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Original post by Aula
Original post by Aula
I'm not sure how far Hild Bede is from the science site, but I think it's about half an hour.
Durham colleges are completely separate from the academic side. It's not like Oxbridge. You will have lectures and seminars purely with the department.
And for 3 I'd suggest googling. Take a look at the Hild Bede JCR website (if they have one, I'm not certain they do), and if you do a search within this forum you'll find plenty of threads with info.
Durham colleges are completely separate from the academic side. It's not like Oxbridge. You will have lectures and seminars purely with the department.
And for 3 I'd suggest googling. Take a look at the Hild Bede JCR website (if they have one, I'm not certain they do), and if you do a search within this forum you'll find plenty of threads with info.
Thank you very much for your help!
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Could someone explain to me how the Natural Sciences degree works? I was originally intending to study Biology, but since then have taken more of an interest in Psychology and would like to do a double-honours degree. Would I be able to do this at Durham, through Natural Sciences? I'm finding the website a little confuzzling.... ^^"
Original post by tiana_tiara
Could someone explain to me how the Natural Sciences degree works? I was originally intending to study Biology, but since then have taken more of an interest in Psychology and would like to do a double-honours degree. Would I be able to do this at Durham, through Natural Sciences? I'm finding the website a little confuzzling.... ^^"
have you applied yet, or are you thinking of applying next year? if you have applied already it may be difficult to switch to natural sciences once you arrive, and if you want to then you should ring the department to see what spaces they have.
Basically, with natural sciences you can pick modules from any department you want, but by the end of your degree, at least half of your modules must be from a "science" (subjects that classify are listed on the website somewhere). Each year you do 6 modules, if you are wanting to do a joint honours in biology and psychology then first you must check that there is actually a joint honours degree available and then you must see what modules you need to do in order to get a JH degree. There are probably "core" modules from both subjects that you will have to do, and then you will be able to choose the others.
Probably havent explained that very well, if you have anymore questions then ask away!
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I applied for open since I don't know **** about how the college system works and got Aidans. Anyone know what it's like? Seems pretty low profile. I'm into sports and drinking?
Original post by abcdes
Original post by abcdes
I applied for open since I don't know **** about how the college system works and got Aidans. Anyone know what it's like? Seems pretty low profile. I'm into sports and drinking?
you'll do fine at Aidan's
Original post by tiana_tiara
Could someone explain to me how the Natural Sciences degree works? I was originally intending to study Biology, but since then have taken more of an interest in Psychology and would like to do a double-honours degree. Would I be able to do this at Durham, through Natural Sciences? I'm finding the website a little confuzzling.... ^^"
Yep, PM and I'll try and help
Basically yes you can do 3 Bio:3 Psych, or 4:2 or 3:2:1/2:2:2 etc if you want to do another subject too.
Im impartial about Catered vs Self-Catered. Is it better to just be self-catered?
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
Original post by Dat_Ngyuen
Im impartial about Catered vs Self-Catered. Is it better to just be self-catered?
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
It depends if you are fussy about food.... meal times in catered colleges are a great way to socialise and meet people.....
Lumiere festival was incredible last year, and its free, definately worth going to!
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Original post by abcdes
I applied for open since I don't know **** about how the college system works and got Aidans. Anyone know what it's like? Seems pretty low profile. I'm into sports and drinking?
no not at all.. go to the open day you'll see.. im there too and love it from what i've heard and seen.. its wuite a party college with lots of fancy dress and informal so you should like it! its big too with a nice bar and good at sport from what ive heard!
Original post by victoria13
It depends if you are fussy about food.... meal times in catered colleges are a great way to socialise and meet people.....
Lumiere festival was incredible last year, and its free, definately worth going to!
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Lumiere festival was incredible last year, and its free, definately worth going to!
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LOL No. Im far from fussy about. Whilst locked away writing my dissertation for the last few days I've eaten 38p Tesco Ginger nuts and 50p Own brand Tortilla chips for dinner.
Am I wrong in thinking that even if you are self catered you can still take part in those meal times and just pay for the meal?
Original post by Dat_Ngyuen
Im impartial about Catered vs Self-Catered. Is it better to just be self-catered?
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
Also did anybody go to the Lumiere Festival in 2009. I heard its every two years and it looks amazing.
I think it's better being catered - big choice of food, and I met so many new people at dinner just because the whole of my year is in the dining room.
If I was in a 6 person flat with a kitchen, I'd probably only have met the people in flats next to me, and friends of friends.
When you're catered, everyone can go down to breakfast/dinner together without having to plan when to start cooking, and you can go as a group of 15 or 20 people and get 2 or 3 tables next to each other, you don't have to cook in your individual flat and then try and bring your food to another flat.
Plus, 1st year is so busy that you probably won't have time to cook properly, so you'll just buy loads of ready meals/takeaways...and become fat and poor.
Original post by Dat_Ngyuen
LOL No. Im far from fussy about. Whilst locked away writing my dissertation for the last few days I've eaten 38p Tesco Ginger nuts and 50p Own brand Tortilla chips for dinner.
Am I wrong in thinking that even if you are self catered you can still take part in those meal times and just pay for the meal?
Am I wrong in thinking that even if you are self catered you can still take part in those meal times and just pay for the meal?
There is only 1 self-catered college in Durham City, Jo Butler, and 1 part catered (Cuths). If you're in Butler then there isn't an option to buy dinner, unless you go to another college for dinner but that's pretty odd...and it costs £3.50/meal.
