New Imperial Medics beware!

I thought I'd try and do the right thing and warn you people now:

You should all be receiving invitations from your medic's student union soon, about the medic's freshers fortnight, and how buying a 'passport' for about £50 will get you entry to all the medics freshers events over the fortnight.

This passport and the fortnight is run by the Medic's Student Union, not Imperial Student Union. Imperial run their own freshers week events independently and parallel to the Medics, and normally send out the information a week before term starts.

Many new medics arrive fully meaning to meet lots of new friends at Imperial, from their course/halls or just randoms. They think they have got organised and will be able to do just that with these passports; however, when they get here they realise that there is a separate list of events that Imperial are running, and also a list of events that each hall of residences run.

Past experience over two years have told me what happens: Because the medics have gone ahead and purchased these Medic's passports, they feel obliged not to waste their money and go to ALL the Medic's events and hang out with medics, thus falling into a clique and not getting to know anyone in their halls or from different courses in the first 2 weeks. After this time, people form friendship groups and it is difficult to break that mould and meet new people.

Theres is a very big divide in Imperial between Medics and non-Medics which you will see when you get here and one of the main reasons (besides the history) is because of this. I am not saying that you SHOULDN'T buy the medics passport; if that's your thing then that's up to you. I personally know many medics who got here and regretted buying these passports so early because it effectively restricted them from hanging out with different people or going to different events during the first fortnight. You have 6 years to get to know people on your medicine course and only 3 to know others, or only 1 year to know others in halls. Why form yourself into a clique so early when you should be meeting as many different people as you can in the first two weeks of your university life?

My tuppence of advice to new medics :biggrin:

i hope some of the others at Imperial can back me up on this 'phenomena'

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Reply 40

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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

Theres always one obnoxious medic isn't there...

Reply 41

grooverider527

freshers roadshow last night was incredible!! Id even go as far as sayin it was beta than the boat party.
Then the pub crawl 2moro night!

Reply 42

pkchips

tbh im also pissed off that i missed the boat cruise cos of this topic. Go mangaroo!

Reply 43

4Ed

hmm i'm surprised that people are so negative about the advice - i left the option open and didn't tell you NOT to buy a passport, but just beware that there are other things going on besides Medic's Fortnight.

I didn't realise it was so hard to get individual tickets for some events - but luckily for you, Mangaroo, you managed to get to the boat party.

tbh, i'm not that big a fan of ICU events personally, but i do think people should get involved in hall events because they are generally amazing and the people you meet are the ones you'll be living with for the next year.

Reply 44

switchday

hmm, yeah, the ICU events sucked this year.

the medics events have been good

hall events - well..im going to the beit coming up dinner - looks good :smile: