It’s been great so far, I’ve been put on the DSA and the support received is really good, I have weekly meetings to check up on my welfare and help with anything I’m struggling with. The DMU library is great, the amount of support you can get with overall help is phenomenal and there are so many options if you don’t feel confident going into a room with others - there are alternatives which make people feel better. I’ve made a lot of friends who have been great to me and helped me in many different situations. It’s so easy to make friends with people because I believe we’re all in the same boat, so it’s easier to communicate I think the worst thing about my experience would probably be my accommodation, although it’s a great room and great location. I experienced a lot of things that are quite common for people; bad flatmates and sometimes lack of communication from reception. Although issues were resolved it did take a while for them to be acknowledged.

My course has been great, so many valuable lessons I’ve learnt in general and my behaviour has changed. I have understood the gap between sixth from and university. The offered skills days within my course have been amazing, learning new things around Social Work area and different types of people you work with and how to deal with them in situations. I think this has opened my eyes to how many vulnerable people in our community need help. My course has changed how I view things and has gotten me more into research and collaborative work too. Contact with lecturers has been good, you get quick and easy responses and they help to arrange meetings with you where they can do a one to one session when you both have free time. Although when it comes to strike days you may not even get a reply. Even when they come in they still don’t reply to your email. We had a situation where we didn’t understand the assignment and lecturer was on strike, we couldn’t get a hold of them. Our tutors forwarded the date an extra week, although this helped I believe we were still stuck on the guidance for that assignment. The lectures are great, sometimes they are a bit slow and there is a lot of information to go through, I think some lecturers want to just get it over with, which doesn’t create a bond between students whilst others will go through the slides step by step. There has been moments where I’ve felt I’m in secondary school and im being fed the information but after talking with the module leaders and tutor this was quickly changed. Course hours are okay, it’s 10am-5pm with an hour break, I would like longer breaks in-between rather than 10 minutes because it’s not a lot of time and sometimes you only get one 10 minutes per 3 hours which isn’t the best and sometimes results in yourself not getting enough time for yourself.

I think Uni halls are good, you get to make friends really quick and on the first few days there were activities where you could meet other people. They even had a Unite app to talk to other roommates however they disabled this feature rather quickly so it wasn’t great at all. I wish there was a way to have WhatsApp groups or other social media groups to talk to people to know who is going where. This did make me very anxious when moving in. I have made friends for life in my halls and we are staying in the same place but together next year , even myself in a bigger room which hopefully will be worth the value. The place is good for parcel management and support and sometimes you do create good bonds with yourself and the staff there. As mentioned on the other comments, I did have problems with flatmates and I wanted to move and I did end up moving but a month or two later after many complaints which got recognised. There is construction going off, I did know this was going to happen but not to this extent - it is rather loud in the morning but what more can you do if you knew the risks

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