Best accommodation for a FUN student life?

I'm 99% sure going to LSE next year for Economics.

Looking at the accommodation list, I have no idea which to choose or whatever.

I don't really mind that much about the distance from the LSE campus either as all that is needed is a hop on the tube from any of the accommodations (please correct me if I'm wrong.)

I'm quite a social person, and want to get the most fun out of student life as possible, and I am aware that to an extent this may depend on the people are living in my halls. (again, please correct me if i'm wrong)

Is it better to go for the LSE accommodation or the inter-collegiate accommodation, considering that I may meet with a more diverse group of people in the inter-collegiate halls.

EDIT: also one near a lot of the clubbing scene... :smile:

Reply 1

rhododendron

8

LSE's High Holborn - great location right in the centre on London.

Reply 2

zxczxc

11

In terms of a social life, High Holborn is crap (so I hear). Plenty of people have seen about swapping to other halls. As far as I'm aware, Bankside is too big for any feeling of community.

Pick Rosebery or Carr-Saunders for a good student life (albeit not a particularly en-suite one).

Oh, and you don't want to be getting a tube - £2 a journey is a joke, just walk instead. Even the 25 minutes they suggest in the prospectus isn't all that far.

Reply 3

2late

13

zxczxc

In terms of a social life, High Holborn is crap (so I hear). Plenty of people have seen about swapping to other halls. As far as I'm aware, Bankside is too big for any feeling of community.

Pick Rosebery or Carr-Saunders for a good student life (albeit not a particularly en-suite one).

Oh, and you don't want to be getting a tube - £2 a journey is a joke, just walk instead. Even the 25 minutes they suggest in the prospectus isn't all that far.

Althogh High Holborn is 5 min away from LSE, it absoluely sucks in terms of social life. Bankside is the best from what I've seen (also by judging other opinions).

Reply 4

thedogonarope

OP

2

but isn't bankside very far away from the main clubbing scene... near the tate modern etc.?

Reply 5

KING IS HERE

I also have an accommodation question me and my friend decided to go to LSE and is wondering if we both get in on the accommodation application we are able to room together if we decide to get a twin??

Reply 6

rhododendron

8

2late

Althogh High Holborn is 5 min away from LSE, it absoluely sucks in terms of social life. Bankside is the best from what I've seen (also by judging other opinions).

How do you define 'social life'? If that is a reference to HH's internally generated events, then I would agree that these seem few and far between. However HH is so close to all the major clubs and theatres that there's always something exciting going on within walking distance for you to go to. Students at HH aren't reliant on committees to organise social events for them.

zxczxc

In terms of a social life, High Holborn is crap (so I hear). Plenty of people have seen about swapping to other halls. As far as I'm aware, Bankside is too big for any feeling of community.

Pick Rosebery or Carr-Saunders for a good student life (albeit not a particularly en-suite one).

Oh, and you don't want to be getting a tube - £2 a journey is a joke, just walk instead. Even the 25 minutes they suggest in the prospectus isn't all that far.

I'm sure some HH students have wanted to swap to other halls - perhaps because the rooms at HH are small, and have shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. However at the start of the michaelmas term there were multiple posteres in HH offering rewards (seem to remember they were typically for a couple of hundred pounds) to anyone willing to swap their HH room for one at Bankside, Rosebery etc.

Reply 7

Nero3000

A very social hall would be Passfield:

1) In a very good location for the clubs etc (albeit not as good as HH)

2) Dinner is included in the rent so you do get a chance to eat a meal with everyone in the dinning hall, thus meet a lot of people and the community is very closeknit.

3) The bar is always open unlike other halls, HH springs to mind.

4) There are only 200 or so people so you will know pretty much everyone.

5) Its just been redone, thus everything is brand new, i prefer the showers there than the ones at home.

6) I stayed in Bankside for a week, and it was very hotel like and you don't talk to people in the corridors and leaving doors open for people is not possible in most bankside rooms, but in passfield it is very social.

A downside is that half the spaces are in shared rooms so there is a higher chance you get a shared room but it isnt as bad as it sounds.

Reply 8

Knogle

16

Nero, you would make a good salesperson. :p:

Reply 9

clueless101

I'm the in the same position as TheImpaledWarthog, and have also been recommended Bankside. But then Nero would suggest otherwise. :s-smilie:

How bad is sharing a room anyway?

I've also heard stories about halls being really segregated. is this true? and if so, which halls are least like this?!

Reply 10

zxczxc

11

clueless101

I'm the in the same position as TheImpaledWarthog, and have also been recommended Bankside. But then Nero would suggest otherwise. :s-smilie:

How bad is sharing a room anyway?

I've also heard stories about halls being really segregated. is this true? and if so, which halls are least like this?!

Segregated in which way? You do tend to get an awful lot of Chinese students never coming out of their rooms, though.

Reply 11

clueless101

zxczxc

Segregated in which way? You do tend to get an awful lot of Chinese students never coming out of their rooms, though.

thats basically what i meant, and the majority of those in halls being international students keeping themselves to themselves

Reply 12

penjy1

i lived in HH it was good. but i have got loads of friends in rosebery this year and they absolutely love it. it is deffo the most social hall.

Reply 13

clueless101

Do you get to actually state your first-choice accomodation and how likely is it that they give it to you?

Reply 14

mypaperheart

16

Yes, you get to rank 3 choices in order of preference for LSE halls and 3 choices in order of preference for Intercollegiate halls. I'm not sure about the probability of getting 1st choice though :s-smilie:

Reply 15

zxczxc

11

The chances are pretty high, I'd reckon. Everyone I know got their first choice.

Reply 16

Dark and Lovely

15

I wish i was in a position to be thinkin about accom...i want an offer sooo much!-I was thinking of Sidney Webb-wot's this like?

Reply 17

noideaaa

I've been asking my friends, and their opinions were pretty consistent in supporting Bankside.

This is what I was told:

You'll probably get en-suites
It's apparently got decent rooms
It's catered - just incase you get really tired one day and you couldn't be bothered to find a restaurant outside
It looks nice and tidy in general

Reply 18

greensurf

2

noideaaa

It looks nice and tidy in general

The building works do not look too flattering.

Reply 19

Eru Lawliet

1

clueless101

thats basically what i meant, and the majority of those in halls being international students keeping themselves to themselves

Not all international studentas are like that though. But the Chinese students tend to stick to themselves...even in halls like Rosebery which is supposed to be the most sociable hall. And recently I've noticed that the same thing is happening to Malaysians as well...which is indeed worrying.

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