,,,,,,,,,,<img src="images/passages/campus_choice.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Banner">
Would you like to play the game as a student based at the [[Canterbury|canterbury]] or [[Medway|medway]] campus?
<img src="images/passages/canterbury.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ariel Image of Canterbury Campus">
The 300 acre parkland campus overlooks the historic city providing incredible views of the World Heritage Site Canterbury Cathedral and beyond.
Founded in 1965 with just 500 students, it is now home to over 16,000 students with over 150 nationalities represented. The self-contained Canterbury campus has a close-knit student community numerous activities on offer. Campus life revolves around six colleges, the Templeman Library, the Gulbenkian arts centre and the Mandela Building (home of Kent Union) – all set within tranquil, manicured open spaces.
Canterbury bustles with visitors and has a friendly vibe. Medieval buildings sit comfortably alongside recogniseable chain and independent shops. London is less than an hour away by train and this is also the closest UK city to mainland Europe, so you can be in Paris, Brussels or Lille within two hours, if the desire suddenly takes you.
Let's get started, [[Begin the Quest|Quests]].
Alternatively play the [[Medway Campus|medway]] game.
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Welcome to the Medway campus game!
Many of the Kent student services are identical at both Medway and Canterbury campuses including Academic Advisers, Student Learning and Advisory Service (SLAS), careers advice and the library. Therefore playing the game from the perspective of either campus will still help you to adjust to university life.
[[Let's get started for uni life in Medway!|Quests]]
Alternatively play the [[Canterbury Campus|canterbury]] game.
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Campus looks huge and yet contained. Some students are enjoying a picnic on overlooking the city, others are quietly reading, a small group is playing frisbee and one student is even taking a quick nap in the shade under a tree.
The university looks relaxed. But are you? Whether you're confidently studious, a social butterfly or a nervous introvert, Kent will look after you. It will nurture you to be the best you can be. Whether you like it or not! Study hard but don't stay in your room all the time. Get out. Mix. Experience everything university has to offer.
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Canterbury campus looks picturesque in every season. From commanding views over the City of Canterbury, crisp frost on the paths of the labyrinth, majestic buildings nestled in their leafy beds to carpets of bluebells stretching between main campus and Parkwood, the accommodation village.
You check out where you are on the [[campus map|maps]]<img src="images/passages/register.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Sports Centre">
You check what you need to register as an official Kent student.
ID documents, check.
Accommodation Arrival Pass, check.
University and College Payment Advice letter from Student Finance England, check.
Proof of qualifications, check.
Outside the sports centre, one new student is having a heated debate with what you assume is her father. She hasn't got her passport or any other ID and they are arguing about who is going to drive back to Leeds to get it. Dad storms off, car keys in hand.
Student helpers cheerfully usher you into glass fronted foyer of the the building. You feel self-conscious and fidgety. Prominent banners encourage you to [[register in the hall to the right]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<img src="images/passages/rogue.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Caffe Nero Counter">
Without registering, you aren't officially a Kent student so you don't have access to your timetable, ID card or online resources yet.
You nip into Nero's coffee shop in the central plaza and purchase one of the many, many coffee combinations. As you wait for your brew a group of students behind you joke about the amount of stuff they brought to Uni.
You take your mocha-choca latte with extra pouring cream to a comfy tartan chair facing the window. And a flapjack the size of a dinner plate. You're hoping the sick feeling in your stomach is due to hunger and not nerves. People wander past outside. Fresh faces, clean trainers. Busy. Your crisp paper map shows a plethora of buildings scattered across campus. You're not even sure which one is your school yet.
Suddenly, someone appears next to the chair opposite and asks if he can use the seat. Do you say [[yes, go ahead]] or lie and say that you're waiting for a friend and [[the seat is taken]]?
<img src="images/passages/induction.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
You're inside Woolf college lecture theatre. It's massive. A blue bag is packaged neatly in front of each seat. You scan the space.
A few students are already seated, either looking at their phones, chatting or rifling through their blue bags. You don't recognise anyone and why would you? No-one looks at you, you're as good as invisible.
As you hover in the doorway, students shuffle past without hesitation. Why do you feel so awkward? The theatre is now alive with conversation. You fear you don't look clever or calm enough to be here.
Perhaps this is one challenge too far. Did someone make a mistake when they offered you a place at Kent when they knew you'd struggle.
Decision time, do you go grab a seat and [[stay and listen|stay]] to the induction or do you do a [[runner|runner]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
A man strides onto the stage at the front. He introduces himeself as the Head of School, Professor Colin Lucas. He introduces some key members of staff. The school administration manager, Jan, followed by Christine, the head of @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. The three of them oversee everything that happens within the school and help look after all the students.
Professor Lucas' slides highlight facilities, the school's history (and why he thinks it is the best one!) as well as the university demographics. You're surprised to hear there are over 3,000 members of staff from over 120 different countries. As for students, last year nearly 25% were from overseas and 40% were from BME backgrounds (Black and Minority Ethnic) proving Kent is incredibly culturally diverse.
Next, Jan glides onto the stage. She explains your degree course is split up into 3 years, called stages and you can add an extra stage if you do a year abroad or in industry. You're in stage 1. She stresses you need to get enough points credits from your modules to go to the next year. She doesn't share what happens if you don't get enough credits. [[You don't want to give Jan a reason to discuss it either]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/runner.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Outside the Templeman Library">
You hastily exit the lecture theatre and head outside. Sweat runs down your back as you race back to central campus. You feel overwhelmed and unsure what to do. It's too early to call home and beg to be collected, but that's exactly what you want to do.
You perch on a wooden bench outside the Templeman library. The fabulous view does nothing to cheer you up. You google search anxiety at university and click one of the multiple references to 'impostor syndrome'. The description matches you completely.
Yes, you feel like a fraud and fear you're not up to the educational standard of your peers. You don't know how to work a washing machine and some days you can't even remember your name. You don't feel ready for this. Well guess what? Almost everyone fells as you do, they just hide it well. You're all in the same boat. You tell yourself to give yourself a week to really give it a go. Be kind to yourself but at the same time push yourself to speak to as many people as you can.
Deep breath. You cautiously walk back to Woolf lecture theatre and [[sneak in|stay]]. Students turn up late all the time, it is fine.<img src="images/passages/library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Map of the Library">
Templeman library is HUGE, stretching across the centre of campus, commanding a stunning view of Canterbury. The place is buzzing with people, either on the help desk, in the cafe, wheeling trollies of books around, students tapping away on their laptops in one of the organic-shaped study pods or just simply reading.
The large display screen shows a map of each floor. It's easy to locate your subject area. You wonder how many shelves of books you'll devour before graduation. You swipe your KentOne card and enter.
There's a tour of the building every hour and the next one starts in 5 minutes. Do you want to [[stay|tour]] to glean as much information as possible or confidentally [[grab a leaflet|leaflet]] and walk around on your own?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/union.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Freshers Fair">
Freebies! People in Kent t-shirts hand out sweets, pens, wrist bands and so on.
Ah, a poster fair! You buy one depicting messages on positive thinking and motivation and another poster of a black and white London skyline, as it was cheap. That'll brighten up your room.
You spot the area for purchasing a 'KPASS'. It gives free access to all sorts of stuff throughout Welcome Week as well as a free t-shirt (handy) and ticket to the Freshers Ball at the end of the week. You buy the pass and collect your goodies.
You check your 'to do' list. Should you visit the [[library|library]], register at the [[medical centre|medical]] or just go back to your [[accommodation|room]] to crash?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/medical.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Medical Centre">
It's time to register at the University Medical Centre. There is a pharmacy right next door. Handy.
It appears you can register online (convenient), however you've smugly worked out where the medical centre is and confirmed it is so close to your accomodation you could run there in a matter of minutes if needed.
If you haven't done so already, you need to visit the [[library]] and the [[Kent Union|union]] before you return back to your [[accommodation|room]] to crash.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/campusmap2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University Campus Map">
Kent is in fact a number of separate schools, grouped into larger 'Divisions'. Although you may have lectures and seminars across campus your own school is usually in one particular building depending on the course you are taking:
Keynes College for the <<link [[School of Psychology|keynes]]>><<set $school = "Psychology">><</link>>
Marlowe building for the <<link [[School of Architecture|marlowe]]>><<set $school = "Architecture">><</link>> and the <<link [[School of Anthropology and Conservation|marlowe]]>><<set $school = "Anthropology & Conservation">><</link>>
Jarman building for the <<link [[School of Arts|jarman]]>><<set $school = "Arts">><</link>>
Cornwallis for the <<link [[School of Culture and Languages (SCL)|cornwallis]]>><<set $school = "SCL">><</link>>, <<link [[School of Computing|cornwallis]]>><<set $school = "Computing">><</link>> and the <<link [[School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR)|cornwallis]]>><<set $school = "SSPSSR">><</link>>
Rutherford College for the <<link [[School of History|rutherford]]>><<set $school = "History">><</link>>, <<link [[School of English|rutherford]]>><<set $school = "English">><</link>> and <<link [[School of Politics and International Relations|rutherford]]>><<set $school = "Politics & IR">><</link>>
Stacey building for the <<link [[School of Biosciences|stacey]]>><<set $school = "Biosciences">><</link>>
Jennison building for the <<link [[School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA)|jennison]]>><<set $school = "EDA">><</link>>
Sibson building for the <<link [[School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)|sibson]]>><<set $school = "SMSAS">><</link>> and <<link [[Kent Business School (KBS)|sibson]]>><<set $school = "KBS">><</link>>
Ingram building for the <<link [[School of Physical Sciences|ingram]]>><<set $school = "Physical Sciences">><</link>>
Eliot College Extension and Wigoder Law Building for <<link [[Kent Law School (KLS)|eliotextension]]>><<set $school = "KLS">><</link>>
Kennedy Building for the <<link [[School of Economics|economics]]>><<set $school = "Economics">><</link>>
Chipperfield building for the <<link [[School of Sport and Exercise Sciences|chipperfield]]>><<set $school = "Sport and Exercise Science">><</link>>
Pears building for the <<link [[Kent and Medway Medical School|Pears]]>><<set $school = "KMMS">><</link>>
The Centre of Music and Audio Technology, School of Pharmacy, and the Centre for Journalism all run from the Medway campus.
You spot where your school is and walk in that direction.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Flats">
You trudge wearily back to your accommodation, just a couple of minutes walk from the central campus. The pathways and cycle tracks wind through tranquil woodland. Squirrels dash overhead and there's a family of [[rabbits]] having a meeting by your front door.
Accommodation is arranged into 'mini-villages' around a shop, a bar, a dance studio, laundrettes and [[study hubs|hubs]]. It is also a hop and a skip away from the [[sports pavillion|pavilion]].
You are living in a village area called [[Parkwood Flats|Parkwood]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/join.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Societies">
This will provide a real mixture of groups to network with and new skills to learn. It's fab for your CV too!
You squeeze through the crowds passing a huddle of students around the African-Caribbean Society, Kent Sing and gliding tables.
Having signed up for the free subject society, you learn that it is run by students doing the same course as you, but in their second and third study years and can provide some top tips. They organise social events, quiz nights, trips and visiting speakers. You're already excited about receiving your first event invite.
