I mean it's London vs America vs Oxford. I was at a rural university, our experience was rather different. We got rid of shared rooms because there was more than enough single rooms. And our rooms weren't that small (though they were not big either). I lived in self catered uni owned halls in the town (not on campus). Sea views and ensuite for ~£420pm. And we didn't get kicked out of halls at Christmas and Easter unlike some universities I'm told. Though one hob/oven between 8 was not fun.
@@evan I would like to imagne that a lot of the things sally mentioned would be the same at most other collegiant universities (ie oxbridge, durham, etc)
Yes I originally went to a countryside uni, now London and I have no clue how it’s gonna be ... even more shocking if there are differences than if I had never been to uni before I bet
When i went to school in England we had houses named after saints St.Anne (Blue), St.Francis (Red), St.Teresa (Yellow) and St.Paul (Green). We were then awarded points around the year for sporting events etc. Just like in Harry Potter. Except the main rivalry was between the blue and red teams, not red and green.
@@jwec9867 In my old school we had the same. Except the rivalry was between blue and green and the teachers and principal also had a team. Weirdly the blue team won most of the time and the principal was on the blue team.
@@lorettajacobs8256It sounds like there was some bias there if the Principal's team won. Maybe the other teachers didn't want to get fired if they won. I was on the Blue Team (St.Anne) but the red (St.Francis) and Green (St.Paul) teams won most often. Blue won final year though. Are you american? i ask because you have a Principal and not a Head teacher.
Neither Sally or Cory had a typical English accommodation experience. Usually you share flat-type uni accommodation in the first year with a communal kitchen and bathrooms (fancier students get an ensuite), then move into a house together with friends in the second year. You have a cleaner for the kitchens/communal areas but have to clean your own room. You will have university staff to contact about any issues at night who will come and yell at you if you make too much noise but apart from that you're left alone
I think Sally is there to highlight the Oxbridge experience, but completely agree with your version of what the vast majority of students experience. Some accommodation is catered, but London is different because many of the unis do not have enough to offer all first years a place.
simgorm it’s not that great you still have to share a flat with like 5 people and it’s very small and you all have your own cupboard with your food in that you brought but everyone steals each other’s anyway and you have to pay for everything you have to pay to live there you have to clean it but you also have to pay for a cleaner
I don't think some American's quite grasp just how much of a role alcohol plays in the student life in the UK. Nearly all uni events have alcohol flowing and we have bars/pubs on campus. It's encouraged by the university to go out and get drunk!
In the UK, many students unions have full on night clubs. In Sheffield, the closest they get to America is when they make half-arsed attempts to stop people taking drugs by putting signs up saying they have a "zero tolerance policy on drugs" and then making little to no attempt to prevent people from actually taking them even within the SU.
We were told very clearly upon arrival freshman year that our campus was a "dry campus"-- meaning no alcohol was allowed on-site under any circumstances, over 21 or not. Of course, our campus was only one block wide and two blocks long so if you wanted to cross the street and drink in the Subway parking lot, that was always an option-- although also not technically legal but they had bigger things to worry about as long as you weren't being unruly.
I was looking at accommodation and they have these highlighted/note-worthy aspects and one of them had a personal bar as one of the highlighted aspects
Chloe C not too sure with that considering independent schools would have a lot of underage students - even in the eldest year where there’ll still be students yet to reach their 18th birthday
I feel London universities and Oxbridge are completely different from all other U.K. universities 😂 Lots of what was described doesn’t reflect the rest of our universities
I went to a London uni and it didn’t have any accommodation so had to stay in private halls which had a mix of three different university’s students living there. Very different from what was described in this video.
I remember our first day at uni and every student doing my course and the lectures meet to have an overview and get to know eachother and there was lots of wine, I'm pretty sure people were taking it away when they left too
I went to the pub with my lecturers all the time, but I guess the main difference is legal drinking age? The vast majority of people at uni in the UK will be 18 but it's way more likely in the US to have people at uni under the age of 21 so the culture hasn't grown there
@@lmaoroflcopter there was a teacher at my school that got fired for going clubbing with the upper 6th and when he got fired he said that he'd lost his school issued laptop and a few weeks later that laptop was found smashed up in a graveyard... wild
Sixth form included. Had my prom last month and students were drinking and smoking with the teachers. Some teachers even came to the bar with us after prom ended. My maths teacher bought us all shots.
When I was in year 8 (so like 13) the drama teachers threw a party after the final school play at the head of dramas house. To this day I don't think I've seen such a well stocked party! Probably the first time I got drunk.
@@scooterdooter I'm not in or from UK. And neither English nor Irish are alcoholics. But at least the English suffer from stupid laws that incentivice binch drinking. That gave their way of spending time in a pub a unique twist.... Just like in the USA where the laws ob alcohol made being drunk the main thing of going to university. Greetings from Germany where you learn to deal with alcohol at the age of 16 and where you can focus on studying at universities that are free of charge.
@Eliza Why? They keep interrupting each other because they have a lot to say and they're probably a bit over-enthusiast of saying it 😂 (that's how we usually have conversations in Italy for exemple. It's just a bit hard to follow because English is not my first language)
I feel like it would've been better plot into separate videos - there's way too much to say I don't feel like anything was properly covered in the video, idk though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ interruptions are fine but I do think this video was a bit more messy than others in the series
Evan "YOU DRANK WITH YOUR LECTURERS?" at my end of school prom (year 11) we watched the teachers get wasted and you hoped one of them would sneak you a beer
You didnt have a bar at your prom? Damn, thats sad, we had a free bar, though it was only in beer and wine, shots costed extra. I know most of us was 18 at that time, but even when we had our 5 yearly parties in school we had a bar with food and alcohol. Also in 7 grade at a grade party thing some of the parents who where chaperoning were also the bartenders and we weee allowed 10 drinks. 🤣🤣🤣
@@jacklovejoy5290 lol. For my US school trip, one of my teachers got so wasted he was almost throwing up, so we bought him a pizza and the next morning he looked so bad 🤣🤣🤣 its really sad that so many people dont have this kind of fun with their teachers, it seriously makes school so much better.. i could fill a whole book with fun stuff i and my classmates have done together with our teachers!
As a Swede, this is all absolutely FASCINATING to hear. The closest things we have to dorms are shared kitchens - a few unlucky people have to share showers too but they're like a single shower room, not shower stalls, and usually only between like five or six people. My corridor was pretty standard with nine people, we each had our own spaces (17 or 19 m², our own bathrooms (toilet + shower), and we shared a kitchen with three fridge/freezer combos (so we got two fridge shelves + one freezer shelf each), a microwave, and two full size stoves & ovens. And we had two cupboards and a cutlery drawer in the kitchen, and a tiny common room with just enough space for a couch and a dining table. Two corridors to a floor, with one laundry machine & dryer on each floor. As for alcohol, we had a neighborhood club (the housing's not run by the uni, it's run by separate companies, so they're not actually part of uni campus), and on campus pretty much all student unions had alcohol serving licenses and had their own club/bar type situation going every weekend. It's not a full license though, they can only sell to "closed" parties, so you have to be a member of a student union to get in (not necessarily that particular one, though, any will do). I lived in a very student packed neighborhood where they'd have corridor parties fairly regularly, and there'd be a few block parties every year too. Right now, I live right by a forest between two universities that's quite popular for raves - there's one going right now 😅 the actual neighborhood I'm in isn't very student packed though, it's a normal neighborhood with a handful of student accommodation buildings. We're also probably much older than most students, since it takes a lot of queue time to get these apartments, so the younger party crowd isn't as well represented here compared to my previous area 😅
My accommodation in the UK was different. In my residence it was 6 people to a flat, one kitchen (oven stove, microwave 12 cupboards, 6 drawers, 2 fridges), 2 toilets and 3 showers. Bedroom had 2/3 bed, desk, large wardrobe. 10 months for £5000
I’m curious as to how 2 toilets and 3 showers work... are the showers and toilets in separate rooms or do there happen to be two showers in a bathroom or all three showers in a room or what?
There are more universities that don't have campuses you live on (not just Oxbridge and Durham) like universities that are integrated into the city like a lot of London universities. They have accommodation around the city and they have campuses in the sense that there are different places that groups of departments are situated but it's the same in Durham.
