Imprisoning students in their accommodation is also a class issue: working class students are confined to smaller rooms, sharing bathrooms and kitchens with far more people than the richer students in plush halls with bigger rooms.
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No, I would *not* have liked to be confined indefinitely to my Tocil room at Warwick with no access to a washing machine, thank you for asking.
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I would have been confined to a twin room with a roommate I really didn't get on with in the best of circumstances
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In the UK?! Where was that? I had no idea any unis here did that, assumed it was only the US! Bloody hell.
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I had this in my first year at Edinburgh... they said it was an unexpected surge in demand, but they'd just shut one of the halls of residence the year before. Was in a larger room in a new building that was supposedly built when it seemed like a royal might go.
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imagine that the A-level results shenanigans will result in accommodation services trying to pack extra students in again...
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Oh man, that’s a really good point, and you can guarantee quite a few will have done that while claiming it’s temporary
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