Hello everyone and welcome back to our channel. So for those of you that are new,
I'm Becca and my best friend Sophie and I have made this channel
to share our experiences through School, College, Careers, University.
And we just wanted to share everything that we've learnt along the way with you.
So in today's video we're going to be talking about the University of Warwick. I actually
went to the University of Warwick between 2017 and 2020 and I studied Accounting and Finance.
So the first thing I want to talk to you about is accommodation. I actually stayed in Sherbourne,
which is about 10-15 minutes away from the central campus - walking that is obviously. Drive it's
like 30 seconds. Warwick is actually a campus university. Most of the accommodation is very
very central, but Sherbourne is just that little bit further out. But you do get an ensuite and
it was a pretty new build - I think it was maybe three years old when I moved in. So very new and
everything is very modern which is really nice. I actually shared with 12 people,
but the flat was a maximum of 13. So with Sherbourne, you do get the
opportunity to roomshare if you want. I think there's maybe, at least two
flats in the building, if not then maybe six potentially, in each of the different buildings
that have flats that have two beds in it. We were quite lucky in ours where the room
that had two beds in it only had shared room, it was only them - there was just the one of them.
So we would've been a flat of 13, but instead were a flat of 12. So they paid
basically half the price and got a room double the size, so maybe something worth considering.
I do have to say though, sharing with 12 people, our kitchen was quite messy and we were I guess
the party flat in our block. But I did make friends with the people downstairs, who had
an absolutely pristine kitchen the whole time and to be honest, I cooked a lot with them down there.
Just because it was so much easier and cleaner. But our flat was very good for socialising that's
for sure. So in the kitchen we had a little bar stool area and little table area as well. And my
room had a beautiful view of the fields behind me. I'll insert the clip here now so you can see my
room at Sherbourne. I absolutely loved the experience and I love my flatmates as well
and i kept in contact with quite a few of them another good thing about living in a flat with
loads of people is that you have loads of people to talk to during freshers which is amazing and
Warwick is a very diverse university so you have lots of people from different walks of life and
all over the world come to work so there's loads to talk about and loads of new friends to be very
just cliche as it sounds. Regarding nightlife, for Warwick to be honest there's not that much. Like
i said before, it's a campus university so in the central campus there's the SU or the student union
which has like a club there and every Wednesday there's something called POP! which is where all
of the societies go and they get together and they do something called 'circling'.
So that's basically like a pre-drinks i guess at any normal place um but you all have to put your
phones away and the social sects run it and they play like loads of games and you drink something
called 'purple' which to anyone else is probably called 'snake bite'. But yeah if you go to work
it's called purple and yeah it's really good fun especially with like the sports societies that go
there and yeah that's definitely something that you have to try at some point. Also in terms of
nightlife or Warwick you are quite close to both Leamington Spa and Coventry and that's actually
where most people live in second and third year as well as Canley i guess which is quite close um
but i'll talk about that a bit more later um but yeah regarding Leamington Spa there's clubs called
like Neon and Smack and they've also got like all of your restaurants and bars like Wetherspoons,
Wagamamas, Zizzis all of that, so all the normal like branded places you've got there. As well
in Coventry there's a club called Kasbah which a lot of people go to. I've been there a couple of
times but to be honest it's not really my kind of music i'm more like like hip hop and r'n'b
and also you're really close to Birmingham as well which was very good for me because my best friend
Sophie went to Birmingham University so we were very close like a 20-30 minute train ride away
from Birmingham i think or obviously you can get a taxi which is what we did coming back from most
nights out but to be honest. If you live on campus, from Canley station i think it's like
two pound fifty to go to Birmingham from there so that's definitely the way to go if you want to do
it cheaply or obviously sharing a taxi. In terms of facilities on campus,
there is a supermarket on campus just like a mini market i guess and then also quite a few
restaurants and there's a pub quite close as well. There's also a massive Tesco and Aldi,
Iceland, Wilko all of that quite close too and they're within walking distance i mean from my
accommodation Sherbourne it was kind of the other side so not ideal so it was about 40 minute walk.
So to be honest with you, we did try and walk and i went with my friend quite a few times at the
start of first year but then we gave up and just got tesco delivery basically the whole time after
that but in Leamington, we just drove to Aldi usually there's like a M&S and Tesco and things
like that too if you wanted to go there instead. Other facilities on campus include the library
and the grid and the WBS (warwick business school) grid as well. So i was part of the
business school, so mainly just went there to be honest to WBS it's a brand new build very modern
and minimalist they have lots of quotes around the walls, but all of my friends mainly were part
of WBS or we all sat in WBS anyway there's like a little kitchen there and obviously you've got
all the lecture theaters there's also a restaurant which serves Oriental food so i really recommend
going to WBS if you are a warwick business school student. But pretty much everyone else either went
to the grid or to the library to study and there's loads of spaces there obviously most people do
study there especially during exam season and there are quiet spaces as well in the library if
you didn't want to chat but in the grid in wbs there were loads of like social spaces so you
could just sit and eat loads of booths and things like that. But also great spaces if you wanted to
do presentations and small presentation rooms as well which you could book, you know with a
lot of group projects and stuff which i had a lot of group projects - they're really handy to have.
