McIntosh Hall undergraduate accommodation

Hi there, great to see you.  

Welcome to the University of St. Andrews.  

I'm Andrew Mihal.  

I'm an economics and philosophy student here, a second year, who also lives in McIntosh Hall, the heart of St. Andrews since 1921.  

I'm also a senior student here as well, so I run social life, and I really experience all the wonders that there is in being the heart of St. Andrews right here.  

McIntosh Hall is in the center of everything, absolutely everything.  

We're quite close to the sports center, just a 20-minute walk away.  

You want to go to the main library?  

Five-minute walk.  

And nightlife?  

It's a two-minute walk to the student union.  

Want to go to the first tee of the old course, the most famous golf course in the world?  

Just a three-minute walk from the front door of McIntosh Hall.  

So come on in.  

We have both of our TV lounges, one of them brand newly renovated on the right here.  

We also have our warden's office and our residential services manager, who's always available to help you guys no matter the time, and our elevator if you don't want to walk the stairs from time to time.  

So here we are.  

The common room is our center of all student life.  

Every single event that goes on within McIntosh always happens, or at least starts in the common room.  

We often run full events, from musical events to just classic social events, meet and greets, really whatever you want.  

We have it for you here.  

If you want to play the piano, you love playing music, you've got a nice piano here that's always tuned for you.  

And if you just want to sit down, relax, talk, meet people, celebrate an event, whatever it may be, you can sit at any of our tables here and just have a good time.  

If you need a board game, you can head right on over to our board game cupboards over there on the wall, just behind there.  

There's plenty of board games over there.  

So that's our common room.  

You'll see events all the time happen in here.  

During Freshers Week, it'll even be every day you'll have an event going on in the common room.  

So be sure to stop by the common room.  

There's always something to go on down here.  

On our right, you can see the kitchen.  

You'll find a kitchen on every single floor within McIntosh Hall.  

The B floor has a nice one because it's a bit larger than some of the others.  

Every single kitchen room has, of course, ovens, hobs, microwaves, fridges, everything you need to store and actually make food inside the hall.  

Just make sure to keep them clean and you'll be all right.  

Now let's head back outside.  

Welcome to our historic McIntosh lounge, the green lounge, part of the original hotel when it was open.  

And now it's used as a student study room.  

The highlight of the study room is, of course, the view.  

Looking out all the way to the west sands, the sea, the golf course, and all the way out to Lukers and the hills behind Dundee, you can see everything from the study room, creating one of the best views in all of St. Andrews, not just in McIntosh Hall.  

And it's open to any student who lives here.  

And it's open 24 hours a day for you.  

Night or day, it's a great place to be.  

Welcome to the library.  

This is our E floor downstairs library covered wall to wall with books of all different subjects, from Tolkien to chemistry.  

You'll find any subject of any kind right here in this library.  

Beyond that, in our library, we also have a row of computers if you ever need help printing things and a printer that's easily accessible for all McIntosh students.  

This here is the dining hall, featuring 120 seats and three meals a day, Monday to Friday, and just breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.  

They have options for food of all different dietary restrictions, as well as having an open service yogurt bar in the morning, an open service salad bar in the afternoon, and you can grab as much as you ever need.  

Hey yo, meal card.  

And I'll go Cajun chicken boat today, please.  

You might be wondering what rooms are like here in McIntosh Hall.  

For an example, my friend Emily kindly let us see her room.  

The great thing about the rooms at McIntosh is how spacious they are, for one.  

A standard bedroom at McIntosh comes with a desk, a bed.  

There's always a desk and a bed per person, even in a shared room.  

And then storage, like a wardrobe or, in the situation in my room, I have loft storage, which is really spacious and very nice.  

And then also with a sink per room, which is really great because you don't have to go all the way to the bathrooms to just brush your teeth or wash your hands.  

You can do all of that within your room.  

In McIntosh Hall, there's about four to five bathrooms that span each hallway.  

There's multiple stalls for the toilets and there's multiple stalls for the showers.  

They're basically always free.  

I've never gone into the shower room where both of the showers have been used.  

What I also like about McIntosh is you get a really nice view throughout the day, either of the cabbage patch, which is the garden in McIntosh, and you get a really beautiful view of the hills that surround St. Andrews, especially if you're on the top floors, or the ocean, which is seen from the other side, and the Old Course and the Grand Hotel.  

Everything is very close.  

I would say it's a prime location, so I think it's a very local hall to be in.  

Thank you for visiting our Fair McIntosh Hall.  

I hope you learned something about our Great Hall here, and I hope to see you around campus very soon.