Official Queen Mary's HATE Thread

Hi,
I was a student at Queen Mary's Univeristy of London and HATE the area, the staff and most of all the atmosphere! The admin staff there were horrible and possibly if students spent less time queing up to do paperwork for the university and more time learning then MAYBE...just maybe they would enjoy it there.
Everyone I've spoken to hates the university...my advice to u is dont bother applying there...try somewhere better and more friendly like other London uni's e.g. Kings, st georges, Imperial and UCL!!
Thank god I dropped out of that crap uni
Who here agrees with me??
If you are a student there please comment, u dont have 2 agree with my views!

The university is boring, in your free time you can go to the bar (I dont drink) or the coffe shops, they have like 3 or 4 of those. Everything is pricey especially the canteen meal £3.55 without drink or cake. You need to pay £1 per game to play pool or foosball which is the only thing they have. Most of the clubs(societies) cost money and even the events do, they know how to drain your pocket. Sometimes we have to go to a place starting with G to do our lectures, only qmul students will know this one.

Am a fresher at queen mary and so far it has not been completely bad.

Bad points that I have is the Mile End area, looks rubbish and it is not nice area (lots of dodgy people) but I am used to london being that but there is nothing much to do in Mile end, they have alot of chicken shops that are EXPENSIVE and last time I ate there I got sick. I don't trust them anymore anyways.
The university is boring, in your free time you can go to the bar (I dont drink) or the coffe shops, they have like 3 or 4 of those. Everything is pricey especially the canteen meal £3.55 without drink or cake. You need to pay £1 per game to play pool or foosball which is the only thing they have. Most of the clubs(societies) cost money and even the events do, they know how to drain your pocket. Sometimes we have to go to a place starting with G to do our lectures, only qmul students will know this one. Most of my lectures don't speak English well so that is not good at all. The lecture rooms I have been to so far are abit unconfortable and you have to lean forward to write due to the design (PP1). My timetable kind of sucks, no day off. There are too many Asians, they do too many scholarships from abroad but that is not that bad, I like diversity. They don't offer languages courses i.e I wanted to learn arabic but they dont have it as far as I know.
The admission is messed up, lots of btechers at queen mary, I feel like I wasted my time doing a-levels.

Good points: The place is Friendly, you don't see thugs or chavs in the campus. The teaching is good, you don't get much help so it is alot of individual work to be done. Presentations and lecture notes on the internet to download. The community is nice and there is no limit to what you can do but it is at a cost normally. We have our own computer room. close to stratford (Olymipics soon), there is many places you can go.
Two tube stations close the uni, stepney green and mile-end which is nice. Campus looks good apart from the ugly building currently being refurbished. Accomodation looks good but I live at home. Library is alright but is annoying when it says it has the books on the system but it's not on the shelf, also u need to renew every week
Canteen has nice food but at a price.
ITL is nice but has restricted access.
There is alot of support classes you can attend if required.
Some of the Tutors and Lectures I don't like because of their attitude and teaching skills but it is not too bad.
I think the university is good but for my course it is just average, maybe in law and medicine it is different.

Lol @ UCL and Imperial being more friendly. About the only university in London that outdoes those two for an abundance of unsociable middle class kids and rich foreign students who don't socialise with anyone but their own nationalities is LSE.

Also Mile End really isn't that bad I don't know where people are getting this idea from. In fact outside of Central I don't know anywhere in London where I feel as safe as in Mile End and Whitechapel.

Just because you've walked from Campus to budgens a few times doesn't mean you know Mile End.

Damn but I'm so G :P

Nah man. You've gotta brave it as far as Tesco's to call yourself that

This.

And trust us this is true, I currently study at UCL and have studied at LSE too. Queen Mary's has, overall, a much friendlier social environment and a lot less pretension.

However, to say that as a generalisation would also be somewhat false. From experience nonetheless as much as I love UCL I think that at a glance there are a lot of pretentious and socially withdrawn people there, who only mix with people of their own race.

I am not against this entirely as I know it must be hard for foreign students in a new place and country, and therefore they opt for familiarity. I don't however like the exclusionary tendecies that develop from it, and I think that at QM this was LESS of a problem (though QM is not entirely absent of it).

I don't think you should be so keen to seek solace from your own negative experiences of QM by trying to convert those on a student forum who otherwise may have given it a look and judged it on their own merits.

Nah, wait till your second semester where you'll have Bob Janes (teaches basic biochemistry/biomolecules of life) now he's awesome!

That and it seems to be the de facto back up place to failed LSE/KCL/UCL students from the people I know

The new Tesco express?

Is it really that bad? QMUL is currently where I'm leaning towards (after dropping out of Aberdeen.. which was.. errm.. yeah..) and I get the impression it's not somewhere everyone smiles and talks to each other? (I know this is stupid, but living in Worcester, it's one those things you come to enjoy.)

Why did you drop out?