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Original post by Lord Jon
Soooo... Anyone here starting the LLB Law? Full time particularly
Yeah, me! I'm also full time
Birkbeck College
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Original post by Quroh
Anyone studying BSc Economics and Business or BSc Financial Economics?
I am
Financial ecoHi all!
Good to see new people going to BBK. I have to say that BBk is a really good uni, it is true that it is a night lectures uni, focused to people that works (some of them with family), etc. But it is a cool university, it has a pub in the 4th floor (for me is one of the best pubs in London because it is waaaay too cheap!!!) and the atmosphere there is really good and friendly.
I was working when I started and I am working now, the difference is that when I started I was working as a cook, and one year later I have 6 months experience in a finance dept. in an international company, by the end of next course, I will have a good MSc and a lot of experience, which I wouldn't have had by studying in the mornings.
Having said that, in BBk you can make friends, lots of young people and what the f***, grown-ups do party too!!!! I had one party and the oldest was probably 55+ and he was the last man standing!
By the way, I am a part-time MSc Investment Management student, ready to start my 2nd year and ready to meet freshers and to prove that BBk is not boring at all... I am from Spain and my liver is trained to last!
If anyone needs help or advice regarding courses in the dept of business, economics and informatics let me know. Mine is a similar program to MSc Accounting and Financial Management, a bit more quant and less accounting... but I'll give you my two penny.
Welcome to BBk!
Good to see new people going to BBK. I have to say that BBk is a really good uni, it is true that it is a night lectures uni, focused to people that works (some of them with family), etc. But it is a cool university, it has a pub in the 4th floor (for me is one of the best pubs in London because it is waaaay too cheap!!!) and the atmosphere there is really good and friendly.
I was working when I started and I am working now, the difference is that when I started I was working as a cook, and one year later I have 6 months experience in a finance dept. in an international company, by the end of next course, I will have a good MSc and a lot of experience, which I wouldn't have had by studying in the mornings.
Having said that, in BBk you can make friends, lots of young people and what the f***, grown-ups do party too!!!! I had one party and the oldest was probably 55+ and he was the last man standing!
By the way, I am a part-time MSc Investment Management student, ready to start my 2nd year and ready to meet freshers and to prove that BBk is not boring at all... I am from Spain and my liver is trained to last!
If anyone needs help or advice regarding courses in the dept of business, economics and informatics let me know. Mine is a similar program to MSc Accounting and Financial Management, a bit more quant and less accounting... but I'll give you my two penny.
Welcome to BBk!
Original post by Manute
Hi all!
Good to see new people going to BBK. I have to say that BBk is a really good uni, it is true that it is a night lectures uni, focused to people that works (some of them with family), etc. But it is a cool university, it has a pub in the 4th floor (for me is one of the best pubs in London because it is waaaay too cheap!!!) and the atmosphere there is really good and friendly.
I was working when I started and I am working now, the difference is that when I started I was working as a cook, and one year later I have 6 months experience in a finance dept. in an international company, by the end of next course, I will have a good MSc and a lot of experience, which I wouldn't have had by studying in the mornings.
Having said that, in BBk you can make friends, lots of young people and what the f***, grown-ups do party too!!!! I had one party and the oldest was probably 55+ and he was the last man standing!
By the way, I am a part-time MSc Investment Management student, ready to start my 2nd year and ready to meet freshers and to prove that BBk is not boring at all... I am from Spain and my liver is trained to last!
If anyone needs help or advice regarding courses in the dept of business, economics and informatics let me know. Mine is a similar program to MSc Accounting and Financial Management, a bit more quant and less accounting... but I'll give you my two penny.
Welcome to BBk!
Good to see new people going to BBK. I have to say that BBk is a really good uni, it is true that it is a night lectures uni, focused to people that works (some of them with family), etc. But it is a cool university, it has a pub in the 4th floor (for me is one of the best pubs in London because it is waaaay too cheap!!!) and the atmosphere there is really good and friendly.
I was working when I started and I am working now, the difference is that when I started I was working as a cook, and one year later I have 6 months experience in a finance dept. in an international company, by the end of next course, I will have a good MSc and a lot of experience, which I wouldn't have had by studying in the mornings.
Having said that, in BBk you can make friends, lots of young people and what the f***, grown-ups do party too!!!! I had one party and the oldest was probably 55+ and he was the last man standing!
By the way, I am a part-time MSc Investment Management student, ready to start my 2nd year and ready to meet freshers and to prove that BBk is not boring at all... I am from Spain and my liver is trained to last!
