Across the Universe: Housing and first days of UCL classes

While the subject of my classes may not be as fun as others, I am, after all, in London to STUDY abroad. So I figured a short response to this topic would suffice. While at UCL I am affiliated primarily with the English department (well known for it's rigorous and renowned programs but also known for it's lack of any organization). I am going crazy! In the English department I will be studying Chaucer (in all his Middle English glory) as well as Literature in London. I will also be taking a course in business and my personal favorite a seminar on Art in London that focuses on the human body and form - this class never meets in a classroom only in museums around London, where we get to see the works of art in person, rather than on a slideshow.

N.B for any person wishing to study outside the U.S or at UCL: NOTHING IS EASY HERE.... people don't buy books they sit at a machine copying 100 pages of textbook.... that you can only do if you have exact change (no one can make change and no one takes credit cards anywhere on this campus) and when you want a stapler to bind your printed pages- forget it... it doesn't exist!

I MISS MY VANDY CARD and the endless amounts of monopoly (fake) money that existed on said card.

(At the Main Entrance of UCL... FUN FACT: UCL = London's most beautiful/Green Campus)

(UCL... likes to tote itself as "London's Global University")

And now for the NICEST housing I will EVER have while in college... I definitely could get used to living in this kind of arrangement. A maid comes every week to clean the apartment, change the linens, and take out the trash. How awesome is that?! I have one roommate, Lindsay (who happens to be from Vanderbilt, (and she's from Westchester) but we didn't know each other before hand.) We live in the flat with 5 other people who are in two other rooms. Huge plus... Lindsay and I share a clean, fabulous bathroom (and I don't have to wear shower shoes).