my university is the ideal place to study, no faults just now.

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Plymouth is a great place to study, the library is massive, 24-hour, with lots of seating/room options so there's something for everyone. The best thing is that everything is super close together, everything is within walking distance, and if you live in halls then main campus is 4 minutes away. the shops in the centre are really good, loads of charity shops!! the hoe and waterfront are also really pretty and only like 15 minutes away from main campus. The only thing I wish someone told me is that it gets pretty windy here.

All lectures are in person and recorded so you can rewatch them. you get so many opportunities to participate in research, it's compulsory for the course, and you can do anything from a questionnaire to a real MRI which Is super exciting. The main psych lecture hall is big and comfy, and the room we do workshops in is bright open and modern. They have amazing facilities for research, on campus there are many EEG labs and then there's a brain research imaging centre a 20-minute bus away which has loads of different brain scan equipment, students in later years/masters get to use these facilities for their own projects. plymouth is definitely a great place for psychology, all lecturers are experts in their field and conduct/ have conducted their own research, module staff are supportive and there are forums for questions. Assessment is a blend of coursework and written exams, with different weightings for different modules. Obviously, it's a lot of work but any good course should be. really enjoying it so far, I'm going to switch my course to an integrated master's which has reduced fees, and do a year of Human Neuroscience, i will also be doing a placement year, which there are tons of options for. The course has been enjoyable, sometimes challenging, and satisfying. I wouldn't say there are many major areas that need improvement, and any complaints about my experience so far come from my own personal factors, nothing to criticise about the actual course though.

Robbins was overall depressing, really small kitchens with no sofa, so not great for socialising. Me and my flatmate had water leak from the bathroom ceiling multiple times, it gets extremely (!!!) loud at night, you can hear so much from the flats around you and from the stairwells. Anyone can just walk between the buildings, so promotional people shove leaflets through the windows on the ground floor and sometimes they try to talk to you to advertise stuff lmao. The en suite was a bonus, but you can get a lot better value for money elsewhere (St Thomas Court, only 5 mins away, where I'm staying this year) I was really depressed at robbins but mainly because I met some nasty people, the rooms are bigger than most other halls, but as I said the kitchen is pathetic. Also, and a lot of people say this, the painted brick walls on the inside really make it feel like a prison cell. The value for money is pretty awful, but it is shockingly close to the uni campus, used to leave for my lectures like 4 mins before they started and get in on time fine. For a first year, I would really encourage you to look at private accommodation options, st thomas court is the best value for money I found, £20 less a week for an ensuite with a small double bed, way bigger kitchen and only 5 mins further away. Still a good social life here, there are lots of first years here, and if u make friends in halls they are only 5 mins away! don't choose Robbins :)