If anyone needs help or advice regarding courses in the dept of business, economics and informatics let me know. Mine is a similar program to MSc Accounting and Financial Management, a bit more quant and less accounting... but I'll give you my two penny.
Welcome to BBk!
Its good to see someone taking similar course at birkbeck. How is the faculty and what about the classroom size??
Original post by saint786
Its good to see someone taking similar course at birkbeck. How is the faculty and what about the classroom size??
The faculty is quite new and modern, however there is no a specific room or building for business students, everybody shares everything. With respect to the classrooms sizes, be ready to swap between rooms during the term, because I have received lectures in 3 or 4 different rooms in different buildings during the last course, the buildings are quite close to each other though.
In the MSc in Investment Management we are just a few bunch, less than 15 in the first year. However most of the modules are the same for MSc Investment Management and Accounting and Financial Management, even other programmes from other depts (Business and Innovation, marketing...), and then it gets up to 40-45, maybe more this year that Investment Management is in its 2nd year.
It will be nice.
(edited 9 years ago)
By the way, I attach here one email with a few event this week, just in case some of you are interested into assist some of the freshers events, etc.
Dear students
A warm welcome to our new students and those of you returning this year to Birkbeck. And of course a warm welcome to the Students’ Union here at Birkbeck.
Social Media: facebook.com/BirkbeckUnion | twitter.com/BirkbeckUnion | #bbksufreshers14
Freshers’ Fayre – Thursday 25 September, 4:30pm
You are cordially invited to come along to Birkbeck’s Freshers’ Fayre on Thursday 25 September (open from 4:30pm until 8:00pm). The Fayre this year is being held in The Gallery in Student Centraal (formerly ULU) and features a variety of clubs, societies and student groups, welfare and advice stalls, campaign groups, sports and fitness, liberation campaigns and peer groups, information about the SU itself and getting involved.
At the Fayre you will be able to meet other students, find out about society events and club meetings, register to start your own interest group and meet SU representatives. At the end of the Fayre, everyone is invited to gather in The Library bar, which is next door to the Gallery in the same building.
Exhibitors include (not extensive): African Caribbean Society | Applied Linguistics | Archaeology Society | Black Students | Pride (LGBT) | Catholic Society | Christian Union | Conservatives | Capoeira | Counterfire |Cricket | Darts | Debating | Disabled Students | Early Modern History | Employability & Enterprise Network (Entrepreneurs) | Film | Football (Mens and Womens) | Geological | German | Green/Environment | Islamic | Japanese | Jewish | Kurdish | Labour & Co-op | Law Society | Lamp & Owl Magazine | Mature Students | Music | Open Discussion | Parents & Carers | PPH Society | Philosophy | Psychological | RAG | Spanish & Portuguese Speaking | Radio | University Challenge | Women’s Group | Wine Tasting | Chinese | Economics & Finance | Friends of the British Oversees Territories | Shaan | Society of the Business of Occupational Psychology | Rugby | Rowing | Canoe Polo | Fencing | Student Central | Humanist | Flock to the Crown | Welfare | Advice Centre | My Birkbeck Student Services | GEDS Society | Choir | Socialist Worker | Media Group | Statistics & Research....and more, plus freebies, goodie bags and commercial stalls
Other Events This Week
Monday 22 September sees The Welcome for international students (all students are invited to attend, especially new full-time students), which is from 6pm in Room 101/The Venue in Student Centraal. At The Welcome, you can meet some College and SU staff and officers and have a chilled network with other new students. This is followed by a chilled DJ until 11pm (there is limited complimentary snacks and refreshment).
Tuesday 23 September there is a trip to International Students’ House at the top of Great Portland Street for the Quiz! All are welcome. If you’d like to go, please email John Lindner.
Wednesday 24 September sees the induction at University Square Stratford and also another ice-breaker event for new students (all welcome) over in Bloomsbury with a visit to the SU bars in the local vicinity including Birkbeck, Institute of Education, SOAS, UCL and Student Centraal/ULU so you can meet some of the other local students near Birkbeck. Meet between 6pm and 7:30 in The Library bar at Student Centraal.
Friday 26 September is the University-wide central student fayre, this time during the day from noon until 5pm in Student Centraal.
Website Announcement
During the summer we made some changes to our website – www.birkbeckunion.org – which includes online joining of societies and online payment for official events and tickets. We had hoped that the old site would have migrated to the new one by end of last week. It’s imminent but hasn’t unfortunately completed as yet. Once it is live, we will email you.
