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So i have been at the Anglia Ruskin University of Cambridge for all of... a week and 4 days maybe?
What are my thoughts on university...
Easily one of the best weeks so far i have had in a long time.
I got here - immediatly i had people introduce themselves and invite me out - made me feel welcome at a time when no one is entirely comfortable. New surroundings and unfamiliar faces.
So then i go out clubbing with the people who introduced themselves to me, this is the same night i moved in. I start meeting people on my course comepletly by random - bumping into them. small talk at the students union bar (£1.50 a pint or £2.20 a smirnoff ice.) It's amazing considering the amount of people here that i met about half the people on my course before even the first lecture.
So then everyone has moved in by the end of the weekend - and the people that share a kitchen get to know each other. Getting drunk together goes with that. People walking down the corridor past our kitchen decide its a fun place to be, introduce themselves, and join us for a beverage of ten.
Not getting to sleep until 4am.
Doing everything as a group of friends - going to do the shopping, going to the library, watching TV, even doing laundry - Uni seems so far like one big social gathering.
We cook together - half of us from our kitchen and some more people who we "adopted" into our cooking area because its better than theirs and they have become top mates - Cooking in industrial quantities for meals round the table is not only fun but exceedingly cheap at that - we had a curry the other night with all the accessories - Naan, Papodoms, and two different types of rice and two different types of curry flavour. Less than £2 a head all in. amazing, and means we eat well.
9 hours of teaching a WEEK. I get mondays and fridays off - i am aware this is for private study but i like the fact i could go home for a 4 day weekend if i needed to.
4 hours and 12 minutes on the bus.
So to sum it up - Uni seems like a good place to be right now - the people are amazing, its very interesting, incredibly sociable.
I am also now a photographer for the university - they like pictures taken of the nightly events - not my usual environment taking pics and shoving them on the net that night without editing but its something i can do - they are trying to get me a paid position in the marketing dept as a photographer there.
Awesome.
Anyhow - i have a lecture at the unearthly hour of 10am tomorrow so i have to be up really early. Social Science & Society 1 hour lecture 1 hour seminar.
good night
What are my thoughts on university...
Easily one of the best weeks so far i have had in a long time.
I got here - immediatly i had people introduce themselves and invite me out - made me feel welcome at a time when no one is entirely comfortable. New surroundings and unfamiliar faces.
So then i go out clubbing with the people who introduced themselves to me, this is the same night i moved in. I start meeting people on my course comepletly by random - bumping into them. small talk at the students union bar (£1.50 a pint or £2.20 a smirnoff ice.) It's amazing considering the amount of people here that i met about half the people on my course before even the first lecture.
So then everyone has moved in by the end of the weekend - and the people that share a kitchen get to know each other. Getting drunk together goes with that. People walking down the corridor past our kitchen decide its a fun place to be, introduce themselves, and join us for a beverage of ten.
Not getting to sleep until 4am.
Doing everything as a group of friends - going to do the shopping, going to the library, watching TV, even doing laundry - Uni seems so far like one big social gathering.
We cook together - half of us from our kitchen and some more people who we "adopted" into our cooking area because its better than theirs and they have become top mates - Cooking in industrial quantities for meals round the table is not only fun but exceedingly cheap at that - we had a curry the other night with all the accessories - Naan, Papodoms, and two different types of rice and two different types of curry flavour. Less than £2 a head all in. amazing, and means we eat well.
9 hours of teaching a WEEK. I get mondays and fridays off - i am aware this is for private study but i like the fact i could go home for a 4 day weekend if i needed to.
4 hours and 12 minutes on the bus.
So to sum it up - Uni seems like a good place to be right now - the people are amazing, its very interesting, incredibly sociable.
I am also now a photographer for the university - they like pictures taken of the nightly events - not my usual environment taking pics and shoving them on the net that night without editing but its something i can do - they are trying to get me a paid position in the marketing dept as a photographer there.
Awesome.
Anyhow - i have a lecture at the unearthly hour of 10am tomorrow so i have to be up really early. Social Science & Society 1 hour lecture 1 hour seminar.
good night
