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Message from the Hall chair
Yesssss Freshers !! Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on gaining your place at one of the leading UK universities. During my time here, I have seen for myself how Loughborough lives up to its reputation when it comes to sporting achievement, amazing facilities in an enormous range of areas, and what I consider to be the most important – delivering the best student experience! Secondly, seeing as you’re on this page, I guess you’re considering Royce as one of your hall applications for the coming year. Good!
Living in halls is a brilliant way to start off your university life, and many of you will opt to stay in halls as you move into your 2nd year and beyond. Royce is right in the middle of all the action – located in the heart of the student village, everything you need is within 10 minutes of your front door. Royce has a proud legacy on campus for being successful, sociable and a hall with a tight-knit community with a family feel. Once you become a fellow Roycian – I can guarantee you’ll be hooked. I’m coming towards the end of my first year in Royce, and it feels like just yesterday when I was reading through prospectus’s, visiting open days, and reading the Royce hall chair letter for myself. Your time in university will fly by, so my advice to you would be to enjoy every minute of it. In Royce and Lufbra itself, there’s always somewhere you can be or something you can be doing.
I can’t stress to you how proud and excited I am to be representing you Roycians this year. As your hall chair, I lead a committee of students, who you will be living amongst come September. On committee, there are representatives who specialise in fields such as sport, RAG (Raising and Giving), Action volunteering and the infamous Royce socials. It becomes very competitive between halls in all the different areas, and there’s nothing Royce likes more than a bit of healthy competition now and again. However, our main aim is to pull together to provide you with the best overall experience during your time with us. I urge you to take part in as many different activities as you can from the word go, you will get to know some amazing people both in Royce and Loughborough as a whole.
Your university life of course starts with freshers fortnight, undoubtedly the most action packed, overwhelming yet memorable 2 weeks in any students’ life!! And this coming September will be no different. Planning started way back at the beginning of April to make your freshers week the ideal start to your Lufbra journey. You will be greeted on the first day by me; my committee and an army of fresher helpers who will help you unpack your cars, get everything to your room and show you around. We all understand that moving away from home can be a daunting time, but we’ve all been through this, and we want to help you settle in as comfortably and as quickly as possible. You will experience some sick nights out, some crazy activities and lots of bonding with people who will turn out to be your friends for life! Bring along your formal dress and fancy dress, your handbags and your glad-rags, and many alcoholic beverages to kick-start proceedings. Oh, and don’t forget to warm up your vocal chords for the incredible Lufbra freshers sing off – the ultimate hall competition, with the winners earning themselves not only a lot of points towards ‘hall of the year’, but also unprecedented glory and incontestable bragging rights for the entire year. We’re going to be well prepared with our traditional chants and our brand new banter, so let this be Royce’s year to be crowned champions!!
Right, I think that’s more than enough from me, but if there is anything you’d like to ask about Royce or Loughborough in general, no matter how important you think it may be – send me an email on D.Thomas-11@student.lboro.ac.uk or get hold of me on Facebook. There’s a lot more (informal) information about Royce, your committee members and some pictures and videos from past years on our website: http://www.roycehall.co.uk.
The official Royce Hall freshers page for 2012/2013 is http://www.facebook.com/groups/358891984168268/. This group will be used all year to let you know what’s happening, whether it’s sport, socials or any general Royce related gossip.
So … have a brilliant (hopefully not too stressful) summer, and I shall hope to be welcoming plenty of you into Royce this September. We are genuinely a fantastic hall, and our residents soon become a huge family, where everyone has each other’s backs. I’m excited! Committee are excited! And I hope you’re all very excited for the next, extraordinary chapter of your lives!
See you soon,
Dan Thomas
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