Going to university (2019/20 academic year) - finance, flat shares, friends old and new and freshers' week to come...

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Following on from thread 8 which filled up in just 72 hours.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Oh no @Alicatz66. Come and join us on the most recent thread for some support and TLC. Good luck with your hospital appointment. It sounds as if you've got a lot going on.

[Alicatz66]

I feel really wobbly today ... I have a colcoscopy at hospital this afternoon.. I'm moving house, work is manic and DS off to Nottingham on 21st ... he's my first to go as DD stayed living at home and studied locally

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Yes, @ZandathePanda! We're veritably rattling through them at the moment.

[ZandathePanda]

Is it time for a new thread again??!!

[FrameyMcFrame]

@TapasForTwo it's probably good option for some!!

....do we know the food is mediocre? At York it's a food court so lots of choices from different food outlets. I guess it's not school dinner style food anyway.

Anyway as someone else mentioned, there isn't always a choice especially in collegiate unis.
So you know, we are making the best of it!

At York, the catered accommodation is as cheap as the self catering accommodation in some other colleges so it's also going to save a lot of money. The campus shop is very expensive and it's a bus ride to a decent supermarket. So as DD is living on campus, I'm quite glad she's getting weekday breakfast and evening meals at least.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Just volunteered to supervise DS making lasagne. Having just been out food shopping for us, he said he felt too tired . I have visions of him living on total junk food for a couple of weeks when he first goes away!

[FrameyMcFrame]

@justasking111 meals are really flexible at York, breakfast is 8-10.30 and evening meal is 6-8.30

You can also take food out such as sandwiches or boxed salads to eat later if it's not a convenient time.

[Mustbetimeforachange]

Put it this way, I don't think he'll do any washing and I'd be surprised if he ever opens his blinds or puts clothes anywhere other than The floor.
Same. I'm wondering whether to bother with a laundry bag/basket at all!

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

New thread.

[Benjispruce]

DD is very independent and wants to do everything herself so I haven’t done anything for uni apart from buy bedding and things for her room. Even then she wants to do it herself. I suppose it’s a good thing.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Think it might be time to set up another thread today. We're speeding through them...

[ZandathePanda]

Oo there seems to be a North East vibe to this thread at the moment although, by the sound of it, Newcastle and Durham freshers’ weeks are different beasts!
Don’t know how many of you will be doing the East Coast train route but we got on a lovely new LNER train the other day. The guard said they are replacing a few.

[Piggywaspushed]

Don't worry bringback. My DS permanently claims his charger is broken and that his phone won't let him on to WhatsApp. I am just trying to go on.the what I can't see can't possibly annoy me mantra...

Put it this way, I don't think he'll do any washing and I'd be surprised if he ever opens his blinds or puts clothes anywhere other than The floor.

I have done nothing re uni because it's too bloody hot.

[Witchend]

Beniispruce yes, Josephine Butler for maths.


Dd didn't decide that easily. We had the 48 hours for decisions for UCAS for firm and insurance with her changing her mind regularly. She only really put Durham first because it was higher than Southampton and so she didn't have to make a choice between them and could leave it up to the fates!

[Benjispruce]

My DD is indecisive too. Once she’d decided on Durham and got in, I was so relieved.

[Benjispruce]

Is your DD going to Durham too witchend?
DD said much the same but chose the college for the college not for the choice of catering so would have got on with SC if she’d chosen a SC college for other reasons. I meant there is no choice of catering once you’ve chosen your college.

[Witchend]

Dd said that most were catered, which was actually a good thing when she was choosing as she doesn't do decisions very well, so it immediately cut down the choice. I thought she said there were 3 or 4 colleges self-catered, but I may be wrong.

[Benjispruce]

Oh I didn’t doubt you, just wasn’t sure if you were replying to me or not.

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

Yes, definitely Durham -John Snow college info

[Benjispruce]

bigTilly where is your DC going?

[Benjispruce]

Is John Snow Durham? Hadn’t heard of that college. DD chose Collingwood as her first choice and luckily got it. It’s close to her study base .

[Benjispruce]

He will learn by failing to get up . Hopefully only once... or twice!

[NewModelArmyMayhem18]

John Snow also S/C as that's where DS would have gone had he got the grades.

[bringbacksideburns]

This thread is giving me palpitations.

DS got in Lancaster. He's ridiculously laid back and telling me not to worry. He has recently diagnosed dyspraxia and Dyscalculia and was hoping for en suite accommodation but now looks like it's a shared bathroom so he's emailed back and not heard anything.

He routinely loses everything, can barely cook and struggles with time management. What could possibly go wrong

First on the list is an alarm for hearing impaired people I've heard about where you put a pad under your pillow or he'll never get up.

Is there a comprehensive list somewhere?
I'm wishing now he had picked a closer uni so he could stay at home even though I had the time of my life when i went - I will be constantly worrying. Plus his damn phone is never charged!!

[Benjispruce]

I think only Butler is sc at Durham and is more out of town.