thats the thing though, as el mariachi said, you do things like chill with them when you've got 4hours between lectures and it is too painful to go back to halls... This is SO much better than getting glared at by some idiot in the library for blinking. Also, when you are with friends in the library then it makes it so much less painful than it would be if youre sat on your own. And don't think you'll be graced with a decent timetable. Nothing at LSE regarding any sort of timetable is decent. At the start of the year I said that I'd use my god awful breaks to do classwork in the library, but naturally it turned into 40 minutes, then coffee and dossing. having solid lse halls friends helps. you see more people around campus that you can either tag along with or go for coffee with, or have a planned meeting with. With, as you've suggested, UCL, that person who may be awesome and you get along with, will naturally do the same as you, find uni friends and then go with them, from classes etc, as you will. It's natural to split into what's common to you. And it'll suck because you'll have a very small friend circle close to you, especially if your other friends are in, say, rosebery or saunders. though saunders is quite close to some of the russell squareish halls i guess.
And, like i said, universities tend to stick together. Unis like Kings, as far as I know, use IC more than LSE. As LSE has *pretty* much enough accommodation for everyone that wants it, coupled with its size (in comparison to other UOL institutions), it means that the amount of students in IC is ridiculous. So, in effect, it is clear that you have to try much harder to make friends. Ie, actually talk to your classmates outside of class/join the AU/join heaps of societies in order to get in there. At LSE halls, you can literally make friends straight away. I'm useless and managed to have friends by the end of the day!
so in short you do meet with them at uni, all the time. it makes the time go alot faster, and you can vary your meetage with other people, and youve actually got people to harass when youre at halls, instead of your computer keyboard. and i doubt very much that youll do events / go drinking with them, cos theyll go their way and youll go more. your friend group is *generally* smaller because of the amount of people youve met at halls, and is normally restricted to some not-so-geeky econ friends who actually exist outside of LSE and drink alcohol/are reasonably sociable/leave their rooms.
Also, id advise anyone to chat to people on the facebook group before starting. one of my most awesome friends comes from chatting on facebook with her before uni started! It's good to sort of put yourself out there a bit and find common ground with people, ie in your halls/on your course.
Also, just a general thing. I'm moving back into Carr-Saunders next year so if anyone has any questions about its general awesomeness then please feel free to message me about it ill be honest, honest!!!!
Or LSE in general, for that matter. Just no questions about grades. I dont care, and neither should you :
oh, and this post is only so long because ive been up all night revising and im bored of it, and have knocked over all my work onto the floor which i now have to pick up and re order. great.