We started out the day with a 2 hour car journey so I declared it a road trip! Percy Pigs, Fleetwood Mac and the beautiful South Downs - what more could anyone need? Honestly, I was really impressed by the location of Sussex University. It is in the middle of a national park and only 4 minuets (by train) away from Brighton which is very London like (at least it was on a weekend in the sunshine) but with the lovely lanes and a beach!
When we arrived we ended up joining this very long line which was pretty much a waste of time because I already had the prospectus and I'm not very interested in the other leaflets... And then we joined a tour which was also pretty pointless because the tour guide wasn't very engaging and barely even showed us half of the campus! But I do like the idea of a campus now. I mean, it isn't going to be the deal breaker on which university I chose but I can definitely see the benefits. There was a doctors surgery on campus, all the buildings are together, a cinema (although we didn't get to see it!) and they are building a co-op. It's all very conveinient and there is a whole new block of accomadation which looks lovely! I don't even mind that it is all self catering.
Then we got to the Physics Department and went on a tour of the rooftop observatory which besides being a really great way to see the campus and allowing one of the funniest moments of the day - my Dad tripping over the ladder - it was really impressive! Wow, I want to go to university so much! The Physics talk just confirmed even further that Physis is most definitely what I want to at University and I am quite interested in the research oppurtunities.
After the talk they put on some extra tours for people who had missed ones earlier (of course everyone missed them because nobody was told there would be tours all morning?!) so I chose to visit a lab about a magnetic dipole moment which I knew very little about so I thought that made it perfect - boy, was I wrong! I was very very hungry and the tour guide went into far too much detail, I think it was on purpose... I was feeling a little faint due to confusuion and hunger when she mentioned supersymetry (I talked about this is an old post) and I was like 'oh supersymetry!!' but she quickly moved on so I added disappionted to my list of symptonms and focused my energies on resisting looking at my watch and ignoring the irritating nodding head boy (I'm unsure if it was the hunger or the possibilty that he actually understood what was being said that made him so annoying to me!). That said it was quite interesting seeing a lab - it was nothing like I imagined it would be!
Then we visited the library and drove through Brighton so I really fell for the place! I'm not much closer to making any decisions but at least visitng Imperial College London in a couple of weeks will help me to make comparisons between city and campus univeristies.
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