University of sheffield Firmers

Chemistry anyone?

Anyone for BioEngineering??

Is there a gym and athletics track nearby? I've chosen endcliffe

I think on one of the uni videos it said the sports centre was roughly halfway between the accommodation and the uni. There's a gym there that looks decent, don't know about an athletics track.

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aerospace engineering applied for endcliffe
need to make sure i get my grade first though.
Is anyone else doing Btec?

Aerospace engineering with Pilot Pilot Instruction, I noticed there are a lot of other aerospace applicants here too which is great! Also applied for Endcliffe

No one doing Bsc Geo???! I firmed it back in january hahaha. Hoping to get AAB but the way my english lit and lang exam went its more likely to be AAC hahahahaha. Hoping they'll let me in anyway considering they offered me a place about 10 hours after I applied hahahahahaha!!! And because there's no cap on places now, they will hopefully be a tiny bit more lenient. I've applied for Endcliffe I think!!!!!

The gym there is decent but it's awfully expensive, might be worth looking into Hallam Active, similar distance from Endcliffe but £40 cheaper for the year even if you can't convince them they should give you Hallam student price .

Aerospace engineering with Pilot Pilot Instruction, I noticed there are a lot of other aerospace applicants here too which is great! Also applied for Endcliffe

This is going to sound harsh but if you're doing BTEC I'd advise you take a gap year and do some A levels or a reputable access course during that time, I knew quite a lot of people who've started engineering programs at Sheffield with a btec background and to put it lightly it doesn't go well. This is ignoring the fact that the aerospace course at Sheffield is not very well run at all, there's a reason why it has such a high drop out/failure rate, which in itself is a hint to find another course at Sheffield or look for aerospace elsewhere.

Well it's a bit late to change now seeing as we've already firmed it on ucas? Whats so bad about it anyway? They've been consistently ranked as top 10 on the complete university guide for aerospace and are one of the top unis in its field.

I've applied for pilot instruction too! Really looking forward to it! What A-levels do you take?

The course is atrociously run, there's no dedicated Aerospace department like at other unis and the department we do have (called the IPO) is not organised at all, we've literally received notifications of things an hour before they were supposed to happen. Notes are also provided at the disgression of module leaders which in practice means that the IPO has to buy them (which they don't always do, especially for the MEC modules, which is a serious pain), and they then hand them out at the IPO office which is quite a small place so on occasion they just tell everyone who has come to collect notes to come back later if it gets too busy. And yeah at the beginning of the year they give a presentation to show how hard it is although what it's really showing is the pass rate, which works out to about 60% year-on-year.

Then for how the modules themselves are run, for two of them so far there are no solutions available for their exam papers, for MEC192 the available solutions are horrendously wrong a lot of the time and despite them having been like this for 3 years so far they haven't changed it, and the marks available for questions can vary wildly e.g. for one question with the exact same wording it was 12 marks in one exam and 3 marks in another. There's also a bunch of lecturers who frankly can't teach, and again they try scare tactics with things like half of the people who take this exam will fail it.

For the content, you don't really do much aerospace in the first year or 2, you have AER120 for the first 7 weeks and that's it really, and like most of the other modules a quick look on wikipedia will show it's unnecessarily dumbed down at times. The equipment for labs is also quite old and doesn't really work properly.

Do you think a lot of this will still stand with the opening of The Diamond? Surely all the new facilities and such will change this slightly, and I'd imagine they would need a big change-up in the department to accommodate for all these new facilities