Durham General Chat Thread

I'm in India - it's humid. I hate it. I had Dominos today. Woohoo! Off to Geneva on Sat!

Reply 6561

Mizmoz

6

im the oppoiste- i would love to share a room. least that way if everyone hates me someone is forced to eat with me. well not forced, but id like to think they would! the only thing is im SUCH a light sleeper and i dont drink alcohol, so if i was in bed i would wake up whenever the other person came in. i dont know how well they match people!? WOO its getting soon- 1 month to results, 2 months and a bit till we are potentially at durham! YEA!

Reply 6562

WokSz

I can't believe summer is going so fast - it'll be good to be studying again after a gap year!!!

Reply 6563

RobbieC

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Becca

Hello everyone, I haven't been around for a while! That's because I'm working at the mo down in Winchester at a summer school and it's all go. I've been working 19 hour days sometimes :s-smilie:

1st day off tomorrow though and I am going to SLEEP.
Hope everyone's enjoying their summer hols. :smile:

Wow, thats awesome Becbo. I assume you are getting paid, however!? Such things might make 19 hour days a bit of a positive:-D

Glad you're enjoying it all so much. I am slowly starting to realise I must read for my dissertation and make a start soon. SIGH. It's horrible, though. Other than that though, summers good here too, and my diet is going really well right now. Maybe I'll be all skinny and beautiful on my return to Durham?! :biggrin:

Reply 6564

socialist cook

8

I've been in Durham all weekend and I was reminded several times about how beautiful it is.

The Miners Gala was great too. Dennis Skinner is a legend. :smile:

Reply 6565

Hello everyone, I haven't been on here in absolutely ages, but have been driven back on by the summer dullardry. Anyway, I'm popping up to Durham for a couple of days to drop stuff up in the new house for next year in a couple of weeks and was wondering what there is to do in Durham outside of term time. Obviously the Gala remains, and the Pubs and restaurants (I think Romeo's on Elvet bridge may get a visit), but I'm not sure about what else there is to do. Going for 3 days, Friday to Monday morning. Any suggestions? :confused:

Reply 6566

Also, what happened to this place, it seems positively barren compared to how I remember it from last summer! I swear that it was the only thing that kept me sane, logging on here and seeing the new messages for that hour! :frown:

Reply 6567

Christo

14

Try some stuff that you'd never be bothered to do as a student. Isn't there some sort of museum thing just outside Durham? Actually, that sounds pretty boring. Hit the 'shack on friday instead.

Reply 6568

socialist cook

8

Go to things like the Durham Heritage Museum and do some brass rubbing(I never saw it open until I was up there on Saturday), visit Old Fulling Mill, walk round the river and up Church Street without it being crammed.

Go up to Newcastle... have lunch in Collectables(it's a bric a brac shop on Northumberland Street but has a lovely café on the bottom floor they do good soups and sandwiches), have a coffee at the Sage(the view is great and it's odd being inside it).

There are loads of things you can do!

Reply 6569

arkbar

12

Oriental Museum and the botanic gardens?
Go to Bishop Auckland, I hear stuff explodes a lot there.

Reply 6570

selkie

I finally found out that I will be living in Collingwood College for next year! I am soooo excited. They took long enough telling some of us international exchange students, haha.

Oh and it amuses me how over there many people dread sharing a room. At my own uni (UC Berkeley) you can't even have a single room for campus housing - and are considered lucky if you have a double as opposed to a triple! :p:

arkbar: how did you like living in Santa Barbara? And how was the whole Californian uni experience? My hometown is very close to UCSB. I wonder how you'd compare it to Durham. :smile:

Reply 6571

WokSz

Durham is very different, but in a good way. You'll see when you get here!

Reply 6572

I think Botanic Gardens is out, my companion for the trip didn't seem too enamoured of it on the 6 occasions she went last year with visitors, so I don't think the suggestion would go down that well :smile:

Thanks for the other suggestions, I think I'll probably go to the museum on the Bailey, it's only about 2 mins from where I'll be living, and the oriental place seems intriguing. Thanks for the suggestion of Newcastle too, it's definately going into consideration! What's Rumblintums like? I've bever been.

Reply 6573

arkbar

12

I really enjoyed Santa Barbara, the weather is a lot better than Durham :wink:

but I'm glad to be home and going back to Durham.
I know Berkeley is a bit more intense than UCSB but you'll probably take a while to get used to not having homework/lab due every week and also no finals or midterms. There will also probably be less things like sections with TAs or seminars, and less choice in courses but overall I think you'll really enjoy it!
Other main differences: Drinking culture, people at Durham not working part time, hills, a whole lot less shared rooms, the fact that [almost] everyone is white, everything is more expensive etc etc :smile:

What's your major?

Reply 6574

socialist cook

8

Aceofspades2345

What's Rumblintums like? I've bever been.

I think you mean Rumbletums?

Rumbletums is a tiny tea rooms just down the steps from Dorothy Perkins and the Works and is a little gem of a place. (Well in my experiences anyway.)

For 95p you get at least four cups of tea from a pot, although it is far too weak for my tastes everything is served in china cups and on china plates. They do sandwiches, main meals(lasagne for instance), salad bowls, cakes all for reasonable prices. Also with your sandwiches you normally get side salad and a decent serving of crisps.

It's a tiny cavernous tea room with pictures from local artists on the walls and is hardly ever packed, so this is another reason to like it over places like Esquires or Vennels(although their tea bread is reason enough to go there).

Reply 6575

socialist cook

I think you mean Rumbletums?

Rumbletums is a tiny tea rooms just down the steps from Dorothy Perkins and the Works and is a little gem of a place. (Well in my experiences anyway.)

For 95p you get at least four cups of tea from a pot, although it is far too weak for my tastes everything is served in china cups and on china plates. They do sandwiches, main meals(lasagne for instance), salad bowls, cakes all for reasonable prices. Also with your sandwiches you normally get side salad and a decent serving of crisps.

It's a tiny cavernous tea room with pictures from local artists on the walls and is hardly ever packed, so this is another reason to like it over places like Esquires or Vennels(although their tea bread is reason enough to go there).

Thanks, I'll pay it a visit then! :smile:

Reply 6576

Jelkin