'I went to their open day and hated it' - your experiences
Everyone who I have talked to has hated one of the universities they have visited - what was yours?
Mine was personally Durham. I got the feeling it was trying too hard to be Oxbridge, but lacked any of the progression Oxbridge had actually made - for example it seemed quite snobby and the academic material, at least for my course, seemed too traditional for myself.
Mine was personally Durham. I got the feeling it was trying too hard to be Oxbridge, but lacked any of the progression Oxbridge had actually made - for example it seemed quite snobby and the academic material, at least for my course, seemed too traditional for myself.
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Leicester is just one big science block. It's fine if you want to do science stuff but I didn't. 
Mine was Edge Hill, I can't even explain the reasons. I kinda assumed I'd go there because it was so local, but I visited and just could not imagine myself there. So I went somewhere a little further away from home instead and was very happy with that decision.
Liverpool - Had no enthusiasm for the subject :/
Nottingham.
Nothing against the uni, it just made me realise how I cannot stand self-contained campus unis.
Nothing against the uni, it just made me realise how I cannot stand self-contained campus unis.
Original post by TattyBoJangles
Nottingham.
Nothing against the uni, it just made me realise how I cannot stand self-contained campus unis.
Nothing against the uni, it just made me realise how I cannot stand self-contained campus unis.
why?
Southampton- Big lover of architecture, and the buildings at Southampton were to my taste, awful. The economics lecturer was also outrageously dull.
Original post by Jack93o
why?
It just felt like a big school and isolated from the "real world".
Drove me insane within 10 minutes.
Original post by charliemac41
Southampton- Big lover of architecture, and the buildings at Southampton were to my taste, awful. The economics lecturer was also outrageously dull.
One of the lecturers at Notts almost put me off as he was a massive elitist, self-absorbed, border-line misogynist pig. I then met the Dr Lee, however, who runs the Viking Studies course and she was ace. Beckoned me and my mum into her office - she wasn't even part of the open day - and had an hour long one to tone with her. So lovely.
Sheffield, awsome university, its just i cant afford any of the accomodation, or atleast the ones they were letting people look at, and Bradford didnt exactly sell themselves
As for Leicester, went today and thought it was awsome
As for Leicester, went today and thought it was awsome
Original post by owly1090
Manchester - all concrete, right next to the huge, busy city centre and didn't like the course
also Southampton - seemed so far from anything, was really small and didn't like the course again
loved all the others though so it's still gonna be difficult decision
also Southampton - seemed so far from anything, was really small and didn't like the course again
loved all the others though so it's still gonna be difficult decision
All concrete? Personally I think very little of it is concrete. Plus all us Mancunians think it's too far from the centre when we're trying to go academy.
Original post by Guru Jason
Leicester is just one big science block. It's fine if you want to do science stuff but I didn't.
Same impression when I went last year. Looked very dull and boring in my opinion, probably didn't help that it was pouring it down with rain when I went though...
Birmingham; not that is wasn't a nice place, but everyone seemed to be talking more about the new and expensive facilities and less about the course itself...
I liked all the ones I looked at!
My friend, however, had a massive aversion to Cardiff. Mainly because he saw a council estate on the way in and decided, on the back of that, the city was a dump. Which is kind of stupid given Cardiff is one of the safest and nicest cities in the UK
My friend, however, had a massive aversion to Cardiff. Mainly because he saw a council estate on the way in and decided, on the back of that, the city was a dump. Which is kind of stupid given Cardiff is one of the safest and nicest cities in the UK
Edinburgh - chucking it down, late getting there, lots of stairs and what seemed to be poor local amenities. Ah well, still got one of my choices, hope it was a bad day....
sadly Nottingham, found the taster lecture boring and the course wasn't as interesting as I thought it would be, everything else was great. Also Bristol,the course was the best out of all the open days I went to but I didn't like the atmosphere. Just wasn't as enthusiastic/welcoming as the other open days.
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