10 things you’ll only understand if you’re in Clive Booth

As a first year, moving out of your clean family home and into university halls with a load of complete strangers is a big step. We’re always told how important it is to make sure that when you decide on somewhere to live you consider all possible scenarios.

Unfortunately, I ended up with my last choice, Clive Booth.

Despite being the only one not to have taken a ‘gap yah’ it’s going pretty well and I wouldn’t change it (even for Dorest House), so here’s a few things that you’ll only understand if you’ve ever lived in Clive Booth:

1. The hall office silent study area (it may come as shock to most people that we have our own library) is definitely not located in the right place. Surely having the 10 noisiest washing machines and tumble dryers in the opposite room is a slight distraction?

2. Talking of washing…M Block’s delightful haven (cupboard) of 2 washers and 2 dryers should never, ever be entered unless you’re looking to get rid of £2.20 and end up sorting through everyone else’s abandoned clothes.

3. Other than the washer/dryer ‘situation,’ leaves will become the bane of your life. They’re possibly even more annoying than club promoter flyers.

4. Despite his (or hers, we’re not quite sure) little name tag and collar and no matter what anybody says: be it owners, the RSPCA or hall office wardens, the black and white cat that wonders the pathways is ours, and his name is Clive.

5. Claiming things that aren’t yours seems to be a popular activity. Anyone seen that sign that covered the mound?

6. Something that would just never ever happen in Cheney, right? We’re constantly reminded that we will never be as good as those students. No Rolex, no invite to Thursdays at Camera.

7. Fire alarms going off every day. Every night. Caused by forgotten jacket potatoes, smoking in kitchens and drunken idiots leaning on the alarms.

8. Those two interconnected flats that host the best pre-drinks. Always carnage.

We wonder if he ditched the rest of his clothes as well?

 9. Good old ‘rapey’ alley. It’s one of the first things you’re told to avoid when you arrive on your first day.

10. The over attentive wardens. It’s great that they take their job so seriously but does it really matter if there are 12 people in our kitchen rather than the ‘maximum’ of 10?

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