The struggle!

As it comes to the end of my first year at university, apart from the fun I have had and meeting new friends, it is clear that for a student at university it is such a struggle. I am really disgusted how students are treated, and I had my fair share in the first two weeks of my university experience. After waiting weeks and weeks for my letter telling about what room i would be in west downs, i recived a letter one week before i was due to start lectures stating that i would be staying in a hotel for two weeks. Not exactly how i imagined my first few weeks at university. We were told that they did not have enough rooms for all students and therefore 50-60 of us will be re-placed into student accomadation in two weeks time. The two weeks at the hotel were not the most enjoyable, the fact that it was no where near the univeristy was one issue and another that we had to go all the way to the uni to get food. The hotel's food was expensive and therefore many of us could not afford it.

Eventually when the two weeks were up we all got into a van and were taken to a student accomadation. It was not what we expected. We had been placed in an old people's home. No joke. As we arrived there were photographers who were hanging around and thrusting microphones in our faces. For me was quite upsetting and made me incredibly mad, as if it wasn't bad enough we had been through so much but we would not be left alone by reporters. On one occassion I and a friend were followed from our accomadation and down bereweeke road shouting at us. Once they stopped following us, we had to try and find another way back to our accomadation, unfortantly we couldnt so they were stil there waiting for us when we returned.

However as it is coming to the end of term, being at woolverston we have made the place our own. Decorating our rooms and enjoying university life as much as we can. It will be sad when we have to move out as it feels much more like our home now.

Back to the point of student struggle, being through this really mucked up my first month at uni and with making friends at university and feeling apart of any group. The treatment we got from some members of the university was not right and did not help with us fitting in. If it hadn't been for the SU supporting us we would have never gotten the help we needed. Although the university did not get us the help, we got up and went directly to the SU president and asked for help. I am so happy that we went to them, they defiently are a great SU and without them we would have struggled alot more than we did.