I would say around half of UK unis are integrated like that. Bath, Birmingham, Nottingham, Exeter, Lancaster, and Warwick are good examples of campus unis. Most of the London Unis, Manchester, Sheffield, Oxbridge and Durham are good examples of city (integrated) universities. Then there are many which are kind of a cross between the two i.e. a smallish/compact campus in the heart of the city e.g. Liverpool, Birmingham and Queen Mary's. This means there are many different choices and the uni experience can vary a lot depending on where you go. For example, campus unis like Keele or Warwick that are in the middle of nowhere in the countryside are really picturesque but DEAD. Whereas Bristol, Manchester and London are really lively cities full of students so can be a bit daunting to those who prefer a quiet life.
My roommate in college for our last three years was asexual and I practice abstinence so we would joke that no matter what other conflicts might arise, at least we knew THAT was never going to be an issue, lol.
A quick note - Sally went to St Johns college, every college at Oxford is different. Accommodation prices and food prices change depending on the age and wealth of the college, and access to kitchens etc changes. You pay upfront for your accommodation and food - at my college I pay for a certain amount of meals a term. Oxford is quite unique in that every college has a different system for halls / who lives in halls beyond 1st year / food.
If we had any questions on our subject the lecturers would tell us to meet them in the pub on thursday night. You'd ask your question, have a beer, talk for a while then leave. One of the history professors who was maybe mid 30's, would go clubbing/house parties with us 😅 he beat my flat mate in a tequila shot competition.... good times 😊
@@laura-sandy1492 I'm sure if you ask most uni students in the UK they have a similar story 😅 I had a friend who was sleeping with a lecturer but no one cared because he taught a different subject than what we took. We're adults from the age of 18 so it's a very "do whatever you want" kinda attitude
I cannot relate to any of these accommodation stories. I went to school in Kent (UK) and I had an en-suite room with a shared kitchen and no wardens/porters patrolling halls regularly
The uni where I'm going (UK), most of the 1st year rooms have 1 bathroom between 2 people, and a shared kitchen area. The cleaners only do the kitchen and I think the bathrooms too.
In America I shared two toilets and three showers with about 25 other people! You got used to showering at odd hours to beat the rush. I was a 2pm or 2am nothing in between kinda girl.
@@paigey-poo4235 Older dorms in the US tend to be like Evan or you describe, and newer or upper class ones the suite arrangement. There might just be a bathroom between two rooms and no kitchen, or four rooms with a common room, etc.
Cambridge is basically identical to Oxford with this, except we call the terms Michelmas, Lent and Easter. I think Oxford's Trinity is a specific reference to Trinity Sunday which falls inside of it.
The Cambridge porters also seem to be a lot more friendly than Oxford ones... I made friends with quite a few of mine and they never reported me for anything
Also Oxford's 2nd term being Hilary could be because St. Hilary's day (Feast day of St. Hilary of Poitiers) is on January 14th, which I'd guess falls at the beginning of term 2 for them. It's really cool to hear about these different experiences even within the same country, though ^^
Oxfordian here-I went to Hertford! I lived in the old quad in my last year and the views were amazing! It is super bizarre though-we call it the Oxford bubble and when you leave it you need to readjust to the normal world. It’s entirely it’s own thing. And we definitely got drunk with the professors-literally on my first day of freshers week we had drinks with our tutors and then went straight to formal hall and dined with the principal (our group was the unfortunate group that was seated at top table) and they kept on topping up our glasses because it was formal hall 😬
@Alistair Bolden lmao as if people at Cambridge don't work hard. If anything the stereotype is that Cambridge makes you work harder whereas Oxford is where posh people live fairytale lifestyles with a job secured from daddy's connections.
fellow UCL student here! (: okay so london student accommodation is so expensive. so if you want your own bathroom at UCL you're paying like £220 odd a week. i sort of found a middle ground w my accommodation for first year. i lived in intercollegiate halls where people from all london unis can live together. mine was predominantly catered but there was a separate building next to it where self-catered people lived. we lived on floors of 16 people (which is unusual for UK unis) and we shared one massive kitchen and a block of 10 showers to share. then, most people move out and get houses or flats together which i am v excited to do soon.
I go to uni in Wales and its like different to all 3 of you 😂 We have ensuite rooms each then you share a kitchen with 5-7 people who live in your corridor. Also there's no option like at all to share a bedroom with someone else and I think that's the case for the vast majority of UK unis
That's becoming the norm in most UK unis I think. Used to have shared bathrooms everywhere but they can charge more for ensuite so lots of unis are changing to that.
Wales as well, University of South Wales (Trefforest campus) to be exact. All the accomodation low cost and high cost is ensuite shower and toilet with a room all to yourself. Has a bed and desk and sizes vary with cost. Shared kitchen that you keep clean but corridors and stairwells are cleaned by accomodation services which provide 24/7 support. There is also 24/7 security support on site as well.
I went to Aberystwyth and whilst most rooms were single, you did get the odd double room in Cwrt Mawr. My boyfriend and I applied for one of these rooms in our third year as was cheaper than getting two singles. The staff doing the first room inspection were a wee bit surprised we were a male and female sharing and asked if one of us wanted to be moved, lol.
My experience with American universities is very similar to what Evan is saying. The main difference for us is that we had 3 options as a freshman. We either got a roommate in the same room and a 2 suite mates who we shared a bathroom with that was connected to both rooms, a roommate and had to use the shared restrooms, or went to the "university college" housing or something like that that was the expensive nice rooms where you got your own room, had your own bathroom and everything.
I just finished my first year in Nottingham. I lived in privately owned halls endorsed by the uni, my room was ensuite with a 3/4 double bed and a kitchen shared between 6 of us. It was self catered - so no meals provided.
Went to Royal Holloway, tons of accommodations, you are guaranteed first year only in halls unless you are international, but nobody wants to stay in accommodations cause freshers are loud toddlers. Depending on how new/awesome the halls are they are more expensive. Some halls were catered others were not but had a kitchen.
At my college in Alabama, everyone had a suite with 4 single bedrooms and a communal kitchenette without a stove. In the dorm, we had a full kitchen that anyone could use. Every bedroom was a personal room, and we could drink in them if we were 21. If someone in the suite was under 21, we had to keep our alcohol in personal rooms and out of communal areas, but if everyone was legal, we could drink anywhere.
"So you actually liked your professors, you got to drink with them" This is so sad. I mean if you're at university you're choosing to be there. You get to know your lecturers as people, and the ones you gel best with you become friends with. Some of my best memories from uni were pub conversations with lecturers. I mean sure there will be a couple whose teaching styles you don't get on with but it's not at all an adversarial relationship, you might just think they're a bit useless. Do people in America still treat it like it's school?
Oxford sound like a dream, at my American school, freshmen and sophomores don’t get air conditioning, and a lot of the dorms have 3 or four people in them. There is one kitchen in the basement of the building, shared with over 100 people. There are two showers, three toilets for about 23 people.
For the fraternity/sorority one try to get someone who was involved in Greek life because the outside and inside prospectives are completely different.
Scottish Accommodation: Choice of Catered or Non Catered, with a shared kitchen between 6 people. Choice of ensuite rooms or shared bathrooms, and choice of double or single beds. Flats are usually shared between 5-7 people.
I never got a choice. My accommodation was 3-8 students per flat. Each room has an en suite with a shower. Each flat had a kitchen-living room. We had no cleaners or food made for us. There was a bar downstairs and a common room.
Honestly the thing about university lecturers drinking with you is so real. I used to attend those events for free food and wine a lot. I met a girl that went on a big group holiday with my lecturer and she said she’d never partied harder as she did with him
I think the craziest thing at my dorm on what you're allowed and not allowed to have was that you can only have one surge protector per room, but none of the RAs really cared about it. It's just the fact that they think that two students could live on only one surge protector that's crazy to me.
There are double rooms in oxford! I was in one last year. You get given a large living room with 2 sofas, a dining table and two desks. The bedrooms were very smell rooms connected. It really depends the college.
In my first year of Uni I paid about... £4500 for the year. I shared a kitchen with 6 other people, had an ensuite bathroom, a small double bed and had a clearer once a week for the kitchen and once every 2 weeks for my room and bathroom. It's more expensive now but I'm very grateful for it haha
@@evan They're not uncommon in the UK but are often little pods in the corner of a room. I was lucky in that mine was an actual room. You pay more for it but it was so worth it
I'm a master student at Uppsala university in Sweden and this was very interesting to listen to. You describe such a WILDLY different university culture from ours.
