Warwick Freshers 2012

Hey all, gap yah student here who's just firmed for English Lit


After two years of battling against the UCAS system...my face is finally something like this:

haha same here! my face is all smiles too!

i'm a gap year student and i've firmed for english lit, it's so good to know someone in a similar situation! so what's the reason behind you taking a year out? xx

hi does anyone know anything about freshers' week? i know term starts on the 1st but does anyone know whether lectures will be going on during all the freshers' stuff or whether our lectures will start a week or two later or anything?

thanks

Firmed for history and sociology I'm looking at JM/ AV or Cryfields for accomodation. Anyone heard about those?

Anyway good luck to everyone and hopefully we will see you all in October
*Plug - Come along to Trampolining! Even if you don't enjoy the sport the socials are epic (and if you choose to come to sessions ask for Paul - me )
See you soon
Paul

Hey everyone.
Just like to say good luck to you all for your exams
Im a first year student (maths) here at Warwick and if any of you have any nerves about it ... don't worry - its amazing and you will find friends really quickly even without 'networking' beforehand.
Word for caution about accommodation - chill out about it. Everybody thinks their block is the best and by the time you move in you will too :P If anyone is interested I'm in Cryfield atm (one of, if not the) cheapest and its great. Tbh you won't spend very much time in your rooms anyway so the size isnt a major deal
Anyway good luck to everyone and hopefully we will see you all in October
*Plug - Come along to Trampolining! Even if you don't enjoy the sport the socials are epic (and if you choose to come to sessions ask for Paul - me )
See you soon
Paul
Ps - any maths students worrying about the offer if it is anything like our year they will accept A*AA and a 1 OR 2 step grade. It depends year on year but my tutor is the admissions tutor and she says more often than not they drop the offer to that

*Edit - If anyone has any questions please can you quote me as I don't check TSR very often so at least I get e-mail notification
Guess I should probably put a disclaimer on that if you miss your offer you wont necessarily get it - just from my experience of my year and people I talked to this has happened quite often

Do you guys circle every week? I'm looking for a club to do it every week with without having to do too much actual sport. I'm a third year returning from abroad.

Hi Paul, I firmed Warwick for Computer Science, really excited, but I am slightly worried about the workload of 40 hours a week. Will it really be near this amount, obviously you don't do it, but I'd assume Maths has a similar workload?

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Hi I've firmed my offer for maths and I just wanted to ask what the course has been like in the first year? Also what is the standard of teaching like?

Thanks.

We don't circle every week no, but most weeks we do. Yeah tbh we have a lot of members who do come along just for socials so if that is what you want to do definitely get involved

Hard Work!! Lol, it really depends tbh - there are loads of optional modules so depending how many/few you do you will be fine. In my (and most peoples) opinion analysis is a horrible module .... but you are stuck with it until year two term two :P Other than that I find it really interesting - its totally different to A-Level maths which I did, but you will be able to find plenty you enjoy.
Teaching wise lectures vary - some lecturers are absolutely amazing and I barely needed to revise the lecture notes before the exam .... some are not so great and I self-taught the majority of the module. On the whole though the lecturers are good but what I found most helpful was all the support structures.
For example you will have a supervisor (3rd/4th year) who will meet you twice a week, mark most of your assignments and give you feedback and should you have any difficulties with assignments they are the best place to get a push in the right direction.
In addition to this you have Analysis classes (term one compulsory TII optional) however I would definitely recommend going to these as they make the assignment sheets a lot easier. Other modules also offer small classes but I didnt really find those as useful. And finally you have a personal tutor in the department who you can speak to whenever you need. This is the most important relationship so if you dont get along ask to switch and they will swap them no questions asked.
So yeah ... even if your lecturer is awful you have plenty of support around you ... but of the lecturers I have had this year I only had 1 who I didn't find very good but was able to work around that.
Hope this helped and if not feel free to ask more - gives me something more fun to do than revision :P
Good luck for making your offer and hope to see you in October

Sounds really good! Is there a maximum amount of modules you can take each year? Or can you take as many as you can handle? Yeah it's just really the STEP that I am a bit worried about now especially STEP 2.

Firstly congrats for the offer You work as much as you want - there were weeks last term when I was working 55+ hours (and no I'm not going to pretend it was fun!) However I know people doing similar subjects who do a lot less work. From my experience they say 40 hours knowing many people will think that they can cut back hours. I'd say most weeks you would have maybe 25 hours p/w which really isnt that bad It sounds a lot, but I doubt you have much less atm.
I will add that Warwick currently (though is possibly changing soon) allows us to take additional modules which makes it easier to get a higher grade overall using something called the Seymour Formula (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/academicoffice/quality/categories/examinations/conventions/ug08/seymour/seymour_formula_for_web_as_approved_by_senate_marc.pdf if interested) and so this was the reason for so many hours.
Tbh don't worry too much. You will get along fine doing the hours you want to put in Id reccomend 25-30 is a good amount and then that is plenty for socialising as well