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Question and Answer Thread

Okay seeming as Lancaster have let prospective students know of this site, we may as well make good use of it.

So any questions you want to ask, go ahead, and me and whoever other current student is online will try and ask them as best as we can.

To help matters, I study Sociology, Criminology and Education Studies and am in Lonsdale College.

So ask away. :smile:

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Reply 1

katie_m4

Hi, if you don't mind me asking where did you move from to Lancaster?

Reply 2

Retardchar

Hi, if you don't mind me asking where did you move from to Lancaster?

I moved from the midlands, just below Birmingham. It's about three hours up the motorway to Lancaster from where I live. :smile:

Btw, to follow LubyLoo's example, I'm studying English Lit with Creative Writing and Women's Studies and I'm in Cartmel College.

Reply 3

Lenneh

katie_m4

Hi, if you don't mind me asking where did you move from to Lancaster?

I'm from Birmingham, (Well I live like 300 yards from the Welcome to Birmingham sign so close enough!) and I'm studying Accounting and Finance, *says in brummie accent* It's great

Disclaimer: I don't really have a brummie accent

Reply 4

LubyLoo

I'm from Preston, which isn't far away from Lancaster at all. About 20 mins on the M6.

Reply 5

Retardchar

Disclaimer: I don't really have a brummie accent

A likely story! Even I have a slight brummy accent and I live about forty minutes drive away from the city itself! :p:

Reply 6

hailz202

Lol seems like quite a few brummies go to Lancaster!

I live about 30mins away from B'ham and am hoping to come to Lancaster next year!

Question.....Im intending to study English Language, anyone heard anything about it? I originally applied for Media and Cultural Studies and the people there gave me the impression the English Language department was really boring?? lol

Also, would it be possible to study minors in Media and Cultural Studies and Creative Writing? If anyone does these subjects, do you enjoy them? Worst and best bits?!

Thanks!

Reply 7

Retardchar

As a part of the english department, I can tell you it's definitely not boring. Especially not the creative writing side, that's excellent. George Green, who is head of creative writing, is brilliant and really funny. :smile:

Obviously I can't talk about language as I'm doing literature, but the department as a whole can definitely not be classed as boring.

Hope that helped in some way! :biggrin:

Reply 8

Feedback

Retardchar

Obviously I can't talk about language as I'm doing literature, but the department as a whole can definitely not be classed as boring.

Hope that helped in some way! :biggrin:

George Green used to ber a soft porn writer. FACT.

Oh and my ex-house 'mate' used to stalk him.

Reply 9

Retardchar

Oringally Posted by Feedback
George Green used to ber a soft porn writer. FACT.

Oh and my ex-house 'mate' used to stalk him.

HAHAHA!

I think I like him even more now. Although, I shan't be stalking him. I don't like him that much.

Reply 10

Feedback

He'll work his charm, I'm sure.

Reply 11

katie_m4

Lenneh

You say that like its a bad thing! I come from Newcastle, and there cannot be an accent which makes people sound thicker than the geordie accent. I'm planning to study French and Spanish. How many hours of lectures do you get a week?

Reply 12

Purple

Could someone explain doing the 3 subjects thing and if you do law do you just do law?

Reply 13

LauraB84

If you do Law, then that counts for two modules, so you only need to pick one extra. My housemate does law and in the first year she picked Psychology, because it covered a lot of the A Level (which she'd done), which meant she could concentrate more on the law modules. They tend to explain everything pretty well at the open days :biggrin:

I'm a third year, but in the first year I did economics, management science and OWT (I do business studies so don't actually have a major).

Reply 14

Katius

katie_m4

Hi, if you don't mind me asking where did you move from to Lancaster?

I moved from Liverpool, it's about an hours drive but takes nearly two hours on the train! :rolleyes:

I'm studying Geography (which counts for two subjects) and Biology as a minor. I was a bit confused about the major/minor system, but when i got here they explained it pretty well. :smile:

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ooh, forgot to add, i'm in Lonsdale college (flat mates with Luby Loo)!

Reply 15

Tomsmitty

I live in surrey and have had an offer from Lancaster for Economics but have never visited the uni or even been further north than Leicester :redface:

Is there gonna be an open day after this saturday coz i can't go to that???

Reply 16

LubyLoo

There are usually campus tours one Wednesday a month. Check on the website. :smile:

Reply 17

adzdarell

hey there everybody... i just applied to do advertising and marketing @ lancs... any one know anything about the department? also whats the percentage of public school at the uni? oh yeah and whats the best college? sorry bout all the questions its just i dont have a clue where to go cos i got offers from all the unis i applied to and the lancs course looks the best

mwah x

Reply 18

katie_m4

Is it hard to get used to budgeting, and is it easy to get home from Lancaster? x

Reply 19

Retardchar

whats the percentage of public school at the uni?

I, personally, haven't met any people from public school... I mean, there's bound to be some but I haven't ran across any. Or if I have, it hasn't been an issue that's been raised.

whats the best college?

Entirely based on personal opinion. :p:

Is it hard to get used to budgeting, and is it easy to get home from Lancaster? x

I haven't found it hard to stick to a budget but then I'm a bit of an organisation freak, haha. I have a budget of up to £70 a week maximum, I prefer not to spend that much though. As for easyness to get home, depends where you live! There is a train station though and it's on a mainline up to Edinburgh so there are a lot of trains north and south. :smile: