Why siblings are the best prep for living at uni

Becky Justiceon 18 July 2019
Why siblings are the best prep for living at uni

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When you finally get to go to uni, naively thinking you’ll escape the annoying habits of your brother or sister, you’ll be appalled to realise that living with housemates is not dissimilar to living with siblings.

However, with the years of experience you’ve amassed living with a certifiably insane hooligan, you’ll already have identified the best methods for dealing with people’s foibles.

1. Eating your food

Remember that perfect snack that’s the only thing that’s been keeping you going through the day? Image getting in from uni, crawling to the fridge ready to collapse into snacks, only to find someone has beaten you to it.

Now it’s perfectly acceptable to force your sibling to replace said snack, but with housemates it's time for the icy smile while determining the identity of the thief.

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2. Neat freak or complete mess

Now in every sibling relationship and indeed in every house, there is the uncrossable divide between the tidy people and the messy people. The tidy person will invariably end up being driven insane by the tornado of havoc left behind by the messy person. The messy person will inevitably grow sick of being told to clear up by the tidy person.

Its immovable meets unstoppable, and until you learn to live with each other there are bound to be fireworks.

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 3. Arguing over the TV

Remember those days hiding the remote from your older sister so she couldn’t change the TV channel, only for her to switch it off at the wall? Well don’t be surprised if something similar happens in uni halls.

Okay, people may not hide the remote, yet there will certainly be heated discussions about the benefits of watching Love Island or the latest sports match.

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4. Toilet roll

Much like your brother, some housemates have the ability to be unable to identify an empty toilet roll and replace it with a full one. The result is you sitting on the toilet half asleep debating who to murder, screeching at the top of your voice for any paper item. The only silver lining is the angel who brings a replacement roll in your hour of need, you will be forever in this person's debt. 

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5. The early riser

Somehow, by genetic mutation or sheer determination, there is one person capable of waking up before 7am looking bright and perky. This is a source of immense irritation to the other members of the house who roll out of bed hours later looking decidedly less perky. From your years of sibling experience, you’ll know the best option is to zone out their babbling until you’ve ingested sufficient caffeine to wake up.

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6. The party animal

Imagine this, you’re deeply asleep, getting those much needed zzzzz’s when you hear a sound downstairs. It’s the distinctive sound of a very drunk person trying hard to be quiet and failing dramatically. As you’ve learnt from your drunk older sister, you can either leave them to it and giggle quietly at the sounds of them trying to charge their phone in the oven. Or you can join in the merriment and ferry them to their room.

Either way, trying to sleep through this disaster is useless.

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7. Joint wardrobe

Living with someone the same size as you is both a dream and a curse. Before long, housemates will reach the same position as your sibling and believe what’s yours is theirs and it won’t be unusual to find your clothes in their wardrobe. Getting ready for nights out is immediately much more fun as your wardrobe is doubled, it’s not so great when you realise the jeans you were planning to wear today have mysteriously disappeared.

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8. Crazy but brilliant

Just like how your siblings irritate the hell out of you, you’ll end up loving your housemates to bits and not wanting them any other way. Despite all your differences you’ll end up having the best time together, be it dying each other’s hair or cooking the biggest roast dinner ever together. Soon your housemates will feel just like an irritating brother or sister who you’ve grown up with.

 

So despite wishing your brother or sister would just stop being so annoying, you’ll end up thanking them for all the experience they’ve given you in living in complete madness and learning how to love it!

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Becky Justiceon 18 July 2019