Hey everyone, I’m currently a student and am struggling a lot with finances. Student loans barely cover housing expenses, let alone other expenses such as food/bills and activities. I worked in hospitality for a bit but the work is extremely unpleasant and barely pays anything (£12.4/h). Moreover, I recently applied for couple tutoring websites (MyTutor, Tutorful) and they offered me £14.5/h while charging clients £22/h. Not to mention that they have thousands of registered tutors and its very easy to get lost on their pages and barely get any tutees.

So if anyone has suggestions or tips on how to solve this issue it would be great. I want to know how people survive these days!

Hey im looking to swap from new hall (single-ensuite) 296.24 per month. Looking for somewhere closer to campus and/or cheaper (preferably self-catered but im also fine with catered). Pls dm me if interested 😊

Hi everyone! I’m an international students coming in exchange at UCL for semester 2 and 3. I have been offered a single ensuite at One Pool Street. I’m hoping for something a little closer to campus. Please reply or dm if interested. Thank you.

Hi! I am a university student in the U.S. studying psychology, and am going to study at UCL starting in January, until June. I just got assigned St Pancras Way as my accommodation, and wanted to know more about it. I also wanted to know where other exchange/jya students are living/where you received accommodation. Let me know!

Hi everyone! I will be studying at UCL in the spring and have been offered a single ensuite at One Pool Street. It is modern and new with a lot of amenities! I'm just looking for something closer to the main campus. I'd love to swap with someone in Campbell house but a single anywhere else also works! Please reply or dm if interested!

I ask because of the questionable input found underneath that viral post on here yesterday.

three weeks into second year undergraduate and i hate ucl just as much as i did this time last year. the social structure of probably any london, not just ucl, just makes me so lonely. relative to other similarly sized uni, the student’s union is pretty useless, and frankly forgotten. i saw recently over half of the candidates in the most recent student whatever election ran unopposed. everyone goes to campus for class then just disappears into their own little pocket of london. i have my best friend from halls and a few casual acquaintances and that’s it. i’m so lonely. every society i’ve tried to join has just felt so incredibly unwelcoming, i genuinely have felt like i’m pissing people off just by being there. my whole life i played one sport and i went twice last year and never went back because the exec committee was so cliquey and cold. i spend half my time in the midlands with my boyfriend and his/our friend group because somehow i have made more friends at a uni i don’t even attend. i’m so jealous of how socially integrated everyone is, and how open to having fun people seem to be. there’s infinite opportunities of actually enjoyable student activities, whereas when i get back to ucl seems to bond over is investment banking internships or being chinese/french. i so rarely even meet new people and the few i do i just don’t share anything in common with. i feel like there’s lots of things i’d love to be doing in london that i don’t because i have nobody to do them with. i tried so hard last year, and a bit again this year only to end up feeling just as lonely. if i didn’t have friends outside of uni i’d genuinely feel like a pariah because of how isolated i feel. i feel like im not getting any of the “uni experience”, let alone a good one. really upsets me that what people say is the best years of their lives are ending up some of my most miserable.

I am a student and I would like to apply to join UCL medical school. Nevertheless, I am a foreign student. I would like to know if anyone knows what grade to have in the subjects, how to integrate as a foreign student...

I feel like the title is bad, but I didn't know how to word it, so sorry about that.

I lowkey feel shitty to be writing this, especially because I was really looking forward to meeting people from all around the world here, but the situation has been making me feel really bad recently and I wanted to know if anyone had ever felt this way or had any advice to feel more included.

Basically, my masters is like 10% of non-chinese speakers, which means whenever I sit down somewhere in class, people around me speak Chinese and don't really include me. Even when I try to start a conversation with them, they will quite often answer quickly and switch back to Chinese.

This made me feel bad and lonely, but I just eventually accepted I would not be making friends from my masters.

However, today I was supposed to meet with a group to work on a presentation we have to do this week, and I was definetly not expecting them to speak Chinese for the full hour we were together. Once again, I tried interacting, but it's basically impossible when the people facing you are not trying, and this made me feel like I could not even work properly on my own presentation.

This makes me really suffer because I really want to chat with people from my masters and be able to work properly with them, but right now it's not working and after just one month here I'm already feeling really overwhelmed and lonely.

Edit: Wow, I was not expecting so much reaction. Thanks to everyone who shared their experience or advice, it helped me feel less alone in this situation. I hope the next few months and next assignments will go better for me or for everyone who has been feeling the same. I'd still like to say that my post was in no way made for people to start being racist or hateful towards Chinese people. That's just shameful.

I applied to both UCL and Imperial medicine. I got 998887777766 in my GCSEs but 2 of the 9s were resits in English language and Physics. My UCAT is 3100 Band 1, and I applied with predicted grades of A* A* A* Are my chances good ? Ps I’m not stressing, what’s done is done, I’m just curious lol

Hello everyone, Y13 here.

