Is living at home for Uni a bad idea?

My friend is in a similar situation to you. Provided you have good transport this shouldn't be a problem in terms of your education. You may feel like you are missing out slightly on the social side of things if you are not in halls but if you are still recovering from an operation then this may be a more sensible idea anyway.

Are you planning on staying at home the entire time or just for your first year?

Ideally just first year and if I get the money together I'll get a flat share with someone. The transport links are great to the uni, and my recovery is important so I suppose staying at home won't be too bad.

I'm going to Glasgow University in September, I only live roughly half an hour away from the Uni so I didn't really see much point in moving. Plus, I'm still recovering from an operation I under went last year so I think living at home would be more sensible. But will living at home affect my social life at Uni and my ability to make friends, as well as my overrall experience in a negative way? I'm making sure to join clubs and societies when I get to Uni but is this enough?

Thanks

Ideally just first year and if I get the money together I'll get a flat share with someone. The transport links are great to the uni, and my recovery is important so I suppose staying at home won't be too bad.

To be hones with you I would move I understand that you had an operation but after a year you should be on the mend. Travelling to uni can be stressful especially if you get cancelled or delayed trains so miss lectures sometimes. It's also nice to be able to go back to your flat if you have large gaps in between lectures. lectures run from 9am until about 8pm I had one at 7-8 after a 12 hour day which is hard that is with only a break at 1 for lunch so my day was 9am-8pm.

Ask your self would you rather have a short 10 15 minute walk to halls or would you farther walk to the station wait 10-15 minuets for a train then have to walk home from the station bu what would be approaching 9 O'clock also what if your working on a group project (uni's like this for some reason) people work on these often late in to the night wit their group not every night because people have clubs and things but some nights so you can expect on these often to work up until at least 11pm when the IT room closes and then would you really want to get a train then no you wouldn't.

It would also affect your social life people who live at home I know I've met some find the first few months very lonely also it would be an effort to get out for club nights and where would you sleep after woulds I know your recovery is important but it's been a year t's time to start living again.

I know it's not what you want to hear and I know I'll probably get negged a lot for this but it's the way it is.

One option of course is to defer for a year until you know you are over your operation and do some work to get some money then go to uni it's up to you of course but I would not recommend commuting it was hard enough to get home various weekends let alone every day (had some trouble finding a place in third year for a couple of weeks)

I'm gonna be staying at home too! I've felt the same as you, thinking I may be missing out on the social side but after talking to some family they said its a good decision as it's easier as in you have somewhere quiet to work, food/washing made/done for you etc and you can still go out whenever you want

Your family sound exactly the same as mine! I think they're right, starting Uni in itself would be hard never mind living on your own for the first time if you're not really ready for it. I'll definitely stay at home for first year and see if I can get a flat in second year

yeah it's defo gonna be scary, you're basically thrown into a new situation and you don't know anyone
I'm kinda happy that I wouldn't have to be worrying about paying rent for halls or paying for the food shopping haha

Aww I know! When you put it like that living at home is really appealing, at least until you find your feet!

I'm going to Glasgow University in September, I only live roughly half an hour away from the Uni so I didn't really see much point in moving. Plus, I'm still recovering from an operation I under went last year so I think living at home would be more sensible. But will living at home affect my social life at Uni and my ability to make friends, as well as my overrall experience in a negative way? I'm making sure to join clubs and societies when I get to Uni but is this enough?

Thanks