In Cuths, self-catered people are at a different site, a 5-8min walk from the catered Cuths buildings (which are on the Bailey). You can get a meal package where you get lunch and breakfast in term time (ie 10 meals a week, you pay in advance for the whole year). Or I think you can turn up and pay £3.50/meal, but that'd be over £10 per day! (And I think they put people on the part-catered package in flats together, so your flat would be only self-catered people, who almost definitely would be cooking their own food and thus you wouldn't have anyone to go to meals with.)
Original post by Dat_Ngyuen
Original post by Dat_Ngyuen
LOL No. Im far from fussy about. Whilst locked away writing my dissertation for the last few days I've eaten 38p Tesco Ginger nuts and 50p Own brand Tortilla chips for dinner.
Am I wrong in thinking that even if you are self catered you can still take part in those meal times and just pay for the meal?
Am I wrong in thinking that even if you are self catered you can still take part in those meal times and just pay for the meal?
Are you applying for postgrad (I'm guessing from the dissertation comment) If so, then things'll be different for you and you should probably contact the college. I know that at Aidan's you can be self catered and just pay for the meal, though postgrads who are self catered tend to stick to that. (The only time I've seen friends who do this are at formals, which are a completely different matter).
Original post by Aula
Are you applying for postgrad (I'm guessing from the dissertation comment) If so, then things'll be different for you and you should probably contact the college. I know that at Aidan's you can be self catered and just pay for the meal, though postgrads who are self catered tend to stick to that. (The only time I've seen friends who do this are at formals, which are a completely different matter).
Yea, not applying though. already got into my course and Hatfield. Think I'm going to with catered. For social reasons I guess and It gives you an incentive to wake up early. (unless you just bypass it and wake up for lunch.)
Original post by angelmxxx
There is only 1 self-catered college in Durham City, Jo Butler, and 1 part catered (Cuths). If you're in Butler then there isn't an option to buy dinner, unless you go to another college for dinner but that's pretty odd...and it costs £3.50/meal.
In Cuths, self-catered people are at a different site, a 5-8min walk from the catered Cuths buildings (which are on the Bailey). You can get a meal package where you get lunch and breakfast in term time (ie 10 meals a week, you pay in advance for the whole year). Or I think you can turn up and pay £3.50/meal, but that'd be over £10 per day! (And I think they put people on the part-catered package in flats together, so your flat would be only self-catered people, who almost definitely would be cooking their own food and thus you wouldn't have anyone to go to meals with.)
In Cuths, self-catered people are at a different site, a 5-8min walk from the catered Cuths buildings (which are on the Bailey). You can get a meal package where you get lunch and breakfast in term time (ie 10 meals a week, you pay in advance for the whole year). Or I think you can turn up and pay £3.50/meal, but that'd be over £10 per day! (And I think they put people on the part-catered package in flats together, so your flat would be only self-catered people, who almost definitely would be cooking their own food and thus you wouldn't have anyone to go to meals with.)
Cuth's ACTUALLY has 3 meal package options; fully catered if you're on the bailey, part time catered (lunch + dinner mon-fri) and self catered if you're based on Parson's Field. You can opt out of the part time catered meal package at the beginning of any term if you don't wish to continue with the food (it can be a bit gross I'm not going to lie and when you start to miss some you're not helping yourself financially!) so you DON'T pay upfront but in installments with the rest of your accomodation, and if you ever fancy buying some meal cards if you're self catered and fancy eating on the bailey, then it's pretty easy.
Aaand it's not always you're put in a flat with only self catered and part catered, ours is a mix between the two.
I have a couple of questions about Van Mildert College, hope it's okay to post here!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
Original post by Nia M
I have a couple of questions about Van Mildert College, hope it's okay to post here!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
Hi, I'm not at Mildert, but I'll do my best to answer your questions
1. I think if you don't have gowns for formals, you don't have them for matriculation either, but you do for graduation as far as I'm aware
2. I'm not entirely sure which colleges have a chapel, I know grey does and is fairly close to mildert, but other than that your closest one would be at Aidan's or Trevs if they have them. I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to go to other colleges' chapels..
As for dance, I'm fairly sure there's a uni society called BALADS, which I think stands for ballroom and latin american dance society, so you'd probably be interested in that
Original post by Nia M
Original post by Nia M
I have a couple of questions about Van Mildert College, hope it's okay to post here!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
1. I know it's not gowned for formals, but it is gowned for things like matriculation/graduation/other suchlike events?
2. Since the college doesn't have it's own chapel/faith room, what would be the nearest one to the college? Are we allowed to attend the chapels of other colleges?
Also, a general uni question; I've been trying to see if there's a dance society for the uni. I couldn't find one though, either for the uni, or for Van Mildert. I'm particularly interested in ballroom and latin american dance.
Any help would be great if you could answer these!
If you're interested in Ballroom and Latin then you want BALADS. If you just want social dancing then there are three beginners classes on a Tuesday evening, and if you're interested in team (costs more, but you have a lesson and two practises a week and go to competitions - it's a lot of fun). You might want to take a look at the website: http://www.dudancesport.co.uk/content.php
Alternatively, there's Instep, which runs dance lessons of all sorts. Take a look at the societies list on the DSU website
1 - everyone has gowns for graduation, but that's based on subject, not college. A college that doesn't have gowns doesn't have gowns for anything, so no gowns for matriculation. It's a bit of a shame, but it's okay.
2 - I think Mildert share the barn with Trevs (their chapel), though I'm not certain about that. But there are plenty of both college and university wide faith groups, so you're sure to find something to suit somewhere.
(edited 12 years ago)
Thanks for your help!
I have thought about attending Durham's open days (March 22 - 23rd specifically) and I was wondering if it's true that there will be current students who'll meet you at Newcastle Intl' Airport?
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