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Lancaster University

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Canadalife · 16/09/2018 19:44

Dd starting in two weeks...course that she feels is great...But she is having a wobble....any positive feedback and experience of the University would be really helpful.

Many thanks

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sluj · 21/09/2018 13:09

Just announced at position number 6 in the Times and Sunday Times leagues. I can't understand really why no-one really gives it the credit which is clearly due. Can it really all be down to that Russell Group label?

SkippedALightFandango · 21/09/2018 13:11

My daughter got her degree there. She loved it. She was in cartmel. The accommodation was lovely and she made great friends and had a fab uni experience

Ihaventgottimeforthis · 21/09/2018 13:20

I went there to do env science (apparently TWENTY YEARS AGO) and I loved it, made friends for life. Great for sports, great location for exploring the countryside, really nice campus for settling in.
I also got to study for a year in Vancouver which was amazing.

Lonsdale for me, still don't accept that the bar has moved. Didn't really accept the makeover tbh.

LoniceraJaponica · 22/09/2018 08:50

Well, Lancaster has slipped into second place now. DD preferred Newcastle because it is city based and not capus based. Newcastle is a lot easier to get to on public transport for her as well.

NastyCats · 22/09/2018 08:53

I had a friend who went there and loved it. I visited it twice as a post-graduate for conferences and all the under-graduates I came across were lovely - polite and would go out of their way to show you the route of you were a bit lost.

Sparklyfee · 22/09/2018 09:04

County girl here Grin

It's a fantastic uni. I loved the campus element of it. Still have such great memories and recently went for a wander around.

Campus is huge and the colleges have all changed but the atmosphere is still as fun and bustling and safe as I remember.

They'll be absolutely fine, so many different ways to meet their type of people. And in county we had 28 sharing a huge kitchen and so a wide variety of people but we all had our place there. Happy times

Justanothermile · 22/09/2018 09:45

DS is about to start his degree at Lancaster (Pendle) on Next Sunday, so this is a good thread to read.Smile

Justanothermile · 22/09/2018 09:46

*next

Sorry - typo and lack of checking there.

Roomba · 22/09/2018 10:34

Well, my experiences are now 20 years out of date, but I absolutely loved it (Furness is def the best college though Grin). I've spent time on campus recently and it's even better now, though I was sad to see my old block is long gone, as are the peacocks (one lad looked at me as though I was insane when I asked if the peacocks were still around! 'Sorry I'm late, a peacock was blocking the doorway' was a frequent excuse for tardiness in my day). Campus has everything you could need within a few minutes walk. There's a great sense of community - my fears of such a small town having a dull social scene compared to my home city were unfounded. I speak speak for the rooms/kitchens as they've all been rebuilt since my day.

Lancaster itself is great too. There's loads of new student accommodation either recently built or currently being built, pus the student houses are generally nicer than in many places from what I've experienced (or maybe I was lucky and my friends elsewhere were unlucky). An hour away from Manchester, Liverpool and the Lake District and North Yorkshire nearby. I stayed here as I liked it so much.

sluj · 22/09/2018 18:30

County here too, in the Doreen days 😁
Loved doing the 11 bar crawl without even leaving campus. How many bars are there now, I wonder? Always felt very safe

SelfCareAndKindness · 22/09/2018 18:33

Furness girl! Wonderful location, academically rigorous, so friendly, and very safe.

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Canadalife · 22/09/2018 18:36

Dd is going to Pendle...lovely to hear all the positive things. Part of the wobble is because Lancaster is so late starting and all her friends have started and are having a whale of a line at various universities round the country. Thanks to all the Lancastrians past and present.

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Canadalife · 22/09/2018 18:36

*time!

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newtlover · 22/09/2018 18:41

be warned, though, some of us went there in our 20s and never left....

treehousethunderstorm · 22/09/2018 18:50

Another Lancaster graduate here (Grizedale)! As a socially anxious person I really liked that you had a college community to ease you in to the larger university experience. Loved it, looking back I wish I'd taken more advantage of everything on offer

RandomMess · 22/09/2018 18:54

When are you dropping her off?? Must be soon?

FrogPrincess · 22/09/2018 19:34

So many lovely messages on here, thank you all, I'm updating DD who is also seeing her friends leave for uni one after the other and waiting for her turn!

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Canadalife · 22/09/2018 19:36

drop off next Sunday.....long drive for us...

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Canadalife · 22/09/2018 19:39

It is really hard being the one left behind at this stage. Last week Dd went with friends who started this weekend and her Bf started 3 weeks ago in Scotland. She knows her turn will come...but she does feel a bit left behind. Thank you for all the comments.

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Spudlet · 22/09/2018 19:41

Pendle?! PAH (I still have my 'I ❤️ Gz' t-shirt somewhere Grin)

I'm sure she will love it. I went back to the town for a flying visit with DS and DH a couple of years ago and was looking up house prices on RightMove for a few weeks afterwards. Tell her to join plenty of clubs and chuck herself into it.

If the Carlton still exists, tell her to avoid v strappy shoes. A friend (or maybe it was me?) once stuck to the floor in there so hard that their shoe strap snapped! Happy times Grin

RandomMess · 22/09/2018 19:44

Do not venture into town to buy anything from Wilkinson's or similar the place is heaving on drop off weekend Grin

LoniceraJaponica · 22/09/2018 20:21

"It is really hard being the one left behind at this stage. Last week Dd went with friends who started this weekend and her Bf started 3 weeks ago in Scotland. She knows her turn will come...but she does feel a bit left behind. Thank you for all the comments."

This is exactly DD's current situation. BF in Glasgow, and partying every night. DD at home doing a gap year and staying in every night because all her friends are at university.

raspberryrippleicecream · 22/09/2018 22:30

ducklings

Worth going to Lancaster for the ducks!

I know several DC there and they are all very happy and love it.

RandomMess · 22/09/2018 22:35

About the ducks: do not ever feed the ducks human food!

user187656748 · 22/09/2018 22:44

Shock wtf have they done to the peacocks. That was part of campus life being rudely awoken by the peacocks! 20+ years here too. I can't really believe its that long. I frequently have stress dreams about not being able to get Carlton or Empire tickets or missing the Lonsdale extrav