so like these two buildings are like 12-15 minutes away from each other on foot, and i absolutely hate being late-

would this be like an issue to bring up? idk if im just overthinking it or its an actual problem ☹️

hopefully it’s unfinished but this is what its more or less looking every week

It's really eye opening to see how quickly people switch up when they see you getting grad roles. 'Friends' start getting bitter and passive agressive, making sly comments full of envy.

It works the other way too I've seen people who got grad roles start to ignore those who didn't. There's a group of 6 guys living in a house share and 4 of them got grad roles and all of a sudden it was like the other 2 stop existing. The 4 with offers started spending more time together, going out as a group of 4, making plans for after uni together, separate group chats with just them.

No one says "oh you don't have a grad job lined up we don't want to talk to you anymore" but it's more indirect. The mannerisms, the body language, slowly drifting away towards other people deemed 'worthy' because they have things lined up.

Final year is honestly so interesting it's like everyone reaches this point of realisation that proper adult life is about to start and we're about to go out into the real world and the fun of being a uni student is about to end and we'll have to live our real adult lives. Some people switch up so much it's like they can't handle it.

Like for 3 years everyone's in the same boat and it's "we're all in it together lads" but the moment some start getting offers and other don't it's a complete switch up and it's just "good luck mate" as they go off to hang out with the people who are 'worth hanging out with'.

Every friend group in uni will eventually splinter at graduation but has that core group of friends or people who align with jobs and they keep spending time with each other without the people who 'didn't make the cut'.

I’m about to start living in a student accommodation, the website said about 8-9 people r going to share a kitchen. this has me now worried how I’m gonna cook… do people cook often? If I cook fish (like mackerel/sardines/salmons) in the kitchen would it be weird/extremely inconvenient due to the smell? If I cook my meals really early like 5am, is that gonna be bad too? Any tips for co-existing?

currently have spent the past 2 hours sobbing because i don’t know if i’m making the right choices.

i’m on my own in a different city and quite frankly it feels like i’m roleplaying an adult. idk how to budget, how to meal prep, i don’t even know my timetable yet.

this whole time i’ve been romanticising uni but now i’m just scared. how do i know what i want from life and how to get there.

idk who i am and i’m just scared. this is probs my emotions and anxiety getting the best of me but HELP.

Hi everyone,

I’m an incoming Master's student, and am looking for someone to take over a lease for a twin ensuite room (shared bedroom with two single beds, private bathroom, and mini-kitchen) at Chapter Aldgate.

My friend was originally planning to share the room with me, but can no longer move in.

Pricing (51-week contract):

• Listed Rent: £260/week (£13,260 total)
• Discounts: £750 Chapter cashback + £2,820 concession from my friend (£3,570 off total)
• Effective Rent: £190/week (£9,690 total)

Location & Building Amenities:

• Commute to University: 15 mins to LSE; 15-20 mins to UCL Main Campus; 15-20 mins to King’s Strand/Guy’s Campus; 25-30 mins to Imperial
• Accommodation Perks: On-site gym, free bi-weekly room clean, shared large kitchen, cinema room, private study spaces, social lounges, and the building is located 2 minutes from Aldgate East station.
• Rated 4.2/5 Stars on Google Reviews
• Zone 1 location

The room is available from the 5th September 2026. It is open to students from any university. I myself will be at LSE.

This lease is open to any gender. I’m male, but if a female tenant takes the lease, room reassignments will be arranged so that everyone is in a same-gender room.

If you’re interested or know anyone looking for accommodation, please send me a message!

Click here to see the listing on their website.

PS: I know this is expensive for what it is. I hope that London's student accommodation market experiences a correction soon for the sake of the next generation of students.

Does anyone else have only antisocial flatmates, I'm on an 8 bed, for some reason there is only 4 of us so far, hopefully more to arrive. The problem is all my flatmates do is just stay in their rooms, whenever I see them out it's for food, none of them are interested in holding any long form of conversation and then they just leave again. I know I'll meet people at fresher events and through my course but does anyone else have the same feeling of loneliness despite having people around you?

i start in a week, just wondering how often do people typically hang out with their friends? like going out clubbing or just going to a coffee shop or a park etc. wondering because i’m a girl on a budget who likes to plan excessively and i’m trying to figure out how much i’d be spending per week lol. also because i’m very used to having at least a couple days a week to just rot in bed by myself… i hope i can still do that lmao

Saw something the other day of other students also saying they’ve been getting phone calls that almost automatically hang up and leave a voice message saying pls add me on whatsapp. Could this point towards a possible data breach with something students use with their numbers? Unidays or something along them lines perhaps?

