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Whether you live on University Park, Sutton Bonington or Jubilee campus you've really
got everything you need right on your doorstep.
I lived with four other people who I'm really good friends with still, and we're all on
different courses, so that's really, really good, so we all have different interests.
So you get your friends in halls, you get your friends from your course, and you get
other friends as well which is really fantastic.
You can walk down to breakfast in your pyjamas, you don't have to get dressed. Well that also
depends on whether you live in a block or you live in like one whole building as it
may be really cold otherwise.
They have so many events, and there's formals and there's barbecues. It's everything that
you can possibly do, and you become like a small community because you eat in the same
hall, you have breakfast together, you have dinner together. It's just a really nice community.
Living in a flat is kinda different because everybody has to go down to the kitchen, and
like everybody gets to cook and while we're cooking we talk, and sometimes if we cook
around the same time we end up having dinner together as well, so it's a nice like community feeling.
So on Jubilee campus there's a shop where you can get milk, snacks everything you need
to sort of get by in your room. Outside the Exchange Building now there's another café,
there's a bank and there's a book shop where you can get all the books you'll probably
need in your first year. There's a cash point here as well which is really useful when you
need taxi money or just money for food it's right there you don't have to go far for it.
Catered halls have a JCR where there will be a TV, some couches, some places will have
a ping pong table, others will have a pool table.
The bar is really good here. There's always a party on and there are always different
kind of events going on depending on what you're interested in.
We have lots of sort of common rooms where people can work, people go watch TV and the
bar downstairs that was brilliant. It was such a big space. You'd sort of just go in
there sit, relax, there was pool, and you just had nights in where you could stay with
your friends and have a laugh.
You know sometimes there's a bit of traffic at the stove, because obviously you only have
four hobs, but we get around it because nobody actually cooks at the same time. We somehow
end up, like two people at once, and if like there's, and if there's more than two people
like, we kind of just hang around and just chat, just watch each other cook. It's quite
entertaining watching other people cook, especially if they can't cook, it's pretty hilarious.
Each hall has some sort of security, like protection, so in this hall you have to have
a card to get in, and in other places there's a code you need so you always feel a bit like,
there's only people allowed in here that are supposed to be here.
You make friends with people mainly on your corridor because they're the first people
you get to meet during Fresher's Week. After that if you play sports, your music interests,
anything and everything means you get to meet more people from your hall. By the end of
the year you're sort of friends with everyone across the hall no matter where you are. So
if you're on a quieter section of the corridor don't worry about it because you will meet everyone.
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