Ask a current student (cornwall campus)

Great idea, thank you! Do you ever feel isolated in Cornwall? And what's the cheapest way to travel back home, because obviously train fares from Cornwall can be reallllyy pricy! :P Finally, is it an expensive place to live, and how do you manage shopping wise as there aren't many supermarkets bar Tescos in Falmouth - do you travel to shop? Thank you, sorry for bombarding you with questions :L

I am cornish so i personally have never felt isolated cause all my family are either in cornwall or devon but i have friends fron further away and they as far as i know are happy even though they are far away from home.
Travel is a problem ill admit but all exeter students in cornwall get a £500 bursary for travel costs help. Most people i know do get the train home.
Shopping isnt a problem as there is an asda 5mins walk away. There is even a cut through that goes from campus so you dont need to walk along a main road. There are also regular bus services to falmouth and a few other surrounding towns
Hope this helps

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Thank you, that's really helpful! I wasn't aware of the travel bursary, that'd be really useful I didn't know that there was an Asda either, that'd be very handy and takes away the worries I had about shopping as I've heard a lot of people say that it was limited before now :P

glad to be of help! the buses into falmouth etc are subsidized as well i think they are £1 for students with your student ID card. there is also a annual bus pass you can get which will give you free travel around cornwall which is handy for me cause i use the bus to commute in and it has saved me over £600 i think

The more you know! Thank you How much is the Cornwall bus pass? I'd probably want to travel around and see some other places, so that might come in useful potentially :P

hey everyone

just thought it would be helpful to applicants/future students of exeter univeristy cornwall campus if you could have a place to ask current students some questions about the unversity in cornwall, uni life, what its like to live/study in cornwall etc.
i am a first year BA/BSc geography student so any applicants to that course i can hopefully tell you a bit about it!

hey, could you just tell a bit about the nightlife and social life that is fairly standard there? thanks! x

hey everyone

just thought it would be helpful to applicants/future students of exeter univeristy cornwall campus if you could have a place to ask current students some questions about the unversity in cornwall, uni life, what its like to live/study in cornwall etc.
i am a first year BA/BSc geography student so any applicants to that course i can hopefully tell you a bit about it!

Hey I'm considering applying to Exeter's Penryn campus for Geology. Everything from the course to the accommodation attracts me, except the fact that, unlike other larger universities, the campus doesn't advertise any sort of Music activities. I'm grade 8 oboe and don't want to completely give up music, instead wanting university life to enhance music.


On the Penryn campus' website it does say they have an orchestra, but, unlike other unis, they don't seem to big this up, so I'm wondering if anyone here can say if Penryn does have an orchestra and other activities which are decent?


Thanks

Hi! I've an offer for Ba/BSc geography and I'm in a pickle situation at the moment. I'm beginning to like the geography course at the Streatham campus a lot, and was wondering if it changing campuses is possible? I still really like the course at Penryn, but I feel the one at Streatam offers a wider choice of modules and more flexibility.

Thanks!

firstly congratulations on your offer������ and i can't praise the course in cornwall enough. I had an offer from streatam as well but it wasn't my top choice so i didnt look into it much so i cant say much about that course. Im not sure if you can change campuses cause they do ask for higher grades than cornwall as the demand is generally higher for courses in exeter, but you could always contact the uni and ask as there is no harm in that.

By the way, the reason i didnt choose streatam was nothing against it, it was just because i preferred the campus in cornwall more

Thank you I'll have to give a good think about it, as I haven't visited either campuses so I'm not sure which campus I'd like more. What was it about Cornwall's campus that attracted more over the Streatham?

Also, could you give me an insight on what first year geography is like? And what the general social experience is like?

Cornwall campus is very modern. There is no part that is more than 10 years old, some is still being built! It is not in a big city, its quite rural but that suits me well cause i like how peaceful it was. I have always wanted to study at that campus cause i had visited it many times in the past and just simply saw myself here. I live 20 mins away anyway. Apart from the fact that it is a beautiful campus, the fact that it is exeter uni means it is a well respected univeristy was a plus point for me.

First years are given time to get to know fellow students especially those in their tutor group as well as their personal tutor. There is a tutorialz module which is tauht in tutor groups in seminar class sizes by a phd student, where all assignments are designed to help you adjust to study habits at uni and teach you things like referencing and writing academic essays. The staff are always ready to help you, my tutor is really kind and you can talk tk them aboht anything really, academic related or not. Some modulex cover a lot of new stuff but some do cover things you already know so you dont feel to over whelmed. There is a field course module and a stats module. The stats module ill admit is not great, no one really liked it and i found it hard but again there was lots of support and i did actually do very well in the end much to my surprise haha. First year is designed to expose you to all areas of geography so there wil be things you love and things you hate but then you will know what you can focus on in wnd year. Thats the advantage of the course in cornwall as you can do human and physical and then choose what you want to focus on later in your 3rd year.

The nearest town is penryn but most of us go to falmouth cause tbh there isnt much in penryn, falmouth is a bigger town about 10min bus journey away. Im not a big fan of going out to clubs but people often go out in the town there too where a lot of pubs run student nights when drinks are discounted nicely. There are also lots of events on campus run by the student union and several big events at the end of each term as well as those held by societies so there is plenty to do

Hope this helps you

I am not very musical so i haven't looked out for these kind of activities myself, but i know the orchestra do shows/concerts cause I've seen them advertised around campus before, especially around Christmas.

Thank you so so much. I'm really excited to visit, and get a better sense of the place. I come from London so I'm not entirely sure living in a rural town might be for me, but I love the idea of living next to the beach.

First year sounds good! Well done on doing well on the stats haha, stats can be so tedious. I'm hoping that for the physical side of it covers areas like biodiversity and conservation? As well as tectonic processes like volcanoes?

The social life seems decent I hope I enjoy my applicant day when I visit.

Thanks again!


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