In the meantime, here are some common issues you might encounter with flatmates in halls, and how you might tackle them. Hopefully you and your flatmates will become great friends but if things aren’t instantly perfect, don’t despair! Understanding that your flatmates are just flawed humans, and that being the “annoying flatmate” is a fate we can all run from but never truly escape, can make their shortcomings easier to deal with. For most first-year students, it’s their first time living away from home, and becoming a semi-functioning adult can be a steep learning curve for the best of us. Living with other students is almost enough to make you want to escape back to the family home they’re messy, loud, and – when it comes to halls – you often have no choice in who you live with. Water on, room steaming up, one foot in the shower, you see it: an enormous clump of hair in the drain – your day is ruined. ![]() You decide to take a nice, hot shower to wash away your anguish. Alas! Someone has not only used your favourite mug, but has also left it – unwashed – next to the sink. ![]() You throw open the front door, desperate for a cup of tea. ![]() Picture the scene: you’re returning home to your student halls after a long day of blended learning. Dishes piling up in the sink and teabags mysteriously going missing? Writer Iona Macwhirter-Harley tells us how to deal with our housemates being human.
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