King's Accommodation

I think the intercollegiate halls are ideal. You may be further away from campus, but you're closer to the Maughan and Senate House libraries and you're right in the centre of London with easy access to clubs/bars. If you think about it you'll actually be spending minimal time in lectures and on campus so I don't know why distance is such a priority. I think if you're at the Strand then the intercollegiates are the best and for Guy's campus maybe Wolfson and SSA/GDS. Walking backwards and forwards across Waterloo Bridge every day will become tiresome! I much prefer the Bloomsbury area than Waterloo. Plus, the rooms are bigger, cheaper and you get food. My course is actually based at Waterloo, but I'm still choosing the intercollegiates over SSA. If I didn't I can see myself just going to my lectures across the road and then heading back to my room and not making the most of the awesome central London location.

Hey everyone,

I'm a grad student and am having a hard time ranking these choices. I'd rather be with other grads than a lot of undergrads, and location is one of my top criteria. I'm going to be studying film at Strand and these are my top 4 choices (I don't mind walking a bit to get to campus, but don't want to have a long commute)

The Rectory
SSA
Lillian Penson (does anyone know where this is located in the city?)
Wolfson

What are the top choices for other grads out there?

Also, as I'm an international student, does anyone know if we can move in a couple days before orientation/enrollment week?

Lillian Penson Hall is about an hour's walk from the Strand campus, right beside the Hyde Park. it's quite far off from the other intercolls.

the letting weeks for King's halls should have been tailored to the King's orientation/registration week since it's longer than the intercoll's. but for the intercolls it's one day before the start of term, so you have to ask whichever intercolls you have been allocated to whether you can move in earlier. cause some intercolls arent open at all till mid sept.

and of course you have to pay more as well.

No, the University only provides a wired internet connection. In my flat I have my own wireless router connected to the network and it works across quite a wide part of the hall. But you have to be careful about security so other people don't steal your 7GB bandwidth!

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hey got an offer for medicine (guy's campus) and was trying to choose accommodation. I don't want apartments, but king's college hall and hampstead look to far away from the city, and wolfson doesn't have internet from what i've heard (might of course be wrong). I was looking at intercollegiate halls (connaught and college mainly), but I'm not sure about a couple of things:
- mixing with UCL students, who are said to be posh people, plus the competition thing between UCL and KCL ;]
- which intercollegiate hall in general do the most kcl med students go to?

The students told me that Hampstead is ~45 mins away from Guy's campus on the tube, so it isn't that far and Wolfson does have the internet btw. There will be 'posh' people from every univeristy and the inter-London medical school rivalry is just banter really, it's part of the fun.

thanks. do many KCL med students go to the intercollegiate halls? anyone of them in particular? cause tha fact of meeting ppl from also other unis is cool, but I'd also like to make some good friends among the kcl med people, as i'll probably spend 5 yrs with 'em

Lots of love for Connaught Hall.

I really hope I can get a place there (or at least at one of the three Garden Halls).

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I would recommend you medics seriously considering Wolfson House or Great Dover Street. You have the advantage of being in throwing distance of Guy's campus (trust me getting in for those 9am lectures will get harder and harder, so location is key!). There will also be plenty of people on your course around (most medics will stay at either of these), and being close to the campus is nice, as you'll be spending the next 5/6 years here with those people - so it's good to be a part of that community, and show your disdain for those at the Strand (Strandy's we call them ).

You'll find there'll be enough Strandy's around these halls too so you can escape the medics if you must!

Intercollegiates - a few close friends go to them, and generally find aren't quite so involved with medic things, and that flatmates will be gone at different times due to being on different courses and at totally different unis. Plus, who wants to live with the godless scum of Gower Street? (UCL btw )

PM me if you want to know more.

I'm law, so I'll be based at Strand from what I hear, which means that SSA would be closest, but some people have said some bad things about it.

Thanks for the advice!
Do you know whether there are many medics at SSA and how far away it is from Guy's campus? Thank you!