The student support is amazing at both an educational and pastoral level, lecturers and module conveners aim to strive for excellence. Student services and academic mentors also help students to live comfortably and in accordance with their studies. The worst aspects of the uni experience are probably the difficulties associated with independence, adjusting to a different life than at home with less instructions and co-ordination with caregivers. Additionally, adjusting from an A Level/Vocational level study to university study can be difficult. However, those can be managed with help from others at uni.

The best aspects of my course is the teaching method with lectures and lectures led discussions helping to facilitate understanding and knowledge, which compose around 8 hours a week. My course is highly connected with the interdisciplinary fields of social science and so seminars which are around 2 hours a week help to contextualise the taught content within a wider educational context.

Our halls are very unique in the aspect that they are not located on West or East campus but just off West. As a result, the halls allow for residents to develop a good relationship due to the separate location, additionally it is a true reflection of the pictured “student life “. The part which I dislike the most may be that to get to the hall you have to walk across a path which has little lighting and as a result at night it can feel unsafe.

The University of York campus is beautiful, with lots of wildlife. The college experience is excellent and makes you feel like part of a proper university community. There is also lots of places to get free food on campus. The campus bars are also great.

In third year the contact time is very poor, with me currently only having 3 hours per week. Some of the lecturers are great but sometimes a lazy teaching style is taken on, especially in seminars. However, I did get a free field trip to Tenerife which was amazing. The course content is interesting, but as someone who is very interested in the human side of geography the module choices available can be very environment/physical geography based. Especially in third year.

The halls are very sociable and my kitchen was big and regularly cleaned. Our shared bathroom was cleaned almost every day which was very good. The building is old but the heating system is good so it doesn't get too cold. The food in catered accommodation was really good, especially the breakfast. I liked how there was lots of people on each floor of the building (14 per flood), and all the floors were accessible to everyone in the building. This made it easy to make friends.