Room Allocations are up!

punka

I don't want to put you off Goldsmith. It certainly has its drawbacks. But if you get a good group of people it can be a lot of fun. I had an amazing year there even though I only knew 2 other people living there when I moved in. And to be honest you get the whole film of pollution thing in Botany Bay as well, and I presume in some Pearse Street rooms too. Sharing a kitchen and bathroom with a bunch of randomers might not seem like fun - but realistically that's what you'd be doing in New Square, Rubrics, or (at least sharing a kitchen) in the GMB and Pearse St. And if you were going for Front Square, well, they have 5-room flats which are effectively a mix between Goldsmith and Botany Bay style.

Nietzschean

punka wrote:

The best thing about living in Goldsmith is the showers - hot water all the time.

Haha i must say thats one of my best memories of goldsmith also, those 2hr showers were deadly

Squoosh

punka wrote:

Squoosh, you should note that a number of rooms in Goldsmith are reserved for visiting students. I applied with a friend, and we were the only two allocated to our apartment on the list. But when we moved in we'd been placed with 2 American visiting students. I was in house 70. 69 is on the Pearse St side, the second-last house from the end away from College. (70 is on the corner). Your living room/kitchen will face onto the courtyard which can have its disadvantages as parties can be noticed v quickly (unlike if you live in house 70 or 62 where the kitchen windows look out onto Pearse St and you could, hypothetically, get away with parties into the small hours. Not that any such thing ever happened in our flat. We were good boys.)

The visiting student thing never occurred to me, danke. I knew someday logic would come back and bite me in the ass. But it actually turns out the girl I applied with knows someone who lived last year in the room I've been alloted this year, and while I will have the gross pollution film (even the phrase is thoroughly repulsive), I get the queen-size bed (I suspected they were exaggerating for the summer visitors alright). So yay. Or at least semi-yay.

Thanks a million for all your help!

Pet

Solution to gross pollution film: air purifiers. They're not cheap, but work quite well. And provide sleep-aiding white noise.

And, it wasn't to the same scale, but even out in Halls there was a bit of a pollution film too (well this is coming from someone who grew up in the countryside, where there is little/no air pollution at all).

Damn cars.

John

Just buy yourself a bubble you jessies!

Squoosh

Are you selling?? I've always wanted a bubble!

Air purifiers = interesting idea. I might check that one out. You're just chock-full of useful information, aren't you?!

Pet

You're just chock-full of useful information, aren't you?!

Actually, about 90% of my 3000-odd posts are spammy bull****, so I have to be useful at SOME stage.

Just buy yourself a bubble you jessies!

Bloody black-lunged jackeens.

Squoosh

I really shouldn't be freaking out about this since I smoke. Upon consideration, buying an air purifier might, just might make me a bit of a hypocrite.

John

Pet wrote:

Bloody black-lunged jackeens.

Pansy

Pet

Sapface.

John

Clown ejaculate

Pet

Stuffed-toy sodomiser.

Crash

and...shazaam, back on topic. hrmmm i've decided I will be demanding the room furthest from the door (which would appear to generally be the bigger one, coincidentally enough ) to ensure that Shane doesnt drunkenly fall against my door at night...

John

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Shane doesnt drunkenly fall against my door at night...

I'd be more worried about him falling into my bed. From behind in a drunken state, who knows what you might think :eek:

BrenC

I'll just have to get schols if I want to move out (i don't really want to pay for accommodation)

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Ooh? Tallaght not good enough for Bren now he's a lah-dee-dah Trinners student?

Agent Smith

i didnt get accomidation ( i kinda didnt expect it)

Just have a question,

is there a "waiting list" for accomadation? like, if say, there are 1000 places, and 30 people decine, is there a list you can get yourself put on?

xeduCat

Email the accommodation office and ask to be considered for places that come available - they sort of do it anyway if you were a near-miss, but it's no harm to ask. This year there were a lot of late-available Halls places, but just a few campus.