Lancaster University - 2014 Applicants

I broke my phone screen, was running on a backup phone for a month or so. Don't check TSR often when not on my phone so wasn't active then. It's all fixed up now, so that's all good.

Yeah note that the LU forum is more active then when that person tried to start the society, I'm tempted to start a society, I'm already on the exec of 2 societies and have experience of opening one society in first term. Shouldn't be that hard, think getting the initial 15 members might be hard though. And not sure if TSR society is the right name either.

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tut tut, not good enough Glad to hear it's all up and running though!

Ooh that's interesting. I've just applied for a Mod position on TSR and one of the things I'm hoping to do (for each university) is set up a chat page. It's different to the Applicants page and the Firmers page in that current students just talk on there to each other about their day at the university. Can be useful for prospective students as it gives them a day to day account of what life is like, plus people get to make friends on there.

And yeah having it labelled as the TSR Society could be a bad thing, since it's exclusive to other students. I'm debating whether to actually make it an official society working with LUSU though, since it does have this risk factor of not many people turning up I think if we have it as an unofficial society for this website only, not in collaboration with LUSU, then it doesn't matter if it sinks or floats. I mean there probably won't be a signing up fee, and all it requires is someone to state social events and where you and I will be on campus for socials/to answer any questions

P.S. I call dibs on being Chairman/Treasurer (if we need one) as it's my idea. But your experience in these other societies should prove useful! please be the Societies Exec.

Do you actually want to get things in motion with this? Tbh LUSU don't care much about dropping below initial 15. Pres and VP right? and it's so much better being LUSU official we can get things like free sugarhouse entry through LUSU guestlist for socials etc.

Also us lot on TSR have a "strange way of thinking" (is that how it's meant to be put? lol ) a lot of us are a generation of internet, fandoms etc. It'd be cool to have this society to say the least, we are all like minded in someway is what I am saying.

[EDIT]: just saw your post above. Standard positions, Pres, VP, Gen Sec, Social Secs is what we should start with I reckon. we can get things going by next year for sure, me and some others founded the crossfit society in first term, and it's up and running pretty well already

Yeah we could have night out socials on a friday, casual socials throughout the week, random events, maybe some charity events. This society sounds pretty good actually, we are some sort of "head start to uni" sort of thing

I can get the paperwork in motion today if we want.

Like all societies we should have husts and voting in of new exec etc.

I completely agree with you

I would say socials every other Friday, since the members might want to go out with other friends of theirs instead (being a member of a sporting society where they almost bully you into going out every Wednesday is kinda depressing, so we're not going to be like that since we want every member to be satisfied and happy). But yeah this society is sounding brilliant. We won't need a treasurer, what will the General Sec. do? just record minutes of meetings etc.?

Yeah let's see if we can get some of the paperwork sorted out so the ball is rolling. Husts will be a great idea for new members who want to get involved and get some exec. committee experience. There will be no limit on the amount of places you can apply for, nor will there be a limit of the amount of times you can be on the committee.

The gen sec role covers all of paperwork, health and safety, treasurer, planning of exec meetings, posters advertising and that stuff. It's a fairly general role hence "general secretary" .

I was putting down all the stuff that LUSU recommends and what i've learnt as part of the LUANA society exec.

The forms are all online, we can get started on those. Society bank account is just useful to have, it's easy to setup (setup two accounts through natwest for 2 societies and they do come in handy).

The start would probably be a TSR thread and then a facebook page.

Surely the Social Secs. would have posters and advertising? unless we make a Publicity exec. as well? I personally think that's a helluva lot of work for a Gen. Sec. especially if they're a fresher

Yeah alright, can't really see how we'd use the bank account but it all sounds good. A TSR thread where we just invite everyone on the Firmers page and take it from there.

Cool, sent a PM

These are the main 4 questions for the LUSU start a new society form:

Why have you started the society?

How is your society unique?

What type of opportunities will your society offer?

If you plan to run physical activities do you have a location organised for these to take place?

It's really good to be fair! Plenty of pubs and clubs in the city such as revolutions, elements, Sugarhouse, hustle, mint, Bentleys...as only a handful. The city itself is quite nice, a castle and even the Saturday/Sunday market! There are plenty of shops to go shopping in, but if it's not enough then Liverpool and Manchester aren't far away either. In short, I love it!

And don't worry about asking questions! As long as you keep throwing them my way I'll keep replying!


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hiya bit of an unrelated question now, but I went to a natsci open day couple days back and the dude said they have all the lectures recorded and put on online for a resource (e.g if you were ill and missed it or want to watch it again for revision). Wanted to know how true this was, like do ALL the lecturers do this ALL of the time? Or do only some, and some of the time?

Cheers!

Also I wanted to know if you reckoned there's lots of people from private school at lancaster, or lots of posh types?

Public schooling in the UK refers to private eduction (I know, it linguistically makes no sense!). MalteseMalteser, I'm guessing you mean you were state educated?

Hey! yeah some of the lectures are recorded, like mine in the Economics modules, but not all of them are I think. It's normally down to how big the course is (e.g. the more students taking the course, the greater the demand for them to know stuff that went on in lectures). One of my Economics modules has roughly 700 people enrolled so there is great demand to record it. Other courses, which maybe aren't so large, don't get this opportunity. It should also be noted that it is not good to miss lectures in substituting the online recording for learning, because lectures are better since you get to know the knowledge of the lecturer there and then and in person, plus you can see the animations on slides etc.

And wow that's certainly a question I haven't asked before haha! Well, I have a housemate who I would consider posh but I'm not sure he went to a private school (he is kind of a millionaire though). People consider me posh because I come from the south (where everyone is considered posh pretty much haha) but I've been public schooled for my whole life.

Thing is, is that it's difficult to get a good estimate due to all of the international students that study here. In most cases, their parents are paying the tuition fees and what else not. But from my experiences, I've not come across many posh people or private-schooled students. Most are in the same boat as me that are public schooled and/or not posh. Having said that, there the odd one or two that are, but we're not talking on the same levels as Oxbridge/Durham/UCL/Exeter etc.

Plus the "posh" couple of people I know are quite nice, hardly snobby at all!

EDIT: as Tim TIC has pointed out, I was actually State educated, not public educated

thanks man really helpful. I have more questions tho you'll be pleased to know haha. Wondered how easy/ practical it is to get a part time job at the uni, or in the town itself? Also wondering what other unis you applied to and what made you choose lancaster in the end? anddd also like for example I know at Bath uni they have academic reps for each subject, and also SU officers and whatnot- I wondered how many of those kind of opportunities you have at Lancaster, and I know at Bath all the positions are dead competitive, so was wondering if it was same here? (As you can prob tell I'm trying to choose between Bath and Lancaster). Cheers!

Departmental Open Day tomorrow! I have an annoying list of questions prepared for some unfortunate soul. Depending on how it all goes, I may very well make my decision after the weekend. All very exciting!

Feel free to pop by mine if you have more questions or you just want a chat etc.


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Very nice of you to offer. Depending on time, I may well take you up on it.