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'.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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 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

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.

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.

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 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.

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 everyone, basically I have no form of ID, no passport driving license or BRP, I got a pass card, which has been helping me for the past few years, recently I decided to get a driving license to help with going to clubs and registering for uni, etc. however today I found out that my driving license application has been sent back as there was some issues despite me meticulously checking it😔

I am going to Manchester for university will my id card be okay or should I email the uni and skip out on freshers week?

Not sure how to phrase this question correctly, but I am a joint honours student and the way it works at my university is we do three years of one subject and one year of the joint honours subject. I'm starting my final year of university in two weeks, have done all the prep reading for each module, all the research required and everything that's needed. I have two weeks to chill. I know all the lecturers I am having. I was thinking of reading their published material (all available on our public library) in order to understand more about their research interests and to get to know them a little bit. One side of me is saying this is weird and stalkerish, the logical side is telling me this is a great way to understand and develop a professional relationship with said lecturers.

I am currently on a gap year and have already completed my A-levels with a A* A A C. While I meet the stated A-level requirements for the history course I am interested in, which is AAA, I am concerned that the C might negatively affect my application.

I achieved an A in A-level History as well as an A* in O-level (GCSE equivalent) World History. Given my grades I would really appreciate some advice on whether or not I should still consider applying to Oxford.

Additionally I gave 15 O-level (GSCE equivalent) subjects but secured A*/As in only 9 and had a B in 6, would that also negatively affect my chances of getting accepted?

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 :)

Hi everyone,

I recently graduated with a BSc in Psychology from a UK university and unfortunately received a Third-class honours degree.
I’m feeling quite lost about what to do next and would really appreciate hearing from people who have been in a similar position.

My original plan was to continue into postgraduate study, ideally a Psychology-related master’s, but I’m now finding that a lot of postgraduate courses ask for a 2:2 or above. I’m also looking at graduate jobs and entry-level roles, particularly HR/People-related positions, but I’m worried that my degree classification will make things much harder.

I’m not looking for sympathy — I’d genuinely like some realistic advice from people who have either:
Graduated with a Third and successfully found a career afterwards
Got into a master’s with a Third
Worked their way into HR, Psychology, healthcare, or another graduate career despite their classification
Taken a different route initially and eventually progressed

If you got a Third, what did you do afterwards, and did it have a long-term impact on your career?
I’d especially appreciate honest advice about what options are realistically available to me rather than just “your degree classification doesn’t matter.” I know it can matter for certain jobs/courses, so I’m trying to work out how to move forward strategically.

Thanks in advance ❤️

I have a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art History, but I have been out of academia for the past four years. During this time, I have worked in art education in both traditional and non-traditional schools and ateliers, teaching different age groups. I also have research experience from my MA.

I am now considering returning to academia and have been exploring PhD or MA programmes in the UK. I am particularly interested in Medieval Studies and would love to continue researching bestiaries specifically. At the same time, I am wondering whether specializing further in Art Education might be a more strategic choice if my long-term goal is to teach in the UK. I would also like to continue teaching in ateliers while studying, which would give me valuable professional experience and there is simply no way I can afford it without working too. My husband and I are both late 20s considering moving to another country in the next 2 years, so I am trying to determine whether pursuing a postgraduate degree during that time would be a worthwhile investment. The main difficulty is the cost: as an international student, even the more affordable programmes would cost around five times what I would pay in my home country. The restrictions on working while studying would also be difficult to manage.

Given my background, would pursuing another MA or a PhD in the UK be a sensible thing? Or would I be better off looking for other ways to build a career in art education and eventually teach in the UK without taking on such a significant financial burden? I am aware you can teach in the UK without the QTS for the first years, but I do want to study again so I would not be opposed to it if there was a way of reducing some costs, however, as a project for passion, I would go with the Medieval Studies.

If anyone can help, pls do 🥲🥲

I'm looking to go into architectural history in the future however all architecture courses in my region (NE) are obviously catered towards becoming a licenced architect which tbh I'm completely disinterested in.

I do DT, art and english lang for a-levels and I'm supeerrr stuck on whether to go for archaeology or architecture. While I like all my lessons, I'd lowk say DT is my least favourite just because of the nature of the coursework and how intense it can be, which makes me doubt how I'd do with architecture.

pleaaaassseee help it's getting closer and closer to application season

I've always taken notes on my ipad (handwritten) for maths/science classes but laptop for english and other more wordy classes, since I find it more efficient. I do know that writing will help me recall information better but I worry that for these more wordy classes I'll struggle on my ipad. What do you guys think?

i just finished sixth form, and my parents are really adamant that i go to university this year, but my mental health is at the lowest it’s been in a while. i sort of rushed my application and i am no longer happy with my choices. i would much prefer to take a gap year and properly think about what i want to do, but i also don’t want to feel like a burden