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In the next part of my series looking back at my university application diary, I attend an applicant day at the University of Kent.
24/04/2016
So here we are, 7 open days, 1 audition, 1 History-at-Kent day, and 3 applicant days later, and my university research has finished 😥. Now all I have to do is firm (well I have now, but that’s for another blog post (keep you in suspense, not that it’s obvious or anything, haha)). I have finally found a moment (well I should be writing a classics essay but shhhh...) to document my time at Kent's Applicant Day (though it may be on the vague side as it was at least a month ago...)... Just give me a moment, trying to remember (squeezes eyes closed in “concentration”- very hard when Death of a Bachelor is playing in the background. How have I only just properly discovered Pan!c at the Disco?! On the topic of music, Cake by the Ocean is such a feel good tune. Really perks me up when essays get to me haha)
Right, got it!
When we arrived, we went over to Rutherford Dining Hall (cause Rutherford College is where history is based- yey, mazes (just a Kent ‘in joke’- feeling like I live there already haha!). Anyways, we signed in, and sat down with tea (the parents not me cause I don't like said beverage, I know, I’m a true Brit) and biscuits, before being called row by row to go on a two hour tour of campus until lunch (including the library, catered (finally- I hadn’t seen any in real life ‘til then) and self-catered accommodation, the gym (awkwardest experience of my life...) and everywhere else that I can’t currently think of- got to be honest, didn’t realise how big campus was until the tour haha). Anyways, afterwards we went to have lunch (free woo!) at Rutherford Dining Hall, which was a great insight into what I’d be eating next year if I go catered. The lasagne was fab BTW. We also talked to the lady on the accommodation stall who basically said that (don’t want to jinx it) you are highly likely to get first choice going catered as it’s less in demand than new self-catered like Turing for instance (she didn’t mention Turing specifically though, so don’t panic if you're thinking of applying for there). In the afternoon we had a talk from the history department, (in Grimmond building). It started with an intro from the Head of Admissions, followed by a talk from the history society, a 15 minute ‘taster lecture’ on the Bede, a talk on the transition from Sixth Form to University and a 15 minute taster lecutre on “People’s war in history”. There was then an opportunity to chat to lecturers outside the lecture theatre to get questions answered.
Anyways, afterwards we tracked down the admissions person we had been speaking to about changing the course code to the right one on UCAS and she said that she could get it done soon (i.e. before freshers week which is when I had originally been told it would be changed). We also had a chat to the medieval historian who’d done the Bede talk.
Anyways, basically I had a fab time at the open day and was pretty happy to make it one of my choices.
It took a little longer than expected to change the course code (ie it only got changed last Friday (the 15th if anyone’s counting)- it was so exciting coming back from ballet to see the ‘something has changed on UCAS track’ email! I have had a problem sorting out student finance cause they didn’t recognise the course code, but after talking to the classics department (who will run the course I want to do), they forwarded my concerns to the right person and got it sorted the same day - I am yet to check if it works now, but they said they’ve added it to the data base! (edit: it did) Oh and the funniest thing, when the course got changed, they said, I am their first ever Ancient, Medieval and Modern History Student (oh yeah!!).
I think that’s everything for now, it rambled a lot at the end, sorry about that...
TTFN
Beatrice
Behind on my application diaries? Click the links below to get up-to-date:
Introduction, and thoughts on my final few months of sixth-form
University of York Applicant Day
Royal Holloway Applicant Day
Royal Holloway Choir Audition
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