University of Southampton Freshers 2013/2014

Geology is exactly the same, UCAS said the course is due to start on the 1st, but i checked the welcome week timetable and there is a sort of introduction thing as far as i can tell on the 26th at the NOC, then my first week starts on the 30th

Have you seen we start on the 30th sept and we go on a field trip to Lulworth on the 5th oct


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Im also staying at Liberty point and will be going to the NOC, do the changes make getting there just more inconvenient because we have to get to West Quay, or are there other problems? i didnt know anything about the changes until you mentioned them

It's just more inconvenient I think. We need to get onto the U6 and change at some point onto the U1. The best place to do it is probably West Quay, but I'm going to try to figure it out on Sunday 22nd (the day the timetable changes)

It just seems like such a stupid change. The Unilink service is primarily for university students so it seems ridiculous to make a whole campus less accessible to its target audience.

I guess we aren't too far from West Quay anyway so that's okay, it gives me a chance to get a coffee on the way to the NOC to keep me awake given the early starts haha, yeah i will need to figure it out, im arriving at liberty point on the 22nd so i will have to do that at some point as well

yeah it does seem a bit stupid, but if it just means a 10 minute walk to the bus stop then i guess it could be worse

Is anyone else annoyed by the changes to the U6 unilink route? I would have been able to get a bus from the stop by my halls (Liberty Point) to the NOC but it doesn't go there any more. It stops at West Quay. Now I have to work out where I can change routes and whether the bus times match up.

And I wasn't aware that they have changed the route!

The U1 is literally like a 3-5 minute walk (if that) from Orions Point. And I wasn't aware that they have changed the route!

Yeah i did see that, its awesome that we are getting into field trips already, what halls are you staying at?


Where'sPerry?: Im also staying at Liberty point and will be going to the NOC, do the changes make getting there just more inconvenient because we have to get to West Quay, or are there other problems? i didnt know anything about the changes until you mentioned them

Ahh okay I didn't know this. It looks further on the network map because it's very stylised I guess Thanks!

And from that stop to NOCS it should only be about 15-20 minute max to NOCS. And around that sort of time up to Highfield.

That sounds good, but I spoke to my mum about it earlier and she seems to think you have to cross a 4-lane major road to get to the U1 stop, do you know if that's true? I really have no idea where she gets this stuff

Yeah there is a 4 lane major road but it's not as major as it sounds! Most people are able to cross easily or if you want there is a safer place to cross just up the road.

I think your first day should be the 30th. UCAS said my course started on the 1st too, but I have lectures timetabled for the Monday of week 1

The 30th? Ahh, I don't know what to do!
I'm not sure whether to turn up on the Monday or the Tuesday.
My timetable is the same, I have lectures on Monday week 1.
But why would they put the 1st on ucas and everything?
At least I know I'm definitely going in on Tuesday 24th, I'll ask around and see what most people seem to be doing.
Good excuse to start talking to people I suppose XD

I have no idea, but on UCAS they had me down as a postgraduate! So I don't completely trust its accuracy I'm sure the lecturers/staff can confirm what day we should be starting, too

Has anyone had their optional modules added to their timetable yet?

Also, has anyone from the school of Ocean and Earth science bought the books from their reading list? They're mega expensive and I can't find them online cheaper (I can barely find them at all)