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New Imperial Medics beware!

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Reply 20

Mangaroo

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Reply 21

switchday

christ lighten up people! it was only a joke!

of course i hope to meet non-medics too. i guess it just gets hard to stay in touch when we all go over to hammersmith in year 2.

Reply 22

4Ed

Mangaroo

lol who cares if medics socialise with non-medics, whats the big deal?
Btw, will we get a imperial college (non-medical) student freshers handbook or similar info etc..?

yes you will, at the same time as everyone else at Imperial.

switchday

christ lighten up people! it was only a joke!

of course i hope to meet non-medics too. i guess it just gets hard to stay in touch when we all go over to hammersmith in year 2.

yey I'm glad to hear you are sociable after all!
That's why you want to make friends with lots of non-medics in first year, because you have all the time in the world to get to know your fellow medics from 2nd year upwards

Reply 23

switchday

4Ed

That's why you want to make friends with lots of non-medics in first year, because you have all the time in the world to get to know your fellow medics from 2nd year upwards

and at the back of lecture theatres when no one's paying attention :biggrin:

Reply 24

kpg

All of my mates and I made loads of non medic friends and went out with a nice selection. It's a bit insulting to say all medics are 'antisocial' or 'unfriendly' because it's simply not true. Don't think I went to the reynolds except for the organised major events (things like comedy) because it's a bit of a dump.

Personally I got the passport but didn't goto all the medic events (the ones I did goto mind you were SENSATIONAL). It saves a lot of hassle in the fortnight trying to get tickets etc. and some events have a limit of how many people can go (eg. boat party), even if it is a bit expensive.

Reply 25

The Caretaker

has someone worked out how much you save with the passport because if its a lot (like 50%) then it would still be a bargain even if you didnt go to all the events.

Reply 26

nexman

why are non medics so keen on breaking the medics clique? probably cos of the lack of females elsewhere in imperial

Lol to be honest I have yet to meet an Imperial medic on TSR who actually follows the so-called 'clique' which everyone seems to tirelessly bring up! I'm sure everyone of us wants to meet the people that are gonna be in our own course (since you'll be spending the next few years worth of lectures with them so you'd want to get to know them better) but that doesn't mean you can't socialise and meet people outside your course. Most of the medics on here seem more interested in breaking the clique than actually meeting other medics :P

Reply 29

Mehh

nexman

why are non medics so keen on breaking the medics clique? probably cos of the lack of females elsewhere in imperial

I'm not keen to break them up. I just enjoy bashing them once in a while.
Also you will find that quite a few of the old hand...old typing fingers on this forum are/have once been/is going to be a reapp. Which means we had to make sure people socialized with each other. The group that invariably ends up least socialble, at least from the outside is the medics.
For some reason Pembridge worked out quite nicely last year, before someone bashes me...>_<

Reply 30

4Ed

in time honoured fashion, there is always some sort of breakaway.

The medics in Beit this year were mostly really sociable and we had a fantastic group of freshers, but at the end of the day, most of my medic friends have all ended living with each other!

Hopefully with enough information beforehand, we can gradually turn the cliqueyness around... people have the best intentions to socialise with everyone, but it's difficult when you join a medics only freshers week. Hence my warning.

Reply 31

switchday

it's a well known fact that when people are divided into groups, even for absolutely trivial reasons, rivalry and in-group bias occurs.

http://www.holah.karoo.net/tajfestudy.htm - brilliant study on this.

*bump*

might wanna get it checked out by a medic..

Reply 34

4Ed

as long as they're not too off their face from the previous night's drinking :wink:

Reply 35

Big Benji

4Ed

as long as they're not too off their face from the previous night's drinking :wink:

I've rarely met a sober medic :p:

Reply 36

Big Fat Mel

Right, sounds like sound advice to me. I reckon I'll buy the pass for the medic's Ball, in case that gets sod out, but i'll just play everything else by ear and try to go to afew of all the events - Hall, ICL and Medic's. Besides, quite a few of the events advertised on the fresher's pass were free anyway.

Reply 37

username42059

The more different people are the more interesting they are. Hence I want to get to know non medics more so. I'd go crazy hanging around with other meds all the time.

Reply 38

Mangaroo

I just thought id revive this thread just to say a big up yours for convincing me not to buy passport and missed the first boat cruise...good thing i got it today, not gonna hang out at icu events anymore after tonight's amazingness..icu events were dissapointing ---- its the truth u can argue all u want..nanannannnana

Reply 39

switchday

got the passport and really happy i did

the icu events are crap in comparison..hehe!

New Imperial Medics beware!

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