Hi, starting the tour on the Kingston University bus that goes to the four different campuses.
I just caught it now, in Kingston town centre, and I am going to the Penryhn Road campus.
This bus service usually runs up to about 10 or 11 at night and goes between the halls
of residence, and like I said all the campuses and the main parts of the Kingston Town Centre.
I use it when I get off my first bus from Kingston town to Penryhn road, unless sometimes
when I walk, I choose to walk, which takes about 15 minutes.
Itís free to use, it gets quite packed, as you can see.
And it runs every 10-15 minutes usually, and it goes in both directions.
This is the Penryhn Road campus, and the main entrance is here.
This is where I personally study were I do Statistics, this campus is for students studying
mathematical related courses, science related courses, social sciences, computing courses,
a few other subjects such as politics, media and dance I believe is here too.
So this is where we are going to be starting the tour.
We are now going to go in the building.
This is the food store, where I usually get my lunch and breakfast during the day and
they have quite reasonable prices here.
Itís unlike school and college, where here they have both healthy and unhealthy food
ñ itís your responsibility really, if you are going to eat unhealthy itís all up to
you, itís not like school, so you can choose.
Prices are good, I usually come in-between lectures or after my lectures or even in the
morning when I am in a rush and I donít have time for breakfast at home, I eat in this
canteen.
The burgers are really good and juicy!
Iíd recommend getting one of them!
Ok this is just outside the John Galsworthy glass building.
This is one of our newest buildings and this is a place (the court yard) were people usually
relax and chill out, itís amazing on a hot day, although todays kind of cloudy.
This is usually where I sit down have some lunch sometimes, chat with a few friends,
and wait for my next class.
Okay, we are now in the John Galsworthy building, as you can see there is a front entrance and
a back exit this way.
This building has five floors; this is the ground floor which we are on now.
The ground floor mainly has the IT rooms, so does the first floor, and on the other
floors there are usually seminar rooms and lecture theaters, and this is where your tutorials
might be, usually I have most of my tutorials here, although there are a couple of lecture
theatres here too that can hold up to 100 people in a class.
Whenever you are feeling lazy, these beautiful lifts are amazing as you might not want to
be travelling five sets of stairs, however when I am feeling energetic I will run up
the stairs, and itís a good work out and I donít really like lifts too much, but whenever
you need them they are there for you.
Whenever you are in need of using a computer, we have loads and loads in our library which
we are going to go to soon.
But like I said there are many IT rooms in this building and this lovely monitor here
informs us of all the different rooms where free pc labs are that are free to use.
Usually in classes there in use, but when there not you can find out if they are free
so if ever you need to jump on a computer to go on the internet, do you work, check
Facebook, check MSN, check your email- go to the computer room.
Weíve just left the John Galsworthy building through the back entrance, and this is one
of the lecture theaters- The John Roberts Lecture Theatre that we are now going to go
into.
Okay we are in the Bob Roberts Lecture Theatre.
This Theatre is one of the third or second biggest at this campus and has around 200
seats.
To me it feels like a cinema!
People eat, drink during class, although they shouldnít ñ theyíve left a little rubbish
here.
Usually in the lecture theatre thereís over 100 people in a lecture theatre, students
usually sit at their desk, and take notes while the lecturer uses there microphone and
communicates to everyone.
The lecture slides usually appear on this big interactive board and basically the lecturer
has everything on this monitor here and they use a stylus and turn on the computer and
put up the PowerPoint slides or word slides and they usually annotate over them.
And then us students will just usually write notes while theyíre speaking and we take
in anything relevant that we need to know and lectures in my case are a really good
way of learning, itís a lot different to school, you actually learn in a different
way, itís a much more open way.
Seminars and tutorials are different because thatís when you are in smaller classes of
around 20-30 and thatís when you ask teachers questions and you do more practical side of
work, but in lectures you can still ask questions at the end of lectures or even during the
lectures, just raise your arm, and he or she will usually answer your questions.