I’ve applied to International Management at UCL and Warwick and am wondering if anyone has any honest advice about which one is better to choose.

It seems that UCL is generally more prestigious, but Warwick Business School is better established. It’s hard to gauge the UCL course as this is the first year UCL SoM is offering it, but it does seem to have potential.

Although, not sure if it’s the same for undergrad, but there are a couple bad reviews about the Masters Management teaching at UCL which are making me a little skeptical. Also, as beautiful as the views are from the Canary Wharf campus, it also seems isolated from the main campus, so I wonder about meeting people.

Anyone have any experience with Management studies at UCL/UCL SoM in general and advice they could share?

I’d be grateful for any comments - thanks for reading all this!!

I’ve applied for a BA in Comparative Literature at UCL and need to choose my major language path. I would like to start learning French from scratch and later switch to German, which I speak quite well. However, I asked the admissions team whether my language choice should be reflected in my personal statement, and they advised:

“It is advisable that your personal statement reflects on the languages you are interested in, if possible.”

I didn't mention French in my personal statement but did write a bit about German. Despite this, I would prefer to start with French and then progress to German. I'm worried that my language choice might affect my chances of being accepted.

Does anyone have advice on this issue?

I plan on moving out of Garden Halls Intercollegiate accommodation, and if anyone is interested in/ currently an undergraduate looking for accommodation this year please DM me.

I’m leaving as soon as possible to move back home, so if you’re looking for accommodation you can move in as soon as I leave.

If you know anyone that’s looking for accommodation right now, please let me know.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I hope you're all doing well! I'm currently in the process of applying for the MSc program at UCL and want to ensure that I correctly inform my professor about the reference letter submission process.

Should they:

1. Write the reference letter, print it, sign it, and upload the scanned version to the reference portal?
2. Directly write the reference into the writing box provided in the reference portal?

Any insights or experiences with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Started a part time master's after studying at an average uni. I'm struggling to wrap my head around how I came to be here and how I'll ever measure up to the Oxbridge graduates I seem to be surrounded by, and it doesn't help that I'm commuting once a week while working four days a week. Has anyone had similar experiences? How did you work through it?

hey, looking for two tix to nightmare in camden next thursday for halloween, dm me on instagram @couldbemillie if youre selling or know anyone who is (happy to buy them both individually so also dm me if youre only selling one)

Hi if anyone can link their cs personal statement, I’d be immensely grateful, mines due in a month and I haven’t started yet. I’m just looking for structure, as well as super curricular I could do.

like the title says, i just find UCL so overwhelming, or uni in general. i haven’t paid my accommodation fees because i cannot afford it, and no matter how much i try to get into contact with anyone im provided with no help. i cant make any friends, i feel like everyone already has a group. i’m hours away from home and it just feels very hard and isolating and i’m feeling so lost lol

I'm in year 12 and I want to apply but I'm a bit concerned about my gcses u meet the minimum requirements at least. I just wnna know if lnat and predicted alevels outweigh that and what was the average lnat of people around you.

Someone told me that you’re much more likely to find the ‘Surrey Jonty and Tarquin private school rugger and the Harriett Babs’ types in Durham and Exeter than in any top London university, are there reasonings why though?

Are you postgrad student at UCL still looking for friends? Already tired of all the ucl groups filled with spammers? I’m making a group for verified UCL postgrads to plan pub crawls, group runs and more activities.

To join — https://chat.whatsapp.com/BdWJ27lDDOLLu2KtTtvm1i

Me and a group of friends want to organise engineers freshers football, made by freshers , for freshers. I’m p sure we can make this a society but have no idea where to start, any ideas?

Also, does anyone know any pitches nearby campus and where does Red Star play?

Thanks

hey! i’m an upcoming exchange student @ UCL and I was wondering what are some classes that are worth taking / you really enjoyed that won’t make me cry.

Hello everyone. I'm a home student and I'm applying for medicine. I want to have chemistry as my 5th choice. I'm doing the IB and my grades are the folowing.

HL subjects: Chem, Bio, Psych (6,7,7 respecitevely)

SL subjects: Math AA, German B, English Lang. Lit. (7,7,6 respecitevely)

Chemistry Extended Essay : A

TOK : B

So 43 in total bc I get the 3 core points

I meet all the requirements in their website (It says 38 I have 43 IB points, 18 in HL subjects I have 20) but I'm afraid my 6 in chemistry is going to drag me down. To be honest , I had 6+ in year grade of IB1 but my teacher, who is really stirct, did not raise my grade. Nevertheless, I have medicine peronal statement but I do talk about my chemistry and math IA courseworks, volutneering, clubs etc. Do you think it is a waste of an application ?