Kent is really disorganised. Both times I applied for different courses, even on different campuses I had a lot of problems.
The first time, they lost my exam results somehow and wouldn't give me a place until they received them in a few days time which meant I lost my accommodation. Then when I asked to withdraw my offer they took 3 days to do it which meant I nearly lost my place at another university.
Second time I applied I never received my welcome pack so I had to call out for it to be resent, if it was ever sent in the first place. I didn't find out if I had accommodation until 2 days before I was scheduled to move in.
Other things:
- Kent is the ONLY university I couldn't get through to on results day. Other universities I may have had to call twice Kent I had to call 16 times. And even then the person on the phone was useless and put me through to completely the wrong department.
- I've had my university card just over a year, seldom ever use it but it's already peeling apart because of their crap quality.
- There's no help if you're having any problems with the course. The University claims there is, but when you actually need them, there's no help available.
- I just recently got about 4 viruses after logging on to the university network and now my computer won't work. I've had my laptop less than a year
- Printer in my uni building doesn't work 80% of the time. The other 20% it doesn't have either black or coloured ink or paper.
- Work takes a LONG time to get back to us. Last year I had to wait 3 months to get results back from a piece of work. This year it's been at least a month already.
- Societies at Medway are awful, so university life is really boring. Medway's solution is to travel 40 miles to go to Canterbury. Wtf?! Ditto for a good Freshers week and Summer Ball. Plus I feel really unsafe walking around.
- Medway is just a really rubbish area
and the uni don't make life here any more interesting. Not necessarily their responsibility, but there's not much to do on campus either.
- Most of the help sessions or career days are at Canterbury. We are told what building/room it is, but I've only been there once before, I'd get lost
- The jobshop seldom has jobs outside of Canterbury, but even then there aren't all that many.
- Overpriced uni accommodation. My room in a house is £1300 a year cheaper, including bills
- No transport from halls to uni building, which for me isn't on campus, it's on the Historic Chatham Dockyard which is a 30-35 min walk away. Lovely in summer, bloody miserable in winter. University suggested a shuttle bus but nothing came of it.
and a whole bunch of other pedantic things.
Don't get me wrong, some aspects of uni life have been good, but overall I'm not impressed.