On behalf of Birkbeck Students’ Union
A registered charity (1142614) and company limited by guarantee (6661477)
Malet Street | London | WC1E 7HX
Dear students
A warm welcome to our new students and those of you returning this year to Birkbeck. And of course a warm welcome to the Students’ Union here at Birkbeck.
Social Media: facebook.com/BirkbeckUnion | twitter.com/BirkbeckUnion | #bbksufreshers14
Freshers’ Fayre – Thursday 25 September, 4:30pm
You are cordially invited to come along to Birkbeck’s Freshers’ Fayre on Thursday 25 September (open from 4:30pm until 8:00pm). The Fayre this year is being held in The Gallery in Student Centraal (formerly ULU) and features a variety of clubs, societies and student groups, welfare and advice stalls, campaign groups, sports and fitness, liberation campaigns and peer groups, information about the SU itself and getting involved.
At the Fayre you will be able to meet other students, find out about society events and club meetings, register to start your own interest group and meet SU representatives. At the end of the Fayre, everyone is invited to gather in The Library bar, which is next door to the Gallery in the same building.
Exhibitors include (not extensive): African Caribbean Society | Applied Linguistics | Archaeology Society | Black Students | Pride (LGBT) | Catholic Society | Christian Union | Conservatives | Capoeira | Counterfire |Cricket | Darts | Debating | Disabled Students | Early Modern History | Employability & Enterprise Network (Entrepreneurs) | Film | Football (Mens and Womens) | Geological | German | Green/Environment | Islamic | Japanese | Jewish | Kurdish | Labour & Co-op | Law Society | Lamp & Owl Magazine | Mature Students | Music | Open Discussion | Parents & Carers | PPH Society | Philosophy | Psychological | RAG | Spanish & Portuguese Speaking | Radio | University Challenge | Women’s Group | Wine Tasting | Chinese | Economics & Finance | Friends of the British Oversees Territories | Shaan | Society of the Business of Occupational Psychology | Rugby | Rowing | Canoe Polo | Fencing | Student Central | Humanist | Flock to the Crown | Welfare | Advice Centre | My Birkbeck Student Services | GEDS Society | Choir | Socialist Worker | Media Group | Statistics & Research....and more, plus freebies, goodie bags and commercial stalls
Other Events This Week
Monday 22 September sees The Welcome for international students (all students are invited to attend, especially new full-time students), which is from 6pm in Room 101/The Venue in Student Centraal. At The Welcome, you can meet some College and SU staff and officers and have a chilled network with other new students. This is followed by a chilled DJ until 11pm (there is limited complimentary snacks and refreshment).
Tuesday 23 September there is a trip to International Students’ House at the top of Great Portland Street for the Quiz! All are welcome. If you’d like to go, please email John Lindner.
Wednesday 24 September sees the induction at University Square Stratford and also another ice-breaker event for new students (all welcome) over in Bloomsbury with a visit to the SU bars in the local vicinity including Birkbeck, Institute of Education, SOAS, UCL and Student Centraal/ULU so you can meet some of the other local students near Birkbeck. Meet between 6pm and 7:30 in The Library bar at Student Centraal.
Friday 26 September is the University-wide central student fayre, this time during the day from noon until 5pm in Student Centraal.
Website Announcement
During the summer we made some changes to our website – www.birkbeckunion.org – which includes online joining of societies and online payment for official events and tickets. We had hoped that the old site would have migrated to the new one by end of last week. It’s imminent but hasn’t unfortunately completed as yet. Once it is live, we will email you.
On behalf of Birkbeck Students’ Union
A registered charity (1142614) and company limited by guarantee (6661477)
Malet Street | London | WC1E 7HX
Remind me to add my BBK experiences.
Original post by AnnaXO
Does student admin ever reply to emails? Ffs.
Yes
Original post by bahonsi
Yes
Original post by AnnaXO
Does student admin ever reply to emails? Ffs.
Lol not to mine
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Original post by i360
Yeah, me! I'm also full time
Ahhh hopefully see you around! Add me on fb and we can have a chat if poss?
Http://www.facebook.com/jonrwarner
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Dear Birkbeck Squadron,
I'm the founder and President of Birkbeck's Cycling Society. You may or may not have noticed some flyers in and around Birkbeck... but when you do it'll be me.
I want to do primarily three things this year.
