Parents/university staff - what happens when a student finds their hall flatmates so intolerable they need to move?

[Ponders]

Is it straightforward?

DS2 discovered pretty much from day 1 that he had nothing in common with his flatmates, & although disappointed has just kept himself to himself & was OK to go along like that for the rest of the year.

but apparently his failure to want to go out with them & get loudly drunk most nights is upsetting them so they are now ganging up on him & he wants to get out.

Should he be able to get a room elsewhere easily?

oh, thanks for checking back & for kind thoughts

well, he was going to the accom office on Monday, but forgot (he is the classic absent-minded type, to be fair, but honestly!) but anyway says as he has quite a bit of work to do between now & Christmas he thinks moving now would be distracting. Also of course there may be more rooms available after Christmas, which would be good. I will keep reminding him to go because he needs to be on a waiting list if there is one.

Apart from having his immediate neighbour's appalling taste in mega-bass music inflicted on him - it drove him out to the library yesterday evening - there has been no trouble this week. Fingers crossed.

(He didn't get a reply to his email to the personal tutor though. He needs to follow that up)

well by the time DS eventually went to the accom office he'd missed the deadline for moving before Christmas, but he registered his wish to move, & they have just rung him to say there is a room in one of the city centre blocks!

he can see it next Thursday - it's only about a 2 minute walk from the university so it sounds ideal (and the building has facilities like gym & swimming pool, although those cost extra)

ordinary en suite cost the same as he's paying now; they also have "deluxe" rooms which are an extra £370 a year - I'm guessing it'll be the same price as his existing contract, but if it's the extra one we can make that up.

fantastic news!

Thank you, Frozenchoc - it is good, isn't it?

apparently there are quite a lot of post-grad & international students at this block which should mean it's a lot saner. (& 24-hour security, ditto!)

excellent! hope it all works well

thanks, funnyp

That's good.

Sadly for people like your DS I think the reason for less mixed accomodation is that most yr1 boys are idiots and it's not fair to inflict them on the girls. I remember the boys tying girl's teddy bears and shoes in trees and leaping out of first floor windows in a bid to impress us.