{"id":13388,"date":"2023-07-03T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T13:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2024-04-09T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T08:24:41","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2023\/07\/03\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining the York community: an interview with our students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What’s it like to settle into the York family? We sat with three students to talk ducks, dreams, dinners, and the everlasting magic of friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KATRINA (MSci Psychology) | James (BA International Relations) | KABEER (BSc Physics)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
So, looking back to the start of uni, what was your experience of moving in and getting to know people around you?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Well, James and I moved into James College and met within an hour. Moving in is a really surreal experience. One moment you\u2019re with your parents, in a car, with all your stuff, and then you\u2019re moved into your room, surrounded by everyone you\u2019re going to spend the next year with. And it is the start of a new stage in your life. Kitchens in student accommodation tend to be your common spaces. We all congregated, introduced ourselves, and just started talking about this, that and the other. I think moving into York is also really easy, with STYCs and STYMs \u2013 2nd- and 3rd-Year Contacts and Mentors \u2013 to help you move in, firstly by physically helping with your luggage, and beyond that throughout the entirety of Freshers\u2019 Week. Supporting you, making sure you don\u2019t get lost, and helping you make friends and attend events if needed. It really makes you feel welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I think it\u2019s also important to stress that there were some people who didn\u2019t really want to do that initially. But as the year progressed, if we were in the kitchen, they would come in, and we\u2019d always make sure to say hi. And in fact, one of our housemates now didn\u2019t come to say hi until about week six, and now they live with us in our 2nd-Year house. I think for them, that was quite nice that there were always us to talk to if they wanted to. You usually go for your first trip into York together, so it\u2019s not as daunting, and also to Freshers\u2019 Fair, where you can sign up to other societies. If there\u2019s one thing I\u2019d recommend, it\u2019s definitely going to Freshers Fair, because there\u2019s always a good variety of stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I came as an international student, so I arrived a day earlier than everyone else. I lived in Constantine College. My room had a window facing a huge parking lot, so the next day I watched everyone moving with their parents and the STYCs and STYMs, so it felt a little bit lonely. I found Freshers\u2019 Week really nice, really inclusive, those STYCs and STYMs and my flatmates really nice. Because I was living on East, we also had a weekly college meal, so we put time aside especially to go together. It was a nice bonding experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking about those college events, that college community, were they useful for you branching out?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I think colleges support students in the transition to coming to uni. Every day for the first week, we had events run by James College to get us involved, get us talking, should we want to make a wide group of friends. There are non-clubbing events, too, and I think James College has plans to move most of their Freshers\u2019 events to non-clubbing events. It\u2019s a casual atmosphere, like an extended family. In catered colleges in particular, spending meals with people you live with, or people you\u2019ve seen on college sports teams. It\u2019s a really good opportunity for you to interact with the people closest to you. You can invite people from other colleges, friends from societies, anyone. So, catered colleges have that extra layer of generating a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Especially on the first day. I remember our first meal, sitting with the whole block. That got me talking to more people than just my flat. If you do catered accommodation, that\u2019s the benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On that point, any top tips for food \u2013 cooking, shopping? Do you reckon you\u2019re good cooks?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> If you do catered accommodation, don\u2019t get chips every day like I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> True. The breakfasts were fantastic. You had a full spread of cooked foods, cereals, fruits, yogurts, everything. If you are going for the catered option, it makes the time you commit to actually feeding yourself a lot easier. I\u2019d recommend, if you have a vague level of skill and cooking, doing weekly shops, maybe even banding together in groups. It\u2019s especially helpful if you live near a supermarket to pop round quickly. I normally cycle over to Aldi because it\u2019s fairly near the Uni. The other option is to band together and do an online shop, so you negate the delivery fee. It makes everything a lot more straightforward. If you are less culinary inclined, like James here \u2013 would you like to expand, James?