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Durham university review/rant

Specifically Josephine Butler College! Advice: if you don't like being financially scammed don't come to this university. We spend so much of our money on accomm and tuition fees but don't worry they make it their mission to take more!

From freshers week day one this college convinces you to spend money. The JCR freshers wristband for events they did not check wristbands for. The extortionate price of the JCR levy they get you to pay for and who knows what they're spending that on. And the gown which the JCR lied about not having second hand options meanwhile offering them the very next day.

The FACSO (finance and community social officer) and JCR president are generally unreachable and prioritise spending JCR funds on eating out or having a blast meanwhile they're PAID sabbaticals. The FACSO knows nothing about finance.

Josephine Butler College facilities are barren, and most of it they share with Stephenson College so truly tell me what our money is being spent on? The formals are held in a dingy sports hall and the food is sameish with a high price tag to boot. And if you're someone whose muslim or kosher don't worry they'll feed you the same dry chicken breast so you wont need to go hungry after paying!

Durham University is a catfish. If you search up google images all you see is Durham Castle but that is a privilege reserved by castle college students. The campus is tacky brutalism and a. hodge-podge of mismatched buildings. Everything is on an incline and the city gets suffocating after a while.

The people here are nice, staff and locals. Josephine Butler has good views and the porters respond to your concerns quickly.

But if you want to be financially astute pick somewhere else or do an apprenticeship because this is definitely not worth the money.

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