Kingston Applicants + Attendees 2013

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Original post by jackie11

Hi I have applied to Kingston to do Mathematics and computing, I haven't heard anything from Kingston yet.
I have also applied to Greenwich for roughly the same course, and they have made me a conditional offer already, hurry up kingston lol

:smile:

Kingston>Greenwich ;D

Also a girl doing computing, rawr. Don't get enough of those, you will be bombarded by male attention probably.

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Original post by mariposa6

Hi, I applied to kingston but haven't heard anything yet :-(

What did you apply for, trust me lots of people haven't heard back. You're not the only one.
I reckon they will do most of the offers around January.

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Original post by gonon

I am going in for Renewable Energy engineering.

Sounds like a course that will have you travelling around to the different campuses for lectures.

One poor soul has to travel to all four campuses for his studies.

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Original post by So Instinct

Also a girl doing computing, rawr. Don't get enough of those, you will be bombarded by male attention probably.

As a proud member of both the Computer and Videogame societies, I feel as though I should say something.

But I ain't got nothin', because I am the last person who should speak of such things. :colondollar:

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Original post by Seaton

As a proud member of both the Computer and Videogame societies, I feel as though I should say something.

But I ain't got nothin', because I am the last person who should speak of such things. :colondollar:

Lol confusing post, what do you mean your the last person who should speak of such thing?

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Original post by So Instinct

Lol confusing post, what do you mean your the last person who should speak of such thing?

Social awkwardness and the combating of pc nerd/gamer stereotypes. Would be hanging onto a peg as shoogly as Rafa Benitez's beside it. :biggrin:

There is going to be quite a shake up of the IT modules (and a few others) taught next year, some of the students (am led to believe it is a number, but would rather report 'numbers' I know) are unhappy with some of the material contained in and delivery of different modules. Don't do the courses so can't give my own opinion, but those in the society seem happy about the impending changes in their discussions.

Just thought I would throw that out there, maybe current IT students on the forum could enlighten new applicants further/otherwise?

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gonon

Original post by Seaton

Sounds like a course that will have you travelling around to the different campuses for lectures.

One poor soul has to travel to all four campuses for his studies.

All four campuses.... :eek:

. I had better prepare myself, but i will like to know what student life in Kingston Uni is like. Could you break it down for me?

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Original post by Seaton

Social awkwardness and the combating of pc nerd/gamer stereotypes. Would be hanging onto a peg as shoogly as Rafa Benitez's beside it. :biggrin:

There is going to be quite a shake up of the IT modules (and a few others) taught next year, some of the students (am led to believe it is a number, but would rather report 'numbers' I know) are unhappy with some of the material contained in and delivery of different modules. Don't do the courses so can't give my own opinion, but those in the society seem happy about the impending changes in their discussions.

Just thought I would throw that out there, maybe current IT students on the forum could enlighten new applicants further/otherwise?

Gotcha, haha.
I'm doing Media Tech so I guess that would include me too.
Doesn't sound too big of a deal, they're gonna change some of the content, we probably won't even notice it.

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Original post by gonon

All four campuses.... :eek:

. I had better prepare myself, but i will like to know what student life in Kingston Uni is like. Could you break it down for me?

I live 1+ hour away by bus (going to start cycling rather though, but have chosen an incredibly +%^# time of the year to learn :s-smilie:

), so as with many other things in the lives of normal people my view is rather limited, and you are best suited to wait for someone with a little more insight from halls/Kingston.

If that is what you are referring to, otherwise I am afraid I perform very poorly when presented with such an open ended question over a large topic primarily social in nature. Need specific questions.

Sorry if I don't seem to be of much help. :redface:

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Reply 30

klika89

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Original post by Seaton

Yes, if you paid £150 a week for accommodation (the norm around Kingston seems to be £120-140), that leaves you with £100 a week to play with.

Which is more than enough, me thinks you would have to be an alcoholic/heavy chain smoker/drug-addict/160kg behemoth that needs to eat 6000 calories a day to be unable to survive on that. :biggrin:

£1000 monthly is more than enough considering that you pay
£600 for accommodation with bills
£25 - £30 on travel
£120 on food and drink
£50 on entertainment
£50 on sports
£150 clothes, stationery, books

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Original post by klika89

£50 on entertainment
£50 on sports
£150 clothes, stationery, books

I hope those are not figures that you think should be spent on a weekly basis. :confused:

I mean you could even afford Sky with £1000 a month! :eek:

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klika89

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Original post by Seaton

I hope those are not figures that you think should be spent on a weekly basis. :confused:

I mean you could even afford Sky with £1000 a month! :eek:

These are not figures you should spend on a weekly basis. It was just an example what could you do with 1K a month.

Although £150 for books and stationery in a first month of studies is fairly real

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Original post by klika89

These are not figures you should spend on a weekly basis. It was just an example what could you do with 1K a month.

Although £150 for books and stationery in a first month of studies is fairly real

Aye.

Must say I felt pretty awesome getting all my textbooks second hand off Amazon for less that £80, whilst others spent double that on new ones.

A little annoying that a flood of core text books seemed to magically return to the shelves in the library after 2 weeks though.

If I could give anyone going into Accounting and Finance/Business with Accounting or any other business degree, use the library system to check for core text books, take them out and continuously renew them rather than forking out £££.

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klika89

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Original post by Seaton

Aye.

Must say I felt pretty awesome getting all my textbooks second hand off Amazon for less that £80, whilst others spent double that on new ones.

A little annoying that a flood of core text books seemed to magically return to the shelves in the library after 2 weeks though.

If I could give anyone going into Accounting and Finance/Business with Accounting or any other business degree, use the library system to check for core text books, take them out and continuously renew them rather than forking out £££.

I used to take books from the library for last 4 years (not at Kingston so I don't know how good the library is) and bought only those books that I really needed (ex. when I had to bring my own copy to the lectures- and it could not be from the library)

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Original post by klika89

I used to take books from the library for last 4 years (not at Kingston so I don't know how good the library is) and bought only those books that I really needed (ex. when I had to bring my own copy to the lectures- and it could not be from the library)

Definiteky room for improvement my side with regards to misery, thought I had it covered but evidently not.

Only been to the Kingston Hill and Penrhyn Road Libraries, the former is far superior than the latter in my opinion, however both have all the resources I have needed so far, except the one Penrhyn Road doesn't have nearly enough computers or 'non-quiet' area computers, especially in comparison to Kingston Hill which has a really good, very modern library. Even has bathrooms. :smile:

Oh, and the uni is set to have an £80 million pound upgrade soon, surveys and what not are being done as to what the students feel is required, if you are coming in January definitely have a look see to determine what is needed and have your say! (I presume most students wouldn't be bothered given the publicity the surveys have received so far, so every opinion added is worth more than it should be)

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jackie11

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Original post by So Instinct

Kingston>Greenwich ;D

Also a girl doing computing, rawr. Don't get enough of those, you will be bombarded by male attention probably.

Is that saying Kingston is greater than Greenwich?? lol

aww great, just when I'm thinking I might be gay haha

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