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Oh, I can\u2019t cook at all. I feel that with catered accommodation, the start of uni can be very overwhelming in general, because you\u2019re moving away from your family home, in a new city. So just to have some meals cooked for you is really helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I was self-catered with the weekly college meal. I think an advantage of being self-catered is that you can choose what and when to eat. And you get to see the interesting dishes your flatmates are cooking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> You have such a variety of people who you\u2019re living with. I think in our flat, we had like six countries and cuisines. Seeing what people cooked definitely widened my ability by cooking with them, seeing how they prepare their food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> On the weekends, we used to have a tradition where one person would cook a meal for everybody. So, we got to try different food each weekend, and see each other cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I made paneer, an Indian dish, for the whole flat, which was nice to share. And meant we were fed at weekends, so one less thing to worry about. It allowed us to celebrate people, the things people were good at. Everyone was able to share with everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> And most people, at the end of the year, had done one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Even you, with your limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Even me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What was your offering?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Oh, it was pasta and\u2026 sauce? And some broccoli. I remember it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> And garlic bread!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports and societies, then. Are you part of any? What\u2019s the best one to join? Any shout-outs?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I\u2019m definitely giving a shout-out to Floorball. It\u2019s not a big sport, not very noticeable, but big in parts of Europe and Asia. I only started playing when I came to York \u2013 the environment drew me in, the small community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> My societies changed radically from 1st to 2nd Year. I was part of the UN Society, which helped with public speaking and debating. French Society and Equestrian stuck for both years. My grandmother wanted to me to be a horse rider. That was one of the reasons I was interested in York, that they had an equestrian society \u2013 I was worried I would lose it. One of my loves is to travel, so I\u2019ve made sure to join international societies. My favourite would be Hong Kong Society. They\u2019ve been very welcoming, and it\u2019s been great to learn about Hong Kong. I\u2019ve applied for the summer abroad this year, so I\u2019ll be going there really soon. It\u2019s comforting to have had a kickstart of what to expect. And here comes the king of all sports\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Yes. I\u2019ve just finished my term as captain and president of James College Tennis, working with my committee to bring together events. We\u2019ve had formals, parties. Competitions in Durham, and Lancaster for the college varsity. Because of York\u2019s collegiate system, the Uni has been able to split popular sports into uni- and college-level clubs. People who aren\u2019t ultra-competitive, or just want to play for fun, can play in a more casual setting. It\u2019s really allowed people to grow, and I know people who\u2019ve felt like they\u2019ve joined a family to learn and develop their skills. I\u2019ve just been voted in as captain of Archery, which is a fantastic club. I think we\u2019re one of the most diverse clubs in the North. We all go to competitions together, get to travel around the country. We compete against every other university in the region throughout the year with BUCS \u2013 British Universities and Colleges Sport \u2013 travelling to different cities, different unis, meeting people with the same passion in a different setting. Beyond that, there are other niche clubs and societies the University has. I finally got to try Octopush \u2013 underwater hockey. Interesting experience. Really friendly group. I\u2019m on the committee for the York Circus and Magic Society. I currently lead the fire-juggling and fire-spinning groups, as well as aerial silks, where we suspend silks from the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you get these two to help out?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I\u2019ve seen you do the fire stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I do try. I tried to teach one of my housemates to unicycle, but that went disastrously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> We left them to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> Nothing broke. It\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> You can engage as much as you wish, or not at all, as I know some people do. But sometimes, you go to a friend\u2019s society to support them. Other people find one or two clubs to really find a good friendship group. They go to the social events, club meetings. And some people are absolutely insane, like me, who go to every possible sport, and fill their time at uni with all the opportunities presented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> One of our housemates went to the DJ society, and managed to get a job out of it \u2013 the society was contacting places that wanted him to play. He had a play, and they thought he was pretty good, so he\u2019s been hired at a couple of venues. Societies are a good way to find work as well, if that\u2019s what you\u2019d like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve talked about travelling a bit. Thinking about work placements, have you got any lined up, or are you not thinking that far ahead yet?