Royal Holloway

Egham

Which clubs/societies do you wish to join?

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Does anyone know if the "Christians Together" society primarily evangelical in nature, or more mainstream?

Also, on a similar subject, what are the services in the chapel like?

Here's an excerpt from a piece in The Orbital about CT, which should give you a better idea about it:

Nathan Nasrallah

Christians Together (CT) is made up of 3 groups; UCCF Christian Union, Regenerate, and Christians in Sport. All 3 groups aim to serve campus, love students and create a great environment for both Christians and non-Christians to cultivate friendships and explore faith. They run a variety of different meetings and events, allowing students to find the community and culture they feel most at home in (check out all their facebook pages at http://www.facebook.com/ChristiansTogetherRHUL)!!!
Christians in Sport meet every Wednesday morning (on match day) to eat, pray together and study God’s word over a breakfast feast (mostly bacon), so that God’s grace is fresh on their minds before they play.
Regenerate meet weekly as church-linked cell groups with the main meetings every few weeks where all the cells come together for worship and teaching.
UCCF meet every Monday for a great time of fellowship, worship and a guest speaker. The aim of the weekly meetings is to equip and encourage one another to go out and live and speak for Jesus.

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Reply 61

Tufto

Original post by lareneg

Here's an excerpt from a piece in The Orbital about CT, which should give you a better idea about it:

Thanks, that clarifies things a lot. :smile:

But still, to anyone who knows: what are the chapel services like?

Reply 62

llacerta

Original post by randyunknown

Im really surprised there isnt a single society dedicated to any instrument. Its looking really likely i'll start a Guitar one while i'm there. Hopefully there are enough people to make one, and jamming with others helps you learn so much quicker (Ive only been playing a couple years).

That sounds like a fantastic idea! I know a good half a dozen students at RHUL who play the guitar, and many others who play other musical instruments, so I'm sure some sort of jamming society would be very popular!

Reply 63

RYNO123

Original post by llacerta

Completely agree, I'm coming to RH in September, and I play guitar and I'd love to be part of a guitar, or general musicians' jamming society. Be great to find like-minded people to learn with and perhaps start bands with and such :smile:

Of the ones on the list, those that most interest me are German, Japanese, Rock, Games, Mathematics, Chinese, and French, among others, but I'll only have so much money! And yes, I am a linguistic/cultural kind of person, despite being a physicist, mathematician and musician as well :')

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Reply 64

themadone

Original post by RYNO123

From what I've seen, Rock Soc also have people interested in jamming and organise sessions together.

Reply 65

Saints2012

Hoping to join American Football, Diplomatic and the University of London UOTC

If anyone could tell me any more about American Football at RHUL it would be greatly appreciated

also, Is there a Conservative soc?

Reply 66

Classic94

I'll probably join the History society along with the football and cricket clubs.

Reply 67

WASDuck

What do Love to Make Noise actually do?

Reply 68

toastehmonstah

i think they like making noise, maybe? you could even say they love it :P

Reply 69

WASDuck

Original post by toastehmonstah

i think they like making noise, maybe? you could even say they love it :P

Oh right, I thought might be a neo-Nazi group or something.

Reply 70

HotfireLegend

Ah, I just got the Students Union newsletter thing. Here's my list:

Anime and Manga
Gaming
Geography (unless of course I get that enough!)
Maaaaaaaaybe Japanese? Will anyone help me learn it? LOL.

*stares at the Humans vs Zombies option*

Reply 71

ObeyedDragoon

Original post by HotfireLegend

I'm so tempted to go for the Anime/Manga, Gaming and Human vs Zombies (along with the Japanese, Ninjutsu and Psych) societies too! I'm afraid I won't have enough time for all of them though. T.T

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Reply 72

HotfireLegend

Original post by ObeyedDragoon

I'm so tempted to go for the Anime/Manga, Gaming and Human vs Zombies (along with the Japanese, Ninjutsu and Psych) societies too! I'm afraid I won't have enough time for all of them though. T.T

Depends what you're doing, and what course, though. If the activities are scheduled on the same nights, then you could even go to one activity one week then the other the next week.

Reply 73

themadone

Original post by HotfireLegend

Depends what you're doing, and what course, though. If the activities are scheduled on the same nights, then you could even go to one activity one week then the other the next week.

That won't work with the clubs because you'll fall behind on training, but it should be fine for most societies.

Reply 74

HotfireLegend

Original post by themadone

That won't work with the clubs because you'll fall behind on training, but it should be fine for most societies.

That's what I meant :biggrin:

Reply 75

lareneg

HvZ was insane fun when we tested it on campus at the end of last year.

It's an excuse to act about half your age with toy guns around the Founder's building.

Reply 76

toastehmonstah

Original post by lareneg

HvZ was insane fun when we tested it on campus at the end of last year.

It's an excuse to act about half your age with toy guns around the Founder's building.

you have to have an excuse to do that? :frown:

Reply 77

HotfireLegend

Original post by lareneg

HvZ was insane fun when we tested it on campus at the end of last year.

It's an excuse to act about half your age with toy guns around the Founder's building.

Got a video or a run-down of the rules? :biggrin:

ObeyedDragon: I forgot, but ask your Sensei in the Ninjutsu Society how to do a Rasengan :biggrin:

(Isolovesayingthat)

Reply 78

Mohammad110

1) RHUL Entrepreneurs
2) Football/Volleyball

Reply 79

lareneg

Original post by toastehmonstah

you have to have an excuse to do that? :frown:

It's fun playing around the security guys :biggrin:

Original post by HotfireLegend

Got a video or a run-down of the rules? :biggrin:

Everybody starts off as a human and gets given a code to write on a bit of paper or card. One person is chosen as the original zombie (OZ). Humans wear a bandanna (or strip of cloth) around their arm, and zombies around their head. Zombies die if they don't feed for 24 hours.

The games last for about a week and when you're not in your house, you're always in play. This includes walking out to the shop or going to the pub if you live off campus. Academic buildings, a few other specified buildings on campus and non-university buildings are designated safe zones -- so you can't tag people in Tesco, any building which an academic department is based in or the Students' Union, but halls are fair game.

Zombies tag humans by touching them (usually defined as a solid palm on your arm or back rather than a vague swipe). The human then hands their code to the zombie, who enters it on the HvZ site to register their kill. One hour after getting tagged, you become a zombie and can start getting other humans.

Humans can stun zombies (I think it's for 10 minutes?) by shooting them with a Nerf foam dart gun or by throwing a (clean) sock at them. Off campus, you're only allowed to use the socks.

To get people out and about in the evenings, there are regular missions which the two teams are briefed on by email -- for example, an essential delivery of supplies arrives at the back gate. The humans must escort it through a few key buildings on campus, and the zombies have to try and get as many humans as possible.

I think that covers all the rules! It's great fun and makes walking between lectures much more interesting. You also end up talking to a lot of strangers (eg teaming up with other humans you see on campus to get to your next safe zone safely.)