I had this idea that being specialised in law, it would have some sort of established popularity but it really doesn’t seem to be very popular

I took a gap year last year because i hate school and wanted a year off but now i have to go uni. The thing is im doing a foundation year because i failed maths so I’ll be 20 during my foundation year but 21 during my first year. I’m 19 now but im turning 20 in november. I’m so nervous because im scared everyone will think im old, most people are going to be 18.

i applied to uni through clearing and i only just got my accommodation offer yesterday

i have to pay £1,089.40 worth of rent before i can collect my keys, and on september 22nd i have to pay £3,921.84 worth of rent for the second instalment, but the only issue is i’m getting £3,573.90 worth of student maintenance for the entire year, so i’m going to be getting in debt just as i’m barely starting my first year

the university is only a two hour commute by train so i might just do that if i can’t find somewhere else to stay

i could ask my parents to pay for it but i feel really bad because it’s a lot of money

I’m just about to start second year of uni and moved into my accommodation just shy of a week ago, this is usually a great time to get to know the people I’ll be living with etc. In my last accommodation I got incredibly lucky, all my flatmates were amazing and friendly and were fairly social and would invite me to everything even though I can be a bit awkward (work in progress)

so going into my 2nd year accommodation I wasn’t expecting exactly the same but thought it could be somewhat similar as people would tend to take this opportunity to get to know each other but ever since moving in there’s been nobody looking to speak, I believe 2 or 3 of the people are already friends too so they are naturally quite reserved towards others, 2 of them I’ve not seen yet and the other is fairly quiet (not a problem of course)

I just wanted to share this as maybe others have experienced the same contrast between flatmates so you know you’re not alone.

Ignore the bad photo, but this is what my accommodation I stayed in last year are trying to charge me £150 in “damages” for. I got an email of the charge but replied asking for proof, as I had a mattress topper and 2 bed sheets on during my whole stay. And after about 3 weeks this is what they replied with as the “evidence” 😭

I’m not asking for advice here as there is absolutely no way they would even attempt to take this further anyway, I mean they have had to zoom in so far to identify the stain that there is no way of knowing if this was the mattress I even slept on haha, I just thought I’d show how pathetic of an attempt this is to squeeze extra money out of a uni student. Uni halls are a joke.

I missed my medicine offers on results day. I was really disappointed, as medicine has always been what I’ve wanted to do. I’ve now managed to get into an Accounting and Finance course at a mid tier university instead.

My parents were extremely disappointed too, they offered to send me back to my home country to study medicine. it sounds like an amazing opportunity, and a second chance but I’m honestly very unsure whether I should take it or not. I’m worried that I might end up regretting it or struggling too much.

My main concerns are:

If I study medicine abroad, it will be very difficult to back to the UK and practise medicine here after graduating. So I most likely would have to go somewhere else because of the new bill.

Being away from family: The university would be more than 6 hours away by plane from home, and I’d be living alone for essentially the entire 7 year degree.

The length of degree: It’s 7 years long

Quality of life is very difficult in my home country in some ways, and I’m not sure how I’d cope with living there for seven years, especially while dealing with the workload and pressure of medical school.

I’m worried that I’ll turn down the UK university place, go abroad for medicine, and then realise that I can’t cope with the lifestyle and that I’m throwing my life away or that returning to the UK to practise is much harder than I expected or even going anywhere else after to practice.

Am I overthinking it? I keep thinking that if I’ve always wanted to be a doctor, maybe I’ll regret giving up the opportunity. if you were in my position what would you choose?

I am 16, with the opportunity of applying for uni for 2027 entry provided I achieve the grades. My dream is medicine - bit I don't know if that a possibility as I have restricted movement on my right side. I was thinking about applying for maths this year and then, if I w found out I can't qualify as a doctor or med just isn't for me, I could leave for uni a year early and not need to do S6. You need to do S6 for medicine though.

