Life of H

Living in student accommodation means decorating you room and house are generally kept to a minimum. You work with what you've got. At the beginning of the term, visiting everyone's houses and being nosy was great fun. You got to check out their house and see what they did with their space.   For me, my room is my space, somewhere where I can chill out and have moments where I can escape and relax. I thought I would share what I'd done with my room, although it's most likely not going to stay like this for long

I cannot express how much I have enjoyed living and being apart of a student community. My entire experience over the last term has been overwhelming, the independence, the people. the course, the list could go on and a large part of it is down to where I am living.  There is nothing worse then disliking where you are living, so picking University accommodation is a huge thing. For the majority most people are content and loving their uni life, their flat and who they are surrounded with but how do you know what is going to suit you. Filling out the application form can be confusing, what are you willing to compromise and where should  you even start looking.  For myself I attend the University of York, a collegiate university. Something which doesn't seem as important as it did within freshers as we battle out with chants against other colleges along the bus to events and into town.  For myself my college plays a massive part of my Uni life, I feel it brings ...

One of the most common questions among, myself and my friends is, what do I take to university? It's the first time we really need to think about what we actually need to live with, like kitchen and bedroom supplies.  Then I am one of those people who feel like I am going to over pack, I don't want to turn up with, things I am not going to need however I also do not want to turn up with not enough, so over the last few days I have been compiling lists (more lists) of the basic uni essentials to take with you. I do not think it is necessarily important for you to take up the entire contents of IKEA's kitchen range or 20 cushions for your bed. Although touches like that can immediately make you feel more homely. Also a trip shopping for those extra bits, when you get there, This could be a good ice breaker and secondly you don't always know what your going to need and you might end up keeping spare items in a box.  I am lucky enough to be in catered accommodation,...

It's been a couple of weeks since that nail biting few days of result time and thankfully I had gotten into my first choice university! (I apologise to my parents profusely for the hormonal mood swings over  that time) Since then I have been full of excitement, anticipation and nervs. In preparation to pull my life together and sort it out before I move in a few weeks, I've found I have been surrounded by never ending lists; shopping lists, enrolment lists, packing lists, reading lists and it goes on. So I thought I would compile my own list of the things I feel will make the move a little bit easier, with less things to work out when I get there, which means more time for freshers and fun.