Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Higher education

Talk to other parents whose children are preparing for university on our Higher Education forum.

We've survived the first half term - go us! (starting uni 2017)

928 replies

flyingpigsinclover · 26/10/2017 17:29

New thread....we've got to the first half term!

OP posts:
Thread gallery
5
CreamCol0uredP0nies · 05/11/2017 19:31

What an unpleasant and unnecessary comment, Get.

LittleHo · 05/11/2017 19:32

The difference is that he is not hammering on your door all night or throwing up in the corridor or playing music at high decibels at 4am.

GetAHaircutCarl · 05/11/2017 19:32

Why? He's very noisy. It's not exactly the nicest behaviour.

But you can either laugh it off and west ear plugs or get terribly get up about it.

LittleHo · 05/11/2017 19:35

If he is noisy constantly then he falls into the same category and people shouldn't have to put up with him.

toffeepumpkins · 05/11/2017 19:35

I can arrange a visit to the pianist and the drum and bass guy with a euphonium if needed, my rates are very reasonable Grin

As for the quiet, studious boy next door I can't see how he can make much noise doing that. No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.

GetAHaircutCarl · 05/11/2017 19:41

DD describes him as 'very enthusiastic'.

goodbyestranger · 05/11/2017 19:42

He sounds lonely Carl. That's actually pretty sad.

LittleHo · 05/11/2017 19:42

Perfect solution. Grin

I guess you would play it rather than resorting to euphonium based violence?

GetAHaircutCarl · 05/11/2017 19:47

DD says he's lovely in many ways. Very kind. Very generous (always asking if others want a bit of what he's cooking etc).

He's just a bit too fond of the old online porn.

As I say DD just wears ear plugs at night and if he's at it in the day, she plays music.

My point was only that his mother may be terribly annoyed by and judgemental of DD's partying, whilst not realising that he is not exactly a model neighbour himself.

As it happens both he and DD seem perfectly able to rub along well enough.

GetAHaircutCarl · 05/11/2017 19:48

Awful turn of phrase there. But you know what I mean hopefully.

GetAHaircutCarl · 05/11/2017 19:53

goodbye I don't know if he's lonely. He's certainly around in the kitchen and chatty. He's been to lots of things with the rest of the flat.

He's no clubber but they do loads of other stuff too. Lots of group film/telly watching, hanging in the kitchen, jujitsu ( they all do it on Tuesday night).

Just very fond of online porn.

HSMMaCM · 05/11/2017 20:06

When DD and her housemates put on their screens or music, they whatsapp their neighbours to check if it's too loud. She did however say she lost something the other day and after some searching the girl in the room next door sent a message to ask if she'd found it yet? Grin

toffeepumpkins · 05/11/2017 21:29

Yes, no euphonium related violence have you seen how much they cost? but I can offer a choice of 'Oh when the saints' , Beethoven's 9th and We will rock you.

LittleHo · 05/11/2017 22:37

'We will rock you' should do nicely. Prepare for an onslaught of PM's asking you to travel to distant universities. You could earn a fortune!

toffeepumpkins · 05/11/2017 22:47

Now there's a thought. For persistent offenders I could get a child with a clarinet to accompany me, they can only play one tune badly

Timetogetup0630 · 05/11/2017 22:56

So I have a couple of days off MN and come back to a heated debate on this thread about drugs and Euphonium violence. I can offer a Tuba !
DD home for reading week and very happy to be back. But couldn't sleep the first night because it was too quiet ! No Drum and Bass boy and we live in a rural area, so no street noise.
She is exhausted, has a terrible cough, sore throat and looks run down.
Was trying to arrange to visit her boyfriend but evidently he is Too Busy and I think that relationship might be on the way out......
Sad for her......

toffeepumpkins · 06/11/2017 06:29

Time for some pampering from mum then, that's such a shame 😟

ono40 · 06/11/2017 14:01

Gosh I had a bit of leaky eye syndrome when I dropped DS off at the station this morning. I need to get a grip! I think it was because he took his Christmas decorations back with him and I realised that we won't see him again until December.

Carl, I am not sure I'd want to share your DD's neighbour's food - I'd want to know that he'd washed his hands!

JugglingFromHereToThere · 06/11/2017 14:47

Both DD and I had a bit of that leaky eye syndrome at the station last night Ono

  • it must be going round all the campuses at the moment 😉
or maybe it was the wind!

DD was a bit surprised that it briefly affected her as she managed especially well on drop off day unlike me who was a bit watery eyed over my introductory welshcake and coffee

It was a sweet farewell with a big hug and reassurances all round that it won't be long til Christmas

Needmoresleep · 06/11/2017 17:04

I would go for "Oh when the Saints.." and hope he is not a Southampton supporter. I like the idea of a tuneless MN orchestra turning up outside some unsuspecting, albeit anti-social, student's room.

I lived in an LSE hall where we could see into rooms in the UCL hall opposite. One boy used to "perform" regularly. It took him about half a term before he realised he had an audience. Perhaps it is a bit of a UCL thing.

DD is still ill, but reading week has meant a chance to chill. One of the GP's at her placement seems to have taken her through possible treatment plans, so she will sound pretty informed when she goes back to the GP. Her (early) Christmas present will be noise cancelling headphones. Her DSA accepts she has problems concentrating, so hopefully this will be solution.

Working a ski season was pretty wild, a sort of Geordie Slopes, with four to a room. However all had to be up early to make breakfast (the dreaded porridge) and several were shipped home in the New Year for getting the balance between work and play wrong. Drugs were a complete no no. (Local police were apparently keen to keep drugs out of their family resort, so showed no leniency.) This has been tougher. (And Camp America was no alcohol and very limited wifi. A different challenge altogether.)

And now the question of what Advent Calendar to send her.

bebumba · 06/11/2017 17:25

Needmoresleep I hope that your daughter is feeling better soon.
I am a trumpeter and more than happy to join the orchestra!
Ds is home for a weekend in a couple of weeks, I will have the tissues ready just in case I catch the watery eye virus Smile

Horsemad · 06/11/2017 17:44

I can offer up my services with a tambourine! Grin

DS had a reunion of his big friendship group at the weekend as it was one of the group's birthday.

Think they had a good time Smile

He is now discussing travel arrangements for a w/e visit home.

LittleHo · 06/11/2017 17:50

I may consider singing. Grin How about some opera?

dd recovering now but no sign of weekend home.

BehindTheBlueDoor · 06/11/2017 18:12

Happy to join in with the choir or I play a mean triangle.
Quite jealous of you all seeing your DCs. Some of DS’s friends were home this weekend for visits and reading week but mine had decided to stay up until Christmas. I suffer from that dreadful leaky eye affliction every now and again too.

tobee · 06/11/2017 18:53

Just catching up several days worth of posts. Still getting over bigTillyMint saying nitrous oxide for the younger ones. Now have a mental image of kids in year 1 off their faces on their generation’s drug if choice.

Ds often complains of the area where he lives stinking of weed at all hours.