Don't apply to Essex.

I have the right to say whatever I want about a university that I paid money and spent a year in.

I said in my post that it's MY experience and MY opinion which I am free to express. You're free to create your own post praising Essex. I can bash the university however I want to. I think writing the post was quite beneficial for potential students actually, so they can have an honest bad review with valid points of it. If they want to look for good reviews then I'm sure there are plenty.

The campus shops don't have all the basic stuff - are you kidding? Hardly any vegetarian options. To me, Tesco is more than 15 minutes away by foot, and I'd rather not take the bus every two days carrying two heavy bags around. It's inconvenient and a big waste of my time when other places have stores much closer to campus.

I meant Colchester is boring, did you read? It's a gloomy town and you can't deny it.

If students want to just study then that's fine, I said in my post the teaching was good - everything else wasn't.

Then explain the three months of waiting for a conclusion on a report I made then, 'BigBlackCock'?

The name ends with c"L"ock. Read.

Well don't go around saying don't apply to Essex uni, because you wanted to shop every two days and the campus' "limited" stocks made you have a bad year. Most sane person does weekly big shopping at Tescos and then get bits and bobs from little shops. Your inability to plan is at show here, rather than what the campus shops lacks. If anything there are too many food outlets in campus imo and I end up getting noodles a lot lol.

Colchester isn't London. But there are plenty of things to do and the bars and nightclubs in campus are pretty good and always have stuff going on. You can go there with your mates and relax, chill out whatever. Also, there are loads of societies you can join esp. If you like sports the on campus sports facilities, gyms etc are top notch. But you know this, so I don't understand why you would be heading to town anyways, if it's "gloomy".

But hey, it's your life and I am sorry to hear you didn't enjoy it. Good luck with your new uni and I will continue my education here. It aint LSE or Cambridge but it's pretty good for education!!

I have the right to say whatever I want about a university that I paid money and spent a year in.

I said in my post that it's MY experience and MY opinion which I am free to express. You're free to create your own post praising Essex. I can bash the university however I want to. I think writing the post was quite beneficial for potential students actually, so they can have an honest bad review with valid points of it. If they want to look for good reviews then I'm sure there are plenty.

The campus shops don't have all the basic stuff - are you kidding? Hardly any vegetarian options. To me, Tesco is more than 15 minutes away by foot, and I'd rather not take the bus every two days carrying two heavy bags around. It's inconvenient and a big waste of my time when other places have stores much closer to campus.

I meant Colchester is boring, did you read? It's a gloomy town and you can't deny it.

If students want to just study then that's fine, I said in my post the teaching was good - everything else wasn't.

Then explain the three months of waiting for a conclusion on a report I made then, 'BigBlackCock'?

@ the bit about racist incident, what happened?

Are you going to say it's not a priority so the wait was justified if it was only verbal abuse?

I have the right to say whatever I want about a university that I paid money and spent a year in.

I said in my post that it's MY experience and MY opinion which I am free to express. You're free to create your own post praising Essex. I can bash the university however I want to. I think writing the post was quite beneficial for potential students actually, so they can have an honest bad review with valid points of it. If they want to look for good reviews then I'm sure there are plenty.

The campus shops don't have all the basic stuff - are you kidding? Hardly any vegetarian options. To me, Tesco is more than 15 minutes away by foot, and I'd rather not take the bus every two days carrying two heavy bags around. It's inconvenient and a big waste of my time when other places have stores much closer to campus.

I meant Colchester is boring, did you read? It's a gloomy town and you can't deny it.

If students want to just study then that's fine, I said in my post the teaching was good - everything else wasn't.

Then explain the three months of waiting for a conclusion on a report I made then, 'BigBlackCock'?

Just recently enrolled into essex university too. To be honest, I dont like it here and I do want transfer uni's. Could you let me know how your process of transferring uni's went and to which uni you transferred to?

Thanks.

I studied here last year, I am now transferring. Honestly, I can't be bothered - there's too much - to type out all the false promises this place has given me and how disappointed I was.

The things that contributed most were - taking three months to conclude an incident I reported; no adequate support for mental health; unattractive campus; everything is far from campus, the only shops on campus are small and barely have anything; boring town; teaching was just ok in my experience.

All I'm saying is please visit the university before applying.

I don't want to hear people bashing me in the comments, this is just my opinion and experience.

I agree! I am doing computer science and this uni is the worst

I'm applying for computer science how bad is the uni for cs?

I am not sure if I have had input in this thread as I am anonymous. But I am doing Cs and Essex uni and we get given things to do but we get no help. The glas which are PhD students give us the most help and some of them are still learning them selves. First year I hadn't done programming before and couldn't set up the IDE on my laptop and the lecturer has a look and didn't get how to do it so I has to resort for YouTube for hours to get hing working. I've been set things on assignments that I haven't learned before and we struggle. And on the opposite I did an assignment didn't attempt 40% of it and got 93% on the assignment due to lazy marking. I also did another assignment they gave me 60% on and they said it was impossible to get working on there end but my boyfriend who does not know any programming set it up just fine with basic instructions included in my assignment. A couple lecturers don't reply to emails. Ever. One misses my questions in lecturers and labs and I have to spam him to get his response as he's in a rush to end the lecture. One lecturer last last term basically got mad at me and raised his voice on zoom infront of everyone as I didn't understand something. The course like what we are learning is interesting but it feels like no one cares about us students.

Sad to hear this, are you thinking on moving to another uni? I'm reconsidering my options to be honest after hearing a lot of essex cs students experiences. Thanks for the insight!

During the first lockdown they packed up all my belongings, and a meaningful item to me disappeared. I'm virtually certain it was there

During my report about assault, the investigator was degrading and blamed it on me (later denied she said it, I can't say what she said on here because it would remove my anonymity). It took 60 days to get the conclusion, I told the head this but she said it was acceptable.

DO NOT APPLY FOR ESSEX!

I studied here last year, I am now transferring. Honestly, I can't be bothered - there's too much - to type out all the false promises this place has given me and how disappointed I was.

The things that contributed most were - taking three months to conclude an incident I reported; no adequate support for mental health; unattractive campus; everything is far from campus, the only shops on campus are small and barely have anything; boring town; teaching was just ok in my experience.

All I'm saying is please visit the university before applying.

I don't want to hear people bashing me in the comments, this is just my opinion and experience.

I studied here last year, I am now transferring. Honestly, I can't be bothered - there's too much - to type out all the false promises this place has given me and how disappointed I was.

The things that contributed most were - taking three months to conclude an incident I reported; no adequate support for mental health; unattractive campus; everything is far from campus, the only shops on campus are small and barely have anything; boring town; teaching was just ok in my experience.

All I'm saying is please visit the university before applying.

I don't want to hear people bashing me in the comments, this is just my opinion and experience.