After more wandering you and Tiz decide to [[leave the Welcome Fair|out]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/wait.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sweets">
You can join clubs and societies later but you'll miss the introductions and orientation information. The Welcome Fair will be there for one more day so you can always come back tomorrow.
You've collected a good stash of leaflets and 12 free lollies in your tote bag. Hoard!
Tiz has finished joining societies too and you both decide to [[leave the Welcome Fair|out]].
<img src="images/passages/keynes.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Keynes College">
Keynes is a warren of lecture theatres, seminar rooms, meeting rooms, IT suites and study rooms. It is also home to K-Bar, the Dolche Vita restaurant and the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support and Wellbeing Centre">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/marlowe.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Marlowe Building">
Unlike with its namesake theatre in Canterbury, Marlowe houses the Create cafe as well as design studios, model workshops with modern laser cutting facilities, computer studios, labs, lecture theatres and teaching rooms.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<img src="images/passages/jarman.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Jarman Building">
Jarman's imposing frontage overlooks the Student Union. Once inside, there is a labyrinth of angular staircases, corridors, quirky furniture and wall cut outs. It has its own drama theatre, art and film studios, galleries, teaching rooms and offices. near the entrance ensures help is always on hand.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/cornwallis.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Cornwallis Building">
Arranged in a vast square with a central garden, Cornwallis is filled with lecture and seminar rooms, IT suites, labs and study areas.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/rutherford2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Entrance to Rutherford Building">
As one of the original 1965 structures, Rutherford looks like it belongs in a mystery film. Once through the entrance tunnel, you're strangely standing in the open again! From the central courtyard there are doors to a warren of lecture theatres, teaching rooms, offices, a huge dining hall that rivals Hogwarts and an extensive professional services office ensuring help is always on hand.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stacey.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Stacey Building">
Stacey is home to science and research labs and lecture theatres. You wonder if you'll get the chance to try out the Biomolecular Science Facility, Cell Image Analysis Facility or the Biological NMR Facility whilst you are studying here. The School is also home to impressive specialist equipment in fast reaction kinetics, fermentation and class 3 containment to name a few.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<img src="images/passages/jennison.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Jennison Building">
The low unassuming nature of Jennison masks the labyrinth of teaching rooms, lecture halls, electronic lab, clean air suite, offices and even its own cafe.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sibson.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Sibson Building">
Sibson's metallic exoskeleton shimmers in the sunlight and showcases why it won an architecture award. Inside, it has digital poster displays, a large atrium and wide sweeping staircases. Sibson boasts a mixture of glass walled teaching rooms, huge lecture halls, offices and its own cafe.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
<<script>>
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Namespace.setAssignmentType();
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<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/ingram.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Ingram Building">
The building looks like a modern hospital. Once through the yellow facade the foyer provides directions to state-of-the-art wet and dry labs, the observatory and even its own crime scene house! There are also lecture theatres, teaching rooms, offices and an extensive professional services office near the entrance ensuring help is always on hand.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
<<script>>
if(!State.metadata.get('visitedSchool'))
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GA.sendEvent("School", "Player Data", State.getVar('$school'));
Namespace.setAssignmentType();
State.metadata.set('visitedSchool', true);
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<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/eliotextension.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Eliot College Law Extension">
This building screams professionalism and is home to the Kent Law Clinic staffed by students to give access to free legal advice under the supervision of Law Clinic solicitors. The state-of-the-art Wigoder Law Building has a replica courtroom where you can develop advocacy skills before a bench composed of local judges, practising barristers, solicitors and lecturers.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
<<script>>
if(!State.metadata.get('visitedSchool'))
{
GA.sendEvent("School", "Player Data", State.getVar('$school'));
Namespace.setAssignmentType();
State.metadata.set('visitedSchool', true);
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<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/economics.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Kennedy Economics Building">
This brand new building has a Scandi feel. The large open foyer can accommodate informal meetings plus there are large and small seminar rooms, lecture rooms, IT suites and offices.
Kent helpers in their signature green t-shirts offer to show you around but you opt to explore on your own.
You spot the room with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "academic adviser's">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ name on it. Do you [[knock on the door|knock]] and seize an opportunity to introduce yourself, or [[tip-toe past|leave]]?
<<script>>
if(!State.metadata.get('visitedSchool'))
{
GA.sendEvent("School", "Player Data", State.getVar('$school'));
Namespace.setAssignmentType();
State.metadata.set('visitedSchool', true);
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<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/knock.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge Door">
You knock and a voice instructs you to go in. You hesitate, embarrased. What will you say? There must be hundreds of new students, why would he want to see you? His door sign, "Professor Mark Partridge", makes him sound important. Do you cautiously [[enter the room|enter]] or apologetically declare you knocked on the wrong door and [[move swiftly away|away]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus Plaza">
It feels awkward to invite yourself into an academic's office so you mentally note where the office is in case you need to visit in future.
You leave the building after inspecting the toilets. You can tell a lot about a place by the quality of the loos. To your relief, they have paper, seats and even doors!
You ponder your next stop on your list. [[Library|library]], [[Kent Union|union]], [[medical centre|medical]] or head back to your [[accommodation|room]]?<img src="images/passages/enter.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge's Office">
You walk in. The room is lined top to bottom with shelves of books in every size and colour. A blue chair groans under piles of papers and a bicycle rests against the wall. A [[strange rug|rug]] is on the floor.
The Professor swivels from his hectic desk and smiles enthusiastically.
He begins to [[talk]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/away.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge's Door">
You hope no-ne spotted you losing your nerve. You make a mental note of Professor Partridge's drop-in office hours on his door and vow to call by next week.
You leave the school building after inspecting the toilets. You can tell a lot about a place by the quality of the loos. To your relief, they have paper, seats and even doors!
Where to go now? [[Library|library]], [[Kent Union|union]], [[medical centre|medical]] or head back to your [[accommodation|room]]?<img src="images/passages/leaflet.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Banner">
Was that a good idea? They'll probably just guide you up and down the shelves of books. The tour group looks large and now they're going to know about stuff that you won't.
You consult the leaflet take the stairs to the top floor. Yep, more books. You check out the toilets. You're relieved to see they are both ultra-modern and clean.
What to check next? Do you want to blag your way [[onto the current tour|tour]] or commit to read about the library services on [[the Kent website|website]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/tour.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Group Study Area">
The tour group is ushered around the ground floor archives and materials. There's more to Templeman than you thought.
As you walk to the next part of the tour 2 male students chat about where they're from and what accommodation they're in. A female student looks shyly at her phone to avoid eye contact. Do you [[initiate a conversation|conversation]] with her or show solidarity by [[getting your phone out too|phone]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/conversation.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Information Panel">
She appears relieved to have her existence acknowledged. The redundant phone slips into her bag. She speaks quietly, you're unsure whether that's because you're in a library or she genuinely has a hushed voice. Either way, Nova introduces herself and states she's studying Forensic Science. Nova has just come out of her Welcome induction event. Before you have the chance to quiz her about it the Library Assistant declares the [[tour can now begin|begin]]. We're each handed a library map to help with our orientation.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/phone.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mobile Phone">
Nothing. No emails or messages. You work out how to connect to the [[university wifi|wifi]] instead. Eventually the librarian halts the group and [[starts talking again|begin]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/begin.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
The librarian explains the different study spaces and the laptop loan facility. You are each shown the resource areas relevant to your schools which will save an awful lot of hunting.
The taller male student, Jon, is doing a course in the same school as you. The other male student, Otis, is studying law. The female student, Nova quietly states she is studying Forensics.
The librarian explains how to connect to the library network (you'll use that A LOT, apparently) and where to find printers and scanners. After pointing out the facilities on each floor the tour ends. You are advised to utilise the library website for information regarding book loans, searching for materials and useful information videos.
Jon asks the group what everyone is doing for lunch. Do you lie that you've [[made plans to meet a friend|lie]] or suggest the group finds somewhere to [[eat lunch together|together]]?<img src="images/passages/wifi.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Wifi">
You quickly set up your IT and wifi access via the IT Kent web page. The IT department emails your account confirmation straight away. Now you're connected, you can access the university wifi across the whole parkland campus, including your bedroom.
The librarian resumes the [[library tour|begin]]
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/rug.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge's Rug">
On closer inspection you realise it is a satellite image of the World War One trenches - how unusual!
Stop being [[distracted|enter]]!<img src="images/passages/lie.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus Shops">
You thank the library assistant, grab the leaflets and scurry out of the library. Perhaps a group would be ok, safety in numbers right? But what if its awkward? You promise that you'll join in more and will say 'yes' to the next opportunity to meet new people.
A loud growl eminates from your stomach. You check the [[campus map|map2]] for places to eat.
There's a huge choice. You're not in the mood for mingling so stroll to the [[Kent Union Shop|shop]] to see peruse the snack aisle.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore -= 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/together.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Gulbenkian Cafe">
You stand on the long library steps with Jon, Otis and Nova debating where to have lunch. Otis locates the Kent web page with all the options and Nova looks at the [[campus map|map3]]. There's so much choice. You agree on the Gulbenkian cafe and Nova guides the group to the back of the library where the [[Gulbenkian|gulbenkian]] is located.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/maps2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Union Shop">
All the cafe's are close by. There's a huge choice: Woody's, Create, Dolche Vita, Gulbenkian cafe, hut8, K-Bar, Mungo's, Origins, Pavilion Cafe, Rutherford Dining Hall, Sibson Cafe, The Sports Cafe and not forgetting the various food bars on the plaza. Worried about bumping into the library tour group, you locate the [[Kent Union Shop|shop]] opposite.<img src="images/passages/shop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Shop">
The shop is playing your favourite Dave track on the Student Radio as you walk in. You take that as a good omen.
Hmmm, salad bar, a hot sausage roll or a BLT sandwich? You buy all three plus a Kitkat and go out into the plaza. As you perch one one of the benches you contemplate your next stop. [[Kent Union|union]] is next door, or wander over to the [[medical centre|medical]] or head back to your [[accommodation|room]]?<img src="images/passages/maps3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A map of the main campus">
The map shows all the eating venues. There's so much choice: Woody's, Create, Dolce Vita, Gulbenkian cafe, hut8, K-Bar, Mungo's, Origins, Pavilion Cafe, Rutherford Dining Hall, Sibson Cafe, The Sports Cafe, and not forgetting the various food bars on the plaza.
The [[Gulbenkian cafe|gulbenkian]] is the closest so you all agree try that.<img src="images/passages/gulbenkian.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Gulbenkian Cinema">
The cafe is bright and jostling with students and staff. You notice that as well as a cafe, the building is home to a cinema, a theatre and a concert hall.
Your stomach snarls impatiently. You order a huge cheese and ham panini with a side of fries plus a much needed latte. Otis orders a burger and fries whereas Jon and Nova opt for a health-kick sandwich. You sit at a table. The walls of the cafe have been pushed aside so you enjoy your meal al fresco in the warm sun.
Discussion turns to how to spend the rest of the afternoon. Nova intends to go to the [[Kent Union|union]] to buy her KPASS, Jon is checking out his school ready for tomorrow's subject induction event. Otis has had enough and is going back to his [[room]] to unpack. Have you registered at the [[medical centre|medical]] yet?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pizza Slice">
Numerous visiting companies advertise their products at the Welcome Fair too and on your way out you manage to grab a free yellow smoothie and a slice of pizza, to keep you going!