1. Group/social rides - pick a place or route to cycle around and then cycle around it. Pub/bar afterwards. Rides would be from every 2-4 weeks because I don't want it to takeover your lives.
2. Maintenance classes for people who would like to learn how to repair their bicycles. Saves yourself a fair bit of money
3. Proficiency classes for those who are scared of riding on the road with traffic; and also for novices who want to learn - if there is enough demand.
And if anyone is passionate enough about cycling and wants to participate or be an activist for Cycling in some capacity, then by all means put forward your ideas and we'll see how to take the agenda forward.
Sign up on the birkbeckunion.org page and join the Birkbeck Cycling Society on Facebook.
I'll be doing my first ride this Saturday around Regent's Park from 1:30. Info is on the Facebook page. If you're not on Facebook then pm your email so I can forward on details.
P.s. if any of you are really keen I do need helpers. I'm a final year PPH student and there couldn't have been a worse time to do this with a dissertation to do and other stuff!
Hope to hear back from a few of you.
Jaz
I'm the founder and President of Birkbeck's Cycling Society. You may or may not have noticed some flyers in and around Birkbeck... but when you do it'll be me.
I want to do primarily three things this year.
1. Group/social rides - pick a place or route to cycle around and then cycle around it. Pub/bar afterwards. Rides would be from every 2-4 weeks because I don't want it to takeover your lives.
2. Maintenance classes for people who would like to learn how to repair their bicycles. Saves yourself a fair bit of money
3. Proficiency classes for those who are scared of riding on the road with traffic; and also for novices who want to learn - if there is enough demand.
And if anyone is passionate enough about cycling and wants to participate or be an activist for Cycling in some capacity, then by all means put forward your ideas and we'll see how to take the agenda forward.
Sign up on the birkbeckunion.org page and join the Birkbeck Cycling Society on Facebook.
I'll be doing my first ride this Saturday around Regent's Park from 1:30. Info is on the Facebook page. If you're not on Facebook then pm your email so I can forward on details.
P.s. if any of you are really keen I do need helpers. I'm a final year PPH student and there couldn't have been a worse time to do this with a dissertation to do and other stuff!
Hope to hear back from a few of you.
Jaz
Original post by Manute
Good to see new people going to BBK. I have to say that BBk is a really good uni, it is true that it is a night lectures uni, focused to people that works (some of them with family), etc. But it is a cool university, it has a pub in the 4th floor (for me is one of the best pubs in London because it is waaaay too cheap!!!) and the atmosphere there is really good and friendly.
I was working when I started and I am working now, the difference is that when I started I was working as a cook, and one year later I have 6 months experience in a finance dept. in an international company, by the end of next course, I will have a good MSc and a lot of experience, which I wouldn't have had by studying in the mornings.
Having said that, in BBk you can make friends, lots of young people and what the f***, grown-ups do party too!!!! I had one party and the oldest was probably 55+ and he was the last man standing!
It's great hearing from people that goes to this uni. I have a phone interview with them this week (not going to lie, I'm a little nervous). I'm applying for a MA History and moving to the UK to study this has been a long time goal for me. I'm still waiting to hear from the other unis I've applied for, but Birkbeck was the first to respond to my application
As a student at Birkbeck, you can join the Energybase Health and Fitness Club at the University of London Union, next door to Birkbeck in central London, at the student rate.
Membership of Energybase includes unlimited use of the fitness suite, swimming pool - the largest swimming pool in central London - and classes. Fully qualified instructors also carry out inductions, fitness testing and programmes at no extra cost. In order to join, you need to become a member of ULU.
I'm starting a Journalism and Media BA in October. Good luck with getting in.
Membership of Energybase includes unlimited use of the fitness suite, swimming pool - the largest swimming pool in central London - and classes. Fully qualified instructors also carry out inductions, fitness testing and programmes at no extra cost. In order to join, you need to become a member of ULU.
I'm starting a Journalism and Media BA in October. Good luck with getting in.
(edited 9 years ago)
Original post by Lord Jon
Ahhh hopefully see you around! Add me on fb and we can have a chat if poss?
Http://www.facebook.com/jonrwarner
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Http://www.facebook.com/jonrwarner
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I start in October! Would love a heads up on the Law Faculty and the course so far!
Waiting for October to start is horrendous.
Does anyone know more about housing options for PG students and what area this Birkbeck located? (I have started doing research on housing to see what the expenses are like)
Original post by kingoftheting
Waiting for October to start is horrendous.
I know right! 😩
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