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Fluttering , Thank you very much for the detailed replay. I suspected that the Graduate House and the University House would be a bit too quite, from the other hand if I go the the hall-style residents, like Ursula, Burton, Toad etc (mainly undergraduate).. I might not quite fit, I am not a standard 22-23 years old Phd student, I am 26. So I am not sure if 18-years-old-fun is what I am looking for. Of course I am into socializing and party but I think I am over puking at corridors The college (Burgmann collage and PG village) is quite a new idea to me, can you please elaborate? how does it differ from standard dormitory? Currently I finish my M.Sc studies at Israel, here we have student-flats around the Uni. self-catered of course. the only interaction with the management we have is only when we receive the key or something is broken. How's the catered idea works? they feed you 3 times a day? and If I don't want to eat at that specific hour... sounds strange. It doesn't really bother me if it is a big city or not, I lived in rural cities (~200,000 people) all my life, they are much cheaper then the metropolitans and sometimes much more interesting. But I want to ask about the student's social life, are there student's Bars? clubs? etc... this question might sound silly but after great afford I wasn't even able to locate an ANU-students forum at the web, the student association doesn't have one, and no un-official students sites...usually in those cases it indicates the place dead socially. So I thought at least the city would be interesting and found quite disturbing descriptions. In any case, Thanks again for the help.

Hello People! I am an international student, I intend to enroll to a Phd program in physics at the Australian National University at Canberra, Australia. I choose this University because of the high ranking and the excellent research in my field of expertise. But the city is something completely else, I heard people say: "the best thing in Canberra is the road out of the city", "there is no one after 18:00 outside - the streets are empty, they all sit home, watch TV and drink wine" an I doomed? I'll be grateful if some one that actually lived there or studied at ANU can enlighten me regarding the city and student's life there (especially the social life). TNX