I went to a small private college in NC in the late 90s. We had separate freshman girls and freshman boys dorm. The freshman girls dorm had a full kitchen in the lounge area by the laundry area. Anyone could use it at any time. I had a meal plan that I got 3 meals a day and we got a card with x amount on it to use in a little shop with snacks and some hot foods. My roommate and I had a mini fridge and a microwave that I used for a lot.
I’m currently looking at unis bc I’m applying in September and some unis have twin rooms that are cheaper where you share with someone else but majority don’t share rooms. Most places just have a single rooms
University of South Wales (Trefforest campus). All the accomodation low cost and high cost is ensuite shower and toilet with a room all to yourself. Has a bed and desk and sizes vary with cost. Shared kitchen that you keep clean but corridors and stairwells are cleaned by accomodation services which provide 24/7 support. There is also 24/7 security support on site as well.
In the US its very uncommon to have a single room. Evan described it fairly well. I am also from NJ and know many people who went to Rowan.Also I know of other American universities would rent out hotels and have students stay there if they didn't have enough housing. In the university I went to in the UK I had a small room with my own bathroom which was nice. Your room was cleaned, bed sheets were changed once a week. You shared a large kitchen with 6 other people
So accommodation.... I went to university near Liverpool my room on campus was £97 a week with an en-suite wet room (shower, toilet and sink) with a single bed desk and built in wardrobe with a shared kitchen/dining room between 8 people. My friend went cheaper so for like £70 a week he had his own bedroom with shared bathroom facilities and shared kitchen (no dining facilities) between about 10 people. I am pretty certain that there were no shared rooms & we were not allowed to have people stay over (not that it stopped us). We had a cleaner that cleaned the communal facilities - wiped the sides vacuumed the floors but we did have a vacuum to use and in both accommodations our bedroom doors locked and in my accommodation we had a lockable food cupboard... After freshers year you had to find your own accommodation which is a house share but the prices were expensive so I paid £120 a week for a bedroom with lockable door but shared bathroom & kitchen between 4 - this was really scary because it was like a legit legally binding contract with guarantors (usually parents) SCARY STUFF for a 19 year old 😂 In both of these we were not allowed any open flames 😂
It’s funny how shocked Evan was about drinking with the teachers. I’ve just left 6th form, I was the head girl, and at our prefect leavers’ dinner - we drank with the teachers 😂😂. On the last day of school, we went to the pub and drank with the teachers.
As a student I lived in three halls at the same University, and each had different standards, traditions, facilities, etc. So good luck trying to compare with a sample of just three Universities.
It would be cool to see something like this with a non campus london uni coz they can work very differently. There wasnt any specific halls for my uni, london just has general student accommodation which costs like £1000 a month
To be fair trinity is kind of the Irish equivalent to oxford/cambridge. At least that is the impression I have gotten from people who went there and other Irish friends.
There’s a big historical connection between Trinity and Oxbridge, so much so that at Oxford, when you matriculate (begin your degree in first year), Cambridge and Trinity graduates are the only ones besides Oxford graduates taking another degree who don’t have to matriculate again. It’s considered more of a transfer than starting afresh IIRC
Henry VIII founded Trinity College Cambridge. His daughter Elizabeth wanted a college like her dad, so she founded Trinity College Dublin. Or something like that. I did a tour of Trinity College in 2013 so this memory might not be accurate!
My uni didn't have shared rooms as far as I know. Everyone got their own. Our wardens were students, kind of like a scout. They'd check people are following rules, but the closest they did to wondering about at night is when there's a fire drill schedueled. they were the only ones who would know.
Mine was similar, I went to university in portsmouth, halls was only for first year, it was just your own rooms with en suite bathrooms and a communal kitchen. In the building there would be a common room, but you were pretty much left to your own devices. Sharing a room sounds like the worst thing ever!
Currently at Nottingham, stayed in en-suite catered room for first year, and again in second year (sadly), now moving in with friends for third year. Cool to learn about how Oxford works, its so much different here
I just graduated from a public university in the US and I definitely attended school sanctioned (non-Greek) events where we drank with professors. You just had to be 21
Other UK universities also have colleges, not just Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. We had a bar in each college at York, which hosted its own club nights etc and each college had 24/7 porters who would help in the same way Sally described. Alcohol was huge on campus, and the SU even offered a deal where you could pay approx £90 per year for a card that would give you free entry to up to 5 night clubs per week. I shared a 'house' on campus with 15 other people in first year, which was a bit of a struggle to manage in the kitchen but I totally lucked out because I had a bath in my ensuite. Most people moved off campus during subsequent years, but you could stay in accommodation if you wanted to. I also think generally it's a little different depending on whether your university is city or campus based.
Halls of residence at Aberdeen had porters, and each floor in catered halls (had 41 rooms) had a cleaner who hoovered rooms, cleaned sinks, showers and toilets Monday-Friday. We loved our cleaner, Pat and got her a Christmas present and a goodbye gift. We weren't allowed any toasters or kettles in our rooms, but I used to hide my kettle, toaster and toastie machine in the wardrobe.
pretty much the same in Cambridge as Oxford, except a few names of things; Lent term instead of Hilary, and Easter instead of Trinity. Also we have supervisions where they have tutorials (and supervisors instead of tutors).
I always wondered what they call the person we call our tutor. Like how we have supervisors (and director of studies) for academic support and tutors for non-academic support. Do they also have a person for non-academic support? And if so what do they call them?
I went to London university. My accomodation inc. a single room, with a 3/4 bed ensuite. Sharing kitchen with 4 other people. You have a key and everything is locked. it is essentially a flat. There is also an option of a studio flat which is larger and you have your own kitchenette. This is a normal standard across London accomodation. Oxford and Cambridge is different. Some universities across the UK have shared bathrooms but all flats generally have keys because of privacy and protection of your belongings. You can share rooms with your friend. They are cheaper. You get two 3/4 beds or a bunkbed and own kitchenette. OR you sure can share with a stranger. It is essentially sharing a larger studio flat. I am also an RA and I do a similar job to Evan. I take care of students and help them settle in. Help to keep peace and comfortable life in halls.
Some of the rooms at St John's were big enough for a pretty big party (my 3rd year room would have got about 20 people in it I reckon, but I am not a party person so I had at most about 3!). We also went to our tutors' houses for dinner parties (with wine, naturally).
I have a friend who took her hamster to university and whenever there was an inspection she would hide the cage in a big Ikea bag and it worked for the whole year!
When touring flats we found one where by smell alone you knew the tenants were keeping pet rabbits even though the flats were all listed as 'no pets allowed' The landlords really didn't care as long as the flat wasn't completely trashed by the time you left.
My sisters hall was an 8 room flats kind of thing, with a communal kitchen/living room.with all rooms ensuite ( small shower, sink , toilet )in all rooms. I'm only mid teens but I just assumed that's how all of them worked.
*Exeter (UK, 2003-7)* - in either catered or self-catering for the first year, then into the private market (with friends). My self-catered 'hall' was three buildings, maybe 300 students, and there was a central building with a canteen (set up for formal hall in suits/dresses at the start/end of each term), a bar, and a TV lounge. The halls were co-ed/mixed, apart from the ground floor of each building, which was all-male. Each floor of the residential buildings had 2 shared bath[tub] rooms, 4 shared toilet stalls, and 2 shower stalls. There was a cleaner, but mostly just to empty the bins. We had a vacuum cleaner per floor (10 rooms) we could use, but the rooms had tiled floors (bring a a rug) and were maybe 10 sq. metre so if you wanted to clean it took about 30 seconds. Because it was catered (14 meals/week plus vouchers for lunch on campus), the shared kitchen basically had a sink, a toaster, ironing board, and a microwave - bring your own plates, cutlery and iron. Laundry room with 4 washing machines and 4 tumble dryers per building (70 students). I was in there the last year before it was demolished to make way for a new catered hall to be built. Exeter (and ex-Exeter) peeps - guess my hall!
In Czech republic we don't have university accommodations. If your uni is not in your hometown, you have to rent an apartment or a room. Few of my secondary school (years 10 to 13) went to the same uni and agreed to rent an apartment together.
