Hi guys my name's Humeara and I've just finished doing my English with Creative Writing
degree at the University of Nottingham. Today I'm gonna give you a little year one
Survival Guide type thing in video form and we're going to go around the
Portland Building and all the various buildings that you'll need to know and
it'll just be a nice little day out. So first year's pretty much always live on campus but
second and third years tend to live off. So I live in Lenton but I live right at the bottom of Lenton
so it's easy walking distance to campus.
I'm here! If you want to pause this and read it, it is quite interesting. I'm at
Lakeside Arts and here they have theatre productions, they have galleries,
sometimes for poetry seminars we would come here and look at the art and then
feel inspired before writing some poetry. Doggos! There's dogs everywhere. Hello!
This is the gorgeous lake. Obviously absolutely right next to Lakeside Arts.
You can hire boats to go on the lake. How cute! Three years I've been here and I still haven't done that.
That is our English building.
Literal prospectus shot.
Okay so just a little tip never feed ducks bread they
can't digest it and it creates, like, fungi in the water which obviously isn't good for them either.
So always feed them seeds and things. You can buy them down at Lakeside Arts.
But yeah, never feed the ducks bread.
Oh, dog number five hundred. Sometimes I just love coming to like sit here and do some reading.
I just love that there's so much field everywhere. So a bit of advice - on this campus
you do need good shoes because when I first came here I used to wear heels
boots everywhere all the time and honestly after the first week I was like
"I can't do this, I wanna drop out" Get some trainers, invest.
And this is the Trent Building! This is your home. This is where the School of English is based
and where all your lecturers are, and yeah, let me show you around.
So here we have some lecturers in their natural habitat.
Good afternoon. Hello.
And now I'm going to take you to the theatre studio. Ooh.
So yeah, we're going to the theatre studio which is one of my favourite
places in this building because I spent so much time in there during my degree.
It's very dark and spooky. Ta-da! This is one of the drama studios. So for
some theatre modules you have a little bit of theory and a little bit of practical.
So this is the perfect room for that because you do all your practical in
here and then all your theory in there, that little dark place with the lecture
steps and the whiteboard. And then if you just exit the theatre studio there is
Trent Cafe which is exclusive to Trent Building, it's super handy for just picking up
a little sandwich if you're on the go in between seminars and things. So I'm
gonna show you around there.
So behind me is Trent Cafe and if I twiddle around, that is the lake.
And it's just so beautiful. Every day after theatre we would come out here, sit on the
benches, have a bit of lunch and it's just the nicest thing. Now I'm going to take you to
the Portland Building which is where the Student Union is and where most of the
food outlets are and where you can go and get a little bit of a shop done and
there's also a Boots there as well. There's also book shop there so I'm going to
take you there now.
And here we are, we've made it to the Portland Building. Here we've got the
little shopping zone. You have a book shop over there,
we have a clothes shop over here with all your University of Nottingham merch and
we have Portland Coffee right down there.
So Blackwell's do little bundles and they're literally done by your lecturer and so every book
that your lecturer wants you to read will be in this bundle for less money
than you should be able to find online. But if you do find it cheaper online then
they always price match. Now we're in Portland Coffee and Portland Coffee is a really nice place
to come and relax or study, and it's just got a really nice vibe. And I'll show you around now.
Okay so here we're stood in the Portland Building. Over there we have Boots, over there we have Spar.
And now we're just up the stairs. Here you've got Student Services to help you
with all of your random needs and here we've got the Student Union and the Welcome Zone.
Upstairs you've got your Careers Service. So now I'm going to take you
upstairs to the food court and here you can see all the different things we've got.
Here we are. So it's pretty empty right now because it's like five o'clock but we've got lots of different
outlets here and there's a little terrace at the end overlooking the lake.
There we've got Chicken Joe's which does like chicken wraps and things, they've got
pizza and burgers, here we've got Caribbean food. Starbucks over here and
Chinese food over there. Remember if you're in first year as well you probably
will have a food card if you're in catered accommodation. All halls on
campus are catered so you'll probably have a food card and that gives you
around five pounds twenty, five pounds forty or something a day to spend
in any of these outlets on campus. Outside we've got this little terrace.
There's a big screen over there where sometimes they put on like football
games and things and everyone sits here and it's really nice. In the Portland Building
we also have a Santander which is super handy because there's also a cash
machine. There's another cash machine down there too but I guess it's super handy
to have a bank on campus, especially if you've got a Santander account.
Just a little bit off the Portland Building we've got the Nottingham New Theatre and
just for reference that's the Trent Building so it's all very very close.
That's the Portland Building. So that's the Nottingham New Theatre which was the
first fully run student-led theatre in the UK, in England, so that means students
do behind-the-scenes, lighting, producing, directing, acting, everything. Now I'm gonna take you
to the library because this is somewhere that you will spend a lot of time and
this library is called Hallward Library. We do have a number of libraries on
campus but the Hallward Library is all that you'll probably get your books out from.
So that's it for now. That's the Trent Building, the Portland Building, Hallward
Library, Nottingham New Theatre, Lakeside Arts, the lake. To be honest there aren't
really that many other main places that you would need and apart from a few odd
random lectures you would really be around the buildings that I've shown you.
That's your little introduction to a life doing an English degree. Bye!