidy modern and very cool! Waay better than some of the horrible places I have seen!
2) M.B - not seen this one but I hear it is new and I imagine it is nice!
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When will we know which hall we are moving into? (They are my firm)

Reply 9

Hel' in Heaven

-sophie-

When will we know which hall we are moving into? (They are my firm)

Hey,
From what I read, it should be sometime in July...
Nice to hear that you've been around College Grove and that it looks great! I haven't been able to get hold of a single picture, so have no idea what to expect...!

Helen x

Reply 10

cazhorsey

1

Hey!
Wow its amazing to see how many people have put down the same accomodation options!..I have put down college grove as my first and mary brancker house as my second too! it'll b so kool 2 meet all u ppl from here :biggrin:

Reply 11

-sophie-

11

Yeah it was nice, I went thanks to a girl I spoke to on TSR, super helpful and offered to show me around properly (the real tour)... was really good. I thought her room was nice, I have seen uni rooms before (Bristol, Nottingam) and they were, well... gross! The rooms I saw were clean, modern (didn't smell!) and was generally somewhere I would want to live, and I was very impressed! She even mentioned that some of the rooms had a double bed! Whoop! I think it is pot luck who gets them - fingers crossed! :smile:

It is so nice to hear about people who are also going through the same decision process, don't know about you but with exams and everything else I'm pretty nervous! x

Reply 12

Hel' in Heaven

Yes, it's really exciting to think that we'll all be doing the same thing next year... :p:

I'm lucky enough not to have exams this year (did them last year and took a year off to reapply), so I don't have the stress you must all be feeling now!
Good luck, and fingers crossed we'll all soon be on the "2006 rvc students" thread :biggrin:

Reply 13

northern_lass

1

i live in college grove, tis amazing! but as has been said, you sometimes feel like your a bit stuck in college, but it is a really nice place to live. hehe, sophie, i meant that the room above the kitchen is the size of a double room, you still get the tiny little beds in them, which is one of the downsides to college grove as the beds are quite small, but still sleepable. mary branker is gorgeous brand new, and im living there next year!! the flats are actually of 7, not 6 like someone said, and thats for both, but there is one flat in college grove of 6 and a few in mary branker, but i think theyr for the second years who are living there :biggrin:

most of the flats get on well and iv not really heard of many that dont. as for men, there arent many!! and you seem to end up such good friends with them that it would be wrong to start seeing them! so thats an upside of intercolligiate! but they all seem amazing to live in, and i love college grove!!

Reply 14

sheridangolding

thanx for sending me here nina! i like the look of connaught halls, anyone no what the other intercollegiate halls are like,e.g commonwealth, international, hughes parry?) i havnt got a clue. altho theres this really good virtual tour of the rooms on the university of london sight, but still i need some advice! i dont want to be a million miles away from the rvc. anyone doin veterinary sciences?! :smile:

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