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019ve had to deal with a lot of paperwork for the summer and year abroad. But, to be fair to York, it\u2019s all well-ordered, and clear on what you need to do. I\u2019m ready. I\u2019ll be in France next year, living with a host family, studying French constitutional law and Chinese constitutional law for the year \u2013 sounds riveting, I know. I\u2019m half French, and my French isn\u2019t brilliant, so I\u2019m happy to actually go. With the summer abroad, you don\u2019t have to study what your degree is. In my A levels, I really liked languages as well as politics, so at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, I\u2019ll be studying Cantonese, just for five weeks. So yeah, exciting stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> In Psychology, they dedicate a lot of effort into letting us know the opportunities available \u2013 like being a teaching assistant for a year or two with Teach First. There are also a lot of volunteering and paid opportunities they send out regularly. I\u2019m helping a PhD student do their research on complicated decision-making on the Iowa gambling task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I\u2019ve been involved in a masterclass placement with Physics, which the Uni offered as a scholarship. I\u2019m working for the surface and astrophysical sciences research group with two academics and two students, trying to confirm how nuclear fusion occurred in superhot stars. It\u2019s made me one of the top 18 foremost experts in this field, in the world. That\u2019s something you can do when you go to uni \u2013 specialise in so niche an area that you become the big source of authority. On the more casual side, James and I have worked on the Uni\u2019s outreach events, welcoming Year 9s and Year 12s from backgrounds who\u2019d not normally progress to higher education. You feel you\u2019re making a real difference to people\u2019s lives. That\u2019s what York\u2019s aim is \u2013 to be a force for good. Physics have ambassador teams, and we help run accessibility events. Getting paid on the Astrocampus to run stargazing events, engaging with the community to show the type of research that goes on here is another way of earning, and also to put your degree to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you find yourself geeking out with your lecturers about things you\u2019re all working on?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Definitely. It\u2019s a big advantage, being able to talk to academics about their research, which they\u2019re very open and happy to do. We\u2019re able to learn about what is ongoing in the leading edge of research. We see the way academics think. I want to do a Masters, possibly a PhD, and seeing how you can build upon what they\u2019ve done through those conversations is really the basis of my interest in the subject. It\u2019s what I feed off when I do my reading, when I engage with physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> My last essay was about the rise of the Four Asian Tigers \u2013 Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. And now that I can visit one, it\u2019ll be interesting to see it for real. I\u2019ve never travelled outside of Europe, except once when I was four \u2013 which I don\u2019t count that, because I was four \u2013 so to actually travel that far will be interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> Psychology requires us to do experiments every year, so you have to be a participant. I participated in a sleep study this year, spending a night in a sleep lab in the department. You can get to use see the equipment \u2013 FMRI machines and things like that \u2013 and experience being a participant in high-level experiments. There\u2019s also a new neuroimaging centre near Alcuin \u2013 they\u2019re doing other awesome studies there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That sleep study sounds like a dream. That\u2019s not meant to be a pun. Anyway, thinking about the city and campus, any favourite spots that you like? Hidden gems?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I can\u2019t work at home, so I always find somewhere on campus. I go to the Ron Cooke Hub at nighttime, and just work late because it\u2019s open 24 hours. I love the view of the east lake, all the lights are nice and dim, and hardly anyone really uses it \u2013 probably until now I\u2019ve told everyone! In the daytime, I\u2019ll go into Church Lane for the comfy chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> A lot of my work is done analysing data and drawing graphs. The Salters\u2019 Learning Suite has computers with all the software preloaded, the equipment that allows me to do my work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> 200 Degrees, a caf\u00e9 in York. You can sit with your computer for hours. I\u2019ve only been kicked out once for being too long \u2013 which, to be fair, isn\u2019t bad. I\u2019ve gone there quite a few times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At three in the morning?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Ha! Yeah, \u201cExcuse me, it\u2019s closing time.\u201d I go there most days, so my wallet goes mainly on coffee. They\u2019re just two areas I really like. It\u2019s also nice that I\u2019m half an hour from both, so to have that walk and fresh air before working is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> You can access everything using the Uni\u2019s virtual desktop. I need to use statistical software and experimental platforms, so I don\u2019t have to stay on campus; I can just bring my laptop, and as long as I have wifi or data, I can work anywhere. I like the Piazza most \u2013 booking a room, and having a whole day of studying with friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quick break to eat the flapjack that you\u2019ve been trying to unwrap quietly?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Yes please. I wish I had more for breakfast. I had a singular piece of toast, but it didn\u2019t really fill me up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m so jealous of that communal cooking idea. I think I just ate pasta.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Believe me, a lot of student food is pasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you find yourself judging what people cook in 1st Year?