Nottingham

I was surprised that I loved Nottingham so much! It was really good. The biology course sounds amazing and they let you do modules from other courses, like languages, so I might be able to do the biological side of psychology which i'm really interested in. The course for Bath wasn't very detailed, but I did manage to find an outline today and it is pretty similar to everywhere else so I don't think i'd mind going there, but i'd love the chance to do some psychology. But I would like to do that professional placement on the Bath course, I'd love to get that experience. Oh, it's going to be so hard to choose a university to go to. Hopefully i'll know in a couple weeks when i've been to all the open days :/.

I did prefer the accommodation in Bath, it was much more open and modern. The shared en suite at Nottingham looked really cramped and the shared study had pretty small rooms but the single study was really nice, and in Florence Boot Residence Halls were the best rooms, the windows were awesome and had little balconies. And every room has a fridge! I will totally be storing coke and chocolate milk in those ;). The whole campus is catered, so we get 19 meals a week, which is great because I cannot cook, and the menu was so varied it was amazing. The Dining Halls were so large, like Hogwarts! Okay, so maybe not that large but they were definitely bigger and more sophisticated than my school canteen.

There was a lake, like Bath, with ducks, like Bath. But luckily they didn't try to steal my food, which was really good ;). Instead they just left poop everywhere! We saw an empty bench and thought, 'perfect, now we can eat', but there was so much poop we left and sat on a field :P. Then my coat got covered in grass -.- I just can't win!

The whole university was huge though! It would take me ages to get places because the halls of residence are on the outskirts of the university and the biology labs are right in the middle. That kind of put me off, it was so easy to get lost, and I love the layout of Bath, so simple and the Parade that connects everything is perfect. There was so much space in Nottingham, and I thought there was so much space in Bath! It was like a National Park or something, absolutely huge! And the Portland Building was really nice, it had a bank and bookshop and Boots, there was also a Student Union shop that sold all of the essentials, and beer ;). Also, Bath had an incredibly amazing library but the libraries in Nottingham were pretty small and joint to the halls of residence.

 Nottingham                                                    Bath
Pretty sure this shows that Nottingham is so much bigger :P

The Student Union at Nottingham has so many societies, even Cheer leading and Pole Dancing! Bath had some too but I didn't go to a talk about Student Life so I didn't hear as much about it. Nottingham has a 'First Week' thing where all the new students are taken to nightclubs and forced to befriend people, sounds rather scary to me but apparently it's great. They also have a Summer Party where good bands and people play.

Travelling to Nottingham was so much easier. We left the house at 7am and arrived there about 10am. There wasn't any traffic or anything, it was amazing! At one point we thought we'd finally joined the open day traffic but there'd just been some police cars on the road. People were definitely rubbernecking. I totally slept on the way there and back though ^.^ I was so tired. I was wearing contacts so when I woke up I was so surprised I could see!

Bath and Nottingham are both good but for different reasons, I hope a university I visit later will have everything I want :) otherwise I don't know how I will decide. I've still got UEA, Kent and Queen Mary in London to visit. Can't wait ;).