I'm from UK but in my second year I did an American exchange so I stayed in student halls with mostly, but not completely, freshmen. It was 4 floors, 2 male and 2 female (weird!). Each floor had 4 wings and each wing had about 12 rooms (2/3 a room) and only 1 bathroom per floor with lots of shower cubicles and very little privacy! The best bit was the all you can eat breakfasts at the student union - I still miss it! The one thing I would say is that there was always a variety of fun stuff happening on campus as you couldn't drink. I remember one of the first events was a big tie dye festival where everyone took stuff to tie dye haha it was so random!
Ok so this is just what I know from going to summer camps and things and talking to my counselors. I go to summer camp at University of North Carolina at Greensboro or UNCG and I stayed in the Grogan building (They have 5 building and I think they said that Cone is the worst and Mary Faust is the best and Reynolds, Grogan and the other one are in the middle) each building has 8 floors (and that if your on any of the floors below the 5th floor you can’t take the elevator down with out reason because if so you’ll probably break it. I was not the 3rd floor and honestly the people making the biggest deal out of that were the people on the top floor saying that we were unlucky and stuff but I digress) and a basement each floor has two hallways and a bathroom on each hallway. There are no kitchens on any of the floors (on Grogan idk about the other ones) and they have laundry and vending in the basement. Every room is shared unless you just get lucky. But I also went to a summer camp at Wolfpack and those were so different You had three hallways a living room connecting those hallways and you shared a bathroom with one of the rooms next to you and again you share a room unless your lucky. But there are more floors (I think 12 I just know that I was on the 9th floor)
I went to a Uni close to London. I lived in a studentflat which had about 8 private rooms, 2 shared bathrooms and a common room with a shared kitchen. We always had parties in there and were asked to be quite a couple times by the SR's (students on duty to make sure nothing happends in the halls). And we also went out on some pub crawls including lecturers who are drunk way to fast haha. Those times were great! I really miss it
Code: Marla its so cool to hear how other countries view our college life cuz like,,, sharing a room with a complete stranger in college has always been a given
what? i live in america and i don't think i know of a university or college that have dorms for only one person, it's always with at the very least one roommate
From what I know, my uni (UWTSD Lampeter) - which I'll start at in September - operates as a sort of hybrid between the Oxbridge model and the standard of UCL. We do not have colleges, but - as we are a small uni - all the students sometimes eat together in the refectory, paying similar prices to the ones mentioned by Sally. Most of the time we eat in our halls - where 4-8 students live, with separate rooms and bathrooms, and a shared kitchen/living room - either cooking for ourselves, or catered for. There are three blocks of halls, the cheapest - which is 8 students sharing a bathroom - being £2600 a year -, the middle being en-suites with around 6 students, and on the outskirts of the campus - costing £3200 a year-, and the most expensive being en-suites with around 4 students, and more central on the campus - costing £3300 a year. You can also pay extra for a year's membership to the on campus gym. We do have wardens and scouts, the wardens are older students who offer pastoral support, the scouts, who are mostly older women and employed by the uni, the clean the shared areas, and - well - scout. Often the students have a good relationship with the scouts, who have an unofficial role as semi-maternal carers.We also have a security team, who a necessary as the campus is open to the public, and in the middle of the town - although the town is rather rural, and not particular threatening.
I live in Oxford (I grew up there at uni in Worcester) the only reason my dad can afford where we live is because he brought the house 20 years ago and the housing market has risen so much since then. We live in a village like 15 minutes from the city centre so it’s super expensive (it’s also one of the largest villages in Europe)
Amazing how comparatively strict yours was Evan, mine (UK) most we’d get was a notice couple times a year around exam times to be quiet after 9 😂 (although same on open fire stuff that’s just basic health and safety)
I just love how it’s UK vs Oxford, different worlds lol
It really is!
I mean it's London vs America vs Oxford. I was at a rural university, our experience was rather different. We got rid of shared rooms because there was more than enough single rooms. And our rooms weren't that small (though they were not big either). I lived in self catered uni owned halls in the town (not on campus). Sea views and ensuite for ~£420pm. And we didn't get kicked out of halls at Christmas and Easter unlike some universities I'm told. Though one hob/oven between 8 was not fun.
@@evan I would like to imagne that a lot of the things sally mentioned would be the same at most other collegiant universities (ie oxbridge, durham, etc)
Hi fellow sossie!
Kinga Dwojak i was gonna comment the same thing lol
I feel like normal UK unis aren’t represented here because London unis are different too.
London School of Economics has the trad terms as in the recent past did KCL.
Yup it's a lot different in Wales 😂
Not gonna lie I noticed you had a Welsh name after I commented about studying in Wales 😂🤦
Gotta love USW up in Trefforest
Yes I originally went to a countryside uni, now London and I have no clue how it’s gonna be ... even more shocking if there are differences than if I had never been to uni before I bet
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It’s like British vs American vs Hogwarts...
Except in Hogwarts they have to share rooms as well
When i went to school in England we had houses named after saints St.Anne (Blue), St.Francis (Red), St.Teresa (Yellow) and St.Paul (Green). We were then awarded points around the year for sporting events etc. Just like in Harry Potter. Except the main rivalry was between the blue and red teams, not red and green.
@@jwec9867 In my old school we had the same. Except the rivalry was between blue and green and the teachers and principal also had a team. Weirdly the blue team won most of the time and the principal was on the blue team.
@@lorettajacobs8256It sounds like there was some bias there if the Principal's team won. Maybe the other teachers didn't want to get fired if they won. I was on the Blue Team (St.Anne) but the red (St.Francis) and Green (St.Paul) teams won most often. Blue won final year though. Are you american? i ask because you have a Principal and not a Head teacher.
@@jwec9867 Nope, I'm from Germany but my old school was an international school
Neither Sally or Cory had a typical English accommodation experience. Usually you share flat-type uni accommodation in the first year with a communal kitchen and bathrooms (fancier students get an ensuite), then move into a house together with friends in the second year. You have a cleaner for the kitchens/communal areas but have to clean your own room. You will have university staff to contact about any issues at night who will come and yell at you if you make too much noise but apart from that you're left alone
I think Sally is there to highlight the Oxbridge experience, but completely agree with your version of what the vast majority of students experience. Some accommodation is catered, but London is different because many of the unis do not have enough to offer all first years a place.
I went in 1982, nobody wiping your tears, bum or cleaning up behind you, lived in a house with my band mates and worked in a hotel to pay for it all.
I didn’t have a cleaner in my university halls, we were responsible for all the cleaning
Yh that’s how it was for us
simgorm it’s not that great you still have to share a flat with like 5 people and it’s very small and you all have your own cupboard with your food in that you brought but everyone steals each other’s anyway and you have to pay for everything you have to pay to live there you have to clean it but you also have to pay for a cleaner
I don't think some American's quite grasp just how much of a role alcohol plays in the student life in the UK. Nearly all uni events have alcohol flowing and we have bars/pubs on campus. It's encouraged by the university to go out and get drunk!
In the UK, many students unions have full on night clubs. In Sheffield, the closest they get to America is when they make half-arsed attempts to stop people taking drugs by putting signs up saying they have a "zero tolerance policy on drugs" and then making little to no attempt to prevent people from actually taking them even within the SU.
We were told very clearly upon arrival freshman year that our campus was a "dry campus"-- meaning no alcohol was allowed on-site under any circumstances, over 21 or not. Of course, our campus was only one block wide and two blocks long so if you wanted to cross the street and drink in the Subway parking lot, that was always an option-- although also not technically legal but they had bigger things to worry about as long as you weren't being unruly.
There isn't even any awareness anywhere about alcoholism it gets quite dangerous tbh
@@lizzyol Yeah, the only bit of the student union 99% of students will see is the bar.
I was looking at accommodation and they have these highlighted/note-worthy aspects and one of them had a personal bar as one of the highlighted aspects
Evan’s uni: *alcohol is banned if there’s just one underage person*
Cambridge: “let’s include a bar in the colleges”
Wait bars in colleges ?
Yeah it's the same in Durham - there's 16 colleges and each has its own bar so pub crawls to each college are quite popular
A lot of independent schools have pubs
Chloe C not too sure with that considering independent schools would have a lot of underage students - even in the eldest year where there’ll still be students yet to reach their 18th birthday
Drastelne There’s one at mine and I’m aware of at least another 5-10 that do as well
I feel London universities and Oxbridge are completely different from all other U.K. universities 😂
Lots of what was described doesn’t reflect the rest of our universities
They are nothing like the other 99% of British universities. Evan needs to get someone who is more typical to be representative!