In terms of the lecture halls and the seminar rooms, so for those of you who don't know a
lecture is usually like well for me anyway it was around 100 or 200 people and you just sit there
and you make notes and you listen to the lecture and they're usually all recorded as well so you
can play them back at home as well um and then the seminars are where you mainly like ask your
questions and have like in-depth discussions about things, so for me they're a lot more enjoyable. So
you obviously you learn about all the knowledge in the lecture and then you consolidate that
knowledge and get to chat a lot about it and give your opinion on things in their seminars there
are a lot smaller groups i think some of mine were like between 5 and 30 people. 30 being a
quite a big one usually about 15, so yeah they're really good fun and that is where you make a lot
of friends as well um and yeah it's very handy if you've got friends that are in your seminars so
it's usually the lecturer that runs the lecture obviously... sometimes you have guest lecturers
too though and in the seminars sometimes it can be the lecturer it completely depends on the module.
Other times it was just other members of staff or PhD students running ours
but to be honest with you pretty much all of ours were really good and really engaging,
they were amazing at getting back to you with questions and things, i think it's probably better
if you ask all the questions to the seminar tutor unless you obviously love the subject and want to
know more detail in which case yeah definitely go directly to the lecturer. Another good thing about
the lecturers is that they pretty much wrote most of the textbooks that i found anyway on my courses
so obviously you know that they have amazing subject knowledge so in terms of careers at
Warwick they are very big on their careers. There are two main types of like career events that you
can go to one is a careers fair where basically they have like loads of little stalls and
all the big companies come in and set up a stall and give you like free pens or free merchandise
or free pizza a lot of the time too and you get to chat to them about the jobs that they have
offer at the moment and also about the company more generally and get to network a little bit
with them and then they also do a second type of event where there's probably i think for me
between like 20 and 100 people to some of them and it's usually in the lecture halls
or in the conference rooms and they basically just stand up at the front and give a presentation
and then there's like a Q&A at the end and then you get to network with them afterwards and have
some drinks so that's another really good way of meeting employers but to be honest for those i'd
probably just go if you're interested in the role that they have to offer or the job they have to
offer and definitely do your research beforehand. A bit more generally about university i just
wanted to mention my experience so i actually found it really hard and had a bit of a panic
during first term it was just very different to what i was expecting and i just i guess i wasn't
prepared for it, but then i completely found, for me anyway, that that feeling
completely went away after Christmas of first year so at the start of second term onwards and i
absolutely loved university i'm so glad that i went i've made absolutely friends for life
definitely um and i just really enjoyed my time at Warwick i would highly recommend Warwick it
absolutely was not what i was expecting as i mentioned especially with regards to
like nightlife and i thought being a campus university everything would be really close
but for me obviously a 15 minute walk it doesn't seem like much but when some people can literally
roll out of bed and 30 seconds later you know they're at their lecture it was quite different.
My top three tips for anyone that's going to work or i guess for the first one university generally
is make an effort in freshers like really try and make friends especially with your course
mates you know make an effort to go out and be sociable because especially at Warwick i found
people seemed to drop off the grid a little bit after freshers and didn't really seem to go out
as much as they did in freshers so yeah really make an effort then and it's amazing to have
friends that are course mates because you can all revise together and work together
and talk about things that you maybe wouldn't need to talk to your lecturer about you could just talk
to your friends about instead so yeah i definitely recommend that the second thing is you have to go
to POP! or to at least go to circling at some point when you're at Warwick with one of the
societies so there's societies for absolutely everything all of the sports obviously you've
got your academic societies and then i was part of things like cocktail society and stuff like that
not that i went that much, i'm not gonna lie, but yeah there's loads of societies there's definitely
something that you'll enjoy and circling is a very different experience to any other pres
so i highly highly recommend doing that if you are at Warwick. And the final piece of advice
that i'd give i guess this applies to any university as well but especially at warwick
is to do a module of something that you wouldn't usually do so for me that was programming i really
i'm not a programmer at all but i just thought you know it's a coursework module i'd have to do an
exam for it and it sounds interesting so to give it a go and it came quite highly recommended from
people in the year above as well and i absolutely loved it it was my favourite module by far
the guy that was running it was incredible i enjoyed spending time with my friends on
it there was like a group work element and it was actually my highest grade the whole of university
and something that i'd never done before just because i'd spent so much time on it because i
enjoyed it so much to see i highly recommend doing a module that you wouldn't normally do a lot of my
friends also did like a language and love that so yeah that's another great option. So yeah overall
thank you so much for watching everyone if you enjoyed this or want to know a bit more about the
University of Birmingham my best friend Sophie who i share this channel with is going to do a very
similar video about the University of Birmingham coming up soon so make sure you like subscribe and
all that and stay tuned for that video thank you so much for watching guys and i'll see you soon!