Standard accommodation in pendle?

Hi, just wondering whether standard accommodation in pendle was any good? What is it like as a college too?

oh and when do you have to choose your 'other' subjects? I'm doin Drama, so that takes up 2, so are there many things that are only 1?

Reply 1

Lizj

Can't help with Pendle, never been in it (apart from the bar), but you choose your minor subject during Fresher's Week - there are talks in every department for you to go to and get some info, then you register for your major on one day and your minor(s) on another - Thursday or Friday I think it was. There are quite a lot of subjects that are only 40 units - you should find you have a reasonable choice.

Reply 2

sam 71187

Although I am not in Pendle, I live in Lonsdale (the best college), I did have to live in Pendle standard accomodation during work on a residential course this easter, and I must say I was pleasantly suprised.

The room size is very good, and the shared facilities are well kept. In Pendle you share with 7 others in a flat in standard, in bowland and county in can be over 20 people. Plus, to put in nicely, in bowland and county 'you only get what you pay for.'

To put it bluntly, some rooms can be like prison cells with whitewashed brick. So, if you just want standard accomodation, choose pendle, if you want cheap accomodation choose bowland/county, and if you want modern accomodation choose the others.

Reply 3

Pacibald

Its lame that they re not letting freshers stay in the tower that place looks wicked! Furness all the way! :biggrin:

Reply 4

philip67

lol the tower is not wicked, i hated it, scared me when going up in that lift.
The Pendle Standard is really nice, big rooms lots of clothing space and such like, well kept facilities, TV in your kitchen. They are very nice rooms and conditions of the communual areas

Reply 5

BlackpoolCraig

I absolutely loved the tower! The lift scared a fewof my friends, but you get used to it after a while, although i had a room opposite the lift, and I had my door openon the day the cable snapped, and I heard all those poor souls plunging to their deaths. (not really!)

pendle standard is some good accomodation. You get Tvs in your kitchen as well, I understand. The rooms are a decnt size, although it is ageing a bit.

Reply 6

Pacibald

They took us up the tower on the open day, and the lift was wicked it had like 10 of us all cramed in, and the guide told us that one time they'd all jumped up and down and it bounces! Ahhh brillient :biggrin:

, is there any en suite in the tower cause I swear the person we saw had one.

Reply 7

BlackpoolCraig

The tower is entirely standard. However, the adjoining building, slaidburn house, is entirely ensuite.

As for the lift, it'll take up to 13 people before breaking! :smile:

This is based on entirely scientific studies performed by lancaster university students.

Reply 8

Pacibald

Craig seriously thats wicked, we re having drinks together next year and you cna tell me more about these very vital experiments...

Reply 9

BlackpoolCraig

haha. well, i wasn't part of the study of the lift game, but every year, someone does it, and 13 is the record. I do believe that the students found in the lift all got fined for breaking the lift though.

Essentially, the tower is the plce to be. It's cheap, cheerful, and 4 out of every 6 rooms are nice and large. you don't have ensuite, but that's Ok, because you have two showers between 6, and two toilets between 6 in a communal bathroom. You don't have a washbasin in your room, but that's ok because you can throw up in your bin instead. (Use used carrier bags as bin liners)

As for the shared washbasins, (2 in the communal bathrooms) they add to the joy. A seemingly mundane task such as brushing your teeth is livened up by someone else coming in to brush their teeth, have a shower, a shave or just use the facilities! It sounds strange, but little things like that are what i miss about the tower.

Reply 10

Soul Rebel

craig i swear you have started to make me question whether i should opt for standard accomodation.

haha some crazy experiments, im all for new ones. how about seeing if we can get a bus driver to drive over the green grassy hill which is in fact a rounderbout.

well i must say that would be crrrraaaaaazy :rolleyes:

Reply 11

BlackpoolCraig

I'm quite an evangelist for standard accomodation. The main reason is that for ensuite, you pay about £80 a week, and for standard, it's about £60. over a 40 week let, you're saving £800 simply by going to the toilet/shower down the corridoor.

But be aware that standard isn't standard. Most rooms on campus are actually ensuite. So when you get the form asking you to pick colleges, (I got mine in may/june if i remember) check to see which ones offer standard (furness, bowland and pendle all do) and put them as your first and second choice. And specify that getting a standard room is important to you. But most of all, make sure that you mail the form back as soon as you get it, so you're at the front of the queue.

Reply 12

voopeem

i've heard it doesn't really matter if you send the form back immediately after getting it.. don't they decide on accomodation near the end of the holidays?

Reply 13

Pacibald

Craig......We're not allowed to apply for the tower, as of 2007 applicants, freshers arnt allowed there :frown:

! Its sounds wicked...Ever gone up to the top floor and thrown peanut butter sandwichs at the people below that would be something I would Love too do..... :biggrin:

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Surely if you used used carrier bags they have those little holes to stop people from suffocating in them, so wouldn't the sick just fountain out of them :s-smilie:

Reply 14

LaurenFah

Pacibald

Surely if you used used carrier bags they have those little holes to stop people from suffocating in them, so wouldn't the sick just fountain out of them :s-smilie:

Ohhh thats what those holes are for... duh.

Oh gross, I like your use of the word "fountain" - actually made me feel ill.

Reply 15

BlackpoolCraig

Pacibald

Surely if you used used carrier bags they have those little holes to stop people from suffocating in them, so wouldn't the sick just fountain out of them :s-smilie:

You'd be surprised at how few carrier bags actually have them!

Anyhow, I'm not too sure how the allocations go, but if you send it off quickly, you should be ok. It does have a part on it that asks you what you want most from your accomodation. One guy i lived with last year put "cheap and cheerful" on his, and got a box room in the tower.

If you put something like "low cost" or "cheap room", then you should get a standard.