Wi-Fi FOR ALL! Good news! All student bedrooms in Hatfield, and most communal spaces, have Wi-Fi! So no fiddling around with ethernet cables to login to DUO (phew!). The cost is included in the residence charge. The service to study bedrooms in College is called En-Suite OnLine (ESOL). Users are provided with network access giving internet, e-mail and file-store access. Each year the Computing & Information Service (CIS) reviews specifications of machines for connection to its services and this information can be found on the website: www.dur.ac.uk/cis/esol. It is recommended that individual PCs use a voltage surge protector.
ROOMS All first-year students are guaranteed University-managed accommodation, so there’s no need to do anything other than sign your licence agreement online. Then submit your ‘Accommodation Selection’ online ASAP!! Be honest in what you write, it really does help to find a good roommate. Pretending to listen to heavy metal music at full volume before getting up at 6 to go rowing may seem like a good strategy for getting put in a single room, but could backfire when you get put with a roommate who actually has those habits! Many students will share a room in their first year. This is not as scary as it first sounds - sharing works out well in the vast majority of cases. In fact, it’s an advantage to know someone as soon as you arrive and to have someone to go to meals with, and the College goes to great lengths to match you with a suitable roommate based on information provided by you. But, if there really is a problem, make sure that you get in touch with Anthony Bash (Senior Tutor) or Brogan Harman (Welfare Officer) and Emi husband (Assistant Welfare Officer) - inevitably there will be a few people who don’t get on. Most people worry about getting some big stud of a roomie who gets a boy/girlfriend in the first week and has company every night for the rest of the year. But nightmare roommates are few and far between, especially in Hatfield.
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