I went to a London uni and it didn’t have any accommodation so had to stay in private halls which had a mix of three different university’s students living there. Very different from what was described in this video.
@@pippacocks5891 I stayed in a private student halls too with a mix of different university's students... At least I was allowed my electric heater!
*oxford
Did I mention I went to Oxford?
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I'm surprised you didn't mention it in the video.
☹️ yes coz u mocked my school ☹️
Hence the face paint.
;-)
Grace Law lol 😝
evan: we had free pizza
corry: we had free pizza and wine
sally: we had free pizza and wine or prosseco
I remember our first day at uni and every student doing my course and the lectures meet to have an overview and get to know eachother and there was lots of wine, I'm pretty sure people were taking it away when they left too
I went to the pub with my lecturers all the time, but I guess the main difference is legal drinking age? The vast majority of people at uni in the UK will be 18 but it's way more likely in the US to have people at uni under the age of 21 so the culture hasn't grown there
Yup. Our 6th form we'd go drinking with the teachers in upper 6th. Providing you were 18 (or near as damn it) it was all okay.
@@lmaoroflcopter there was a teacher at my school that got fired for going clubbing with the upper 6th and when he got fired he said that he'd lost his school issued laptop and a few weeks later that laptop was found smashed up in a graveyard... wild
Sixth form included. Had my prom last month and students were drinking and smoking with the teachers. Some teachers even came to the bar with us after prom ended. My maths teacher bought us all shots.
I know of a few pubs actually inside the teaching blocs
When I was in year 8 (so like 13) the drama teachers threw a party after the final school play at the head of dramas house. To this day I don't think I've seen such a well stocked party! Probably the first time I got drunk.
This video is like Evan being confused for 17 minutes straight.
It was nice being on the other side
Evan Edinger Don’t get me wrong, it was really interesting to watch!
yep, the Americans and their inability to deal with alcohol properly is kinda funny.
@@TremereTT You're fucking alcoholics just deal with it already UK
@@scooterdooter I'm not in or from UK. And neither English nor Irish are alcoholics. But at least the English suffer from stupid laws that incentivice binch drinking. That gave their way of spending time in a pub a unique twist....
Just like in the USA where the laws ob alcohol made being drunk the main thing of going to university.
Greetings from Germany where you learn to deal with alcohol at the age of 16 and where you can focus on studying at universities that are free of charge.
I feel like my university in the UK is completely different to London, Oxford and the US 😂
Rach Jade yup haha 🤣
What’s it like? I’m trying to figure out where I want to go in the future 😂
I like the conversation but I got really overwhelmed because they kept interrupting each other.
@Eliza Why? They keep interrupting each other because they have a lot to say and they're probably a bit over-enthusiast of saying it 😂 (that's how we usually have conversations in Italy for exemple. It's just a bit hard to follow because English is not my first language)
I feel like it would've been better plot into separate videos - there's way too much to say I don't feel like anything was properly covered in the video, idk though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ interruptions are fine but I do think this video was a bit more messy than others in the series
Yess
I didn't quite catch what uni Sally was from??
;)
😂
I think it was Cambridge...
Sally Le Page LSE MSc and MIT PhD candidate here; nobody likes a show-off 🙄
James Bradley yeah it was Cambridge
“michaelmas, hilary, trinity” sound like harry potter characters
one sounds like a woman who couldn't make president
Trump will get jealous now 😂
Loads of schools here use Michaelmas, lent and summer
trinty is just a company for a sixth form colleges
You know when you realise that you don't even know the term for terms? That.
This is London vs American vs Oxbridge 😂 should probably get someone who is non-London and non-Oxbridge lol
Time to call Connie up for a sequel
So true, because city and campus universities are so different
Yesssss!!!!
Get somebody from Leeds Uni!
Evan "YOU DRANK WITH YOUR LECTURERS?"
at my end of school prom (year 11) we watched the teachers get wasted and you hoped one of them would sneak you a beer
You didnt have a bar at your prom? Damn, thats sad, we had a free bar, though it was only in beer and wine, shots costed extra. I know most of us was 18 at that time, but even when we had our 5 yearly parties in school we had a bar with food and alcohol.
Also in 7 grade at a grade party thing some of the parents who where chaperoning were also the bartenders and we weee allowed 10 drinks. 🤣🤣🤣
Mate, we had a teacher get wasted and play poker with us for salt packets on a year nine residential trip
@@jacklovejoy5290 lol. For my US school trip, one of my teachers got so wasted he was almost throwing up, so we bought him a pizza and the next morning he looked so bad 🤣🤣🤣 its really sad that so many people dont have this kind of fun with their teachers, it seriously makes school so much better.. i could fill a whole book with fun stuff i and my classmates have done together with our teachers!
YEP, 6th form prom our teachers got hammered and were doing slutty dances.
@@TKDDLJ09 nonono, year 11 is 16 at the very oldest. plus drinking is ok before 21, you guys are just weird. Been on the drink since I was 13/14 lmao
You've got
London universities
Oxbridge
Other UK universities
Theres a clear difference
Nah st andrews is too weird to be amongst the rest.
Also Oxbridge Rejects: Exeter, Durham, Bristol and Bath
And the Russell Group, and converted Polys, and the Cathedral group
So true I was listening to the UCL stuff thinking this is not for all Unis
I’m on the Oxford side so I definitely vouch on what she is saying is true
Conner Travis flex much
Emily Cooper don’t get what you mean by that but ok
you can tell he’s from oxford by the maturity to his reply 🤣
@@airida8478 no, he knows, he just wants to be smug as if he doesn't understand what the big deal is.
@@EmilyCooper-cf1qj looked at his facebook and he didn't even study there. Embarrassing really.
As a Swede, this is all absolutely FASCINATING to hear.
The closest things we have to dorms are shared kitchens - a few unlucky people have to share showers too but they're like a single shower room, not shower stalls, and usually only between like five or six people. My corridor was pretty standard with nine people, we each had our own spaces (17 or 19 m², our own bathrooms (toilet + shower), and we shared a kitchen with three fridge/freezer combos (so we got two fridge shelves + one freezer shelf each), a microwave, and two full size stoves & ovens. And we had two cupboards and a cutlery drawer in the kitchen, and a tiny common room with just enough space for a couch and a dining table. Two corridors to a floor, with one laundry machine & dryer on each floor.
As for alcohol, we had a neighborhood club (the housing's not run by the uni, it's run by separate companies, so they're not actually part of uni campus), and on campus pretty much all student unions had alcohol serving licenses and had their own club/bar type situation going every weekend. It's not a full license though, they can only sell to "closed" parties, so you have to be a member of a student union to get in (not necessarily that particular one, though, any will do).
I lived in a very student packed neighborhood where they'd have corridor parties fairly regularly, and there'd be a few block parties every year too. Right now, I live right by a forest between two universities that's quite popular for raves - there's one going right now 😅 the actual neighborhood I'm in isn't very student packed though, it's a normal neighborhood with a handful of student accommodation buildings. We're also probably much older than most students, since it takes a lot of queue time to get these apartments, so the younger party crowd isn't as well represented here compared to my previous area 😅
Going uni this September, binge watching uni videos to prepare lol
Lol same
Good luck. Am heading into 3rd yeaar
Imo this is not the typical UK experience
Actual KpopTrash Literally me! ☺️
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My accommodation in the UK was different. In my residence it was 6 people to a flat, one kitchen (oven stove, microwave 12 cupboards, 6 drawers, 2 fridges), 2 toilets and 3 showers. Bedroom had 2/3 bed, desk, large wardrobe. 10 months for £5000
I’m curious as to how 2 toilets and 3 showers work... are the showers and toilets in separate rooms or do there happen to be two showers in a bathroom or all three showers in a room or what?
Penguin BS
There was two showers in small wet rooms, one shower and toilet combo room and one toilet in a room on it’s own
There are more universities that don't have campuses you live on (not just Oxbridge and Durham) like universities that are integrated into the city like a lot of London universities. They have accommodation around the city and they have campuses in the sense that there are different places that groups of departments are situated but it's the same in Durham.
I would say around half of UK unis are integrated like that. Bath, Birmingham, Nottingham, Exeter, Lancaster, and Warwick are good examples of campus unis. Most of the London Unis, Manchester, Sheffield, Oxbridge and Durham are good examples of city (integrated) universities. Then there are many which are kind of a cross between the two i.e. a smallish/compact campus in the heart of the city e.g. Liverpool, Birmingham and Queen Mary's.
