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University of Nottingham - Student GuideTSR Wiki > University > University Guides > University of Nottingham - Student Guide
These university guides by written by our members offer individual experiences of day to day life. See the main university guide for information on facilities, opening hours, locations, policies etc. The UniversityOverall OpinionsYou can use this section to offer your overall opinions on the university. What one main thing would you like to highlight to future applicants? Username: Date: Comment:
Date: Comment: Campus - Buildings and EnviromentUsername: Mrgd291190 Date: 21/12/2009 Comment: Easily one of the best Uni's in the country for location, IMHO. An absolutely gorgeous campus, with plenty of nice areas to walk in and some award-winning gardens to relax in. Covered in squirrels and magpies, and even the occasional fox. Lake is absolutely stunning, especially in the sunlight. The Buildings themselves are usually incredibly stylish.
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Facilities and ServicesLibrary and Study FacilitiesUsername: thetopnotch Date: 23/12/2009 Comment: The library that I regularly use is the Hallward library. It's in the middle of University Park and not at all that far from the Portland building. Hallward has 4 floors; the ground floor has pre-bookable group study rooms, computers and printing facilities, the first floor has a Café, computers and the short loan section while the two other floors contain more books and also dedicated areas for silent study. The pre-bookable rooms are great for group work. With the library system completely online you can book a room from the comfort of your room. All the rooms have a smart board projector system so you can practice your presentations. The ground floor also has separate booth areas which contain more smart boards. These can't be pre-booked but you can just use them when they're free which is great if you need it for only a short time. The slient study areas are very quiet with most students just doing individual work. Those needing to talk and do work usually stick to the study areas on the ground and first floors. One great thing about Hallward is that it opens all night near exam periods. Many students take advantage of this which means the library can still have a number of people at 4am. Username: Date: Comment:
Date: Comment: IT FacilitiesUsername: thetopnotch Date: 23/12/09 Comment: The PC access on University park is quite good in terms of both availability and speed. You can access computers in libraries as well as computer labs in some of the buildings on university park. Almost all have printing facilities. A new system has been put into place this year which has made printing a lot easier.
Date: Comment: Shops and FoodUsername: thetopnotch Date: 14/11/09 Comment: The SU shop sells almost everything you need. There's a wide range of food, drink, stationery, university clothing, and alcohol. I usually shop there if I need to buy anything and I'm too busy to go off campus to go to Sainsburys. The meal card comes with an allowance for lunch which you can either use halls or use in cafés all over campus. There's usually enough seating area although they can get busy at peak times (usually on every hour so if you go at half past the cafés are usually empty). Each café offers something extra, the café in the Portland building has a smoothie service, while the café in the Coates building makes paninis. The allowance on the meal card for this year is £4.70 so you can buy a lot. It's possible to buy two sandwiches and a drink or a panini, sandwich and a drink. The café offers meat, vegetarian and vegan sandwich choices so there's always plenty of choice. There's also a Boots in the Portland building so you know where to go if you get freshers flu! The Cripps Health centre itself has a Boots pharmacy for all your prescription needs.
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AccommodationWhat are/were your halls like?Username: thetopnotch Date: 10/11/09 Comment: I've lived in Hugh Stewart hall in both my first and second year and I've definitely enjoyed my time here. It's the biggest hall on University Park in terms of the number of students and so you do get to meet a large number of students with varying interests. It's also right in the middle of campus close to the Portland building with the SU shop and also both banks, so you won't need to walk to far to buy anything. One of the first things that surprised me when I arrived was my room. You hear lot of stories about poor rooms before you get to uni and it can put you off, but my room was clean and nothing was falling to pieces. The curtains were new, there was a working mini-fridge, the bathroom was clean and there was no mould to be seen anywhere. Rooms and bathrooms get cleaned twice a week which keeps everything clean and it does encourage you to clean your room at least once every two weeks! Over the two years a positive change I've noticed is that the food has improved a lot. There's much more popular choice this year compared to last, all the cutlery has been clean, and the salad bar is well stocked. There is a lot of choice of both meat and vegetarian main options as well as vegetables and desserts. The washing facilities here are good with an average wash coming to about £2 including a tumble dry. The internet has been very good this year. There were some problems at the start of my first year but they were smoothed out pretty quickly. The internet speed is good and you've definitely got a high enough speed for most things. I'd recommend this hall to everyone, I've definitely enjoyed my time here.
Date: Comment: I was in Florence Boot for my first year which is one of the smallest halls on campus-there are only 200 FB-ers. Although it looks really far away on the map which you get from the uni, its surprisingly central, only a 2 minute walk to the Trent building. I love the hall; the interior is very 'old worldey' and looks very pretty. We have a good bar, the JCR is great with Sky TV and loads of sofas and things like table football, table tennis and a pool table, and we also have a library, computer room etc. We also have 2 tennis courts and a basketball court. It really is great :D Room interiors are generally good, brand new furniture was bought for a lot of rooms this year and those who don't have it often have the old style antique furniture which is really nice. I even had a drinks cabinet :). You also get things like a mini fridge which is good, and internet in rooms is generally pretty good. Bathrooms are generally clean and often you don't have to share with that many people. Dinner is pretty good-I am vegetarian and there is always a veggie option. Brunch is definitely the best meal though! I really loved this hall, and recommend it to anyone!
