Thursdays are by far my busiest days; ask any first-year Classics student, and they’ll say the same: we have two of our core modules and two language classes. It’s quite a contrast to my Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays when I have no lectures at all. I found it hard at the beginning of the year to adjust to the variety from…
University life is unpredictable and it’s safe to say that no two days are the same. My time at Durham generally consists of rushing between lectures, work, college, and my house. I wake up at around 6:45 on most days, but admittedly I will push this back as far as I can if I have been working the night before or don’t have…
As a first-year Physics student, I have about 20 contact hours a week. There is so much to do in Durham that every day is different, so here’s a taster of my typical week.
Monday‘s
Monday’s are normally pretty busy. They always start in College, Hatfield, where I meet a friend for breakfast in the dining hall at…
When I talk about my year abroad, it often seems fragmented,
a bit all over the place and it tends to confuse people. Do not stress, I am
here to lay down every step I took in the crazy 14 months I spent away!
First of all, I took my year abroad as a compulsory part of my Combined Honours degree, as one of my subjects was…
Besides getting constantly confused for a fresher and hearing everyone’s music from my room (the only reason I haven’t told the guy living in the floor below me to turn it down is because he actually has good taste in music), living in college as a finalist is nothing like the first year.
I chose to live back in college…
One of the
things that surprised me about Durham when I first arrived here was that I immediately
felt so welcomed. I mean, I hardly expected not to be embraced by the
existing college community, but coming from London – where so many people at my
school shared my ethnicity, cultural experiences, and religious upbringing…
Saturday 25th January marked a special occasion not only for myself and the rest of the Vegetarian and Vegan Society executive committee but for Durham as a whole. After months of meetings, emails, phone calls, and form-filling, our idea to host Durham’s first Vegan Fair in celebration of Veganuary finally came to fruition (if…
With a post-offer visit day at Durham on the horizon, I explain what you can expect and share my experience of staying at St Mary’s College when I visited in February 2018.
If you would like to visit Durham take a look at our website for all the different options.
To see more of student life at Durham follow…
When I started at Durham this year, I resolved to join everything I could. As a music student, I signed up for pretty much everything musical at the freshers’ fair, but I especially wanted to be involved in Durham University Orchestral Society (DUOS), as I’d heard about its high standard of playing, amazing repertoire and…
Eighteen months ago, I sat in my very first job interview. The job in question was the one I am grateful to be doing now: student intern in the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Colleges. In short, I would be spending my working hours connecting with Durham’s Colleges, and the wealth of wonderful people who work within…