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> We judge James. One meal he had was 12 Peperami.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I felt really ill\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> You also get jealous. Sometimes people cook Michelin-star food right in front of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> We have an Italian housemate who makes pizza from scratch. It\u2019s fantastic. We made her try Greggs pizza once \u2013 she hated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> Most of my flatmates were British local students, so there weren\u2019t many interesting cuisines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Ha! To be fair, it\u2019s your fault I now don\u2019t like English food. When you go to the Hong Kong Society and try the different foods, you realise how bland your own cooking is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I find when running committee meetings that if I offer food and Mario Kart, people actually come and do the work I ask them to do. I remember making a vegan chilli once, but I made it based on my spice level, which I realised isn\u2019t conferred to people who live up in the north of England. So, I had to quickly borrow some milk and pour that into the dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defeated the point.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I had a spicy snack at the Lunar New Year thing. It killed my tongue. And my kimchi stunk out the kitchen last year. I was convinced it wasn\u2019t me, but it got to the point where everyone started taking their stuff out of the fridge, and there was just the kimchi there in the corner, and I was like, \u201cOkay, it\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Your Korean food gave me food poisoning once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> It did, yeah. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good to go again? Picking up on food and favourite places, any good spots in the city?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Oh, I can name some Asian ones. There\u2019s Little Asia, my favourite Korean restaurant. Happy Noodles, near where we live, which serves good Chinese food. Red Chilli, which is a massive one on George Hudson Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> We\u2019ve done house meals at Trinacria. That\u2019s an Italian place down on Bishopthorpe Road \u2013 Bishy Road \u2013 and they serve fantastic food. It\u2019s a nice place to bring your family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Bishy Road is not in the main bit of York. You have to have lived in York for a while to get to know it, so it feels very local. And it\u2019s never busy \u2013 I go there on a Saturday specifically because of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> The Museum Gardens are fantastic for picnics. They\u2019ve got a really nice view of the river, the town, the museum itself, the ruins of the abbey. Right next to it, they have an edible garden \u2013 herbs, flowers, hedges. The whole thing is designed to be a sensory experience. That\u2019s one of my favourite places to go. I grow mint at home, so going there is a nice reminder of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> Have you been to Rowntree Park before? I think it\u2019s also a good place for a picnic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I love Rowntree Park. We cycle there a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Yeah, it\u2019s nice. It\u2019s got the river running through it, and Millennium Bridge. It\u2019s only a ten-minute cycle out from campus, and you feel like you\u2019re in a different climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you guys used the e-bikes and e-scooters?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I got overcharged once because I forgot to cancel it. It said I had an e-scooter for 24 hours. I\u2019ve used them on occasion, but more just for fun, rather than utility \u2013 you know, just gone around the car park several times, just feel the speed. But it\u2019s nice to have them around, dotted around York. But yeah, I usually walk everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I haven\u2019t \u2013 I\u2019ve got my bike, and I like walking places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I\u2019ve tried the e-scooters before. York is a very walkable city, and I enjoy checking out all the new shops and stuff that popped up recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alright, we can\u2019t go by without talking about our dearly departed friend, Long Boi. How are we coping?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I had the same feeling about Long Boi that I did the Queen. I didn\u2019t realise both would be gone so soon. I thought the Queen would live to be a hundred-and-something, and she just didn\u2019t, and that floored me. And then Long Boi died so soon after. I thought they must be linked somehow \u2013 Long Boi couldn\u2019t cope in his grief, maybe? I don\u2019t know. Luckily, we do have other ducks. We have Fancy Boi, and I\u2019m just hoping he can take the pedestal. I really want that statue to be a thing. I don\u2019t know about you two, but I think, you know, as icons go, it should be, you know, bigger than The Shard?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I don\u2019t believe Long Boi\u2019s dead, because we haven\u2019t found the corpse yet. But then again, he usually appears by Derwent or outside Spring Lane, and I often have lectures there. So, last year, I always saw him. But this year, I\u2019ve noticed that the feathers are getting, like, whiter? So I knew he was getting old, but I didn\u2019t think he\u2019d die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Considering the amount of art installations around campus, the sculptures, the Uni\u2019s art programme \u2013 that statue of Long Boi definitely needs to happen. Just to commemorate someone who\u2019s done so much for the Uni, to actually raise awareness, being on the James Corden show, being an icon who has a greater public following than the Uni itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> It\u2019s always been a good day trip to say, \u201cToday, we\u2019re going to go find him.