This means there are many different choices and the uni experience can vary a lot depending on where you go. For example, campus unis like Keele or Warwick that are in the middle of nowhere in the countryside are really picturesque but DEAD. Whereas Bristol, Manchester and London are really lively cities full of students so can be a bit daunting to those who prefer a quiet life.
I think she was referring to staying in more than first year accommodation
Durham and Newcastle College have student accomodation scattered all over Durham and Newcastle cities, not just at campus
My roommate in college for our last three years was asexual and I practice abstinence so we would joke that no matter what other conflicts might arise, at least we knew THAT was never going to be an issue, lol.
A quick note - Sally went to St Johns college, every college at Oxford is different. Accommodation prices and food prices change depending on the age and wealth of the college, and access to kitchens etc changes. You pay upfront for your accommodation and food - at my college I pay for a certain amount of meals a term. Oxford is quite unique in that every college has a different system for halls / who lives in halls beyond 1st year / food.
Evan:*Being a nerd*
Cory: You're such a nerd
Evan:*hurt* I thought I was among friends-!
If we had any questions on our subject the lecturers would tell us to meet them in the pub on thursday night. You'd ask your question, have a beer, talk for a while then leave.
One of the history professors who was maybe mid 30's, would go clubbing/house parties with us 😅 he beat my flat mate in a tequila shot competition.... good times 😊
that's craaaaazy
No one:
Literally no one:
British students: just having a pint with me ol' lecturer yknow cuz I wanna know the answer to that question
Charlene Raymond does this actually happen?
@@laura-sandy1492 I'm sure if you ask most uni students in the UK they have a similar story 😅 I had a friend who was sleeping with a lecturer but no one cared because he taught a different subject than what we took. We're adults from the age of 18 so it's a very "do whatever you want" kinda attitude
Charlene Raymond OH wow, I mean I’ve heard of such things happening but I thought they were pretty hush-hush, like kept secret from other people LOL
You need Sally on more just so I can hear about her Oxford experience. Also find someone who went to Cambridge, lol.
I cannot relate to any of these accommodation stories. I went to school in Kent (UK) and I had an en-suite room with a shared kitchen and no wardens/porters patrolling halls regularly
Miss Bakare Same with me in Newcastle
Basically same in South Wales
Do you only stay there first year?
The uni where I'm going (UK), most of the 1st year rooms have 1 bathroom between 2 people, and a shared kitchen area. The cleaners only do the kitchen and I think the bathrooms too.
This sounds like Northampton
In America I shared two toilets and three showers with about 25 other people! You got used to showering at odd hours to beat the rush. I was a 2pm or 2am nothing in between kinda girl.
Paigey-poo how often were your toilets cleaned and was there like a cleaning routine or something?
@@paigey-poo4235 wtf that sounds like the situation in prisons
@@paigey-poo4235 Older dorms in the US tend to be like Evan or you describe, and newer or upper class ones the suite arrangement. There might just be a bathroom between two rooms and no kitchen, or four rooms with a common room, etc.
This is so cool to see especially as someone who is going to University in september to study Forensic Science.
:D Glad you liked it!
Got I love forensic sciene
Arnie Sofa hope you learn how to spell science.
@@letitiakearney2423 my comment was literally taking the piss out of the bad spelling from the original comment
@@arniethesofa cheers for pointing it out. I type too fast and never check before sending it
Cambridge is basically identical to Oxford with this, except we call the terms Michelmas, Lent and Easter. I think Oxford's Trinity is a specific reference to Trinity Sunday which falls inside of it.
The Cambridge porters also seem to be a lot more friendly than Oxford ones... I made friends with quite a few of mine and they never reported me for anything
Also Oxford's 2nd term being Hilary could be because St. Hilary's day (Feast day of St. Hilary of Poitiers) is on January 14th, which I'd guess falls at the beginning of term 2 for them. It's really cool to hear about these different experiences even within the same country, though ^^
Oxfordian here-I went to Hertford! I lived in the old quad in my last year and the views were amazing! It is super bizarre though-we call it the Oxford bubble and when you leave it you need to readjust to the normal world. It’s entirely it’s own thing. And we definitely got drunk with the professors-literally on my first day of freshers week we had drinks with our tutors and then went straight to formal hall and dined with the principal (our group was the unfortunate group that was seated at top table) and they kept on topping up our glasses because it was formal hall 😬
Oh my gosh yes! Can we have a series comparing these different uni aspects? :))))
I'm on it!
Both with u on this
@@evan Really needs to include Oxbridge, red brick and ex-Polys. All different!
Evan Edinger yeah!!
yes yes yes🤩
Oxford is so fancy...
It's Hogwarts
Alistair Bolden that was a joke... right over your head lmao
@Alistair Bolden oxford over cambridge 1000%, way better
@Alistair Bolden lmao as if people at Cambridge don't work hard. If anything the stereotype is that Cambridge makes you work harder whereas Oxford is where posh people live fairytale lifestyles with a job secured from daddy's connections.
Jason yess
"I'm actually, about the right temperature" - never change Sally, you do this nation proud
fellow UCL student here! (: okay so london student accommodation is so expensive. so if you want your own bathroom at UCL you're paying like £220 odd a week. i sort of found a middle ground w my accommodation for first year. i lived in intercollegiate halls where people from all london unis can live together. mine was predominantly catered but there was a separate building next to it where self-catered people lived. we lived on floors of 16 people (which is unusual for UK unis) and we shared one massive kitchen and a block of 10 showers to share. then, most people move out and get houses or flats together which i am v excited to do soon.
Eeekk love these type of videos!!
:D
I go to uni in Wales and its like different to all 3 of you 😂 We have ensuite rooms each then you share a kitchen with 5-7 people who live in your corridor. Also there's no option like at all to share a bedroom with someone else and I think that's the case for the vast majority of UK unis
That's becoming the norm in most UK unis I think. Used to have shared bathrooms everywhere but they can charge more for ensuite so lots of unis are changing to that.
This is exactly what I want for accommodation if I go to Uni.
Wales as well, University of South Wales (Trefforest campus) to be exact. All the accomodation low cost and high cost is ensuite shower and toilet with a room all to yourself. Has a bed and desk and sizes vary with cost. Shared kitchen that you keep clean but corridors and stairwells are cleaned by accomodation services which provide 24/7 support. There is also 24/7 security support on site as well.
Cardiff Uni had shared toilets and ensuite rooms, it just depended on how much you were willing to spend.
I went to Aberystwyth and whilst most rooms were single, you did get the odd double room in Cwrt Mawr. My boyfriend and I applied for one of these rooms in our third year as was cheaper than getting two singles. The staff doing the first room inspection were a wee bit surprised we were a male and female sharing and asked if one of us wanted to be moved, lol.
My experience with American universities is very similar to what Evan is saying. The main difference for us is that we had 3 options as a freshman. We either got a roommate in the same room and a 2 suite mates who we shared a bathroom with that was connected to both rooms, a roommate and had to use the shared restrooms, or went to the "university college" housing or something like that that was the expensive nice rooms where you got your own room, had your own bathroom and everything.
I just finished my first year in Nottingham. I lived in privately owned halls endorsed by the uni, my room was ensuite with a 3/4 double bed and a kitchen shared between 6 of us. It was self catered - so no meals provided.
I'm starting at Nottingham this year! At Sutton bonnington though
@@jade728 Oh cool, I haven't actually been there. That's the vet school right?
Was it Raleigh Park? That's where I was!
@@kalavarahs Nah I was just round the corner on the other side of the jubilee campus at riverside point
@@kalavarahs what course are you on? and I hope you had a good year
I’m an American studying internationally at Oxford for the year, so this is interesting 😂 Can’t wait to see the differences in person
Went to Royal Holloway, tons of accommodations, you are guaranteed first year only in halls unless you are international, but nobody wants to stay in accommodations cause freshers are loud toddlers. Depending on how new/awesome the halls are they are more expensive.
Some halls were catered others were not but had a kitchen.
At my college in Alabama, everyone had a suite with 4 single bedrooms and a communal kitchenette without a stove. In the dorm, we had a full kitchen that anyone could use. Every bedroom was a personal room, and we could drink in them if we were 21. If someone in the suite was under 21, we had to keep our alcohol in personal rooms and out of communal areas, but if everyone was legal, we could drink anywhere.
