Durham Applicants 2008 Thread

It takes time to knock a meal together, plus some of the food we get in aidans I doubt you would be able to knock up easily, if at all.

Erm, what exactly is the policy when Durham changes their typical offer for a course after someone has already applied to it (when the typical offer was lower). As in, someone I know applied to a BBB course which recently has been changed to ABB requirements. They already have the offer of an interview..so..what happens now?

I'm not after spectacular food; I'd be more than happy with beans on toast most nights (indeed, it is often what I settle for now, even with a whole range of food at my disposal).

I don't like the idea of communal meals so much anyway, so I think even if the lack of pre-prepared meals does prove a problem then it's somewhat of a mixed blessing anyway.

I guess it's mostly dependent upon the individual.

Erm, what exactly is the policy when Durham changes their typical offer for a course after someone has already applied to it (when the typical offer was lower). As in, someone I know applied to a BBB course which recently has been changed to ABB requirements. They already have the offer of an interview..so..what happens now?

Meh, its a lot more social to have a canteen and the communal meals. If you are happy cooking, thats up to you.

So us culinary delinquints who thrive off being social are a bit stuffed if we've got an offer from Josephine Butler...!

Ignore HMK and his moaning about Butler being self-catered; he goes on about this every single time someone mentions Butler. I suspect he was traumatised in a bizarre cooking accident when he was a child or something.

I'm at Butler and couldn't cook much beyond pasta, rice and tinned soup when I started and I'm fine. You can cook by yourself but you can also cook with your flatmates if you want -- we've done a few communal meals for special occasions like the fake Christmas that we had earlier this week and they've turned out great. Being self-catered hardly makes you a hermit -- you've got a ready-made group of friends with your flatmates so their friends become your friends too, and there are usually a fair amount of people in the bar at night. The accommodation is the best in the uni and I will probably be missing having my own en-suite when I go home tomorrow.

Asides, there are people who have popped up here who don't like Butler at all, who actually live there.

There are always people who make mistakes and end up in a college they shouldn't be in. My friend who went to Hatfield and ended up moving to Johns where she's much happier for example. I also know some other people at Johns who don't like it much and always complain about how quiet it is (and how full of vicars)
Where you should go entirely depends on what type of a person you are. But likelihood is that wherever you end up you'll enjoy it.
I wanted to go to JB, and got my offer from there. But I didn't get the grades to meet my offer, so they didn't have room for me at JB and I got moved to Aidan's instead, where I'm very happy.
My only advice would be that if you hate cooking, don't apply to JB (and try and apply somewhere you can live in throughout your uni career). Otherwise you should be fine. And at least at JB you get ovens in which you can make cakes. That's one of the worst things about being catered. No ovens

Subject: English and Philosophy!
College: Josephine Butlers

Waiting for a reply though, the suspense is torture ><

Arghhh im english at st Mary's eeek!!!

Do they take a christmas break as well or could we expect an offer over the xmas period, or wait until january?

Their break isnt as long as ours, but I suspect you could still be waiting until january and beyond.

huh? all the holidays are the same length of time.
You are extremely unlikely to get an offer over Christmas (I think)