[[Mmmm, smoothie|pizza]]<img src="images/passages/investigate_pizza_must crop heads.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students in the Kitchen">
Mmm, pizza! Mmm, yellow-ish drink!
You walk back home with Tiz feeling satisfied. Tiz has joined the women's lacrosse club and Kent Sing. It transpires that Tiz has been in several choral productions.
When you get back home, Saffa, Chimmy and Zak are all in the kitchen. Saffa looks relaxed and watches Zak devour a punnet of baby plum tomatoes. Zak has already been to the Welcome Fair but you advise Chimmy and Saffa to go tomorrow before it closes.
The discussion soon turns to [[food]].<img src="images/passages/website.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Templeman Library">
You access the website on your phone. The lbrary page is packed with information about support, opening times, borrowing rules etc. That was quicker than a tour! You exit the library and sit on the sunny terrace outside.
Have you been to the [[Kent Union|union]] yet? Perhaps you want to go and inspect the [[medical centre|medical]]? Or perhaps you've had enough of the campus buzz for one day and prefer to walk back to your [[room]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/talk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
The Professor congratulates you for finding his office and welcomes you to Kent.
He discusses tomorrow's subject induction event at the school which will introduce the subject staff and explaining how different people can help you in your studies. You promise to attend the event and to make an appointment to discuss progress again soon. You're going to be meeting with Professor Partridge (he has told you to call him Mark) regularly during the your degree.
You leave his chaotic office. Before leaving the school building you need to use the toilets. To your relief, they have paper, seats and even doors!
Where next? How about [[Kent Union|union]] or the [[library|library]] or should you walk back to your [[accommodation|room]] to crash?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/hubs.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woodys Parkwood Complex">
Woody's IT study space is open 24/7 for all KentOne card holders. Nickle Court study hub is a relaxed space for working alone or quietly in small groups. It is also open 24 hours a day for Park Wood residents and has PC's, study spaces, a drinks machine and printing/scanning facilities.
You can check availability of PC's at any of the study hubs online to save yourself an unnecessary walk.
Return to your [[accommodation|room]].<img src="images/passages/rabbits.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bunny Rabbits on Campus">
Isn't he cute?
These fluff balls are quite happy to hop around the accommodation area and appear regularly on central campus. That's what happens when you live in a parkland.
Now let's get back to your [[accommodation|room]]<img src="images/passages/pavilion.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Sports Pavilion">
Home to Kent Sport, offering dance and fitness classes, sporting clubs, indoor and outdoor courts, pitches and even a physiotherapy clinic.
You are impressed by what's on offer, and so close to your room too. You will definitely be sweating many hours here!
Let's get back to your [[accommodation|room]].<img src="images/passages/parkwood.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Room">
You open your bedroom door to be greeted by the bags deposited earlier. Your room is spacious with plenty of storage to unpack your stuff. You've got your own en-suite bathroom and it's got that lovely fresh smell. Not sure that will last long. The large kitchen will be shared with 4 other students.
You prop your door open to witness any of your flat mates turning up. You stare at the large, foil-wrapped cake you brought. "It'll help break the ice with your new house mates", you were advised. You idly look through the bag of freebies and leaflets collected from registering earlier, making an 'interested' and 'not interested' pile.
The flat door opens and there's voices in the hallway. Do you [[close the door|close]] suddenly, overcome with anxiety or poke your head [[out of your room|nosey]] to see who is there?<img src="images/passages/close.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Maoams Sweets">
The voices disappear into the kitchen. You wait. And wait. Semi-delicious cooking smells waft into your room. Perhaps you should join them, you're ravenous. You pick at the free sweets you bagged earlier.
The front door slams shut and more [[voices are in the hallway|voices]].<img src="images/passages/nosey.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cake">
Two flat mates, Chimmy and Zak are chatting. They've just completed their tour of campus. Once in the kitchen, you offer them a slice of cake which is eagerly accepted and devoured. You ponder what to rustle up for early dinner. Your culinary skills are basic but you offer to help make a meal to share.
Do you try to impress with a [[spaghetti bolognese|spagbol]], play it safe with [[Nutella on toast|nutella]] (your favourite), or admit defeat and offer the selection of [[free sweets|sweets]] and the rest of the cake?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/spagbol.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woodys SU Shop">
Always aim high, even if you only know how to boil a kettle. How hard can it be? Between you, you have all the ingredients apart from the spaghetti, which is quite a key element. You vote who will go to the Co-Op in Parkwood to buy the [[spaghetti]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/nutella.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Nutella on a knife.">
Excellent! Zak and Chimmy listen to your love affair with Nutella as you unveil the extra large jar that should see you through your first week. Chimmy donates a loaf of bread and busily makes the toast while Zak brews three big mugs of tea with rationed milk.
After dinner, the front door slams shut again and more [[voices are heard|voices]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sweets.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sweets">
Hmmm, this doesn't count as cooking but the sugar buzz is awesome. You all agree to each learn how to cook one proper meal then take it in turns to share it with the rest of the house - great plan!
You hear the front door slam shut and more [[voices in the hallway|voices]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/spaghetti.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Spaghetti">
Chimmy is voted as the person to buy spaghetti from the campus shop whilst you and Zak prepare the rest of the meal. By now, the house smells delicious and Chimmy soon returns with the spaghetti. The three of you eat at the dining table. You're shocked by how edible it is and agree to cook this again tomorrow. And perhaps the day after.
After dinner the front door slams shut again and more [[voices come from the hallway|voices]].<img src="images/passages/voices.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Dirty Dishes">
Two girls have arrived. They introduce themselves as Saffa and Tiz. They've just had dinner at the Dolche Vita restaurant in Keynes college and give it a seal of approval.
You all go into the kitchen where Chimmy and Zak are sitting at the table. Dirty cooking pans, plates and utensils litter the work surfaces. Chimmy appears embarrassed and goes to the sink, filling it up with soapy water.
Do you [[offer to help|help]] or [[leave Chimmy to it|nohelp]], afterall you've already got him down as the messy eater?<img src="images/passages/no help_help.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Kitchen">
Chimmy looks relieved as you grab the tea towel. The house-keeping team regularly clean the house but don't do any washing up so you'd better get used to this!
Everyone discusses what societies they've joined and their first impressions of their school. Chimmy is at the same school as you but on a different course. Saffa and Tiz are both studying French and Linguistics and met at their school this afternoon. Zak will be based in the School of Computing.
Zak suggests you venture back to campus to see what Welcome Week events are happening. Do you [[say yes|yes]], it will be flat-mates bonding opportunity or [[decline|no]] and because the school induction events arein the morning plus you're exhausted?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/no help_help.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Kitchen">
Al house-keeping team regularly clean the house but they won't do any. You watch Chimmy wash scrub the plates whilst seething that no-one os helping.
Everyone discusses what societies they've joined and their first impressions of their school. Chimmy is at the same school as you but on a different course. Saffa and Tiz are both studying French and Linguistics and met at their school this afternoon. Zak will be based in the School of Computing.
Zak suggests you venture back to campus to see what Welcome Week events are happening. Do you [[say yes|yes]], it will be flat-mates bonding opportunity or [[decline|no]] and because the school induction events arein the morning plus you're exhausted?<img src="images/passages/yes.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar">
You agree to go back to central campus to try out K-Bar, located in Keynes. You order a couple of drinks. You notice a group of students playing pool (the white ball has just passive-agressively been blasted off the table). Delicious pizza aromas hang in the air.
Zak has bagged one of the chesterfield sofas as you arrive with the drinks and listen to the [[conversation|barchat]] Zak has initiated with the students on the facing sofas.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/no.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Rabbit">
Very sensible. The school induction event is important and you're fastidiuous about your beauty sleep. Zak seems unfazed and disappears back to central campus with Chimmy. You say goodnight to Tiz and Saffa who are also staying home.
Do you select your [[unicorn pyjamas|unicorn]] with sparkly trim or the more conservative [[Harry Potter pyjamas|potter]]?<img src="images/passages/unicorn.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Unicorn Pyjamas">
Epic choice! You fashionista!
By morning you are raring to go. You grab a breakfast cereal bar (excellent forethought to pack those) and set off for your school's [[induction lecture]].<img src="images/passages/potter.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Harry Potter">
Timeless and classic!
You get a magical night's sleep and wake raring to go. You 'borrow' a bowl of cornflakes from an unnamed box in the kitchen, which you eat dry as there is no milk to pinch. Yummm, they're just like crisps and very much under-rated as a snack.
No-one else is stirring as you leave and stroll to your school for the [[induction lecture]].<img src="images/passages/induction lecture.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
You smugly arrive with time to spare. Can you keep that effort up for the next 3 years? Unlikely.
The school lecture theatre is big, probably seating around 150 people. Roughly 15 other people are also seated in the room. You don't want to seem like a stalker but then again then again don't want to appear antisocial.
Do you make a bee-line for the [[nearest seated student|company]] or go to an empty row [[just in front of one of the other students|empty row]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/downstairs.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Accomodation">
Either the house is empty or the others are still asleep. You rustle up your favourite Nutella on toast.
Hey, aren't you supposed to be somewhere? The induction event! You check your watch. It starts in 7 minutes. If you power walk you can make it in 5. Do you drop everything, [[put your shoes on and dash for it|dash]] or decide you need to [[top up your beauty sleep|hangover]]? Surely there'll be induction information available all week?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/dash.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Accomodation">
You can only find one shoe lying next to a dirty, ripped brown envelope. You'll quiz your flatmates about the missing shoe later, they must have hidden it as a prank.
You're forced to wear your smart shoes. They're not built for power walking and the right shoe has a squeak.
You squeak towards central campus. Embarrassing. The lecture theatre is easily located but the doors are closed. Do you [[go in|go in]] or just [[loiter awkwardly outside|loiter]]?<img src="images/passages/hangover_back home.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toast">
You can't turn up like this. Surely others will miss the induction too? You return to your lovely warm bed and sleep off headache.
Your stomach eventually wakes you. The fridge beckons. It's depressingly empty. There's a wrapped pasty (not yours), some milk carton dregs, a tiny tub of margarine and half loaf of bread. The cupboards are smiliarly barren. Dried spaghetti, a jar of cheap jam, a pot of herbs and 27 sachets of salt and pepper from a well-known fast food establishment.
Do you devour the [[pasty]], toast a couple of slices of [[bread]], attempt to cook [[spaghetti with herbs]] or go back out to buy something at the [[Co-Op shop]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/loiter.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Outside A Lecture Theatre">
You pace outside the double doors. The muffled voice of a lecturer addressing the audience can be heard. Damn, how could you miss the first school event?
Another student walks right past you, opens the doors and walks into the lecture theatre. You didn't realise you could just walk in like that. Now you're embarrassed about having loitered. You enter the [[lecture theatre|go in]].
<img src="images/passages/go in.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf College">
You made it. You nervously scan the lecture theatre. There's quite a few spare seats at [[the back|back]], some in [[the middle|middle]] which are tricky to access, or the entire firing line at [[the front|front]] is empty.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/front_middle_back.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
You walk up the steps of the nearest aisle to the back of the lecture theatre. You notice a few students snigger with each show squeak. The audio is surprisingly impressive from up here. The three projector screens at the front means you won't miss anything. The only downside is your row is unpopulated so no-one to ask what you have missed so far.
