Durham Applicants 2008 Thread

If you happen to be a person who is less than confident, then sharing might be good for you. It basically forces you to meet your roommate and gets you used to being sociable with new people. It is really surprising how many people go totally into themselves and are too scared to even leave their room during the first week and then end up meeting no one.

From what I've seen, people who share rooms automatically increase the number of people who they encounter, so find it a lot easier to settle. Please, please PLEASE don't hide away in your room during the first week, because (trust me on this) it really does make it harder to find your feet.

Well i'm prettty sociable, but are there any downsides for being in a single room? I mean, doesn't everyone lounge in other peoples rooms etc? Like there are no curfews etc?

If you get into a social part of college then its fine (in Aidan's its the curves). I was unlucky, loads of people on my corridor are so anti social that they effectively dont exist. Someone managed to put a load of complete reclauses down there....

Also, we are all dead sexy. I'm just saying.

Yeah, I want to join a couple of socities, and I cannot be sober on a Friday,Saturday or Wednesday(in Delhi, wednesday is a big clubbing night).

Do you like Cuths? Is the bar, as good as put out to be?
I remember visiting cuths, ahh.

Are you a recluse? Heh. I think everyone needs some alone time now and then.

Cuths I have not really had a good enough look around to make my mind up with, the only time I tend to go in most of the bailey colleges.

And nah, defo not a reclause, I go out most of the time, when I am on here I am normally doing something else at the same time. Just prefer a more social corridor, some of the people on my corridor are really isolationist, to the point of actually going to the canteen, loading up their tray, taking it to their room, eating it, take their tray back, go and sit in their room for the rest of the time. Tis rather scary coming to think of it...

Are they even allowed to take their trays back into the room? Well, honestly that is a bit sad, isn't it. But I guess hermits need an education as well.

Hmmm...do any of the colleges have a reputation for have particularly sexy students?

Dammit, this thread keeps making me change my mind about whether to share in the first term or not!

Yeah, you are allowed to eat food in your room. I could understand someone rushing for a deadline doing it, but people who do it everytime, is really sad. Its not exactly too hard to at least be on speaking terms with some people now, is it?

Though apparently the college now has £1500 of crockery missing, so ppls rooms are gonna get searched if it does not show back up...

What's the point of hiding dirty crockery in your room? Besides being a breeding ground for bugs. Maybe they are entomologists and breeding their very own collection. I wouldn't put it past them.

I take it they wash it up and use it for cereal toast etc...

Well honestly how hard would it be to buy their own. I hope that I won't have these sorts of people in my corridor.

Why has your warnings level gone up to 5?

Well honestly how hard would it be to buy their own. I hope that I won't have these sorts of people in my corridor.

From what I've seen, people who share rooms automatically increase the number of people who they encounter, so find it a lot easier to settle. Please, please PLEASE don't hide away in your room during the first week, because (trust me on this) it really does make it harder to find your feet.

Cuths I have not really had a good enough look around to make my mind up with, the only time I tend to go in most of the bailey colleges.

And nah, defo not a reclause, I go out most of the time, when I am on here I am normally doing something else at the same time. Just prefer a more social corridor, some of the people on my corridor are really isolationist, to the point of actually going to the canteen, loading up their tray, taking it to their room, eating it, take their tray back, go and sit in their room for the rest of the time. Tis rather scary coming to think of it...

Wow, that's alot of pages....

well done to all who receives/accept an offer from Durham!

does anyone know when approx would they be on Track?

This thread is nothing, have a look at the LSE 2008 applicants thread. Now THAT is alot of pages.

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=11444023#post11444023



(443 pages, just for reference)