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Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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Originally Posted by snj90
Do you have meal plans at universities there? You don't need to cook if you're a student living on campus in the US. You get a meal plan (actually, most of the time you have to get one if you're living on campus), and you can eat in the dining halls.
What's a meal plan? There are some universities in the UK that offer catered accommodation for first year living on campus, but probably 95% of students in the UK don't get that and cook their own meals. I think it's silly that students don't cook for themselves.. after all they have to learn at some point!
There are cafes, coffee shops, a food outlet on my campus and our union bar sells hot sandwiches etc though, so I guess you could live off that if you wanted.. but it would get very expensive and repetitive.
Yeah, that's a definite difference. I guess you actually must have somewhere to cook? Dorm rooms on campus in the US don't have that. With the meal plan, you get a certain number of meals per semester, a meal being an entry into the dining hall. Usually it's all-you-can-eat.
Location: Northern Ireland and temporarily England
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Originally Posted by snj90
Yeah, that's a definite difference. I guess you actually must have somewhere to cook? Dorm rooms on campus in the US don't have that. With the meal plan, you get a certain number of meals per semester, a meal being an entry into the dining hall. Usually it's all-you-can-eat.
Yes they have shared kitchens. I will have my own kitchen though.
Yeah, that's a definite difference. I guess you actually must have somewhere to cook? Dorm rooms on campus in the US don't have that. With the meal plan, you get a certain number of meals per semester, a meal being an entry into the dining hall. Usually it's all-you-can-eat.
Yeah, my accommodation was a block of 58 flats, each with about 10 people per block.. and we had our own kitchen in our block with fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, kettle etc. All you can eat sounds good, but I loved first year and being able to cook when I wanted
Yeah, my accommodation was a block of 58 flats, each with about 10 people per block.. and we had our own kitchen in our block with fridge, freezer, oven, microwave, kettle etc. All you can eat sounds good, but I loved first year and being able to cook when I wanted
I always found the dining halls pretty convenient. At one point, I was seriously considering doing a study abroad program in the UK, and I do remember from my research both the fact that I'd be able to get a single room and that the meal situation was a lot different. Still kind of regret not doing study abroad.
A friend I've known for almost a decade (mostly on the internet, though I did see him once in real life) from Illinois did study abroad in Ireland and met his boyfriend (now husband) over there.
The prospect of finding a cute English boyfriend while on study abroad was kind of in my mind, lol.
I should sign up part time for bikini waxing girls. Perhaps a fun weekend job .
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