Hi, I'm Emily. I'm studying Politics, Philosophy,
and Economics, and I'm a resident here
at Cavendish Hall and I'm gonna
give you a tour around Cav today.
So Cavendish is near the West entrance,
which is also close to Ancaster and Willoughby Halls.
We're right opposite humanities,
so if you ever have to be in humanities,
you can literally wake up five minutes
before your seminar or lecture.
We have a cycle store over here.
Everything is fantastic and I'm going to show you around.
On your first day here at Cavendish,
everyone's given a student card and your key.
These two things are very important.
A lot of people say that they'd rather lose their debit
card than lose their student card it's so important.
So in order to get into Cavendish,
you have to use your student card to open the door.
And that means that only people who live here can get in.
So it's very secure. This is hall reception.
This is like a very key place.
A lot of people visit here a few
times a day because this is where the packages
arrive and you have to sign your name to make sure
that you are who you say you are.
If you were to have a maintenance issue, e.g.
something wasn't working in your room then this is the place you'd
come. We also have a fantastic porter who works later into the night.
And they're really friendly and they get to know us really well,
and they kind of become like a parent figure.
So it's really nice. This is my room. Come on in.
All of the rooms in Cavendish have an en suite bathroom.
Which means that we each have
a little bathroom with a shower and a toilet and a sink.
We have sanitary bins that are
replaced every couple of weeks.
As you can see, my room has a single bed,
but there are some rooms and Cavendish that have double beds.
We have a desk,
a chair, a lamp, and a fridge
of course, where
I like to keep my milk if I'm making a cup of tea or something.
We each have four plugs kind of congregated in one space.
Now I have an extension cable
just to make sure that I can charge my phone and things.
But you'll definitely have enough plugs. In our wardrobe
we each have a few hangers,
but I brought my own just because I have a lot of clothes.
We get our rooms cleaned every two weeks and we have
a designated day so we know when it's
coming. Everything is cleaned,
including the bathroom and the floors are hoovered.
The one thing we do have responsibility
for is emptying or bins,
which is something that we have to remember to do
and it's made very clear to
us in Freshers' where we can do that.
So in terms of personalising your room,
I took a lot of pride in making
sure I really made it feel like home because I knew
during Freshers' I wanted my room to be
somewhere that I really wanted to be.
Now this poster -
I'm from Newcastle -
I'm a Geordie.
(Not many people can tell),
but I wanted to have a poster that kind of encompassed that.
So I actually designed this one on the internet.
That picture of the Angel the North is a picture that I
took myself and I'm very proud of it
and it was something that aswell
when people came in and they asked
about the poster it was something
I could tell them about in Freshers' week,
so it was it was really good fun.
So this is where we collect or letters and our post,
and it's based on our last names.
So it's nice when my grandma sends me
a postcard that I can pick up from there.
And we have a bit of
competition about who gets the most letters.
And obviously I always win. Straight into the JCR -
the junior common room.
We have lots of activities, lots of people hang out in here.
This was really, really busy during Freshers'.
And we have a television,
we have sofas, and table tennis and pool.
So this is a really great place
where lots of people hang out.
This is our Cavendish study area - it's exam time now
so a lot of people are revising in here.
That's also where we have our printer.
It's really useful that we have
a printer within the building
if people need to print off coursework or anything.
It's a mobile system so we can
email our printing to that printer.
So we're very lucky in Cavendish that we have
a cafe in our building.
We can come down here and get our lunch.
It's a great place. I come down here
every day and the staff are really friendly.
We're really lucky to have it.
Cavendish is a catered hall,
which means that we get breakfast and dinner every
day and brunch and dinner on the weekends.
This is really useful thing.
A lot of people ask about the food.
I think it completely depends upon
your taste, but I really like the food here.
We also use this space for formals, which
we have usually once every term.
So that's a really great experience for everyone to dress up.
And we have fantastic food
- it's a really great experience.
This is the laundry in Cavendish - it's on the ground floor.
We have washing machines and dryers.
There is a
laundry card that you're given on your first day
that you load up online and
then you come down here and you can pay
to clean your clothes and dry them.
It's important that you bring laundry tablets
and things like that so that you can clean your clothes
but there are available in the vending machine over there.
So in Cavendish, we have this wonderful courtyard.
During the summer, it becomes really sunny
and there were loads of people sat out here working a few weeks ago.
It's a really lovely place to have and it's where I
met all my current friends now here on Freshers' week.
It's a really lovely place.
So this is Cavendish Hall. Thank
you so much for joining me on this tour.
It's been a really great hall to live in -
I would recommend anyone to come here.
I hope that if you do get to come
to Cavendish next year or any year,
then you'll have a great time and I thoroughly recommend it.