You retrieve your note book and pen and listen to the [[lecturer]].<img src="images/passages/front_middle_back.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
You step half way up the nearest aisle, more people stare with each shoe squeak. You request to squeeze past three people in row 7 to one of the seats beyond. The nearest person to you leans over and whispers that you haven't missed much, just introductions. You immediately feel relieved, smile and whisper "thanks" back to them.
You retrieve your notebook and pen and turn to face the [[lecturer]].<img src="images/passages/front_middle_back.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
You sheepishly head for the nearest empty seat at the front, conscious that all the eyes in the room are watching you. You focus on getting your notebook and pen quietly out of your bag.
You huddle down over your notebook and listen to the [[lecturer]].<img src="images/passages/lecturer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
Head of School, Professor Colin Lucas, explains this school has more students in it than your entire secondary school. He describes the school layout, with its lecture theatre and seminar rooms plus the academic and support staff areas.
He impresses that your degree is a time for developing [[independent learning|independent]] and [[critical thinking|critical]]. You thought you already were those things, but perhaps not.
He describes the [[differences between lectures, seminars and tutorials|differences]] which is helpful as you thought they were all the same thing. Despite being an independent learner, your attendance is monitored as it has a direct correlation on your marks.
[[He then goes on to explain....]]
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/empty row_company.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
You sit next to the other student. She smiles weakly. Whilst you rummage in your bag you ask her if you have got the right place for the school induction (good ice breaker). She confirms what you knew appears pleased to have been helpful.
You compare courses and the modules you've selected. Some of your modules match.
The theatre has filled up. Slides are projected onto 3 large screens at the front which say "Welcome to Kent by Professor Colin Lucas (Head of School)". You whisper to your new friend that this feels official and she whispers "no going back now".
You turn to the front and listen to the [[lecturer]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/empty row_company.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
You sit in the middle of the middle row. Another student is seated directly behind you.
Some students are chatting in pairs and some are alone with their 'phones. 11 minutes until the lecture starts, what to do? You look around the room and catch the attention of the student sat behind you. You smile weakly and say, "hi?". She responds similarly.
The theatre soon fills up. Slides are projected onto 3 large screens at the front which say "Welcome to Kent by Professor Colin Lucas (Head of School)". You clench your pen and focus on the [[lecturer]].<img src="images/passages/critical.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
Being a critical thinker doesn't mean arguing with yourself! It means looking at all sides of the story, not just the main points of view. Are the sources reputable? Use your research, experience and ideas to challenge the arguments put forward. It's a skill but one which you will get very good at whilst at university.
Back to [[lecture|lecturer]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/differences.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woolf Lecture Theatre">
Lectures tend to occur in lecture theatres. Usually, a lecturer shares ideas with the audience. You will be expected to take notes so that you can use them in seminars or assignments. Use the Cornell notes method for taking concise notes - it's worth a Google! Lectures are almost always recorded on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Player">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ via @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ too.
Seminars are smaller classes. They discuss topics related to a previous lecture. You will probably need to do some additional research or reading ahead of the seminar to participate in discussions and ask questions. These discussions highlight, confirm and test new ideas which you can explore in your assignments.
Tutorials are with an academic tutor and a small number of students, or maybe a 1:1. Topics are discussed a topic in detail You can ask lots of questions and discuss how best to tackle assignments. You can see your tutor or lecturer in their drop-in office hour for an ad-hoc tutorial. Academics are passionate about their subjects so will be pleased to see you to discuss their modules!
You may also have lab sessions (depending on your course), workshops and focus groups. They all require different preparation and participation. You'll get the hang of it as you go along, so don't panic.
Back to [[lecture|lecturer]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Academic Adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Academic Adviser Poster">
Every undergraduate assigned an @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Their specialism will match your degree topic. They are usually your adviser for the duration of your course so you can build a real rapport with them. They will want to know your progress and offer guidance and support. They won't summon you, it's up to you to make appointments with them.
Each @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ has an office hour which is a weekly time you can see them without an appointment. This initially seems overwhelming but your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ isn't. To prove it, let's play [['spot the Academic Adviser'|game]]?
Lastly, your Adviser writes your references when you leave university. Imagine how dull the reference would be if you never made the effort to go and see them regularly?
Back to the [[lecture|He then goes on to explain....]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/independent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Learning">
An independent learner does NOT doing everything on their own. They are in control of their work. Make the best use of staff and resources around you, find out how you best work, not how you were told to work at school. You're not told how to structure your time each day. Some students assume they have free time when it is better used for research.
Making a timetable is a good idea. Put on events you definitely must attend, now the clubs and optional events, factor in reading/research and assignment time and remember to schedule some me-time each day. You'll get better at independent learning as you progress through your degree.
Back to [[lecture|lecturer]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/energised.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Really Energised Man">
YESSSS! This is going to be an adventure. Stay realistic and pace yourself and work on your potential. Take part in all things academic and non-academic for the best all-round experience.
You head out into the crowded [[foyer]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/slightly anxious.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Anxious Person">
It'll be OK. Ignore the big picture for now and focus on this week or term. There's plenty of support if you need it. You've earned your place at university. You'll be fine. Pace yourself, stay on top of the tasks in hand and ask questions when you feel stuck.
Remember:
<i>"He who asks a question is a fool for 5 minutes; he who does not ask a question is a fool forever."</i> I forgot to ask who actually said that.
You head into the crowded [[foyer]].<img src="images/passages/overwhelmed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Overwhelmed Man">
Many people will help you through this journey. You just need the courage to ASK.
Break down concerns into smaller parts, create lists to help you focus and chat to other students. Many will be feeling the same and will welcome the chance to chat.
You take a deep breath and walk into the crowded [[foyer]].<img src="images/passages/foyer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Caffe Nero">
In the foyer,the student from the lecture theatre asks whether you'd like to get a coffee somewhere. You don't have anything else booked this morning, so you agree. She recommends Caffe Nero, next to the Blackwells book shop.
On your way, you pass a structure that looks like a giant [[washing line]] and a man with a [[bird of prey]] on his arm. This place is full of surprises.
You continue to the [[cafe]], eager to absorb some caffeine into your system.<img src="images/passages/cafe.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Caffe Nero's">
You order a skinny mocha. Delicious!
You both sink into the soft tartan armchairs by the window. Your new friend is called Bob. You weren't expecting that. Bob senses your curiosity. Her French mother named her 'Pomeline' but she explains that her deaf brother incorrectly lip-read 'Pom' and instead called her 'Bob' and so the name stuck! You mouth the words 'Pom' and 'Bob' to see if they feel any different and Bob giggles at your fish impression.
You describe your flatmates' attempts at cooking. Bobs's house clubbed together and got a supermarket grocery delivery order on their first day, right to their kitchen. Genius. Do you [[scribble a note|scribble]] to to tell the others when you get back to your flat or hope you'll [[remember]] about it in a few hours time?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/washing line.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Tensegritree Sculpture">
The Tensegritree scuplture, between the Marlowe building and the Templeman library, was commissioned to mark the university's 50th anniversary and 10 years since the founding of the Kent School of Architecture.
Standing at 7m high and 12m diameter, the structure has absolutely nothing to do with laundry.
You walk past, keen to get to the [[cafe]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/bird of prey.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Bird Man">
Being near the Kent coast, seagulls are frequent visitors. They can pinch your mozarella baguette, even when it is half in your mouth.
But wait, here comes Freddie the Falcon. He majestically scares off those cheeky seagulls under the strict control of his handler.
You could watch for hours but you need to get to the [[cafe]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/scribble.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Coffee and notepad">
Excellent idea. Welcome Week is information overload so why make life more difficult? You're already thinking about cooking rotas to share the workload, reduce food waste and securing a regular import of Nutella and Cheezy Dibbles.
Notebook away, back to the [[cafe chat]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/remember.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ideas">
Welcome Week is information overload but you're sure one more thing won't hurt. And anyway there are so many places to eat on campus not to forget the two fully-stocked Co-Op stores.
Back to the [[cafe chat]].<img src="images/passages/cafe chat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Caffe Nero's">
Bob says the school has created a planner for first year students containing loads of useful contacts, online resources, marking criteria and record keeping information. You really want a copy.
Bob lives in Parkwood, but a different zone from yours. One of her flat mates hasn't arrived yet, something to do with their visa. One of them sounds like a Jamie Oliver clone who can create amazing meals out of 3 ingredients (you can do it in two; Nutella and toast. Bam!) and the other is an introvert vampire called Reg who doesn't leave his room during daylight hours.
You describe Chimmy, Zak, Tiz and Saffa from your house and confess that none of them have any culinary expertise.
You compare your timetables on your phones. Full lectures start on Monday. You agree to catch up then. You drain your cup and leave the cafe.
Do you stop by your school to pick up a [[planner]] or go [[back home]] to plan some menus?<img src="images/passages/planner.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
Back in the school, there's quite a few people wandering around. You find Jo at the reception desk. She's as bouncy looking as her curly hair and wearing a running kit. She smiles at you over the half empty bowl of sweets. She chewing what you assume is the other half of the sweets. Would it be rude to take one? She reads your mind and holds the bowl up towards you. You pick a green sweet and hope it is lime and not apple. You ask Jo for a planner and pop the sweet in your [[mouth]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/hangover_back home.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toast">
You're the first one back. Perhaps the others are eating somewhere on central campus?
The fridge beckons. It's depressingly empty. There's a wrapped pasty (not yours), some milk carton dregs, a tiny tub of margarine and half loaf of bread. The cupboards are smiliarly barren. Dried spaghetti, a jar of cheap jam, a pot of herbs and 27 sachets of salt and pepper from a well-known fast food establishment.
Do you devour the [[pasty]], toast a couple of slices of [[bread]], attempt to cook [[spaghetti with herbs]] or go back out to buy something at the [[Co-Op shop]]?<img src="images/passages/mouth.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Apples">
Nooooo. It's apple.
Jo locates the planners and hands you a copy. You leaf through the book. There's a whole section of academic tips, support, module selection and timetables as well as a diary at the backto plan your time. Jo asks if you'd like to purchase a school hoodie which sports the Kent logo on the front and the school's name on the back.
Do you [[buy one]] or say you'll [[think about it]]?<img src="images/passages/buy one_think about it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Hoodie">
Bargain! And it is something extra and clean to wear too.
You thank Jo, take the planner and leave reception.
It's lunch time so you walk [[back home]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/buy one_think about it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Hoodie">
Save those pennies, right?
Jo doesn't look hurt and she seems friendly enough to approach again if you change your mind. You leave reception clutching your planner and new pen.
It's lunch time so you walk [[back home]].<img src="images/passages/pasty.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Cornish Pasty">
Oh dear, someone's not going to be happy when they find their snack gone. You'd better get a replacement pronto.
Before you can do anything you hear the [[front door open]] then slams loudly.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/bread.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toasted Bread">
It's not your bread but at least you've left plenty for the owner. One slice has Nutella and the other has the mystery jam on. It doesn't fill you up so you 'borrow' just one more slice.
Before you reach for the loaf a third time you hear the [[front door open]] then slam loudly.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/spaghetti with herbs.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Spaghetti with herbs">
You win you any cooking awards but you're proud of the effort you are putting in to cooking stolen food. Look, sprinkling dried herbs is a real skill isn't it? You eat half of it and make note to add a sauce next time.
