[HDNG]IN COLLEGE:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]A2[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Catered: 29% [BULL] Cost: ú45-53(30wks) [BULL] Self-catering: [PARA]42% [BULL] Cost: ú38-46(30/39wks)[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Availability: [EBOLD]Almost all 1st years live in and the few that don't, don't[PARA]want to. Also, nearly 85% of finalists come back into halls and [PARA]20% of postgrads, but 2nd years are usually on their own. The [PARA]main sets of halls are Penbryn (525) and Cwrt Mawr (561) and [PARA]these are semi-catered 1st year halls (7 evening meals a week [PARA]included in cost). Based on the campus, Penbryn's made up of 5[PARA]halls with a communal dining room and isn't far from the Guild. [PARA]There are also 1,000 places in the new student village at Pentre [PARA]Jane Morgan. Pantycelyn Hall (260) is the Welsh hall where [PARA]students speak Welsh or learn it and where a collection of [PARA]Welsh treasures such as paintings and musical instruments is [PARA]housed. There are converted Victorian boarding houses by Old [PARA]College down on the sea front (250), about 15 mins uphill to the [PARA]campus and 2 mins back depending on the wind direction. [ITAL]A [PARA]room with a view is not a rare commodity in Aber's College [PARA]accommodation. [EITAL]Rosser Hall (332) and Trefloyne (144) are [PARA]newish blocks of self-contained flats.[ITAL] [EITAL]Llanbadarn has 150 catered[PARA]rooms in low long blocks. 25% of rooms are shared (particularly [PARA]in the sea front houses), although nobody has to double up after [PARA]their 1st year.[PARA][BOLD]Car parking: [EBOLD]There's a large permit car-park on the Penglais [PARA]campus and [ITAL]parking's not too hard around town[EITAL]. [ITAL] With hills [PARA]sloped like ladders, remember the hand-brake when parking[EITAL].[HDNG]EXTERNALLY:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]A2[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Renting: 29% [BULL] Ave rent: ú40[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Availability: [EBOLD]The reason the University is building more [PARA]accommodation is not so that a higher percentage will be able to [PARA]live in, but rather because, like many other places, the intake has [PARA]expanded recently. [ITAL]Aber is not really large enough to support all [PARA]its student population and, as a result, finding places to live out [PARA]isn't the easiest job in the world, but could be worse.[EITAL] Some [PARA]students move into digs (catered accommodation in the [PARA]landlord/lady's home) at an average cost of ú53 per week.[PARA][BOLD]Housing help:[EBOLD] The University's residential office is lumbered with [PARA]the task of helping house students. Its 4 full-time staff produce a [PARA]newsletter and bulletin board.[PARA][PARA]
