Eurgh! (Accommodation in general)

Name: Rachelle

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Product:	Accommodation in general
Date:	07/12/00 (58 review reads)
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Advantages: Erm....

Disadvantages: What could go wrong....does.

I have just started in the 1st year at Imperial and am living in halls. Mine are supposed to be some of the good ones at the college, but as the title suggests, I am less than impressed. The rent is not bad compared to others in the area, but that is because I share a room. The amenities are bad in my house, having very tiny kitchens, with one oven per house (each house has about 20-25 people). When I arrived in halls, I was disgusted at the amount of things broken or not working in my house, for example, one of the windows in my room would not close, there was no kettle, the kitchen light didn't work, there was 4 cupboards for 5 people on my floor, the toaster didn't work, my telephone hadn't been installed, and worst of all, when people used the shower above my room, water came through the ceiling and dripped onto my bed. (by the way, this still hasn't been properly fixed, even after complaining about 6 times). I won't even get started on the laundry facilities, (no irons or ironing boards, etc.).

Since I have been at uni. even more things have stopped working, e.g. our loo repeatedly stops flushing and our shower now only sprays cold water, and when I say sprays, I literally mean it sprays EVERYWHERE! It takes ages to get anything fixed, and to be honest, I would rather be living in private accommodation, as there has been nothing but problems since I've been here. All this hardly helped me to settle into college life!

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