{"id":2157,"date":"2016-11-28T12:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2016-11-28T12:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T12:47:16","slug":"colleges-societies-getting-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2016\/11\/28\/colleges-societies-getting-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"Colleges, Societies and Getting Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You may have noticed that the University of York describes itself as a collegiate university and, if you\u2019ve spoken to UoY students, people often take their college (and its associated superiority over all the other colleges) very seriously! The nature of this system is that every student becomes \u201ca member of a small, distinct community\u201d and not just because you\u2019re thrown into a building full of them in first-year. Each college committee organises its own events and, crucially, each college competes against the other in college-level sport.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg?resize=300%2C248\" alt=\"img_20160929_155226\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg?resize=300%2C248&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg?resize=768%2C634&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C846&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20160929_155226-2.jpg?w=1119&amp;ssl=1 1119w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being a member of the \u2018sporty college\u2019 &#8211; James &#8211; the competitiveness is perhaps enhanced in my eyes for the sake of holding onto our reputation (it&#8217;s not going to happen, Derwent). College sport is perfect if you haven&#8217;t played a sport much before, or at all, and want to get involved with something new without pressure to be the best. I was first introduced to squash by my friend Anthony &#8211; the most active 80-year old I\u2019ve ever known who I played tennis with back at home &#8211; and I only played a few times between then and uni, never having any proper training. Joining James Squash was a great chance to nail the basics and then learn some specific tactics and shots. This year, I&#8217;m co-captain of the team (along with Eden who is far more experienced) and at the moment James College is chilling at the top of the college squash league, which is a wonderful thing to see! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">College sport is rewarding not just because<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it\u2019s fun,<\/span><\/i><\/i>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2159\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/FB_IMG_1479657146709.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2159 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/FB_IMG_1479657146709.jpg?resize=300%2C277\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/FB_IMG_1479657146709.jpg?resize=300%2C277&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/FB_IMG_1479657146709.jpg?w=692&amp;ssl=1 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me and Tom (the respected and admired James College Squash social sec) having a lovely time at the James Squash social<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it\u2019s good exercise,<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you make some great friends &#8211;&gt;<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but also because you get the chance to qualify for varsity matches, where you can show the colleges from Durham how it\u2019s done!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve also joined James rugby this year (despite not fulfilling any of the typical dimensions of a rugby player) and the value of college sport as a chance to join small communities, to train and to play for 0 money has become even clearer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ways to get involved definitely do not stop at college-level of course; you probably heard that York has over 180 societies so I think you\u2019ll probably find something you fancy joining. I was one of those people who gave my email out to pretty much every society at Fresher\u2019s (and went back at the start of this year to any I missed) but nah no regrets: I may not have gone to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yusu.org\/opportunities\/sport\/octopush\">Octopush<\/a>\u00a0session yet but it\u2019s nice to know that opportunity is there in case of a sudden urge. You just have to<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yusu.org\/opportunities\/societies\/societies-a-z\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> take a bit of a browse here, <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">then a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yusu.org\/opportunities\/sport\/clubs-a-z\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">brief peruse of the sports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and see what you\u2019d like to try out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year I was getting into YogaSoc and this year I&#8217;m going to a few more political things. But my friends get up to all sorts. They are part of concert and brass bands, my housemate writes in our student newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouse.co.uk\/\">Nouse<\/a>, I watched my friend perform in 2 very funny plays as part of the Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Society last year, and plenty of people get into Medieval Society, play Ultimate Frisbee, or go to FragSoc all-nighters (with slushie machines and MonoRovers alongside their gaming).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.giphy.com\/media\/gDYjzE74Imkmc\/giphy.gif?ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(this is Amelia commandeering a MonoRover from FragSoc last year)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.giphy.com\/media\/Dc8nZQVVUKimQ\/giphy.gif?ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another bonus to all this fun stuff is that you can get recognition for your involvement with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.ac.uk\/students\/work-volunteering-careers\/skills\/york-award\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">York Award<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The perks never end!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I guess the most important thing when it comes to having fun at uni is meeting new people and just doing <i>stuff<\/i>, whether it be through societies or not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 332px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"332\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 332px;\" data-original-width=\"250\" data-original-height=\"332\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2016\/11\/28\/colleges-societies-getting-involved\/img_20161126_203144\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"246\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"328\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"2166\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ONE A2003&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1480192304&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.48&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3889&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_20161126_203144\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?fit=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?w=246&#038;h=328&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_203144.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w\" width=\"246\" height=\"328\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"246\" data-original-height=\"328\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"img_20161126_203144\" alt=\"NatSciSoc is of course our very own academic society. Last night was NatSciSoc&#039;s cute lil end-of-term meal - Amelia and Megan are here to demonstrate the cuteness\" style=\"width: 246px; height: 328px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> NatSciSoc is of course our very own academic society. Last night was NatSciSoc&#8217;s cute lil end-of-term meal &#8211; Amelia and Megan are here to demonstrate the cuteness <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 250px; height: 332px;\" data-original-width=\"250\" data-original-height=\"332\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-small\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2016\/11\/28\/colleges-societies-getting-involved\/img_20161126_210311\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"246\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"328\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"2167\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,960\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ONE A2003&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1480194191&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.48&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2727&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0588235294118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_20161126_210311\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?fit=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?w=246&#038;h=328&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161126_210311.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w\" width=\"246\" height=\"328\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"246\" data-original-height=\"328\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"img_20161126_210311\" alt=\"Don&#039;t you wish you could hang out with these cool cats - Chris can&#039;t quite believe he has the privilege\" style=\"width: 246px; height: 328px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Don&#8217;t you wish you could hang out with these cool cats &#8211; Chris can&#8217;t quite believe he has the privilege <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-carousel-extra='null' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 353px;\" data-original-width=\"500\" data-original-height=\"353\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 262px; height: 353px;\" data-original-width=\"262\" data-original-height=\"353\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/2016\/11\/28\/colleges-societies-getting-involved\/dsc07084\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"258\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"173\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"2170\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,855\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6300&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1477128147&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dsc07084\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?fit=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?fit=1024%2C684&#038;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?w=258&#038;h=173&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/11\/DSC07084.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" width=\"258\" height=\"173\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"258\" data-original-height=\"173\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"dsc07084\" alt=\"You and the friends you meet aren&#039;t restricted to just York. We decided the Lake District was close enough that it warranted a trip\" style=\"width: 258px; height: 173px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> You and the friends you meet aren&#8217;t restricted to just York. 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