Date: 30/11/09 Comment: I'm in Broadgate Park - officially the biggest student accommodation for Nottingham! There's 2,500 of us, although you are normally put into blocks of about 30. There are loads of opportunities to get to know each other, so it's all pretty awesome. We're a self catered halls, which may sound daunting in your first year, but it's really not that hard, and it prepares you really well for next year, when you probably will be going into a house, and will have to think about bills and everything! We have a cleaner once a week, who comes and does the communal areas like the kitchen and the toilet, so that spurs you on to tidying your own room! It is a little bit hard to begin with, but because everyone is so great, you get along fine with buying food and stuff. We have a bar which is nice, but a little bit small for 2,500 people! :p Our buildings are the older lot, but they're all getting renovated next year. There's no problem with them anyway - it's just they're a bit older than the rest! I have to admit, the internet connection is pretty shoddy, but that can happen all over campus, and it's just slow rather than anything terrible. All in all, Broadgate is amazing. It's a little bit of a trek to main campus - the nearest building is about a 10 minute walk, but it's a good place to live. I love it!
Date: 24/12/09 Comment: I live in Derby Hall and love it here. We have around 330 students and so are one of the biggest halls on campus and are split into blocks of 20 (except Matlock which is a block of 100 and is almost like its own little hall and B block has 60 people). Among the blocks its very intimate and they all integrate with each other. Generally the shared bathroom blocks are quieter-Matlock with 100 people are obviously the loudest but also have the smallest rooms since there are so many people in it.) The other rooms in Derby are pretty good sized though and the brunch on weekends is awesome (full English). The food in general is OK but the bar is one of the best things about it. On campus there are only about 4 halls that can boast about having a Mix Bar which is a cafe by day and a bar by night. Its an awesome place to eat lunch (much better than at Derby hall itself) and the food is amazing there. It also has wi-fi access for some reason and its situated right by the dining hall. As I've said The Mix is pretty epic because some halls don't even do lunch (Sherwood, Lincoln, Cavendish, Cripps) and so they have to go to other halls to eat lunch which sounds pretty crappy tbh. We also have a games room with a pool table and a TV room but these aren't used that much. The dining hall is grand and quite Harry Potter-esque (but then I find that the other halls on campus are also like this-wooden, high ceilings, long windows, portraits of past wardens etc). Since our hall has its own bar, mini library, cafe and wash room (as well as a music room) you'll never need to leave, unless of course you go to lectures.... For those of you who are musical we have two pianos and one organ. We have a music room (which is actually just a conference room with a piano-but its locked and only available for those who want to play!) which is lovely since its completely cut off from everyone else and silent so you get to practice in silence. The warden is such a nice guy and is a laugh, some of the staff are grumpy but there are a couple of really nice ones that I'm on first name terms with and one even offered to secretly make my mate her only special meal at mealtimes. One guy from my hall has actually got a job with the dining staff...Some of The Mix staff aren't that nice though but the place more than makes up for it and plus there are some real nice staff too. But watch out for the porters-they're very in-your-face. Possibly one of the livest halls on campus and this year we apparently had the best freshers week compared to other halls so that one night they had to include the other halls at the expense of Derby since we'd been to all the main clubs. Oh and we also have an awesome chant: Derby Hall, hall, hall, We're so much better than them all Derby hall, hall, hall We're so ******* wonderful To the left, to the right Derby boys can go all night We got lash, we got gash and we gave your mum that rash. 'Nuff said. Non-University AccommodationUsername: Date: Comment:
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Date: Comment: Local TransportUsername: La Esmerelda Date: 24/12/09 Comment: Taxi's are the way forward- £1.50 to £2 if there are 4 of you. Don't even think about buses on a night out (they're £1.50 each way, £3 for an all day pass though). Don't get a taxi on your own though because that'd be £6ish. The hopper buses going across campus are quite good and have a strict schedule that they adhere to.
Date: 03/01/10 Comment: The city itself has so many different buses that will pretty much get you anywhere you want, even the Birmingham and Loughborough! The University has it's own free bus, called the Hopper Bus, that runs ever 15mins from the Jubilee Campus to all around the Main Park, but you can easily walk the distance if you happen to miss your bus. If you live on the more off campus halls, you can get to the univeristy easily too. For St Peter's Court, there's a separate bus - which is free for all St Peter Court residents (only a £1 for everyone else). This Bus runs from the University to St Peter's Court and to the main town, as the halls are shared with Students from Nottingham Trent (ALL FREE). This bus runs every 30 minutes until 10pm at night (no other bus from the Univeristy does this), and if you happen to this bus, the Jubilee Campus' Hopper Bus is about a 15 minute walk away. For Raleigh Park, the Jubilee Campus' Hopper Bus is just a 10minute walk away (or less!). Walking from either hall is possible as it only takes about 20-30mins, and its a journey you'll probably have to walk a lot in your second year if you choose not to live in halls. For Broadgate Park, there is no real bus, but then the hall is directly opposite the West Enterance of the university, where the Hopper Bus can pick you up and take you to where you need to go, should you need it. For Sutton Bonington, there is also a bus, but I'm not to sure about this bus as Sutton Bonington is much further from the main campus. For all other halls, there's the Hopper Bus that you can take to get to the Jubilee Campus or Main Park. There are also the city buses which regularly come through the univeristy, and an abundance of taxis sprawlled outside The Student Union Building (Portland) Latest Discussions
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