Andrew Melville Hall undergraduate accommodation

My name is Oralee, I'm a second year student studying English and Film and I'm going into my third year of living at Andrew Melville Hall.

It's been good since the start, I mean my parents moved me in and two members of the committee helped out, brought all my stuff up to my room which was really sweet.

So we have three common rooms here.

So in the lower common room there's a pool table, there's a screen system and then here in the middle common room we have another big screen, loads of places to sit and then the upper common room is the one all the way at the top.

And in the upper common room and lower common room there's pianos as well.

The room that I'm staying in has its own sink and then I share two showers and two toilets with eight other people on my floor and there's certain floors where you won't have a sink in your room but you'll have an extra kitchen area instead.

We have a laundry room, the way that that works is we have an app called Washnet and you can book which washing machine you want, which dryer you want, it's pretty self-explanatory to be honest.

So we have two study spaces that are open all day long, all night long.

Andrew Mobile Hall is catered, the canteen serves breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day except on weekends where they don't serve dinner so Saturdays and Sundays are the only day where we need to cook our own dinners and there are two, three kitchens on the ground floor for that as well.

You get your protein, there's vegetarian options and then there's a salad bar, you can obviously get yourself coffee, hot chocolate, latte, there's those machines there, sauces, all the jazz.

It's also in terms of in freshers getting to know people like in your first few days that's where you'll like meet maybe your first friends.

So it's pretty instrumental and I think a lot of feedback that I've heard especially in first years is if I didn't have the canteen I don't know what I would eat or when I would eat or so I definitely think that's really really important.

Andrew Mobile Hall is located in North Hall so it's closest to the medical buildings but it's only a 20 minute walk from town.

I think the Sports Centre being this close is definitely a really big deal because I go to yoga once a week and if it wasn't a two minute walk away I don't know how many times I would be able to actually go so that's always really practical.

The student community here is definitely really lively, I mean we've won Clan Warfare for two years in a row.

The committee is really involved, during Freshers Week we have a free bar almost every single day.

Also one of the biggest highlights of being at this one specifically is the staff.

We've got an amazing, amazing staff team here that really take care of you and get to know you and look after you like a ton and I think that's been a huge reason why I've stayed so long.

I definitely recommend the Hall to someone that's coming here and looking for where they should live in halls of accommodation.

You have all these events from the beginning that just allow you to have a sense of community right from the start.

The moment I stepped foot in this Hall I had a group of people that I could spend time with and I think, I just think that that's just so important at university.

Yeah so if you're looking for a place to live in St Andrews come to Andrew Melville Hall.

There's a bunch of lovely people, bunch of lovely events and it'll just be a great way to start your academic journey.