Hi, welcome to King's.
My name's Tom,
I am a second year languages student
and today I'll be giving you a tour of King's College.
And so you can see through here at least
that's the main dining hall.
So, that's open [for] lunch and dinner every day.
Quite...
quite fancy I'd say!
It's...
obviously every College has one,
I think King's does it quite well.
Good prices,
every day sort of changing meals every two weeks
and...
everyone sort of uses it
people obviously have kitchen access
in their student accommodation as well but
a lot of people
generally finishing exam season
just go there
and that works for them really well.
Is it pay as you go or is it
at the end of the week or monthly or...?
End of term
so every eight-week term
and you scan, I'll show you...
you have your card
which obviously gets you into the gates,
gets you into your rooms,
pay for your food, for your library...
it all goes in this one card sort of thing.
So obviously this is Front Court
and we've got obviously the chapel building there
which normally looks a whole lot nicer
when it's not covered in scaffolding like it is now
and that is
the Porters' Lodge there
so obviously Porters are stationed there 24/7,
they're the ones who help you
say if you've not,
if you're locked out your room or
you've got a parcel to collect or...
just something generally that you've got any sort of query or concern
go to the Porters
and also on that side of the building as well
that's where all the pigeonholes are
so that's where all your mail goes to
and that's also [the] Gibbs Building there as well
so that's mostly Fellows' offices and stuff
so some people have supervisions in there
which is obviously the main sort of Cambridge teaching.
So most of first year
will live on site mainly
but you'll have accommodation for
all three [or] four years whatever your degree is
provided by the College
so...
there might be
a lot of the buildings say on Garden Site
which is just over the bridge, across the road
there's two big hostels there
and also on King's Parade
which is the road just over
behind where you probably walked in
those buildings opposite
they're all owned by King's as well
so above the shops.
This building here's again
first year accommodation
so we'll go inside there and I'll show you one of the rooms
in there as well,
they're the en suite rooms as well
it's a bit more
a bit more modern,
renovated only a couple years back.
No oven sadly in this building as well
because sort of fire safety
but you've got two hobs,
two sinks
and it's shared between around
I think 14, 15 people
will use this but obviously
it's pretty big,
everyone can fit in here and more
so it's really nice social space as well
and King's has what they call the King's Bunker
so it's a downstairs, a big dark
sort of bunker style club room sort of thing,
end of every term, it's a big costume party,
get DJs in from outside
so you have sort of that
proper, enormous fun aspect
you wouldn't expect from a Cambridge College.
Yeah, so this is Bodley's Court.
All of this again is student accommodation.
It changes between years
whether it's first years or second and third years who live here
and a lot of these rooms as well are sets
so you have sort of two rooms,
one sort of living room space
and a bedroom space as well sort of thing
which is quite nice,
all of these as well are shared bathrooms
so some of them are like say for example
I've got like a basement there with fully refurbished toilets
and all the rest of the staircases
they have their own little bathrooms and showers
in the downstairs as well,
obviously very old!
And I think Alan Turing lived in one of those rooms up there,
that was his room as well
and those are King's punts
so you can rent those out for £4 an hour
so you can get to go
take them up down the river,
get all your punting equipment and...
so it's much cheaper than actual tours.
And so this is Webb's Court,
all along this top bit here, that's the library
and that's open 24/7 I think these days.
Sort of just for King's student use,
not the biggest library in the world
but nice, practical, has most books you'd need
say for this general first year stuff as well
where you may have to go to like the actual faculty libraries later on.
This building along here is Webb's,
it's a mixture of student accommodation and Fellows' offices.
Band 2 or Band 3 room,
shared kitchen, shared bathroom,
compared to Keynes a lot cheaper,
you're sharing
we'll see the kitchen as we go round there as well
but obviously got a wardrobe,
desks, everyone has a desk, everyone's [got] lamps,
desk chair, comfy chairs,
the lot, so you'll never, obviously the fridge as well
so whether you've got a fridge or your sharing in the kitchen
everyone has access to that.
Do you notice? Look at these walls
have all the little ridges
so you can get a picture hook as well
and put things up as well because then
the Porters' Lodge will provide picture hooks as well
so you can make it your space really easily
and people do, like these rooms obviously look so bare right now
because people have been
moved out but
I think my friends were living in here
and they really enjoyed living here.
Anyone's [got] any more questions
if they're about subjects
I did languages if that's any help to anybody but otherwise
there's...
should be some people around that
can try and point towards any of the questions and...
yeah!
Have a great rest of your day and hopefully,
you enjoy King's enough to
maybe want to come back!
Thank you!