Senior students
Sometimes students are allowed to live in for longer than they would otherwise be able or on better terms and conditions if they take certain responsibilities. It’s not dissimilar to the mentoring system, except that senior students tend to live in student halls, flats or houses among first years and are responsible partly for making sure they don’t go feral and trash the place and partly for the first years’ well-being.
Most senior students do it for one or more of the following reasons: (a) they want to live in for another year; (b) they want the cheaper or better room that comes with the job; (c) they think they ought to do something to get CV points while they’re at university; (d) having failed to score with anyone in their own year, they think this is a good way to get first pick of the freshers.
Last updated on: 01 May 2008