Depends where you go, I imagine if you look at your uni bumph you should find out.

Yes, I've had a browse through the prospectuses (prospecti? ) of the universities that I am interested in, but it doesn't say anything, so I was just checking it wouldn't be a nasty surprise.

Bangor is fine dear

I was also thinking of my application to hull... and keele...

Never mind them!

rofl

Wow, being a word nut must be infectious Prospectus is a Latin word meaning 'distant view'. However, this is where it gets tricky, though - it's a fourth declension, masculine noun so its plural is not prospecti - its plural is written the same but with a long 'u' at the end: prospectūs, being pronounced 'prospectoose' (with the oose being like moose). These plurals never made it to English, so the English plural isn't fancy - it's just prospectuses, not prospecti.

But I digress. As has been commented, the shared room policy really does depend on the university. At my college in Durham one had to share a room in college for one term in the first year unless one could wangle one's way out of it (me, do that? ) or was an overseas student. This meant that some freshers were randomly allocated shared rooms in the first term with someone of the same sex they'd never met before. Other colleges didn't have this shared room requirement though as they had the foresight not to build too many double rooms

Mmmmm...how about the Lex Canuleia?

"Miss Plebs asks Mr. Patrician to marry her. Mr. Patrician claims that he can't. Miss Plebs replies "Oh yes you can, you liar!"

LOL

I had to look that up in Wikipedia....



Si tu hæc verba legere potes, tibi nimium eruditio est.

OI! come to Hull!

I don't have to share a room!? Or no one's told me I have to! *runs off and checks accomodation form*

I got a form which said what room I'd prefer to have, so I wrote small single and then a box later on saying anything that I can't tolerate, so I wrote sharing a room! You get some choice, although maybe coz I refused to share a room, I didn't get into my first choice halls, but the one I'm going to has music practise rooms

How about this YAP - Ego sum coquus. Salvius est in atium.
Thats about all i can remember from my latin days. Oh and Caecilius was a prominent character too!

I was a little bit nervous when I first started uni and moved to London but to be honest, I had had enough of living at home and wanted my own space. Hardly anyone knew eachother so we were all in the same boat which was good!
Good luck!

Wow - Cæcilius. You must have done the Cambridge Latin Course too.

I think it translates as 'I am a cook. Salvius is in the hallway.'

I think the very first Latin phrase we did was Metalla sedat ad horto, shortly before conjugating portare. I had to stop shortly after the attempt to poison King Cogidubnus in Aquæ Sulis by giving him a drink from a poisoned chalice - only two people wanted to carry on doing Latin in school .

The Latin book I started with at Grammar school had the following sentences in the first exercise:

Britannia est patria.

Alexandra est regina.

Not surprising, given the pre-World War 1 date of publication. And before you all think of me as an ageing crone, this was in the late 1960s.

And yet other colleges were knocked together out of a random selection of old houses and thus have everything from shoe-box single rooms to double rooms that could be a small flat!


Wot?