"So you actually liked your professors, you got to drink with them"
This is so sad. I mean if you're at university you're choosing to be there. You get to know your lecturers as people, and the ones you gel best with you become friends with. Some of my best memories from uni were pub conversations with lecturers. I mean sure there will be a couple whose teaching styles you don't get on with but it's not at all an adversarial relationship, you might just think they're a bit useless. Do people in America still treat it like it's school?
Yes it’s basically just High School Part 2
I wasn’t paying attention at the start and I just heard “where did you go to university SALLY!” and I shat myself so thanks Evan
Oxford sound like a dream, at my American school, freshmen and sophomores don’t get air conditioning, and a lot of the dorms have 3 or four people in them. There is one kitchen in the basement of the building, shared with over 100 people. There are two showers, three toilets for about 23 people.
For the fraternity/sorority one try to get someone who was involved in Greek life because the outside and inside prospectives are completely different.
Scottish Accommodation: Choice of Catered or Non Catered, with a shared kitchen between 6 people. Choice of ensuite rooms or shared bathrooms, and choice of double or single beds. Flats are usually shared between 5-7 people.
Lol posh Scottish
I never got a choice. My accommodation was 3-8 students per flat. Each room has an en suite with a shower. Each flat had a kitchen-living room. We had no cleaners or food made for us. There was a bar downstairs and a common room.
@@kk-ei5zz what uni were you in?
@@lucy1224 Edinburgh Napier
Can I just say this is more review of Oxford than comparison of universities
Honestly the thing about university lecturers drinking with you is so real. I used to attend those events for free food and wine a lot. I met a girl that went on a big group holiday with my lecturer and she said she’d never partied harder as she did with him
I think the craziest thing at my dorm on what you're allowed and not allowed to have was that you can only have one surge protector per room, but none of the RAs really cared about it. It's just the fact that they think that two students could live on only one surge protector that's crazy to me.
Buy a biiiiiiiig one
My secondary school has Micahelmas, Lent and Trinity
so did Noah's!
So does mine hahahahaha, I thought I was the only one...
same!!
There are double rooms in oxford! I was in one last year. You get given a large living room with 2 sofas, a dining table and two desks. The bedrooms were very smell rooms connected. It really depends the college.
In my first year of Uni I paid about... £4500 for the year. I shared a kitchen with 6 other people, had an ensuite bathroom, a small double bed and had a clearer once a week for the kitchen and once every 2 weeks for my room and bathroom. It's more expensive now but I'm very grateful for it haha
having an ensuite is a dream
@@evan They're not uncommon in the UK but are often little pods in the corner of a room. I was lucky in that mine was an actual room. You pay more for it but it was so worth it
I'm a master student at Uppsala university in Sweden and this was very interesting to listen to. You describe such a WILDLY different university culture from ours.
Oh Evan, I was taken to the pub for free by my lecturer after a field trip... The US is missing out.
I went to a small private college in NC in the late 90s. We had separate freshman girls and freshman boys dorm. The freshman girls dorm had a full kitchen in the lounge area by the laundry area. Anyone could use it at any time. I had a meal plan that I got 3 meals a day and we got a card with x amount on it to use in a little shop with snacks and some hot foods. My roommate and I had a mini fridge and a microwave that I used for a lot.
I’m currently looking at unis bc I’m applying in September and some unis have twin rooms that are cheaper where you share with someone else but majority don’t share rooms. Most places just have a single rooms
University of South Wales (Trefforest campus). All the accomodation low cost and high cost is ensuite shower and toilet with a room all to yourself. Has a bed and desk and sizes vary with cost. Shared kitchen that you keep clean but corridors and stairwells are cleaned by accomodation services which provide 24/7 support. There is also 24/7 security support on site as well.
In the US its very uncommon to have a single room. Evan described it fairly well. I am also from NJ and know many people who went to Rowan.Also I know of other American universities would rent out hotels and have students stay there if they didn't have enough housing. In the university I went to in the UK I had a small room with my own bathroom which was nice. Your room was cleaned, bed sheets were changed once a week. You shared a large kitchen with 6 other people
Evans face when they're talking about drinking with lecturers and parties at university! 😂😂😂
So accommodation....
I went to university near Liverpool my room on campus was £97 a week with an en-suite wet room (shower, toilet and sink) with a single bed desk and built in wardrobe with a shared kitchen/dining room between 8 people. My friend went cheaper so for like £70 a week he had his own bedroom with shared bathroom facilities and shared kitchen (no dining facilities) between about 10 people. I am pretty certain that there were no shared rooms & we were not allowed to have people stay over (not that it stopped us). We had a cleaner that cleaned the communal facilities - wiped the sides vacuumed the floors but we did have a vacuum to use and in both accommodations our bedroom doors locked and in my accommodation we had a lockable food cupboard...
After freshers year you had to find your own accommodation which is a house share but the prices were expensive so I paid £120 a week for a bedroom with lockable door but shared bathroom & kitchen between 4 - this was really scary because it was like a legit legally binding contract with guarantors (usually parents) SCARY STUFF for a 19 year old 😂
In both of these we were not allowed any open flames 😂
It’s funny how shocked Evan was about drinking with the teachers. I’ve just left 6th form, I was the head girl, and at our prefect leavers’ dinner - we drank with the teachers 😂😂. On the last day of school, we went to the pub and drank with the teachers.
As a student I lived in three halls at the same University, and each had different standards, traditions, facilities, etc. So good luck trying to compare with a sample of just three Universities.
It would be cool to see something like this with a non campus london uni coz they can work very differently. There wasnt any specific halls for my uni, london just has general student accommodation which costs like £1000 a month
Hearing Evan say "my friend Jack" made me so happy ❤️
Ok I like this girl from oxford, we have the same terms in trinity college in Ireland although I thought we called the last term after our selves 😂
To be fair trinity is kind of the Irish equivalent to oxford/cambridge. At least that is the impression I have gotten from people who went there and other Irish friends.
There’s a big historical connection between Trinity and Oxbridge, so much so that at Oxford, when you matriculate (begin your degree in first year), Cambridge and Trinity graduates are the only ones besides Oxford graduates taking another degree who don’t have to matriculate again. It’s considered more of a transfer than starting afresh IIRC
Henry VIII founded Trinity College Cambridge. His daughter Elizabeth wanted a college like her dad, so she founded Trinity College Dublin. Or something like that. I did a tour of Trinity College in 2013 so this memory might not be accurate!
My uni didn't have shared rooms as far as I know. Everyone got their own. Our wardens were students, kind of like a scout. They'd check people are following rules, but the closest they did to wondering about at night is when there's a fire drill schedueled. they were the only ones who would know.
Mine was similar, I went to university in portsmouth, halls was only for first year, it was just your own rooms with en suite bathrooms and a communal kitchen. In the building there would be a common room, but you were pretty much left to your own devices. Sharing a room sounds like the worst thing ever!
Nicholas yup
Currently at Nottingham, stayed in en-suite catered room for first year, and again in second year (sadly), now moving in with friends for third year. Cool to learn about how Oxford works, its so much different here
I just graduated from a public university in the US and I definitely attended school sanctioned (non-Greek) events where we drank with professors. You just had to be 21
Other UK universities also have colleges, not just Oxford, Cambridge and Durham. We had a bar in each college at York, which hosted its own club nights etc and each college had 24/7 porters who would help in the same way Sally described. Alcohol was huge on campus, and the SU even offered a deal where you could pay approx £90 per year for a card that would give you free entry to up to 5 night clubs per week. I shared a 'house' on campus with 15 other people in first year, which was a bit of a struggle to manage in the kitchen but I totally lucked out because I had a bath in my ensuite. Most people moved off campus during subsequent years, but you could stay in accommodation if you wanted to. I also think generally it's a little different depending on whether your university is city or campus based.
Duo is always watching.
