The "Ask a Durham Student" Thread :)

A few things. In regards to clubbing how often do people make the trek to newcastle to go out? For any psychology BSc students how much contact time would you have? In general are there sufficient library/study places to cope with the number of students at durham (do you think it does as well as other unis like leeds or notts at this)? I know societies are run by college JCRs but say they only had an A and B team and you were so **** or, just wanted a laugh, you needed an E team (me) is it possible to play with other colleges eg collingwood or will all colleges have an amateur group for sports?
Thank youuu

How regularly over like term 1 n 2 first year

literally every week

got an offer for biological sciences and was curious over the whole "specialized route" concept within the degree. have read up on it but would like to hear any experiences or thoughts on it. what's it like?

I have an offer for biosciences too! In case you haven't seen it already, the university recently sent out emails for a virtual post-offer visit day. If you click the link and explore the 'department information' section there are a couple of excellent videos sharing a presentation of the course (I found it a lot more informative than the biosciences webpage). I know it doesn't really help on the 'experiences/thoughts' front but if you're intrigued about the course concept it's deffo worth a look!

A few things. In regards to clubbing how often do people make the trek to newcastle to go out? For any psychology BSc students how much contact time would you have? In general are there sufficient library/study places to cope with the number of students at durham (do you think it does as well as other unis like leeds or notts at this)? I know societies are run by college JCRs but say they only had an A and B team and you were so **** or, just wanted a laugh, you needed an E team (me) is it possible to play with other colleges eg collingwood or will all colleges have an amateur group for sports?
Thank youuu

Current Durham student here.

Clubbing wise it varies massively. I'm doing Law so I don't go out that often but, I know people on my course that go out quite literally every day; but as a result they slack on work etc.

Most people go to Newcastle on a weekend but, I don't know anyone who does it every week.

There are a lot of study spaces but, you'll be hard pressed to find a seat in the library during exam period (or in the TLC for that matter) but if you can't find space there, there are a number of other study spaces near to the library or on the site of your college that you can access.

The number of teams depends on the number of students that sign-up to the sport so this varies a lot between colleges. For example, at Josephine-Butler they had an A and a B team for basketball but Collingwood had teams A - E. It just depends on how many sign up.

As far as I know it's not possible to join other college's teams, every college should have its own team (unless the sport gets a particularly low turn out that year). However, I was on my college basketball team last year and we often joined in with the training sessions of other teams and played against other colleges of course.

Current Durham student here.

Clubbing wise it varies massively. I'm doing Law so I don't go out that often but, I know people on my course that go out quite literally every day; but as a result they slack on work etc.

Most people go to Newcastle on a weekend but, I don't know anyone who does it every week.

There are a lot of study spaces but, you'll be hard pressed to find a seat in the library during exam period (or in the TLC for that matter) but if you can't find space there, there are a number of other study spaces near to the library or on the site of your college that you can access.

The number of teams depends on the number of students that sign-up to the sport so this varies a lot between colleges. For example, at Josephine-Butler they had an A and a B team for basketball but Collingwood had teams A - E. It just depends on how many sign up.

As far as I know it's not possible to join other college's teams, every college should have its own team (unless the sport gets a particularly low turn out that year). However, I was on my college basketball team last year and we often joined in with the training sessions of other teams and played against other colleges of course.

How often would you say people go to Newcastle?

Also what was freshers like at Durham? Do you go clubbing every day or is it different?

I have another question to ask:
whats diversity like?
have you encountered (or know of others that have) any racist/sexist/classist remarks?
would a POC fit in alright at durham?
is it a very inclusive and welcoming university?
thanku!!!

Hey, so in terms of Newcastle I'd say people might go once a week on average.

Freshers was really good, loads of stuff to do and people to meet.

Your college will put on different events and club nights. But yeah, personally I went out every night pretty much (and most people do the same).

Thanks! What college are you at? I’ve got an offer for Collingwood

I'm at Stephenson, which is just down the road from Collingwood. Collingwood is a great college you'll love it.

thanks- also what is durham like in terms of nights out? do people casually get with each other etc? is it weird because its a college system?