As you peel the remaining sticky spaghetti off the plate into the bin you hear the [[front door open]] then slam loudly.<img src="images/passages/essentials shop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Co-Op Shop">
A safe choice. You reach the Parkwood Co-Op shop in two minutes. Kent Student Radio is playing surprisingly good tunes as you peruse the aisles, eventually purchasing a chubby pot of tuna pasta salad. You begin eating it as you return to the house.
You're in the kitchen staring at the dregs of tuna, sloshing about in mayo at the bottom of the tub when you hear the [[front door open]] then close with a bang.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/first lectures.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
Seated in the warm lecture theatre, you plug your phone in on the bench.
Your first lecturer is Dr Sheree Lax, a softly spoken lady with elegant, swept up hair. You don't recognise any of the 50 or so other students around you.
Sheree passionatley shares her research interests with you. She has dedicated her working life exploring the topic. Her module comprises 10 lectures, each closely followed by a related seminar. She says you will be developing your own ideas, not just accepting others' opinions. By the end of the module, you will submit some form of $assignmentType just before Christmas. But fear not, all the learning acquired from lectures and seminars will fully cover details you will need.
So attend all your lectures and seminars and you get all the answers? - [[Is that right]], [[or have you got the wrong end of the stick]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/reading list.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
You assess the reading list. You MUST read the 'core' stuff, you SHOULD read the recommended texts and background reading for investigating further. You may also find your own resources for alternative opinions if you wish. In addition, there's extra reading ahead of each lecture, usually from the core books.
How are you going to fit it all in? You recall the induction lecture: create a timetable. Pretend you have a regular 9-6 job, use time productively around your timetabled events so you have time to relax during evenings and weekends. Work steadily like this and deadlines won't be a shock.
Do you hunt down your [[core reading]] from the library or limit yourself to the 4 pages suggested ahead of [[forthcoming lectures]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/delay.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Reading Lists">
Once you've got some of the lectures and seminars out of the way first you'll know what's best to read, surely? You don't want to waste time unecessarily.
You eyeball your timetable. @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ says you need to read 4 pages of a book to prepare for an imminent lecture. Your reading list on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ links to the relevant book.
Click. You're not going to go to the library for the sake of 4 pages when you can simply [[download it]].<img src="images/passages/core reading.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Fantastic! Pace yourself by choosing one core item from each module. You schedule a reading hour every day on your phone calendar, sometimes in the evening or between lectures and seminars where it isn't worth walking back home.
You already have suggested reading ahead of the next lectures. Do you collect a [[hard copy]] of the 4 books from Templeman library or [[download an e-copy]] instead?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/forthcoming lectures.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Pace yourself - you don't want to feel overwhelmed or peak too soon!
Each module has a short piece of suggested reading before each lecture. The reading list connects to the library, so with a few clicks you can see what is available. Oooh, the books you need are [[available as e-book downloads|download an e-copy]] or you can collect the [[hard copies|hard copy]].
<img src="images/passages/confess.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus Plaza">
OK, ok, you've not been anywhere. Nayan looks aghast. You're just taking your time, you say. Nayan advises you to register asap as it unlocks all your online student details, plus you need to get your KentOne card to get access places like the library.
You thank Nayan for his wise words as he gets to his feet. He's about to join a school event and you're starting to feel uneasy about the stuff you're potentially missing out on as well.
You leave Nero's and go to [[register]] at the sports centre as per the joining instructions.
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You ponder the greatness of the task. This picture will haunt you on your KentOne card for the next few years.
[[Sensible]] yet studious and hyper-intelligent?
[[Smiley]], approachable, happy-go-lucky?
[[Shocked]], out of comfort zone, possibly with a 'Crimewatch' twist?<img src="images/passages/explore.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus Arial Shot">
Big. The campus is big. It echoes when you moved from primary school to secondary. You tell yourself it's going to be fine. This will soon feel like home and this time you don't even need to wear a blazer 4 sizes too big. Unless you want to?
You check the map. You decide to visit your [[school]] first.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sensible.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sensible Man">
Your sinister face exudes a 'don't mess with me' attitude. You nod approvingly.
Send the photo to the registration desk so they can [[apply it to your KentOne card|register in the hall to the right]] while you wait.<img src="images/passages/smiley.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Smiley Face">
Yesss, this isn't a passport. Look normal!
Send the photo to the registration desk so they can [[apply it to your KentOne card|register in the hall to the right]] while you wait.<img src="images/passages/shocked.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Shocked Cat">
O.K. You look like you've just been caught on CCTV, but let's go with it.
Send the photo to the registration desk so they can [[apply it to your KentOne card|register in the hall to the right]] while you wait.<img src="images/passages/barchat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Socialising at K-Bar">
The first drinks slip down quickly and are swiftly replenished by Zak. The conversation feels a bit awkward at first. What's your name, your school, your home town, your accommodation like, bla bla bla. But you're all in the same boat and everyone you talk to seems relieved for the interaction.
Zak goes to the bar for more drinks.
You buy another couple.
Do you [[agree to another round]] or call it a day and [[dawdle back to the house]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/morning.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Dorm">
You wake up sprawled across your bed. You're not particularly refreshed. It must be the strange surroundings.
You go [[to the kitchen|downstairs]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/game.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Row of doors">
Sometimes, kncoking on the door of your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ is a challenge too far. Who knows what's on the other side?
So here's 'the three doors' game. One of them contains an actual living and breathing @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ at Kent. Can you guess which one it is?
[[Door A|A]], [[Door B|B]] or [[Door C|C]]?
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/A-Game_dinosaur.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Dinosaur">
No. This is a dinosaur. If a dinosaur was the other side of the door you need to run.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/B_Game_Laura.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Laura's Office">
Yes, this is Laura. Laura is an actual @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ at Kent. Laura is normal and friendly, not at all scary. Laura enjoys seeing her advisees and gives excellent advice. She also likes cacti and nail varnish.
<<back "Go Back">>
<<set $adviserScore += 1>><img src="images/passages/C_Game_shouty.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Shouty Person">
No. This is a shouty person who needs to breathe into a paper bag.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/Student Support.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Support Room">
If you're struggling with anxiety, meeting deadlines, or worried you've chosen the wrong course the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ team can help. You can book the appointment through your school. They also monitor attendance and may send reminders if your attendance starts to drop.
Everything you tell them is in confidence and they can signpost you to other support resources if you need them. Asking for help when you know you need it is part of being independent.
Back to [[the lecture|He then goes on to explain....]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/front door open.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tasty Food">
Tiz and Saffa appear. Saffa is red-eyed and runs straight to her room. Tiz scours the kitchen cupboards for snacks. She says Saffa's had a tough morning and is feeling overwhelmed and missing home. She's doubting if she has chosen the right course or wonders if she should leave. Tiz has provided Saffa with school's @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ details but Saffa refuses to see them and wants to go home.
Tiz is holding a sachet of Mediterranean couscous and a tin of sardines. Where did she magic those up from? You agree with Tiz to keep an eye on Saffa. The kitchen soon ponks of warm sardines and you pray this won't become a regular occurance.
You suggest to Tiz the house does a supermarket food delivery and starts a cooking rota? She thinks this is an excellent idea so you agree to persuade the others when they get back.
You discuss what to do for the [[rest of the afternoon]]. <img src="images/passages/me-time.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Bedroom">
You personalise your room with the posters bought from Kent Union's poster fair earlier. Much better.
You unpack the rest of your suitcase. Everything is organised. You've even allocated a big snack drawer, right by your bed, which you intend to fill with calorific loveliness.
Stationary is lined up on the desk, photo's of friends and family are on the pinboard. On the bed is your treasured cuddly toy cat 'Boo' that you've had snce you were two. It is missing its an eye and the tail is barely hanging on. It feels like home now.
Do you open up your laptop and [[Skype home]] or lie on the bed with Boo for a quick [[40 winks]]?<img src="images/passages/welcome fair.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Union Welcome Fair">
You and Tiz stroll to campus in the Autumn sunshine.
Thumping music and excited voices envelope the plaza and the Kent Union building. Pizza and cookie essences hang in the air.
Dozens of tables, each representing a society, line the pathways. There's over 200 different clubs and societies to choose between from music, theatre, gaming, multi-cultural and activity based groups. Most of the students appear to have white lolly sticks poking out of their mouths and matching tote bags.
[[You dawdle round the tables with Tiz]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sit outside saffas room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Saffa's Door">
You knock gently on Saffa's door and ask if she'd like to share a brew. She turns the offer down. Nor does she want to sit in the kitchen. You advise her she would feel better if she talked to someone.
You go to make a drink and periodically return to Saffa's door to let her know you're there. On the fourth visit she relents and [[opens the door]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/skype home.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Skyping Home">
Your family want to hear about everything to date. They remark how amazingly tidy your room looks (if only they saw it an hour ago). They miss you but they're proud you've settled.
You describe your flat-mates and Saffa's homesickness. You're told everyone is probably feeling it, even if they say they're not. The trick is to mingle and smile, as it's scientifically proven to make you more optimistic.
The call ends with fake smiles and waves. You close your lap top and feel deflated. Is this how Saffa feels?
Do you try to [[talk to Saffa|sit outside Saffa's room]] or keep yourself occupied with [[the latest posts on insta]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/40 winks.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sleeping in bed">
You doze off instantly and wake some time later as the front door is shut. Somewhat disorientated, you go to [[investigate]].<img src="images/passages/the latest photos on insta.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Rabbit in front of Kent Sign">
You view the posts from your old school friends. They look like they're having an amazing time. It's interesting seeing other university settings but you feel lucky to be on a parkland campus. It appears other universities are in the centre of busy, noisy cities.
The front door bangs shut and voices are in the kitchen. You [[investigate]].<img src="images/passages/opens the door.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Teddy Bear">
Saffa's room is a tip and is enough to make anyone feel rubbish!
She gratefully accepts the offer of a cup of tea in the kitchen and starts to confess how she's feeling. You discuss impostor syndrome, homesickness and wrong course choices and one can be confused with another. You confide that you're missing home too. Saffa agrees to email her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ for advice.
After a while, you're both laughing over silly things you've brought from home. You show her the one-eyed toy cat called Boo, you've had since you were two. Saffa confesses she has also bought her childhood toy, a small tiger called RahRah. You both erupt with laughter over bringing toys to university!
You are still happily chatting when [[Chimmy walks into the kitchen|investigate]].<img src="images/passages/investigate_pizza_must crop heads.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students in the Kitchen">
Zak, Chimmy and Saffa are in the kitchen. Saffa looks relaxed watching Zak eat a punnet of baby plum tomatoes. Tiz soon returns from the Welcome Fair, buzzing about having just joined the lacrosse club, Kent Sing and her subject society. It transpires Tiz has an incredible singing voice and has been in several choral productions.
The discussion soon turns to [[food]].<img src="images/passages/you dawdle round the tables with Tiz_subject only.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Societies">
Having signed up for the free subject society, you learn that it is run by students doing the same course as you, but in their second and third study years and can provide some top tips. They organise social events, quiz nights, trips and visiting speakers. You're already excited about receiving your first event invite.
