Durham University

[KingscoteStaff]

A continuation thread for those with DC at Durham, or applying for Durham or alumni or staff! Share your thoughts and questions on colleges, courses, etc.

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Sounds lovely @KingscoteStaff 🥰

There were no lifts in my dd’s halls. Her room was in the top floor, very narrow stairwell and corridor and everyone arriving at the same time slot. Initially parents were not allowed to help with carrying luggage as no parents allowed in the accommodation. The freps also did not help with luggage, they were waiting outside the accommodation directing.
In terms of affability, the staff were affable through a computer screen! No face to face contact with college staff, all over zoom, only two in person tutorials in ten weeks, everything else from your bedroom. Strict mealtimes with only your household. Such a miserable experience. My dd liked the porters.
Fingers crossed it will be more normal next term.

So sorry to hear of your DD experience @SpringSparrow . It's so disappointingly. Hope she gets to enjoy this year

@SpringSparrow your poor DD. Which college was this, or don’t you want to say? Hopefully this year will be much better for her.

@Meery it was a popular college in the Bailey, although I expect it was similar at a lot of the colleges. Freshers was abandoned when one of the freps tested positive for Covid and then it just carried on from there, with isolations, food dropped in the stairwell, not allowed out of the building except for a 30 min exercise slot, 15 in her block had Covid at one point! No lectures face to face. 20 min food slots three times a day in the dining hall with the household when not isolating.
@chopc thank you, I hope she had a better experience too, and a better experience for all of them. I am a bit worried as to what it’s going to be like. I see the library is saying you have to book slots and sit at your assigned desk! My dd survived the year and passed the year with a high mark, but she hasn’t had any normal university experience. 😢

I’m sorry to hear that @SpringSparrow- you must have been very worried about her .
Im very much hoping that Dd will be ok and that they all ( including the years above) have a better time of it this year.

Hi can I join? Not sure if this is just for current and 2021 starters? DD is on a tour on Sunday and looking to apply for 2022.

Thanks @Longtimenewsee. Have you said which college your dd was originally allocated to? When we went up to collect my dd’s belongings she met up with a school friend who is starting this year, and had a look around his allocated college, one of the hill colleges. She hadn’t ventured up that way before.

She’s been allocated a bailey college @SpringSparrow. I don’t know if she’ll keep it though .. she’ll be very glad to get a bit of certainty about allocation in the next few weeks.

We're currently in Durham looking for 2022. It's lovely!

@NCTDN
It is! Is your Dc doing a tour?

@NCTDN make sure you see the wonderful sports centre (today featuring DS and his fellow rugby types starting pre-season training) and take a few minutes to soak up the cathedral!

Ds has college confirmation from Durham, his first choice college.

That's great news @OnTheBenchOfDoom

Mine got their confirmation too - same as the one they got in the original allocation. Not first choice at the outset, but pleased uncertainty removed.

Hi - my daughter has just been reallocated to St Aidans & is concerned as not even on her list! What is it really like. She is sporty & not remotely arty & very worried how she will fit in. Also is it really a long way from everything? Thanks!

We did the tour @KingscoteStaff but never went to the sports facilities as no one on the group was looking at Sport at a competitive level. I've fallen in love with the place though.

I'm just looking at accommodation prices. Are all colleges the same cost plus or minus the supplements?

Yes my son got his college confirmed today as well, he’s really happy. Wasn’t his original first choice but it’s his preferred.
Good luck everyone, I think we will be moving him in Sunday 19th September ready for freshers week?

@WentworthMillerMad isn't freshers week starting on 27th Sept?

Same here , rather awkward as he is isolating g in his room so it’s been a barrage of phone calls all day whilst he fills in his accommodation preferences and the enrolment forms . Not sure we have got all the finance questions right but if he’s made a mistake I am sure it can be sorted. .

Ds college says arrivals will be in allocated slots on 25th and 26th with some others during the week if you can’t do weekend for some reason . International students earlier . Freshers week starts Sunday 26th, you can go in the induction planner and put in college and dept and it’s already partly populated , suddenly feels real

No news here.. guess that means that Dd will lose her first choice allocation?

Ah yes weekend 25th / 26th is right. That’s good as it’s September weekend here in glasgow, bank holiday so more time to walk around the house wondering where he is

@fevafeva DS says that Aidans has the best fashion show! Not sure whether that refers to the models, the clothes, the sound system or the refreshments! Also apparently Aidans is ridiculously over represented on the hockey and netball teams due to the effect of their hill on leg muscles!!