I love hearing about other experiences from around the world (and by that I mean in America because I'm from the uk)
Halls of residence at Aberdeen had porters, and each floor in catered halls (had 41 rooms) had a cleaner who hoovered rooms, cleaned sinks, showers and toilets Monday-Friday. We loved our cleaner, Pat and got her a Christmas present and a goodbye gift. We weren't allowed any toasters or kettles in our rooms, but I used to hide my kettle, toaster and toastie machine in the wardrobe.
took me 5 minutes and 32 seconds to notice that the face paint wasn’t a normal thing
3:56 my secondary school has named the terms too, but its something else for the 2nd term
Nushi _ our second term is called lent
Ours are called, autumn, spring and summer
@@peachy8390 just curious, where did winter go? 😂
Nushi _ autumn holiday -> winter break !
@@peachy8390 ahhh, thats cool!
pretty much the same in Cambridge as Oxford, except a few names of things; Lent term instead of Hilary, and Easter instead of Trinity. Also we have supervisions where they have tutorials (and supervisors instead of tutors).
I always wondered what they call the person we call our tutor. Like how we have supervisors (and director of studies) for academic support and tutors for non-academic support. Do they also have a person for non-academic support? And if so what do they call them?
I went to London university. My accomodation inc. a single room, with a 3/4 bed ensuite. Sharing kitchen with 4 other people. You have a key and everything is locked. it is essentially a flat. There is also an option of a studio flat which is larger and you have your own kitchenette. This is a normal standard across London accomodation. Oxford and Cambridge is different. Some universities across the UK have shared bathrooms but all flats generally have keys because of privacy and protection of your belongings. You can share rooms with your friend. They are cheaper. You get two 3/4 beds or a bunkbed and own kitchenette. OR you sure can share with a stranger. It is essentially sharing a larger studio flat. I am also an RA and I do a similar job to Evan. I take care of students and help them settle in. Help to keep peace and comfortable life in halls.
Evan’s mind being blown that drinking in the UK is so open. 😂 That’s because their drinking age is 18 and ours is 21. Big difference!
Some of the rooms at St John's were big enough for a pretty big party (my 3rd year room would have got about 20 people in it I reckon, but I am not a party person so I had at most about 3!).
We also went to our tutors' houses for dinner parties (with wine, naturally).
I have a friend who took her hamster to university and whenever there was an inspection she would hide the cage in a big Ikea bag and it worked for the whole year!
When touring flats we found one where by smell alone you knew the tenants were keeping pet rabbits even though the flats were all listed as 'no pets allowed'
The landlords really didn't care as long as the flat wasn't completely trashed by the time you left.
My sisters hall was an 8 room flats kind of thing, with a communal kitchen/living room.with all rooms ensuite ( small shower, sink , toilet )in all rooms. I'm only mid teens but I just assumed that's how all of them worked.
"Whacking the backing." - Evan 2019. I'm taking this one.
*Exeter (UK, 2003-7)* - in either catered or self-catering for the first year, then into the private market (with friends). My self-catered 'hall' was three buildings, maybe 300 students, and there was a central building with a canteen (set up for formal hall in suits/dresses at the start/end of each term), a bar, and a TV lounge.
The halls were co-ed/mixed, apart from the ground floor of each building, which was all-male. Each floor of the residential buildings had 2 shared bath[tub] rooms, 4 shared toilet stalls, and 2 shower stalls. There was a cleaner, but mostly just to empty the bins. We had a vacuum cleaner per floor (10 rooms) we could use, but the rooms had tiled floors (bring a a rug) and were maybe 10 sq. metre so if you wanted to clean it took about 30 seconds.
Because it was catered (14 meals/week plus vouchers for lunch on campus), the shared kitchen basically had a sink, a toaster, ironing board, and a microwave - bring your own plates, cutlery and iron. Laundry room with 4 washing machines and 4 tumble dryers per building (70 students). I was in there the last year before it was demolished to make way for a new catered hall to be built.
Exeter (and ex-Exeter) peeps - guess my hall!
“I got free accommodation in exchange for being a narc” 😂😂
It’s the deal
In Czech republic we don't have university accommodations. If your uni is not in your hometown, you have to rent an apartment or a room. Few of my secondary school (years 10 to 13) went to the same uni and agreed to rent an apartment together.
This video was too short, I want more!
I'm from UK but in my second year I did an American exchange so I stayed in student halls with mostly, but not completely, freshmen. It was 4 floors, 2 male and 2 female (weird!). Each floor had 4 wings and each wing had about 12 rooms (2/3 a room) and only 1 bathroom per floor with lots of shower cubicles and very little privacy! The best bit was the all you can eat breakfasts at the student union - I still miss it! The one thing I would say is that there was always a variety of fun stuff happening on campus as you couldn't drink. I remember one of the first events was a big tie dye festival where everyone took stuff to tie dye haha it was so random!
Ok so this is just what I know from going to summer camps and things and talking to my counselors. I go to summer camp at University of North Carolina at Greensboro or UNCG and I stayed in the Grogan building (They have 5 building and I think they said that Cone is the worst and Mary Faust is the best and Reynolds, Grogan and the other one are in the middle) each building has 8 floors (and that if your on any of the floors below the 5th floor you can’t take the elevator down with out reason because if so you’ll probably break it. I was not the 3rd floor and honestly the people making the biggest deal out of that were the people on the top floor saying that we were unlucky and stuff but I digress) and a basement each floor has two hallways and a bathroom on each hallway. There are no kitchens on any of the floors (on Grogan idk about the other ones) and they have laundry and vending in the basement. Every room is shared unless you just get lucky.
But I also went to a summer camp at Wolfpack and those were so different
You had three hallways a living room connecting those hallways and you shared a bathroom with one of the rooms next to you and again you share a room unless your lucky. But there are more floors (I think 12 I just know that I was on the 9th floor)
I went to a Uni close to London. I lived in a studentflat which had about 8 private rooms, 2 shared bathrooms and a common room with a shared kitchen. We always had parties in there and were asked to be quite a couple times by the SR's (students on duty to make sure nothing happends in the halls). And we also went out on some pub crawls including lecturers who are drunk way to fast haha. Those times were great! I really miss it
As a current Oxford student, this is SO entertaining to watch. We're all crazy here. None of it makes sense.
I've been to Hertford college in Oxford. When you enter the city it's like entering another world.
It blew my mind when I first learnt Americans have to share a room at uni. I thought that was just a thing made up for movies
wHAT like,,,, just made up for movies???
@@renf9191 That what I thought because the whole idea of it just sounds so odd. But apparently its true, they really do share rooms.
Code: Marla its so cool to hear how other countries view our college life cuz like,,, sharing a room with a complete stranger in college has always been a given
what? i live in america and i don't think i know of a university or college that have dorms for only one person, it's always with at the very least one roommate
Yeah. Nobody here in the Netherlands does share a room. Unless you have a relationship of course.
From what I know, my uni (UWTSD Lampeter) - which I'll start at in September - operates as a sort of hybrid between the Oxbridge model and the standard of UCL. We do not have colleges, but - as we are a small uni - all the students sometimes eat together in the refectory, paying similar prices to the ones mentioned by Sally. Most of the time we eat in our halls - where 4-8 students live, with separate rooms and bathrooms, and a shared kitchen/living room - either cooking for ourselves, or catered for. There are three blocks of halls, the cheapest - which is 8 students sharing a bathroom - being £2600 a year -, the middle being en-suites with around 6 students, and on the outskirts of the campus - costing £3200 a year-, and the most expensive being en-suites with around 4 students, and more central on the campus - costing £3300 a year. You can also pay extra for a year's membership to the on campus gym.
We do have wardens and scouts, the wardens are older students who offer pastoral support, the scouts, who are mostly older women and employed by the uni, the clean the shared areas, and - well - scout. Often the students have a good relationship with the scouts, who have an unofficial role as semi-maternal carers.We also have a security team, who a necessary as the campus is open to the public, and in the middle of the town - although the town is rather rural, and not particular threatening.
The Mediocre Collector hows it going
And at Oxbridge the reception to your college isn’t called reception it’s called Porters’ lodge
Another episode of this same thing would be amazing!! I’m currently applying to colleges so this kind of talk is incredibly useful!
This is the most unrealistic representation of uk accommodation ever😂😂
I live in Oxford (I grew up there at uni in Worcester) the only reason my dad can afford where we live is because he brought the house 20 years ago and the housing market has risen so much since then. We live in a village like 15 minutes from the city centre so it’s super expensive (it’s also one of the largest villages in Europe)
Amazing how comparatively strict yours was Evan, mine (UK) most we’d get was a notice couple times a year around exam times to be quiet after 9 😂 (although same on open fire stuff that’s just basic health and safety)