I'm Eloise and I'm a second year Music Student.
When I came on the open day I absolutely loved all the buildings and I thought
that the music building was kind of the centre of attention on the campus which
I really liked and everybody I met was so friendly and
I just thought it was a really welcoming environment which I wanted to
be a part of I absolutely love the Elgar Concert Hall
I think that's something that a lot of other places don't have and
we've had so many opportunities to perform in there
it's such a nice acoustic and it just makes it
feel like a really special occasion also the
practice rooms they're always open and I thought they were a really great
resource for all of us. I'm in the Music Society and
I'm a member of various different orchestras the brass band Symphonic
Brass I did a choir last year, wind band, I
really threw myself into a lot of things. So in terms of music societies there's a
group for any kind of music you'd want to make.
In terms of not music I also I'm a road cyclist so I am in the
cycling club that's been really fun really different
normally I spend all my time doing music so it's nice to do something else as
well. And in terms of Worklink
there's lots of opportunities for you to work on campus being a student ambassador
or various other things which I found to be
a really good role, I like connecting with people who want to come here and
show them what a good time I've had. So in terms of the Music Society there's
plenty of socials and for this next year coming me and my friend are the social
secretaries so we’ve been busy planning lots of good events
but yes there was a Christmas soiree in my first year which was
really lovely, it's nice to have a chance to kind of dress up and meet
everyone in the department and stuff like that and then there's also
bar crawls, more calm events like bowling and stuff
which is really nice. In Selly Oak there's normally on a
Friday evening there's the JFS Jam at The Indie Lounge which is
where you'll find a load of people from
Selly Oak and also a load of Music students and it's just such a nice way of anyone
can get up and play anything and everyone's there and it's really
nice occasion. Birmingham has a really rich music scene which
I think quite a few people can overlook in terms of London but
there's the CBSO to start with and there were student price tickets so we went to
a load of CBSO concerts. There's so many other different music
making opportunities in the city to get involved with which I thought was
amazing because there's so much to do here and there's so much to in the city.
there's also the Birmingham Philharmonic which is an amateur
orchestra which some people have got involved in
and yeah the Bullring as well is an amazing place to go, town is just really nice to
go shopping, go out eating by the canal
it's really pretty there and a lot of us really enjoy going over there now.
Yes Selly Oak is also nice because everyone's really in the same place
you're never far from any of your friends so yeah that's what I’ve loved and
first year as well I was on the Vale which was such a hub
and I really enjoyed that. Typically I’ll have
maybe a seminar or two a day, they range from one hour to kind of
three hours but you get a break, then after that
I’ll probably have some sort of rehearsal for the rest
of the day not on the weekends it's just in the
week and then there's always time for
socializing in the evenings and on the weekends which is really nice.
The library is an amazing facility to work in as is the
Teaching and Learning building which I’ve spent a lot of time in recently,
it's a nice quiet place to go and work and get stuff done
so yeah plenty of time for everything