About to graduate from Birmingham University - What do you want to know? :)

Hey, When do we get our timetables?

I will be a 2014 applicant for a different course but I was wondering what the campus is like in general? I'll hopefully go to the 26th October open day and then see for myself

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Campus is nice. It's nice that it's so closed unlike most city universities which are just buildings on high streets. There is a plethora of facilities including many eateries, banks, a post office, hair dressers, a chaplaincy, coffee houses etc

There are also services for near enough every need (personal, social, medical, academic) thus if you have problems at uni there are always services to help you just have to work out which is the most appropriate

Beyond the immediate circle of campus there are doctors and dentists local as well. No accommodation sites are technically on campus but most are adjacent (up to a 10min walk) but UNiversity buildings extend so far that it feels like the whole surrounding area is the campus too!

Finitely go visit there's no better way of knowing if you'll be comfortable at a uni for 3-4 years without going before hand. I don't understand the people who go to a Uni without visiting first!

Thank you very much for your input I'm looking forward to visiting :')

You're very welcome feel free to ask any more Qs here, via PM, or via twitter (@bencturnbull) I also blog about going from my UG degree to PhD (bencturnbull.wordpress.com) if you're now or in the future interested

Glad I could help

I am torn between getting a freshers wrist band and just going to broad street on freshers, could you advice me? I am going to Aston
Also, any tips you information you could give me about Birmingham which would have been useful to you as a fresher/helped you?
Thank you

What are you planning to do now, career wise? Do you know what the career prospects are like for Psychology students?

Hello David,

I'll admit up front that I was never much of a clubber so regarding the wrist bands I don't know specifically. I'd assume that any freshers packs/deals will give you a couple of quid discount on entry and perhaps a couple of drinks. They'll just make your first visit a tad smoother but it won't be the case that you can't just turn up! (There'll be non-freshers and non-uni students about as well of course)

Birmingham's a big and very busy place which if you're not used to that kind of environment can be daunting. My main suggestion would be to avoid town on a Saturday as it's so busy that it's just awful. Though, if you're not particularly bothered about large and busy crowds then you'll be fine.

It's a big place with near enough everything to do that you could want. There's a social niche there for anyone and you'll find it

Thank you! Busyness doesn't bother me too much, and I'm not much of a clubber either

Ah well that's brilliant then just enjoy the time there. It's a wonderful city and I'm sad to leave!

I mentioned to a few other posters but if you ever want to PM me or tweet to @bencturnbull during your degree then feel free. Also, I've started blogging about moving from under- to post-grad at wordpress.bencturnbull.com in which i'm hoping to provide a very realistic view of the whole process

I will try, thanks man, i'll check it out, good lucky with post graduate What did you get in your degree just out of interest?

MSci Human Biology (is it not showing up in my signature? I'll have to fix that).

Spent 4 years studying Biology flickering through a few different areas and now I'm off to do a PhD studying cognition in animals!

Nope it isn't, although the loop of henle is in the kidney isn't it? What did you get though (first/2.1/2.2..) ah sounds really good Very interesting !

I just found out that signatures only show on your first post on a page to prevent them taking over. Yup, that loop is part of the filtration system of the kidney

I got a 2.1, 66% to be precise. Yes! It is very interesting! Then again, so too is all of nature!

When searching for a house in second/third/fourth year, what are the cheaper prices that you can pay for a house relatively close to uni if you live with other students?

You've very welcome.

Now stop freaking worrying and enjoy your summer and feel free to send me more Qs whilst you're there too. I'm on twitter also @BenCTurnbull and you can ask Qs there too (forgive me if I mentioned that already XD)