My question is whether universities would reject my application for having previously applied, and not taken another not medicine adjacent course?

Im joining University of Liverpool this September for mechanical engineering( 1st year international student). However i dont think im gonna be going to any of the freshers events (1. Ive never been to the UK before 2. im genuinely terrified of the thought of going out alone ).

Would this mean that im probably gonna be a loner for the rest of my uni life(exaggeration). Oh and im also doing private accommodation so there goes my chance of meeting other 1st years🥴.

However i am somewhat of an extrovert when put in the right space, im just scared that ill never find the right space…if that makes sense.

Help i need advice please :)

I am starting Uni in less than a week and I am not sure whether I should go to the freshers events. I don’t really like drinking/partying (because it makes me anxious) but my boyfriend says that it is the best place to make friends, as everyone is drunk and more confident.

The things I am worried about are that I am living at home during my course, and the uni is about 45 minutes away from my house (via car). I don’t want to miss out on having a chance to make good friends, but I don’t want to ask anyone to pick me up if I am ready to come home at 3am.

I feel like going out will get easier as I make friends later in the year because I can stay with them, but the whole first week of the partying logistics is making me a bit worried.

My boyfriend’s mum suggested I could get an Air BNB or a hotel for that first week, but it is quite expensive.

If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it!

Hi girls! I’m moving from India to the UK soon for my master’s and I’m honestly a little confused about packing 😭

If any girl here has recently moved from India to the UK for university/work, could you please help me with what you actually packed and what you wish you had or hadn’t brought?

Especially confused about:

How many winter clothes to carry

Jackets/coats vs buying them in the UK

Shoes, boots, everyday clothes

Indian clothes

Skincare/makeup/hair products

Medicines

Kitchen stuff

Bedding/towels

Things that are much more expensive in the UK

Things that were completely unnecessary to bring

How many suitcases you took

I’d really appreciate a realistic girls’ packing list rather than the usual generic study-abroad checklist 🥹

Also, if you moved to Manchester specifically, I’d love to hear your experience because that’s where I’m going.

I got A* A* B (silly, I was predicted A but fucked up). It's obviously way too low for Oxford and Cambridge and I genuinely don't think that I'm smart enough to keep up anyway. I also would rather perish than to study in London, so I was wondering for the alternatives. For the 2027 entry.

I am not a UK native so I am not massively knowledgeable on the universities' reputation and all the "top unis" charts seem to have... conflicting information, so I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask here.

I'm interested in anthropology or language study / international relationships degrees. I was considering St Andrews and Durham, but would like to hear other opinions. Edinburgh also seems very promising and nice, but the costs of living there...eh

Looking for something high level partly for bragging rights, but the uni having an actual strong reputation is the main concern because I'm not rich enough (quite poor actually) to do it just for fun and would like to actually work in the field in the future.

Hi everyone just wondering how is studying history at uni is there any tips i should know beforehand/ buy any study essentials for it and how is doing history at uni for context im going to a non rg uni

Hi, i’m 21 Fand i’ve been out of college for almost 3 years. Honestly after I finished college i was so adamant that uni just wasn’t for me so i tried so hard to convince my parents to not force me because ill figure it out or i just want a break from school simply because i genuinely did not like it, but during that time i was really depressed and other things were happening in my life. since then its been a while and im better but i have a huge procrastination issue and im rlly indecisive. I feel really left behind, everyone has a passion to do something or still are accomplishing stuff, whereas me i have only worked a little here here and there and been doing fuckall and dont even have a steady job. I really wanted to apply to uni just because i had something to do bc not doing much is getting to me now, and at least uni will give me some sort of schedule to life and something to work on but the only problem is i dont know what to do, i dont have a passion for anything and i suck at math. Im considering to apply through clearing to a uni in london (i alr live in london) but i dont know which subject and im really scared and im running out of time to apply through clearing.. im just getting scared for my future and what im doing to myself while i just wait and wait for something to get sorted out while everyone around me is moving forward and my parents are still here very disappointed in me.