Social Newbie Welcome Party - The House-Warming Party!

No, just video cameras in the heating/air conditioning vents watching everything they do.

Exactly the reason why I don't live in a dorm.

Trust me, I wish I weren't still in a dorm. Next year I'm getting OUT.

Well obviously if you can't afford a flat that doesnt belong to the university services. (In any case uni dorms are different here, as they aren't on campus, but rather spread through out the city)(some are next to the campus though)

Flats here are actually cheaper than dorming, surprisingly. Our school doesn't have on-campus apartments, and they're twice as expensive as a "real" apartments. Plus no obnoxious fire alarms... seriously, last week one of the apartments had 3 fire alarms in one night because of how sensitive they are.

wow thats a bit strange, where is the advantage then?. Getting a flat as a single student is actually quite hard here, many student live in shared flats(like 2 to 4 in a normal flat and they share the rent) Rooms in dorms may not be sensationally big( I think they are about 16 m² ? and they cost only about 200€ month. (unshared room, rooms are all single rooms from what I know of the Hamburg dorms)

Since when is it possible to just change usernames? and why did you do so?Oh and fire alarms. the most horrible(aka effective ) Fire alarms are also at the university buildings. eeeeeek you don't want to exposed to that too long. I had a couple of fire drills and they involve getting down the stairs from the 10th floor while this horrible siren is on.

My schools fire siren was more this 'air raid' alarm jkind of wave sound, not the really high pitched one.

Well, I'm planning on sharing a flat with a few girls, so it should work out financially. And yeah, better safe than sorry with a ton of fire alarms is all well and good until people start to ignore the alarms. That's how people died in the last one. So they're really not helping anything.

In other news, it seems that Sandy hasn't entirely killed us all as I can see all of Manhattan from my window, fully lit up. Buuuuuuuut I couldn't this time last week because there were actually trees in the way, which means a LOT of trees are gone.

Morri sis, are you wanting to change yours to teh morri?

Hello everyone

Just one I made a couple of years ago just curious can we have sigs with images because this is what I want to use
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w254/poundpuppy29/Sig Stuff/SWsig2.png

Yeah, it's pretty bad here. There are miles long lines for gas with rationing in effect, people walking around with guns... um you're only allowed in stores if you have cash and there's rationing for that too, and right now there are still a lot of people without electricity, and there's almost no heating fuel left so if it gets as cold as they're saying it will next week it'll be pretty crazy. I would say most traffic lights are out, which makes driving even more insane than before. Electricity is starting to come back on (somehow we didn't lose ours here at school, and no we have no idea how that is), but not fast enough. Schools and businesses have been closed all week. We're starting again on Monday, but a lot of professors have already cancelled since there isn't a lot of fuel and they can't afford to get here. Seriously, it's starting to make me believe in the 2012 doomsday theorists.

North Jersey, about 20-30ish minutes outside the city. Things are kinda insane up here. I heard that Philly didn't get much damage?

Yeah that's a fairly accurate statement. Basically I've been trying to stay on campus as much as possible. It's such a bubble here that I had no idea how bad it had gotten and stupidly tried to go shopping the other day. Almost got hit 3 times (not that it isn't entirely abnormal for that here anyways ) but I got there and only half of the lights were on because it was running on a generator. Thank God I wasn't there for food or water, but just trying to replace a pair of jeans I tore, but I still half expected to be mugged or have stuff ripped from my hands by some half-crazed person.