Nottingham

OP

Londons a much bigger city, so you would expect more muggings, etc, i think basing your choice on crime is stupid! Go 4 what you feel you can spend 3 years living in

Reply 22

Geogger

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series7/gun_crime.shtml

tomcoolinguk

I must emphasised I only really know Nottingham, not Trent Uni, and I believe it is Nottingham not Trent, that this candidate is considering?

Obviously what happened to your friend's son is terrible, but living in the Midlands I must say muggings are nowhere near as prevalent as in London area. My own home town is about 10mins from Notts and a mugging in the daytime last week made front page news!

Reply 23

tomcoolinguk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/eastmidlands/series7/gun_crime.shtml

Geogger

Note that the entire article is centred on St Ann's, which I would willingly admit is a no go area. However, I would also say you'd be a likely to find a student winning the lottery as going into St Ann's. Ultimately, though if one considers the overall crime picture (which is sensible, considering the fact that much gun crime is related to organised crime) you will see Nottingham as being a fairly normal city, which in todays world does mean that crime has a visible presence.

My main argument with you Geogger, a grown woman [allegedly] is that you fail to accept crime in the south [where I believe you reside], which is just as much of a problem. Ultimately, in a decison between UCL and Notts, crime isn't really a big factor- both have major no go areas- but the campuses of both Unis are in safe locations. If students have their wits about them incidents are often preventable. You say that your friend's son was assaulted without motive, but this is nationally an exceptionally rare occurence. Most assaults are motivated by something, whether it is a rivalry/conflict or need for cash.

Back to the original argument, UCL is obviously the better place to go to study Geography if you want prestige. My only thought with UCL is that it might not be the best location if you want to do field studies! :p:

Reply 24

Geogger

At least this thread will serve to suggest that students DO go and visit (as I always try to mention) before they make up their own mind AND that they find out about the place they are going to be spending 3 years of their life in.
This thread was actually quite informative - and had lots of different opinions before it diverted round about post 19! I shall refrain from posting anything further about Notts (even though I have actually stayed at the Uni halls and visited the city many times!)

Reply 25

I've dreamt about Nottingham for the last two nights, and each time I disliked it and it looked very different! :biggrin:

Reply 26

OP

Really loved the campus and thought it was a great uni!!!!!

Reply 27

OP

Tried looking out 4 people on this site there but didnt have any pics b4..

Reply 28

Chardonnay

I didn't go. Did you like it then? When I went to Nottingham and stayed in the halls there, I hated it!

Reply 29

OP

i loved it! thought it was a very nice clean campus, the people were quite friendly, and liked the sports hall area with the swimming pool!!

Reply 30

Chardonnay

m66

i loved it! thought it was a very nice clean campus, the people were quite friendly, and liked the sports hall area with the swimming pool!!

What was the Geog department like?

Reply 31

OP

i liked it, didnt look as modern as the law builing (where the lecture was) from the outside, but inside it was nice clean and has everything you want really..

Reply 32

Heya, me too! I was like "Must find tall guy with blonde, spiky hair!" There seemed to be a few though! Which tour group were you in? I was in the 2nd lot. Had my hair in bunches, was wearing jeans and baby blueish hooded jumper thing... :biggrin:

Was sat on the right in the intro talk thing. Were you the guy with The Strokes t-shirt? Loll.

Anyway, it was flippin' great compared to S'oton! Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy! :biggrin:

As for Ellie, I don't know if she was there...
...and I don't know what fieldsofanfield looks like so...

Reply 33

Chardonnay

Just goes to show how important it is to visit places I guess! People react to dif places is V. dif ways!

Reply 34

OP

SiAnY

Heya, me too! I was like "Must find tall guy with blonde, spiky hair!" There seemed to be a few though! Which tour group were you in? I was in the 2nd lot. Had my hair in bunches, was wearing jeans and baby blueish hooded jumper thing... :biggrin:

Was sat on the right in the intro talk thing. Were you the guy with The Strokes t-shirt? Loll.

Reply 35

Fields

I really, really loved it. Nice campus, great facilities, and everyone was so friendly! It's shot up from my 2nd/3rd chice to my 1st! Durham will really have to be something special to convince me otherwise! :biggrin:

Reply 36

Hi Alex

*wonders if she saw you*
What are you wearing and what tour group were you in? :biggrin:

Reply 37

Fields

SiAnY

Hi Alex

*wonders if she saw you*
What are you wearing and what tour group were you in? :biggrin:

I was sitting towards the back of the middle section in the lecture theatre, and ended up in a really small tour group because the lecturer guy misjudged it so badly. And the girl guiding us around walked ridiculously fast :eek:

. I can't remember what I was wearing.

Reply 38

Lol! That Bradshaw man was so weird!

Reply 39