I was in and out of nine student houses during the day.
A few rooms were empty from a quick getaway after end of year or Final examinations, others were in the process of being packed ahead of a return home, to take up employment, a summer job or taking an opportunity to travel the world. I felt very sorry for a small nucleus of students still stuck with one or more examinations to sit whilst their housemates were into serious partying albeit in a suppressed and respectfully restrained mode.
The student houses currently are considerably better than I remember them from my own student days back in the early 1980's. Then it was a case of damp, mould, slug trails, vermin, risk of breaking and entering and with little or no regard to health and safety. One of my good friends, quite a tall lad, had to put up with the smallest room in his shared accommodation and his house mates had to carefully skirt around his legs and feet which stuck out through the doorway onto the stair landing.
Nowadays a typical student residence is a swanky affair with red leather sofa's, top of the range kitchen, good communal living areas, movement activated courtesy lighting, travertine clad shower rooms, wi-fi, smoke and fire detection and good sized study bedrooms.
One constant however which I was thrilled to see in my tour of the houses today was the ongoing popularity of the wall poster. This is inspite of the active discouragement of landlords and property managers of the affixing of anything to the smooth, magnolia painted walls. Here is my favourite selection;
The classic cocktail poster for University Students.
No words required
One of the best yet most underated movies ever
Most of the students were not even born when Chewbacca made his movie debut
Probably borrowed off Mum and Dad
There is always room for a Revolutionary poster
and of course for Monty Python
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