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  • 08-09-2008 8:48pm
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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭


    basically im living in bellgrove and hate it and im in a twin room. i really need new accomodation but there dosnt seem to be any anywhere. any ideas???


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    radgirl19 wrote: »
    basically im living in bellgrove and hate it and im in a twin room. i really need new accomodation but there dosnt seem to be any anywhere. any ideas???

    Yeah I know. I am living next across from girls that have to share a room.I don't think it's fair.You paid the same price and deserve a bit of privacy but I really dont think there is much you can do:(


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    random chatbox wrote: »
    Yeah I know. I am living next across from girls that have to share a room.I don't think it's fair.You paid the same price and deserve a bit of privacy but I really dont think there is much you can do:(
    i thought twin rooms were cheaper
    i guess i was just lucky i got a single room
    quiet here tonight in belgrove

    your best option might to look off campus and most on campus are full up


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    cHaTbOx
    Registered Users Posts: 8,011 ✭✭✭cHaTbOx


    shanegj wrote: »
    i thought twin rooms were cheaper
    i guess i was just lucky i got a single room
    quiet here tonight in belgrove

    your best option might to look off campus and most on campus are full up


    Lol not around where I am .go to the square with the 30's:D


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    random chatbox wrote: »
    Lol not around where I am .go to the square with the 30's:D
    oh lol i'm up at belgroves forgotten square so its always quiet


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    my flat was very noisy untill a while ago, when some guy came up and told everyone who wasnt living here that they had 5 mins to leave :eek:


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    a load of people have just left the house beside mine, i think a party may just have been stopped


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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    i really dont like belgrove!!. im here to get a degree yet everyone else seems to be here to drink!!! im fair depressed tonight im dreading the next 4 yrs here!!! every1 seems to have come with friends and dosnt want to make new ones!! i dont know anyone here and im really lonely :(:(:(:(


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    radgirl19 wrote: »
    i really dont like belgrove!!. im here to get a degree yet everyone else seems to be here to drink!!! im fair depressed tonight im dreading the next 4 yrs here!!! every1 seems to have come with friends and dosnt want to make new ones!! i dont know anyone here and im really lonely :(:(:(:(
    its kind of the same for me as i know nobody up here both flat mates gone out drinking and i personaly don't drink


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    dont worry, youll get to know people, its only been a few days. I dont know anybody either, loads of people dont and most, whether they know people or not, are very eager to make new friends.

    Edit: I do drink but im very lazy tonight :)


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    Aard
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    I know what you mean about everybody seeming to want to get pissed. Heck, the first speech that was given to us was from a hung-over Arts Soc member basically glamourising getting wasted. I was like *face-palm*.


    Why don't you go along to the boards meet-up at The Egg tomorrow at 1? I'm sure you'll meet some like-minded people.


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    Geo08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Geo08


    Boardsie house for you lot in yr 2 :pac:
    Aard wrote: »
    the first speech that was given to us was from a hung-over Arts Soc member basically glamourising getting wasted.

    I wish i could be shocked about this lol


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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    i drank till i got here but watching every1 around here made me stop! ud swear they were usually locked up at home and had no freedom!! my flat mates are all gone off with there mates from school. so im just here on my laptop and will head off soon to sleep only to be woken up in my twin room when my roommate comes back with a guy into our room like the past 2 nights she has slept here :mad::mad:


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    radgirl19 wrote: »
    only to be woken up in my twin room when my roommate comes back with a guy into our room like the past 2 nights she has slept here :mad::mad:

    thats awful, id go crazy if i had to deal with that


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    Aard
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    radgirl19 wrote: »
    my roommate comes back with a guy into our room
    That's totally not on. Have a word with her about it. Or I'm sure there's some authority you can complain to; maybe they'll end up giving you a single room.


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    Having people sleep over isn't allowed you could tell them at reception or what ever its called


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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    i complained and the woman at reception accused me of imagining it!! and then i asked for a single room and they were like tough look!! ull have to look off campus.......ive rang lots of places and i cant get accomodation anywhere!! and its gonna be extra hard makin friends off campus............


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    Geo08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Geo08


    Aard wrote: »
    That's totally not on. Have a word with her about it. Or I'm sure there's some authority you can complain to; maybe they'll end up giving you a single room.

    +1

    Not on at all & might actually be a good way to get a single. Do come meet with us all 2mor if you can, I for one (& I saw a lot of these groups today) dont have any friends from school to hang off as *ahem* im a tad older & all my mates are responsible & in work :p

    then we can all go get sh!tfaced & come back to yours & wake her up :D

    ps im not on campus!


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    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    Aard wrote: »
    That's totally not on. Have a word with her about it. Or I'm sure there's some authority you can complain to; maybe they'll end up giving you a single room.

    definitely do that, you've nothing to lose except an arsehole of a room mate


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    you could try asking your mentor if you got one or try student union for help


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    Geo08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Geo08


    Or programme officer? not sure how much they would help, but if you said it was affecting your ability to study?

    Just out of interest, what are you studying & what are your (drunken) flatmates doing?


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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    is anyone else sick of random people ringing there doorbells??? its so annoying!!!!!!!!


    but re the room mate thing i said it to her this morning and was like sorry but i couldnt get him to go home!! but there is no chance of a single room but i think i will email the su about off campus cos i cant stick this crap!!


    ps where is every1 from??


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    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    radgirl19 wrote: »
    is anyone else sick of random people ringing there doorbells??? its so annoying!!!!!!!!


    but re the room mate thing i said it to her this morning and was like sorry but i couldnt get him to go home!! but there is no chance of a single room but i think i will email the su about off campus cos i cant stick this crap!!


    ps where is every1 from??
    I don't have people ringing the bell but i'm on the ground floor so everybody who walks past always looks in

    to anwser your last Q i'm from Waterford


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    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    OP, everything is negotiable. There HAS to be a code of conduct for the on-campus accomodation, otherwise they'd be getting sued left, right and centre. If you tell the woman on reception, or whoever is in charge, that you would like to know how to make an OFFICIAL COMPLAINT then you will be taken a lot more seriously. If you were given any info on what is expected of you as a tennant, then use this as back up. From the sounds of it, the woman on reception couldn't be arsed doing her job properly; again, this is not on - ask to talk with somebody her superior and that might get her moving.


    EDIT: I'm from Dublin.


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    #25
    Raemie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Raemie


    I'm from limerick, which is where all my friends are... #i'm all alone, theres no one here beside me...


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    #26
    Geo08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Geo08


    Technically im from london, but been living in dublin down by dun laoghaire last 6 years.


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    OpenYourEyes
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    A bit of fibre glass in her bed when shes not looking, and that should stop her using her bed at all!:D


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    #28
    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    im from cork which now seems so far away!:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(


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    #29
    shanegj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭shanegj


    radgirl19 wrote: »
    im from cork which now seems so far away!:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
    I feel the same but i'm not as far as you
    but its only a bus ride away
    Do you go home for weekends


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    #30
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Just make sure you visit home often. Trust me, there's no feeling worse than homesickness.


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    radgirl19
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭radgirl19


    ya im gonna go home everyweekend for a while. the aircoach is only 20 euro. i just hope i settle in! i suppose today was the real first day so i maybe things wiil improve over the week...... thanks for replying to my thread though having someone to talk to on this made me feel better.


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