\u201d Every time we\u2019ve worked on a campus tour, people have been like, \u201cWhere\u2019s the duck?\u201d So, he\u2019s clearly well-known. That needs to be a new merch line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> There is! New hoodies and scarves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> There needs to be an obituary t-shirt. \u201cNever forget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> Someone commissioned some art, and now it\u2019s on shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I\u2019ll have a look later. That\u2019s coming straight out my bank account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> I feel bad for Long Boi being merchandised after his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You think Fancy Boi is the natural successor?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I hope so. I\u2019d really hope so. I hope we can have some sort of reign of ducks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> He hangs about by James College, so we saw him more than we did Long Boi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> We need something on East, a special Campus East duck. There can be a war, a healthy competition \u2013 Fancy Boi versus East Boi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I\u2019ll put it to the English department. Write a whole narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can imagine the newspapers. ‘Uni of York commissions duck fight.’ We\u2019re close to wrapping up. Any plans for the summer and the year beyond?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> I\u2019ve just had my final-year project forms through, so I\u2019ve been looking through options. I\u2019ve found exciting projects I could see myself doing. So, it\u2019s deciding which I want to research. So, that\u2019s my summer. Then, hopefully, I might go on holiday after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Well, I\u2019m a busy bee. Hong Kong soon, so right now it\u2019s just saying goodbye to everybody. I\u2019m happy I get to delay my dissertation for a year by going abroad for a nice little time. I\u2019ve got about two weeks between getting back and departing for France, so it\u2019s going to be wild. But, you know, it’ll be a great time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> Although exams have ended, things haven\u2019t ended for me. I\u2019m still doing my group projects. I handed one in this morning \u2013 the poster \u2013 then next week, we\u2019ll have two presentations, so that\u2019s fun. I should have a lot of time after that, but I actually have a lot planned. I\u2019m part of the Floorball committee, and we plan socials by the end of the year. I really need to start packing, because I can\u2019t put my stuff in the UK during summer. So, I\u2019m looking towards Kit Keeper, which has a student discount. And then I\u2019ll be flying home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more? Top tips, or surprises at uni so far?<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> I\u2019d say, ‘Do a Kabeer’: Join as many sports and societies as you can, and then you can filter it down later. The worst thing to do would be to stutter at the start, and not join things. Because the more the year goes on, it becomes more difficult to then join things. Check uni websites for what\u2019s on offer. I couldn\u2019t go to the Freshers\u2019 Fair in 1st Year \u2013 I had to go home \u2013 so I emailed societies asking when their first events were going to be. That really was helpful because I still went to the first UN Society meeting. I could still go to the first equestrian club meeting, and it was great to then be able to meet everyone initially. If they\u2019re not your thing, that\u2019s fine, but I think it\u2019s good to have different areas of interest to explore. Having a range of things to do is helpful to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katrina:<\/strong> The biggest surprise was the wide variety of societies and clubs available for you to explore and discover. I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d get into sports at uni \u2013 I was never a sporty person since I was young \u2013 but I got hooked, and now I\u2019m part of that community. Other than that, there are plenty of unexpected societies, such as a sock appreciation society, which I wanted to try, but then they died this year. That was sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> There\u2019s also Bean Soc, who still need to be ratified by YUSU \u2013 the Students\u2019 Union. I was signed up as president without my knowledge, and started getting all these messages from YUSU that I was a proponent of the Mr Bean Society. But when they got rid of the \u2019Mr\u2019 and made it purely about beans, I handed in my resignation. I wasn\u2019t standing for just beans \u2013 I wanted a Mr Bean society. Maybe in my fourth year, when I return, I\u2019ll have a fight with Bean Soc about having Mr Bean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kabeer:<\/strong> When you join the Uni, if there\u2019s a society or an interest which the University doesn\u2019t have a club for, you can set it up. Your friends set up Bean Soc \u2013 three of them went to YUSU, and now they\u2019ve got a society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Then told me about it. But yeah, you need three people, and you can set up a society. So, they\u2019re in the process of getting Bean Soc sorted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that\u2019s a great place to end.<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n

James:<\/strong> Agreed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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