After more wandering you and Tiz decide to [[leave the Welcome Fair|out]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/food.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tesco Website">
Everyone agrees to club together for an online food order. The Tesco delivery van has already been spotted driving round Parkwood. Each person promises to cook one meal for everyone before deciding whether to continue with a rota.
Do you show off and suggest a [[roast dinner]]?
How about a [[homemade curry]]? Or play it safe with [[pizza and chips]]?<img src="images/passages/roast dinner.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Roast Chicken">
Ambitious.
You order a chicken, some Quorn for Saffa, spuds, carrots, a tin of peas and gravy granules. How hard can it be?
You also order some sugary cereals, packets of 3 minute noodles, oodles of crisps and biscuits, more Nutella and some bread. Oh, and a token apple, to be healthy.
Chimmy places the order online, due to arrive [[tomorrow]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/homemade curry.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Curry">
You order a bag of rice, chicken pieces, (Quorn for Saffa) and a jar of curry sauce. Easy!
You also order some sugary cereals, packets of 3 minute noodles, oodles of crisps and biscuits, more Nutella and some bread. Oh, and a token apple, to be healthy.
Chimmy places the order online, due to arrive [[tomorrow]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/pizza and chips.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Chips on a pizza">
You've aced this! You order 2 big pizzas (one vegetarian) and a bag of frozen chips. Done and done.
You also order some sugary cereals, packets of 3 minute noodles, oodles of crisps and biscuits, more Nutella and some bread. Oh, and a token apple, to be healthy.
Chimmy places the order online, due to arrive [[tomorrow]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/tomorrow.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Square">
The food arrives The fridge is loaded with goodies. And vegetables. The snack cupboard is heaving. Saffa is cooking vegetarian spaghetti carbonara, ahead of the Freshers Ball.
You fancy exploring beyond campus and ask who's up for an excursion to Canterbury City Centre. Chimmy hates but asks you to pick up a bath towel as he only brought one with him. Zak and Tiz agree to come along, and you persuade Saffa to leave her room too.
Shuttle buses run between Canterbury and various campus stops every 20 minutes. Or you can get there via the footpaths in about 20 minutes too. [[Bus]] or [[walk]]?<img src="images/passages/bus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University Buses">
The Uni-buses are super convenient. Students get discounts too. You enjoy a scenic ride to Canterbury bus station, just 15 minutes away and find yourself at the top of the [[High Street]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/walk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Punting on the River Stour">
The designated footpaths provide breathtaking views of the city as you walk down the hill. You pass under the medieval Westgate Towers and arrive on the [[High Street]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/High Street.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury High Street">
The city is vibrant with a huge range of resturants, shops, and quirky outlets selling soaps, art supplies and vinyl records. Canterbury Cathedral which is crawling with tourists. You take photos of various intriguing streets and the ducking stool over the river to post on insta later.
You purchase a bright green towel depicting pink flipflops for Chimmy even though he specifically instructed you to get plain blue. You buy a supermarket bottle of wine and a cinnamon whirl pastry. You meet up with the others and catch the bus [[back to campus]].<img src="images/passages/back to campus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus">
You're reassured that the the City has all the shops you'll need plus options for some good nights out. Chimmy is not impressed with his flip flop themed towel and promises to prank you back!
Tiz, Chimmy and Zak get ready for the Freshers Ball. Will you [[join them|Freshers Ball]] or [[stay at home]] to rest your aching feet??<img src="images/passages/freshers ball.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Freshers Ball">
You can taste the carbonara as you jig through the crowd at the Freshers Ball in the Venue. The Union has secured an amazing DJ. The music lasts all evening and yet the energy of the crowd doesn't diminish. You spot Bob. She's with other familiar faces from your school.
At stupid o'clock the DJ's end the show and the Venue empties into the crisp night air. There's been some ups and downs this week , but guess what...[[CONGRATULATIONS]]!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay at home.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Netflix">
You haven't got the energy for a ball after such a hectic week. Saffa agrees so, after demolishing the carbonara, you share your bottle of wine and Saffa opens Netflix on her laptop.
After watching The Bodyguard (again) and drinking all the wine, Saffa tells you she's made an appointment to see her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ officer next week. She admits her home sickness has eased too.
You've just finished your first week at Kent....[[CONGRATULATIONS]]!!<img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest1badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
Thats' Welcome Week done and Quest 1 completed.
''Your Academic Score for Quest 1:''
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Your Academic Score is impacted by how frequently you visited your Academic Adviser and how often you utilised resources and @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Services">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ such as the library. @@.serviceLink;<<link "What can Academic Advisers do for me?">><<run Namespace.AADialog();>><</link>>@@
''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 1:''
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Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many times you made the most of social interactions and how well you looked after yourself.
You have earned yourself a 'Welcome Week' badge on the menu bar. You are now ready for quest number 2: [[The First Assignment]].
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<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Quest Completion", "Player Progression", "Quest 1");
<</script>><img src="images/passages/the first assignment.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Productive Desk">
This is the start of Quest 2: The First Assignment.
The aim is to submit your first piece of work on-line and on time to receive your first grading. First, you need to log on to @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and look at your modules.
You check modules in turn on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Your 4 modules are worth 30 credits each, but others may have more 15 credit options. Each module has at least one assignment due before the end of term, ahead of the Christmas vacation. Moodle also provides the lecture and seminar topics per module and the names of the lecturers involed. Most importantly, each module has a set reading list and maybe even a further resource list.
It's a lot to take in but, after surviving Welcome Week you're ready take the assignment quest on.
You're up early. After a quick re-fuel, your cornflake-powered brain is primed. Today's first lecture is in a familiar location. [[You are caught in the tide of students making their way to campus for their classes|first lectures]].
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<<script>>
if(State.getVar('$skipped') == true)
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<<set $skipped = false>><img src="images/passages/school common room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kennedy Common Room">
The school undergraduate common room has big arm chairs, a vending machine of mouth-watering snacks and a huge noticeboard covered with posters and leaflets of forthcoming events.
You sink into one of the chairs and check @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ on your phone. There's already a link to the recording of the lecture you've just attended on the online lecture capture system, @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Player">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Handy.
You look at the reading list. It's long and you're a slow reader at best. You remember being told you don't have to read everything, it just gives you some flexibilty. In fact, only 3 books are 'core' books which you MUST read and the remainder are optional. You click the first core book in the list which links directly to the library. Three hard copies are available but you can download the online version too.
Should you start working your way through the [[reading list]] or [[leave it for a few weeks|delay]] to see how the topic develops?<img src="images/passages/hard copy.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="KentOne Card">
You search for your KentOne card in the entrance of Templeman Library. It's nowhere. Do you do the [[walk of shame back out of the library]] or [[ask the help desk staff]] if they'll let you in regardless?
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<<set $libraryScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/download an e-copy.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent LibrarySearch Website">
Good idea, travel light. A few clicks secures copies of the texts you need. You may never need to go to the library!
You go back to your [[school common room again]] start the e-reading before your next lecture.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/machines to automatically check your books out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Book Machine">
You place your books into the mouth of a strange machine. It scans the bar codes and assigns them to your KentOne card. You have them for 7 days. Unless someone else wants them, they get renewed every 7 days.
The books are reassuringly heavy in your bag. Perhaps it would have been better to collect them before you head home. You've a couple of hours before your next lecture. Do you find a cosy spot in the library and [[read the 4 pages of text required to understand your next lecture]], head back to your [[school common room again]] or go on a [[food hunt]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/the service desk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Book Machine">
The books fall awkwardly from your arms onto the desk. You turn a shade of beetroot. It must be obvious you're a library virgin! The assistant smiles and asks if you found everything you wanted (you wanted a cheesy pizza, but only found a lousy picture of it, so no). Yes, you confirm. He picks up a heavy book and says many textx are available electronically. As he scans the books he makes you aware of the Library Liaison Officers and to keep your eyes peeled for student promotions. Information overload. He senses this and hands you a leaflet. Just visit the web address and it is all there, he says.
The 4 books are now assigned to your KentOne card. You'll get emailed when they are due back. The loan is renewed every 7 days unless someone has reserved it.
The books are reassuringly heavy in your bag. Perhaps it would have been better to collect them before you head home. You have a couple of hours before your next lecture. Do you find a cosy spot in the library and [[read the 4 pages of text required to understand your next lecture]], head back to your [[school common room again]] or go on a [[food hunt]]?<img src="images/passages/read the 4 pages of text required to understand your next lecture.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Study Space">
Space-age seating pods encircle the library cafe. You settle into an empty pod and observe the study area. Some students are working on laptops on central tables, others are just in there for refreshments and many are reading quietly in pods.
The 4 pages needed ahead of your next lecture are quickly devoured and, before you know it, you've read the whole chapter. Feeling self-congratulatory for already being ahead, you crave some well-earned lunch.
Hmmm, [[library cafe sandwich]] or something [[more substantial]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/school common room again.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="School Common Room">
To your surprise, Chimmy is there. He's navigating @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, working out where he needs to be. You demonstrate how to access reading lists and download library books. With lecture capture too, you could theoretically do your entire degree from bed (minus the seminars of course)!
Do [[get on with your reading]] or agree to accompany Chimmy on a [[lunch hunt]]?<img src="images/passages/food hunt.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Path to Rutherford College">
As you walk down the library terrace, Chimmy calls and makes his way over. He is also between lectures and is in need of sustenance. Someone told him [[Rutherford dining hall]] is the place to go for budget friendly comfort food.
Rutherford college is just across across the central green.<img src="images/passages/library cafe sandwich.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Library Cafe">
Cheese and tomato sandwich with a token frilly layer of lettuce and a huge cup of tea. The tea waits patiently on the pristine white table as you devour the doorstop sandwich.
You listen into comversations on adjacent tables; was Freddie Mercury born on the planet Mercury, is it better to be a shark or a lion and how many pencils does a person use in a year. High brow stuff.
With the last morsels, you make a quick visit to the library toilets before heading back to your school with your heavy bag on your shoulders, for your [[next lecture]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/more substantial.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Cafe">
Instinctively, you go to the Gulbenkian cafe, a lunch time honey pot. Other students and staff are making the same pilgrimage. The menu whispers that you NEED a hot chicken and mozarella panini. Plus a bottle of sweet Kentish apple juice.
You sit at one of the pristine white tables. The panini slips down noisily, but not without a fight. Metres of stringy cheese bridge the gap between your mouth and bread. The last cheese wisps are consumed just in time for getting to your [[next lecture]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next lecture.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
This lecture theatre is big. Rows of colourful seats stretch upwards, each with its own shiny bench and charging points.
You sit in an empty middle row but are soon surrounded with conversation and shuffling of bags. On your left there is a female student with wild purple hair on her phone. To your right a male student in a thick padded jacket sits down. He introduces himself as Gabriel and you hear his life story within 20 seconds. From Exeter, he came to Kent because he was won over on the open day, he likes paintballing and is mad about Tottenham Hotspur football team. You describe yourself as a chocolate spread connoiseur.
