The Lawns.. if you got nothing better to do (Halls Of Residence At The University Of Hull)

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Product:	Halls Of Residence At The University Of Hull
Date:	20/09/01 (885 review reads)
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Advantages: sociable, meet people

Disadvantages: late buses, loss of independence, group mentality

Halls of residence. Masses of people.
Before you move in I would recommend you to look through the options you have. I am sure people love the lawns, if you are THAT kind of person.

I moved to the lawns in September last year. Coming straight from another country, that was quite a big change. Suddenly I was surrounded by English people who all would talk very fast, and look astonished when I couldn't pick up all the accents.

Oh, well, getting used to that, it turned out to be quite ok for a while. I had my own room, I didn't have to cook (although the food was not really that nice) and it was sociable.

But there is always a but. The campus was quite far away from the university itself, and buses would rarely be on time. That was the first catch.
The other one was the food. To get dinner at the lawns you had to eat between 5 and 7.. after that a snackbar would be open until 9.
I am a person who likes to be independent. When I suddenly were dependent on unreliable buses taking me home for dinner, and even more unrealiable buses taking me back, I felt very tied to the place.

I like to be organised. I like societies and to meet people in the evening. This turned out to be a bit difficult. Having three different societies on different weekdays in evenings, made it messy to have to go home to eat, then go back and then come home again. Especially when the buses was not on time.
Sure the lawns were sociable enough, but I had mostly of my friends in student houses near the uni, and also the societies in the evening.

Another thing is the group mentality that can develop in groups. Wanting to do my own things were not acceptable in the lawns. If I didn't want to go out on Thursday, it was assumed that I kept myself too good for them, which was not really true.
Some days all my food would be gone. Once half of the coffee machine was gone aswell, and nobody would tell me where. The coff
eemachine that was in the kithcen as an attempt on being friendly and let people drink something else than bad-tasting instant coffee in the mornings if they wanted.
I don't mind sharing. But I do think that if anyone broke my coffee pot by accident they could have told me.

I think that to live in the lawns you shouldn't be different. People seem to follow the crowd a lot. If you are happy with that, then that should be fine.

I don't know. I never felt really welcome in the lawns, but i am sure it is great for people that DON'T want to go to the uni in the evenings, and that do have their friends concentrated there.
I would sit in my room in the evenings, and hear people talking in the room next door. If I went to join them, they would all turn really quiet until I left.
I was told I was not feminine enough when I played network games, and when I didn't want to go shopping.

Personally I didn't like it that much. Probably because of the loss of indpendence it was to have to get home in order to have dinner and etc, and because I found people a bit extreme and very uniformed.

A tip for you who wants to move to the lawns:
Be a bit open minded. Accept differences. All people are not like you. It should be easier both to mingle in and to get accepted.

I am sure some people have fun there. Just give it a thought about what you expect from the place.

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