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[labellementeuse]

AND, I just got my e-mail from Canterbury telling me this:

"Dear Tui Rachel (other midde name and last name, nyah)

Your application form for a place in a Hall of Residence at the University of Canterbury has been entered into the Accommodation database.

Your application number is: 3139

You will receive another email when your Common Confidential Form arrives .

Once we have both forms, your application will be sent across to your first choice Hall for consideration."

*does a little dance* haha, it wasn't too late after all, whee! Still might not get in, though, I suppose...

Comments

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Woowoo! What halls are you applying for? my friend Erin is at College House and she's willing to give you...well information and stuff? ^_^

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

University Hall first, College House second. College House, I'm actually not too keen on... it looks like another year of QMC-style rich boys and girls who want the same private-school environment. Plus chapel is compulsory, and that shouldn't be allowed, frankly. I mean, if it wasn't compulsory, I would probably go, but if it's compulsory I have to maie a stand against it, you know?

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

I know I won't be applying for a year yet, but I like what I've read and heard about CH, it seems more fun and friendly than some of the other houses. Rochester and Rutherford looks okay, too.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well...

no, I was going to be honest here, but honest here would be rude and nasty, so I won't.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Meh, I don't mind.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Okay, well, if you want to spend another year with the same kind of people you spent the last seven years with, stagnating in the same rich white upperclass snobby Brash-voting dole-cutting capitalist atmosphere you've spent the past seven years stagnating in, making the same kind of friends, being the same kind of person, no knowing anything about anyone else, staying in that sheltered environment...

...then go ahead. me, though, I'm not.

(sixth_light, see how you've corrupted me. QMC is still a good school, and I love it there, but I'm finished with it now, i think.)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

You agree with me? You mean we spent two bloody days sniping at each other for no reason?
*pulls hair*

I did tell you I got in to Uni Hall, right? So you should hear back pretty soon if you're in. And Meg is over the moon about Selwyn. Actually, you know what's weird, mai said Chani was going to Orana(?) not Selwyn. What's up with that? I thought that's what Meg was annoyed about, Chani applying.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Nope, ee spent two days sniping at each other because you don't know when to apologise and when not to be rude. just because you're right, doesn't mean you should be stupid. Being right does not mean you can say whatever you wnt. it just means you're right.

No, Meg did, actually, but yeah, congrats. And I got the Selwyn call before you did. ;) And yes, Chani was applying for Orana or arana or however you spell it, and I think she was always intending on doing so, but refused to tell Meg that because Meg wanted to know who was applying where- she just asked, politely- because she thought it might influence where people would put as their first options and so forth.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

When you put it that way I realise that is sometimes what I want to get away from, but really I think my problem with QM is the individual people, not the type of people that they are. Any new people would be good as I've fallen into a rut with (most of) the people I am with.

[decado.livejournal.com]

Go to college house, trust me, I'm so glad I did, and ALL the people I knew who were at Uni Halls would have prefered CH in the end.
Yes, most of the people there are from a wealthy background, but you wont be talking politics anyway, if you're at uni hall, it would make no difference because in my experience Uni Hall is treated as a place to eat and sleep, you don't make many friends there, CH is a community.

Chapel is about 4 times a year, and it's a TRADITION, so get over it.

Look, for your own good you have to go to CH! If you want to really be immersed in the Uni lifestyle and have crazy amounts of fun it's the only way to go, the food is better, the staff is better, there are no stupid 2nd years on power trips inforcing idiotic rules, and the people are great. By the end of two months you will know everyone's name and be friends with 99%.

The traditions are a pain in the ass, eg, wearing stupid bloody academic gowns to dinner some nights, but that's what makes the place special, it has CHARACTER. I put my own personal guarantee that you will be glad you didn't go anywhere else within 1 month, hell, 2 weeks of getting there.

PS If you didn't go to chapel, it wouldn't kick up any sort of stink, but you'd probably get shamblesed. (I'll leave you to find out what that is)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Uhm you're convincing me in the opposite direction, I'm sure you didn't intend to but... :p

Okay, wealthy background, have totally had it with that. And not talking about politics? I always talk about politics. always. Always. So nyah. And, you know, you may be right about the community thing, but in my experience friends are where you look for them- and I don't think I'd find them at College House.

I wouldn't mind the traditions, actually- gowns two nights a week, so what, you should see what I have to wear every freaking day here... ;) I like tradition, I agree, it gives character. But... I've spent seven years immersed in tradition and character and it's been great but I'm over it. And to me, that tradition is symbolic of a lot of other stuff that I would describe as.. let me see. Okay, it's clique-y. Private school-y. If you like that, fine, but in my fairly broad experience of private schools and my slightly less broad but not all that minimal experience of the similar at university, basically what it turns out is clones, very well-presented attractive hard-working intellegent people with neither passion nor conscience- by which I do not mean that they are bad people, they are just people who do not care. I do not want another year in that atmosphere.

And by the way, my prior knowledge of your own political opinions is not helping. ;)

[decado.livejournal.com]

I hope for your sake that you do decide to try CH, look, at the worst you can always switch, a couple of people my year did. (Some people can't handle the way things work)
I think you're over-analysing the situation, it's not a private school, forget what you know about school, people act differently at school. Clique-y? I could look at the photo of the 150 odd people and tell you that I was friends with all but about 10, and believe me, I'm not a natural fit in person!
You go to Uni Halls to live, you go to CH for the atmosphere, the fun and the culture. It's something you can't experience anywhere else and it would be a shame if you missed out.
My two cents anyway.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

I presume you know Erin Kavanagh then?

[decado.livejournal.com]

I went to CH with an Erin, but I don't think that was her last name, she was an American chick. I was there in 2001 by the way. Old bastard that I am.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

Oh I see!!! My friend Erin is 2nd year there now.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, okay, thanks.

I may not even end up at cantabs, so... *shrug* dunno, eh.

[miriamus.livejournal.com]

SHAMBLES!!!!! ^_^ I know much about that....

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Me too. :P

Oh, yeah, I forgot to say about chapel: As I said, if it was voluntary I would go! I just think it being compulsory is utterly dumb.

[decado.livejournal.com]

Why?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Why would I go, or why is it dumb?

Okay, I would go because I'm fairly fond of tradition and also you tend to sing in church and do music-y stuff which is fun.

Why is it dumb? Because, by the time you're at uni, people have had the private school thing or they haven't they've had the compusory thing. It should be a choice by now, because it is no longer true that the majority of people attending will be Christian, or religious at all.

[decado.livejournal.com]

Is so much fun! This one time... Well, she'll find out.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Probably I won't, actually, but I do know a little about it.... :p