A lecturer strides purposefully over to the lecturn, taps on a keyboard, then displays an introductory page on the screens. This is Dr Hedda D'Klass. She's in blue jeans, a mustard coloured shirt and matching coloured shoes. She looks at the audience over the rims of her round red glasses. The theatre stops and [[waits for her words]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/do you lie.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Grimond Building">
Yes, you've been busy too. That's why you needed a break, you explain, waving towards your empty coffee cup and flapjack crumbs. Nayan asks where your school is. You check the map and say "Grimond", next to the library, sounds important. Nayan's head tilts to one side. Grimond, he tells you, is just lecture theatres and seminar rooms. Arrggh, busted on question one! You finally [[come clean|confess]] and confirm that you haven't actually done anything apart from wave your parents off yet. <img src="images/passages/waits for her words.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
Hedda explains she'll be referring to the pre-reading throughout the lecture - thank goodness you read those! Her presentation style is engaging, fascinating and mesmerising all at once.
She starts off with a hypothesis, but doesn't actually conclude her investigation after the hour draws to a close. You look confusingly at Gabriel. He rolls his eyes and mutters 'independent learner'. More confused.
Gabriel asks if you want to [[grab a drink]] or just [[see you at the seminar]] tomorrow?
<img src="images/passages/grab a drink.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar Pool Table">
You both walk to K-Bar in Keynes. You order a bad-ass fruit tea whilst Gabriel has a lager. It's not even midday! You can't refuse his cocky challenge to a game of pool. Turns out Gabriel is a pool ace and he is making cat food out of you. Humiliating defeat is inevitable.
'Bing', email. You've just received your first @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ meeting invite for tomorrow. You know it is important so it is immediately added to your phone calendar.
By the end of the afternoon you conclude the pool table must be on the wonk given the number of missed shots. You tell Gabriel you'll see him at the next lecture then [[amble back to your room|R&R time2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/see you at the seminar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
You lie and say you've got another appointment even though you don't have any other timetabled event until tomorrow.
Do you go back home to your room for [[more reading]] time, go [[back to the library]] to investigate the other learning resources or head to the [[undergraduate common room]] to network with someone other than Gabriel?<img src="images/passages/more reading.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Rabbits">
Back in your room you create a timetable, colour coding lectures, seminars, reading, $assignmentType or relaxation time. It looks organised and achieveable. And relax. The timetable is placed in the centre of your pin board with a to-do list next to it. You add in your 4 assignments with their due dates. A quick check of @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ shows the next lot of reading required.
You stretch out on your bed next to Boo, the toy cat, to begin your afternoon of reading when, bing! Email. You've just been invited to your first @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ meeting tomorrow. You know it is important so it is immediately added to your phone calendar.
After a couple of hours reading, you hear Tiz come home. She is singing a Katy Perry song. Again. Those attempted top notes make your eyes water! You meet her [[in the kitchen]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/back to the library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Aisle">
You already know which library location relates to your studies but you check LibrarySearch in the lobby first anyway. The book you want is in and you're given the shelf location which you proficiently locate in moments. There it is. Crikey, it's huge!
You heave it to a table, exhaling loudly. 'Bing', email. You've just received your first @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ meeting invite for tomorrow. You know it is important so you immediately add it to your phone calendar.
The reading list only specifies a handful of pages. The book is too big to carry home. The library has scanning and printing facilities so you waddle over to [[one of the scanners]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/undergraduate common room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Vending Machine">
'Bing', email. You've just received your first @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ meeting invite for tomorrow. You know it is important so it is immediately added to your phone calendar.
Bob is at a table chatting to another student. She spots you and waves you over. You recognise the other student, Marie, from the seminar. Marie, agrees that Hedda didn't answer any of her questions in her lecture and that makes you feel like idiots as you don't know them either. Bob suggests you're supposed to formulate your own opinions. Fuelled by vending machine Haribo sweets, you debate the topic between you instead, coming up with some cracking ideas and some which are rather insane.
Buzzing with ideas and red herrings you go back to your room via the Co-Op shop to get a healthy lunch to [[cancel out all those Haribo's|R&R time2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/in the kitchen_walk back to your flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Red Peppers">
Her first lecture was OK and, no, she hasn't looked at her reading lists. Saffa is booked in to see her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Officer this afternoon so that's a good start.
Tiz is home. It is her turn to cook dinner and she's making an early start on a shepherd's pie. It seems to contain 83 ingredients and uses all the pans in the house.
Zak is back next, library book under his arm. He says today's 3 lectures recapped A'Level stuff so it was easy. Zak makes a mug of tea and you both watch Tiz slice carrots. Then you spot the Tabasco sauce Tiz has next to her and [[a plan is born]].
<img src="images/passages/comes home.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mental Health">
She has just had a lengthy appointment with her school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Officer. Saffa has had terrible anxiety throughout secondary school. @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ have said she could get an ILP (Inclusive Learning Plan) created. They have arranged for her to see a specialist in the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support and Wellbeing Centre">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>> to discuss her ILP which will make learning, submitting work or doing presentations and exams less of a burden. Each week she will meet with her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Officer to check that Saffa is adjusting well and receives further support if needed.
Well timed, as always, Tiz informs everyone that [[dinner is ready]].
<img src="images/passages/R&R_time.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Coffee">
By morning your head feels like shredded paper. Perhaps you just slept awkwardly or your brain is suffering from information overload.
You've got your scheduled @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ appointment in an hour. Should you get up and [[head off to the meeting]] or [[sit this one out]] and wait until you're feeling human again?
<img src="images/passages/next to Bob.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Lecture">
Bob looks pleased. Safety in numbers. About 30 people are now seated when a short man dressed in a long trench coat enters. His coat is almost on the floor, accentuating his meagre height. He takes his coat off and looks at you through Harry Potter glasses.
Professor Mark Partridge introduces himself as the Academic Adviser for every one of you for the duration of your degree. He's there to help whenever you need academic advice. Logical. He can demystify lectures and assignment tasks, decode feedback and signpost you to resources. He does not deal with in-grown toenails (see your GP), your deceased goldfish (@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@) or library fines (the library, obvs). He recommends you see him at least once per term, via an appointment or turn up during his drop-in hour. You can email any time too. This meeting aside, he won't request to see you. If you don't arrange to meet him, you lose out on his assistance.
Do you [[set yourself a reminder on your phone straight away|reminder2]] to see him in a couple of weeks or do you [[leave it and go and see him when you have a genuine need|genuine need2]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next to Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Lecture">
Gabriel looks pleased. He has a can of energy drink in one hand and a Mars bar in the other. Interesting breakfast.
Professor Mark Partridge introduces himself as the Academic Adviser for every one of you for the duration of your degree. He's there to help whenever you need academic advice. Logical. He can demystify lectures and assignment tasks, decode feedback and signpost you to resources. He does not deal with in-grown toenails (see your GP), your deceased goldfish (@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@) or library fines (the library, obvs). He recommends you see him at least once per term, via an appointment or turn up during his drop-in hour. You can email any time too. This meeting aside, he won't request to see you. If you don't arrange to meet him, you lose out on his assistance.
Do you [[set yourself a reminder on your phone straight away]] to go and see him in a couple of weeks or do you [[leave it and go and see him when you have a genuine need]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/SLAS_SLAS Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="SLAS Website">
@@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ stands for '@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Learning Advisory Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@'. It's a one-stop shop for FREE tips and tricks to boost your learning. There's 1:1 sessions with an advisor for specific advice or workshops for essay writing, exam revision techniques and maths tricks. It's a no-brainer. You promise yourself to book a workshop when the need arises.
[[Go back|reminder2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Academic Peer Mentors_Mentors Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group of students studying">
This scheme pairs more experienced students with newer students in the same school. It's direct access to someone who has walked the path you're currently on. Discuss module details, settling into university, learning techniques and support resources. It's totally voluntary. Speak to your school if you want to be paired with an APM and they will sort it out for you.
You consider the benefits of having an APM to hand when you're pulling your hair out over a particular $assignmentType.
[[Go back|reminder2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go to the library and do your background reading.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Study Area">
Those spare hours here and there really add up! Cocooned in a study pod, you upload points of interest for the imminent seminar. Thank goodness you took such good notes in the lecture earlier. You feel crazy clever by the time you [[go to your seminar room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/paired with an academic peer mentor.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
At the school's reception, Jo (receptionist), picks through the bowl of sweets intended for guests. She offers you a sweet but they're mostly the horrid green ones so you decline. You ask about Academic Peer Mentors. Jo views a list of school mentors and swiftly shortlists contenders. She says you'll shortly receive an email from a student mentor in stage 2 who's doing a similar or the same degree as you. There's no pressure to meet up, you can just email if you prefer, it is up to you.
That was easy. You thank Jo and then head [[over to your seminar|go to your seminar room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/get some vitamin D.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Chairs">
Ah, the autumn sunshine is so warm. Picnic tables and colourful deck chairs litter the lawns. You pick a pink chair and chill. Work can wait. For 45 minutes. Deep breathing and mindfulness.
Times up. You're relaxed and [[go to your seminar room]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go to your seminar room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Seminar Room">
The fresh-faced seminar leader is Dr Eden Funyer. Eden is dressed head to toe in red. She bounces energetically and her volume is set to 'high'. Eden loudly asks what thoughts people had on the last lecture. No-one answers so she ricochets over to a random victim and requests a reply. With only 12 people in the room, it will be your turn to speak soon. The questions come thick and fast followed by silence. Eden gets ready to pounce on her next victim.
Suddenly, you are urged to speak. You immediately worry its a bad response. "EXCELLENT IDEA", Eden shrieks. This is exhausting. So much concentration, but the background reading has been a real bonus.
Eden's enthusiasm is unwavering. She finishes the seminar reminding you of the $assignmentType due in by the end of term. And don't leave it to the last minute! You look at the assignment title, still unsure how to tackle it but you [[concoct a plan]].<img src="images/passages/concoct a plan.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Autumn Leaves">
Welcome week seems months ago now. You're into the swing of university life.
During each shared meal you relish the sight of Chimmy's frustration with overly-spicy meals. Eventually Zak rats on you, confirming the real culprit is the ketchup. Chimmy warns he will definitely prank you back so watch out!
The $assignmentType deadline looms so you need to be careful about how to use your time. Do you [[attend absolutely all your lectures and seminars]], selectively attend the fun stuff and save time [[listening to lectures that you miss on Kent Player]] or only attend the events [[you manage to wake up in time for]] and ignore the rest?
<img src="images/passages/just stick to the core reading.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Student Studying">
Right, let's start this $assignmentType. You don't need to wait a certain number of weeks before you start drafting your work.
It feels like an eternity since you last did a big assignment. Can you even remember how to plan and structure your work? Do you persevere with [[your own natural talents]] or go onto the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website and book yourself onto the [[assignment writing workshop]] or [[drop your Academic Adviser an email]] and pick their brains?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/recommended reading territory.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Fancy Dress in the Library">
Core reading gives the essential information. To boss this assignment you'll need extra evidence from the recommended reading.
You go to Templeman library. The library staff look weird today. Next to the touch screens is a World Book Day poster. It seems the Kent library crew have taken the Harry Potter series to heart for the day.
Your recommended reading list contains 'journals'. You don't know how to access those. You need to ask Hagrid. You feel like a right donut. Hagrid smiles and explains access to the extensive electronic resources including journals. Each school has a dedicated Academic Liaison Librarian who can help with pointers on assignment research and referencing. Would you like him to make you an appointment? [[Yes|ALL Yes]] or [[No|ALL No]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/attend absolutely all your lectures and seminars.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
Absolutely! There is a direct correlation between attendance and achievement. If you miss any event a) you end up with holes in your knowledge, and b) only lectures are recorded, not seminars (plus you'll lose seminar participation points).
