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durham college families

Out of pure curiosity:
Do you have "families" for the first-year students to help them?If yes, in every college or just in some of them?
thanks

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Reply 1

cobra

The majority of colleges have a college parent system where you get assigned a volunteer, usually from the same course in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year, to look after you and write you a letter before you arrive and then there will be some kind of event in freshers week where you meet them. Hill colleges tend to be single parent families and the bailey tends to have a whole family tree thing goin on.

Reply 2

Rooftopcowboy

Stephenson are just setting one up, and are asking volunteers...

im not touching it with a barge poll though! 'helping' freshers with their problems is so not my thing :p:

Reply 3

Mattmoy_2000

My college parents scared me somewhat.
My mother performed exorcisms and was in 5 CU's and on the exec of the JU (despite not being Jewish - discrimination laws or something).
However, everybody else I know seems to get on with their families.

Reply 4

ssmoose

You do Physics... so they probably do Physics, so no wonder you got lumped with weirdos :wink:

Reply 5

sidekick

hehe my friend's college mum abandoned her because she refused to join the classics society :biggrin:

Reply 6

ssmoose

hehe my friend's college mum abandoned her because she refused to join the classics society

Bless an orphan. I'm sure they could find someone to adopt them.

Reply 7

sidekick

ssmoose

Bless an orphan. I'm sure they could find someone to adopt them.

lol I don't think she'd want anyone to adopt her anyway, she's an independent child :biggrin:

Reply 8

Derek_The_Hamster

Jucus

Out of pure curiosity:
Do you have "families" for the first-year students to help them?If yes, in every college or just in some of them?
thanks

Yes, but the precise way they're structured depends strongly upon the college, e.g. Collingwood (certainly in my day, but I don't think it's changed) assign you one fresher parents, whereas some others will couple off two parents and give them two children, generating siblings etc.

Reply 9

ssmoose

And they're subject specific right?

Reply 10

Rach:)

Should be, yep :smile:

Reply 11

Rooftopcowboy

do they have adoption agency's for these families, and also is single parent beneifts awarded? and can the father run off and have an affair with his secretary? :wink:

Reply 12

Jucus

hmm sounds interesting so far :smile:

anyway thanks for your answers

Reply 13

Itchynscratchy

ssmoose

And they're subject specific right?

They are as far as its possible, but not everyone will get a parent/child with the same subject as them.

Reply 14

Itchynscratchy

Rooftopcowboy

do they have adoption agency's for these families, and also is single parent beneifts awarded? and can the father run off and have an affair with his secretary? :wink:

This is probably the only situation you can say to someone ''My mates sleeping with his daughter'' and not get a horrified look