I am. . . going to be studying at the university of manchester, hopefully? apart from that, I don't know. But I'm responding to this comment instead of the original because I wanted to tell you that you look very handsome in that picture :)

I'm trying not to think about packing all the stuff i'll need for the entire year to somehow get across the atlantic. . .

Hey, do you have any idea what sort of "special interests or achievements" they might want on a housing form? Is that some sort of strange British thing?