Brunel Freshers 2013

Hey guys. I'm studying business management with a year placement...I'm located in the Lancaster complex hall. Is anyone in that same hall by any chance??

Hey guys. I'm studying business management with a year placement...I'm located in the Lancaster complex hall. Is anyone in that same hall by any chance??

Haha I have no idea what that means either! I'm in Faraday Halls though but I might see you sometime I'm studying communications and media studies. How about you?

i'm staircase 1, rooom 40

AHA! good Nice, I'm doing theatre, film and television studies, maybe we'll work together who knows aha! Have you visited the campus before because I haven't :/

AHA! good Nice, I'm doing theatre, film and television studies, maybe we'll work together who knows aha! Have you visited the campus before because I haven't :/

Ooh sounds good! I'm doing communications and media studies so maybe we will! Yeah I went to the open day earlier this year and really liked it! Thought it was pretty nice and it's really big so it's gonna take a while to get used to knowing where everything is haha. The general atmosphere of the place seemed cool

oo a film and tv student

not one myself, but a very close friend of mine is currently a 2nd year student - and I have a couple of other friends in 3rd year of the same course

- if you ever have any questions/need a hand, would happily put you in touch with them

Yaay, that's hopeful aha! Look forward to meeting you though ! :P

Ahh that's awesome ! I'm staircase 2 room 27 What are you studying ??

Aw thanks I appreciate that, I'm sure I will at some point aha, what are you studying then?

3rd year music student

The courses mingle a fair bit, as well the school of arts is pretty tiny, - and there are a lot of shared interestes/ideas between all the courses

creative writing students helping on scripts, music students being asked to write scores, etc..

communications and media studies what about you?

Ahh that sounds amazing! I was so close to choosing music I just thought I couldn't hack the theory behind it all aha ! I'm really looking forward to all the mingling and sharing ideas etc.

Honestly, would you say the students and the kind of environment is a nice place to live?

it can be

Brunel, like many new-ish universities is a very mixed place..

Students will range from being very accepting and welcoming and hardworking - to others who can be very unfriendly and wont care about the uni/their course..

But put it this way, I go there as a very 'visable' transgender person, and have very little problems, and am treated with respect/welcomed/accepted.. so I cant see anyone else having to much of a problem

The school of arts is nice very small, and welcoming/friendly! because its so small its easy to get to know your lecturers, people from other years, and post-grad students etc.. so it can end with quite a community feel

as for the place to live.. well, its functional, and has all you need

I mean, sure its not that pretty.. but.. your 5 minutes away from lectures, shops, clubs, social things, practise rooms, recording equipment, editing suits etc.. - so you soon forget that its not as pretty as a city-based university

Ahaa!! That's awesome ! This is really helpful I'm glad it seems so communal and everything i'll probably need is near !

How about jobs, would it be possible for me to find a job on or near the campus or are most of these jobs taken ? :/

on campus is unlikely, just because there are not many jobs.. - and the ones that are there tend to get snapped up pretty quickly by 2nd/3rd years..

But of campus sure, should be no problem!

Uxbridge town centre is fairly big, lots of shops, bars, pubs, resteraunts, which is where most people I know who have jobs work..

then some others work in different places in london, catching the tube to where ever,

A few others work in wembly/the stadium, as its easy to get to

finding a job should be no problem, and there is a job-shop on campus to help, if you do have any trouble!

Niiiceeeee Well I'm excited to dive in aha! Where you living?

im on campus again this year was off campus for my second year, but this year it was just cheaper/easier to go back to halls

Will be in a 3rd year hall, in clifton

+ im very jelous! wish I was going back to first year again! its such an exciting and fun time! instead i get to head back to dissertations, final year projects, and all manner of responsibilities

Theatre film and television I hope people are easy to mingle with aha! love meeting new people, just hoping my roommates are nice