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bad things about sussex uni?

honest opionens

whats the worst thing about Sussex uni? No one seems to think there's anything bad about it, true?

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Reply 1

sleepy_person!

there are lots of bad rumours about it.. :frown:

Reply 2

fine crystal

crap library in comparison to other university libraries (although, being a university library, it still obviously has loads of books, and niche books too, just the opening hours are not great and there aren't that many staff)

there is a history of poor management which resulted in lots of cuts, most famously an attempt to get rid of the high-flying chemistry department. instead, they're now shutting the gardner arts centre, which has been going for over 40 years. the grapevine, a fairly popular student bar, has been shut, and falmer bar seems very temperamental in its opening hours.

mmm...umm. also. you might not like the campus. the buildings can seem ugly. and it's a campus uni, so it won't be a city uni. and there is no psychadelic folk society.

i guess i should point out that the bad things i mentioned don't bother me that much. except for the psychadelic folk thing, that does.

Reply 3

Wise One

11

It can get a bit ... smug, at times.

That's about it, from my viewpoint.

Reply 4

zoea85

2

Possibly one of the worst uni libraries in the country, crap on campus social facilities (in the way of bars/nightclub) and too many hippies handing out flyers and jumping on every bandwagon going. I do like the place though.

Reply 5

ledge

zoea85

Possibly one of the worst uni libraries in the country, crap on campus social facilities (in the way of bars/nightclub) and too many hippies handing out flyers and jumping on every bandwagon going. I do like the place though.

I've got to stick up for the library , its pretty good in my opinion, but we've covered this ground before i think...

Reply 6

zoea85

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ledge

I've got to stick up for the library , its pretty good in my opinion, but we've covered this ground before i think...

Yes I think we have. We were asked for honest opinions and that's mine. You're entitled to yours also. I would love to have experienced the library to be pretty good but in my experience, 2 copies of a book between 900 students and books that are supposed to be on shelves never being there just doesn't cut the mustard for £3000 a year.

Reply 7

dogtanian

16

I don't like campus universities as much as city ones myself, but that's a personal issue. You may like the campus thing..

Reply 8

dogtanian

16

zoea85

Yes I think we have. We were asked for honest opinions and that's mine. You're entitled to yours also. I would love to have experienced the library to be pretty good but in my experience, 2 copies of a book between 900 students and books that are supposed to be on shelves never being there just doesn't cut the mustard for £3000 a year.

A bloke working at the library told me that on average it takes a short loan book a week to get from the desk when it's returned onto its rightful place on the shelf. That's pretty shoddy.

no idea of course if that's a thing that happens in most academic libraries, or just Sussex.

Reply 9

Mccarroll

1

err which halls are you in lol

Reply 10

ledge

redluc

Just because you have dreadlocks it does not make you a moral authority.

The best post I have read on this forum for a while

Reply 11

ledge

Nice one for the positive comments too, it is good to see that not everybody gets sucked in by the whirlpool of negativity that is 'Sort US out', etc

Reply 12

jointhedots

16

I'm sure it's fine if you haven't had the poor judgement to choose Politics as your degree. And the library isn't too great.

I'm transferring out next year to Leeds but to be honest that's more to do with my specific course than the uni as a whole. If the course hadn't been altered so much I'd love Sussex.

Reply 13

Freezer

1

its in the south, not anywhere classy like the midlands, LOCATION!

But seriously even though a few people say Brighton is a loveley city to live in, I have heard from people who live there certain things go on which I dont like the sound of.

Reply 14

RichSwitch

Bad things about Sussex Uni... lack of decent social places - you can't just walk into Brighton and then stagger home easily. Though Brighton is pretty cool if you want to hang out. The buildings (teaching) are pretty poor compared to some I've been to. There's no real sense of community either, at least it never feels to me like there's one.

Reply 15

rach13

RichSwitch

Bad things about Sussex Uni... lack of decent social places - you can't just walk into Brighton and then stagger home easily. Though Brighton is pretty cool if you want to hang out. The buildings (teaching) are pretty poor compared to some I've been to. There's no real sense of community either, at least it never feels to me like there's one.

i dunno, i reckon there's an amazing sense of community at sussex, that's one of my favourite things about it. my friends who've vistited from other uni's have noticed and said it's something their uni lacks. just to give an alternative perspective!

Reply 16

Coolster90

the campus looks crap

Reply 17

Thoughtcriminal31

I would have thought something like the library would have been a priority for a university.. why don't they sort it out?

Also, for which subjects is the book shortage worst for?

Reply 18

Wise One

11

Thoughtcriminal31

I would have thought something like the library would have been a priority for a university.. why don't they sort it out?

Lack of money.

And you'd be suprised - 75%+ of the resources I use are either provided in photocopied 'reading packs' of core chapters etc. that you buy at the start of term, or through scanned journal articles, which are available electronically.

Reply 19

RichSwitch

Good to get a balance on the sense of community thing. Dunno, maybe I'm just getting old but I can only compare my experience of Exeter with my experience of Sussex. Sussex is pretty comatose really!

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