Anyone applying for 2015 @ Lancaster?

I've applied for Earth and Environmental Science with a year abroad, and I've got an unconditional offer. I was also worried about the night life, as Lancaster only has a few clubs, however, I have heard that it is a good night out.

Congrats!
I'm worried about the nightlife too, I hope it's not too bad..

Applying for: Biomedical Sciences
Predicted grades: A*AA
What i need: AAB

I got an offer the other day for this course starting in october. I was just wondering will my freshers week start in october since most students' courses start in september?

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Your freshers week will be at the same time as everyone else, i.e the last week of September (or thereabouts), you will start lectures the week after that in October

Oh that makes sense thank you! I just found out recently that i got an unconditional for biomed 😀 what course are you applying for?

Congrats! That's awesome ^__^
I'm already a student at Lancs, I'm a first year. I do accounting and finance. If you have any general questions about Lancaster feel free to ask!

You must get this all the time but what in your opinion is the best college on the campus? Im conflicted between bowland and furness, both of them are central which i like ☺ what college are you in?

Congrats! That's awesome ^__^
I'm already a student at Lancs, I'm a first year. I do accounting and finance. If you have any general questions about Lancaster feel free to ask!

Waa, if feels like a dream to finally find someone!! I got an offer for the same course as you and I'd be interested in anything you have to say about it any advice, tips, things you did or did not expect there, everything. Please share some information with a new possible student pleaseee

I've been here for one term and I can definitely say that time goes so quickly. Each week passes just like that, and even though for me accounting and finance was initially stressful (I've never studied accounting before so I was quite overwhelmed learning from scratch), uni is definitely the most fun you'll ever have Freshers week felt like the longest week ever since you always have something to do and you're up way into the early hours of the morning - by Friday/Saturday I was absolutely shattered and just wanted to go to sleep xD For me, I'm not much of a drinker/clubber so freshers week was more of an opportunity to meet as many new people as I could rather than get as wasted as possible

Be sure to talk to as many people in your course as possible and don't be scared to make friends because everyone is on the same boat. I am a pretty shy person but I've made a ton of friends from my course. In fact, my housemates for next year are all from my lectures.

Are there any specific questions you have about life at Lancaster?

Good information (because I've also never studied accounting before, I don't like to get wasted and I could be classified as shy in some regards too). I see, so freshers week will be fun xD great. Getting friendly with 'classmates', that's perfect, I was afraid it wouldn't be as easy.
Sigh, I'd really like to ask you, but since I don't know much about uni there I have no idea what, haha. This would be enough for now, I think, many of my worries have vanished Ooh, accomodation confuses me a lot, what's the best college that's close to the couse building(s)? Would you recommend yours?

I'm in Furness and that's not really far away from anything which is good. I picked it because it's one of the few colleges that have extremely basic accommodation - I would have picked Grizedale but I think all the rooms there are ensuites and I wanted to live as cheaply as possible. Since you're doing accounting you'll pretty much be in George Fox for almost all your lectures during your first year, the second year onwards you'll also be making more use of the management school building which is just opposite George Fox. The only lectures you'd have outside of George Fox are possibly the ones for your minor subject. The closest college to George Fox is Grizedale, which is literally opposite (you could walk across to George Fox in like a minute), so I think if you don't mind paying more for ensuite accomodation then I would pick Grizedale! I think quite a lot of people apply for Grizedale however, so for your second choices you could consider Pendle which is also really close to the management buildings/lecture theaters but not too far away from anything else, either.

Thank you! I was thinking on getting an ensuite, but since I don't have the maintanance loan I'll have to talk to my parents and hope they'll agree. (Now I know which one I'll pick if thy're ok with what I want)
Well, other than that, how do you like Lancaster as a city? How are the people, the weather, the shopping, etc, like? (The weather is not that important since I can find it myself, but maybe you have a specific opinion )

I'm from Manchester so I'm used to huge cities and a really busy life, Lancaster is definitely a lot quieter than what I'm used to but that's not necessarily a bad thing! The town centre is pretty small, I'm not gonna lie, the only good shops are a small Topshop, River Island and a medium sized New Look. For clothes shopping you'd probably want to do it online or even go to Manchester (a one hour train journey, only about £11 for an open day return with a rail card). At least for food shopping there is quite a lot of choice: a large Sainsburys, a Tesco metro, M&S, Iceland, Morrisons, and there's the farmers market that's there on Wednesdays and Saturdays where you'll get a lot of cheap food.

The people I've found are pretty polite in general, since it's not a huge city you won't usually get large crowds of rowdy chavs (which I'm used to seeing in Manchester lol). The weather is pretty much like how it is in the rest of England: wet and windy. I think the first few weeks of term were okay though, it was quite bright and sunny, however for the past two weeks or so it was hailing and raining like mad -.-