I can download the torrent and all is looking good, however it just says Connecting Tracker to say Start, waiting for response. I assume its the university firewall thats stopping bitcomet connecting to the tracker… am I wrong or is there a way around this? Any suggestions would be fantastic 
If they are blocking your tracker connections then you need to look into using a proxy server for the tracker requests.
Although, you should know that if using bittorrent is against your college’s internet policy then you may face consequences, possibly be expelled. So you’d better be careful; and, if you do get it working you should seriously limit both the bandwidth and the number of connections that Bitcomet uses otherwise they will still know that you’re file-sharing and may take action.