Open day who&#x27;s coming?

Yay, another Trevs person!

Reply 26

Jelkin

Open days are a little like 24 hours in the day of a student. You stay in student accomodation, have a few introductory talks, eat dinner in the dining hall, go out on the town in the evening (most get slaughtered with the Freshers' Reps) and have sample lectures/tutorials the next day. It's so fabulous that I did it twice!

Reply 27

dobbs

NickiM

Yay, another Trevs person!

Yay!

and following Jelkins post - when you come on the open day although many people do drink, you will not be encouraged to drink!! In fact, many people will be under 18 and so will be discouraged from drinking. Though there's always ways around it if you so wish :wink:

Reply 28

....yes, this might sound a bit odd, but I'm not really a drinking person....and I'll be 17 still....but I don't want to seem strange :redface:

Reply 29

dobbs

No seriously it's not odd at all - there are SOOO many people at Durham who aren't big drinkers trust me! And in the evening of the Open Day some reps will take people out to town and other reps will stay in college watching a movie or something like that with people who would rather stay in!

There is really no pressure at all to go out and drink!

Plus last year, for those people who maybe weren't able to get into the club everyone was going to (for "lack of ID") I took a group to a bar for a few drinks instead where they didn't ask for ID. It was really cool, we had a little breakoff group and a few chilled drinks rather than going to a club!

Anyway, there are plenty of options for you, so don't worry :biggrin:

Reply 30

Oh good. I just don't want to feel like the only person, or be seen as the weird one!

Watching a movie would be cool, or even just going out to a bar with a small group would be good. Is it well organised?

I've been looking at the Trevs website tonight, and I'm so excited. It's not til March though :frown:

Reply 31

dobbs

NickiM

Oh good. I just don't want to feel like the only person, or be seen as the weird one!

Watching a movie would be cool, or even just going out to a bar with a small group would be good. Is it well organised?

I've been looking at the Trevs website tonight, and I'm so excited. It's not til March though :frown:

You won't be the only person - I'd say about 60% of the Open Day students go out into town, maybe 70%....and then the rest will stay in and maybe have some drinks from the college bar or as I say watch a movie or something :smile:

As for well organised...hmmm...well it IS as in we'll say "OK a few reps stay in and watch a movie, play some games, and some reps go out to town" and then we'll just make it up as we go really because it depends on what YOU all want to do. We're not gonna go "Hey we're all watching this movie now!!" when you just want to chill and chat to other people :smile:

Reply 32

Jelkin

Dobbs is right. I was merely recalling my own drunken fun-filled experience. But loads of people don't drink too much.

Reply 33

OrangeLemon

What do you mean by tickets ?
I sent a form of for the chads open day but have recieved any tickets ?
Sorry if im being stupid :smile:

Reply 34

^ Me too, I've not got any...unless they mean train tickets?

Reply 35

McStewart

6

when is the open day, havent heard from durham yet but its one of my top 2 choices

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