Another potential time saver; do you [[just stick to the core reading]] or branch out into the [[recommended reading territory]] for your $assignmentType?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/listening to lectures that you miss on kent player.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent E-Learning Website">
OK, but you need dedication to listen to ALL of the recorded lectures. Missing ANY out will leave holes in your knowledge which will penalise you at exam or assigment time.
Another potential time saver; do you [[just stick to the core reading]] or branch out into the [[recommended reading territory]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/assignment writing workshop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecturer">
The @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ page advertises a 1 hour workshop next week. Excellent. You book a place.
On the day, there are only 5 others so it's quite informal. Graham runs the session. His engaging teaching style makes the hour soon disappear and you're given a whole recipe card for starting and completing your assignment.
NOW you feel ready to [[start writing this assignment]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<<set $SLASScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/drop your academic adviser an email.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Using A Laptop">
After emailing your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, Professor Mark offers a quick 15 minute appointment during his [[next drop-in office hour]] or alternatively suggests connecting you with [[an Academic Peer Mentor]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/your own natural talents.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working">
You feel sure, once you start writing, that all those old techniques will come flooding back. All you need is a title, reference the odd line here and there from the core text then write a conclusion. You are the master of fluffing your way through.
You are ready to [[start writing this assignment]].<img src="images/passages/ALL Yes.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Hagrid introduces Academic Liaison Librarian, Emma. She's sporting a top-to-toe pink 'Dolores Umbridge' outfit. Very distracting.
Emma ushers you into one of the mini study rooms. She soon discovers your $assignmentType details on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and the suggested reading list. She can see you've checked resources out including the electronic books and advises you how to research efficiently. For example, don't read everything, just skim read and scan the text for key words. Wow! That huge reading list seems manageable. She also explais how to avoid plagiarism (when you copy someone else's work and pass it off as your own) and correct referencing for the best marks. Finally, Emma introduces you to @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, an online tool which automatically adds items you've read, then magically creates a formatted bibliography. And it is FREE to Kent students. Just that nugget alone will save you hours of work.
You thank Emma and feel smug for [[learning all that in a day]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/ALL No.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
You thank Hagrid suggesting you'll see the Academic Liaison Librarian another time. The extra electronic resources will be quite enough for now.
With your additional reading in the bag, it dawns on you that it has been an eternity since you last did a big passignment. Can you even remember how to plan and structure your work? Do you persevere with [[your own natural talents]] or go onto the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website and book yourself onto the [[assignment writing workshop]] or [[drop your Academic Adviser an email]] and pick their brains?
<img src="images/passages/start writing this assignment.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
You create your outline and piece the research together, questioning everything and making your own judgements. It takes a few weeks. Sometimes you work in your room, other times you prefer the library or study hubs since PCs are so readily available.
After a shed load of edits, you've finally got something you're [[rather proud of]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<<set $libraryScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/rather proud of.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Houses">
Your flat mates are also giving their laptops some serious keyboard time before the Christmas break. Everyone is conscious of the deadlines. Saffa is really struggling with anxiety and attending weekly meetings with a @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Officer. Zak hasn't left his room in 4 days but you know he is still alive as you can hear him periodically shout things at his screen.
After one long day on campus you return to your room to find [[it isn't exactly as you left it]].
<img src="images/passages/right to the last minute.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Stress Level">
Risky, but what if you spot a mistake before the deadline? ou re-read the $assignmentType again. Surely it is worthy of a First? The upload deadline is 3pm.
How close do you want to leave it? [[One hour before]] or a [[couple of minutes before]]?<img src="images/passages/submit it now_one hour before.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Assignment Submission">
You click the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ link on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ within your module. You follow the clear instructions to upload your document. You click 'add submission' button and the screen freezes for a moment (you're glad you didn't leave this right to the last second now). Eventually the screen confirms the upload and you're given a submission ID number You feel euphoric that you have finally managed it within the deadline!
[[CONGRATULATIONS!|congratulations quest2]]
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/submit it now_one hour before.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Assignment Submission">
You check all your notes again. Have you made all the points in your plan? No! One is missed out. You check the $assignmentType again. It's OK. It was included but not crossed off the plan. Phew.
You click the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ link on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ in your module. There are clear upload instructions. You click 'add submission' and the screen freezes for a moment (you're glad you didn't leave this to the last second now). Eventually the screen confirms the upload and you're given a submission ID number. You feel euphoric that you have finally managed it within the deadline!
[[CONGRATULATIONS!|congratulations quest2]]
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 3>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/couple of minutes before.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Stressed Student">
You re-read your plan and $assignmentType one last time. Looks good. You click the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ link on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ within your module. Still a couple of minutes before the 3pm deadline. The intructions clearly explain how toperform the upload. You click 'add submission' and the screen freezes. Why is it so slow? You suspect loads of other people are also trying to upload their documents. You must be in a queue. Sweating now.
Eventually, the screen confirms the upload and you're given a submission ID number, a receipt basically. You go to the submissions summary page. Accepted at 3:01pm. Just one minute out. Surely that's OK? But why is the text red? Your blood pressure starts to creep up. [[What to do]]?
<img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest2badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
You have earned a First Assignment badge. You may have discovered the different resources available for putting an $assignmentType together, quick ways of reading and who to talk to for academic advice. You have also experienced the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ procedure and observed that leaving things to the last minute is not the best plan.
''Your Academic Score for Quest 2:''
<div id="academicBar">\
<div id="academicProgress"></div>\
</div>\
Your Academic Score is impacted by how frequently you visited your Academic Adviser and how often you utilised resources and @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Services">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ such as the library. @@.serviceLink;<<link "What can Academic Advisers do for me?">><<run Namespace.AADialog();>><</link>>@@
''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 2:''
<div id="wellbeingBar">\
<div id="wellbeingProgress"></div>\
</div>\
Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many social interactions you selected and how well you looked after yourself.
Now take a break before you come back to university in the spring term.
You are ready for quest 3: [[Finishing Stage 1 at Kent]].
<<set $quest2Badge = true>>
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Quest Completion", "Player Progression", "Quest 2");
<</script>>
<img src="images/passages/what to do.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Washing Machine">
You quickly email your school. Within minutes a reply confirms your $assignmentType had been uploaded but after the deadline. You're told that, unless you have a mitigating circumstance such as illness or impairment that your $assignmentType will not be marked and you'll receive a zero grading for that module. You don't have a mitigating reason. You feel like a failure. You could burst into tears right now.
You're so mad at yourself for leaving it right up to the wire. Why did you do that? One thing's for sure, you are NOT going to leave the upload right to the last minute ever again.
Nevertheless, the first assignment has been completed and so [[this quest has come to an end|congratulations quest2]]
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore -= 10>>
<<set $wellScore -= 5>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/download it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Downloading a Book from the library">
Those four pages are read without even leaving your seat. At this rate you can easily manage the basic reading requirements.
The vending machine beckons. You munch through a DoubleDecker whilst enjoying some uninterrupted TikTok time before the [[next lecture]]. <img src="images/passages/get on with your reading.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Studying">
Chimmy nods and disappears off to the library. You start reading on your laptop. You've soon skimmed the texts and made some hasty notes for the seminar. You've surely just earned a [[decent lunch|more substantial]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/lunch hunt.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus path to Rutherford College">
Chimmy says he was told [[Rutherford dining hall]] is the place to go for budge friendly comfort food. This requires urgent investigation.<img src="images/passages/Rutherford dining hall.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Rutherford College Dining Hall">
Rutherford is a traditional brick building, a mix of bizarre corridors, stair cases and rooms all designed to make you dizzy with disorientation. Luckily, the dining hall is exceptionally well signed.
As you walk into the full height dining hall, it gives off a 1960's Hogwarts vibe. Staff and students alike sit at the long tables with strategically placed pitchers of water and salt and pepper pots.
Chimmy disppears into the [[food collection area]].
<img src="images/passages/fish and chips.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A plate of Fish and Chips">
A large battered fish now smothers your plate of chips. You balance the plate to the dining tables. Chimmy has the same but with added peas. The peas soon tumbling off his plate and swimming erratically around his food tray.
Once seated, you both attack the food like your life depends on it. Half way through the pace has slowed and you [[take a short pit stop]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/wok bar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A plate of noodles.">
The bowl over-flows with worm-like noddles. Chimmy has chosen the same dish and you both carefully navigate your way to an empty section of bench before any noodles manage to wiggle free.
After several minutes of noodle slurping, the level in the bowl doesn't appear to be going down. You snigger at Chimmy's greasy, whiplashed chin and t-shirt. There is still no sight of the bottom of the bowl and by now you can only manage a single noodle at a time. Eventually neither of you can manage any more and wimper in defeat.
It's going to be a struggle to waddle to your [[next lecture]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/vegetable lasagne.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Vegetable Lasagne">
Every inch of plate is smothered with sheets of pasta and mountains of veggies. Chimmy has chosen the same. You both balance plates of wobbly cheesiness as you navigate towards an empty section of table.
After several minutes of pasta stabbing and face stuffing, your plate is half empty. The paces slows to a halt, you can manage no more (but at least Chimmy was defeated first). It's going to be a struggle to get out of your chair and waddle to your [[next lecture]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/one of the scanners.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Photocopier">
Yous manhandle the tome onto the scanner, flip it over and scan again. Your KentOne card is scanned too, in payment. The librarian offers to return the book for you and together, you hoist it onto the trolley.
You go back to the shelf for more treasure. Oooh, 3 more books from the recommended list. And they're small. All checked out at lightening speed via the self-service machine. That deserves some [[light refreshment]].<img src="images/passages/light refreshment.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Accomodation">
Just across the green is Mungo's bar in Eliot college. They do a 'Cheeky Freak' freakshake containing Nutella!
Whoah, a monster shake topped with brownies is carefully delivered. You make a start on one of the library books whilst greedily slurping the shake. Sadly you reach the bottom of the glass before you finish the first chapter. It's a heavy read - will you ever remember all this stuff?
You [[walk back to your flat]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/in the kitchen_walk back to your flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Red Peppers">
Tiz is home. It is her turn to cook dinner and she's making an early start on a shepherd's pie. It seems to contain 83 ingredients and uses all the pans in the house.
Zak is back next, library book under his arm. He says today's 3 lectures recapped A'Level stuff so it was easy. Zak makes a mug of tea and you both watch Tiz slice carrots. Then you spot the Tabasco sauce Tiz has next to her and [[a plan is born|a plan is born2]].
<img src="images/passages/R&R time2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Food">
At home, Zak is messily making a brew in the kitchen. Tiz is there too. It's her turn to cook dinner and she's making an early start on a shepherd's pie. It seems to contain 83 ingredients and uses all the pans in the house.
You and Zak watch Tiz slice carrots from the safety of the dining table. Then you spot the Tabasco sauce Tiz has next to her and [[a plan is born|a plan is born2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/head off to the meeting.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Cafe">
Smart! Just one bit of new advice from your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ might be degree saver.
As you leave your room you hear a delicate 'crack' by your feet. On the floor is a smashed raw egg. Chimmy's giggling face appears from the kitchen. He had balanced the egg on your door handle and had been waiting a good hour for you to emerge.
A kitchen roll later and the mess is removed, leaving a sticky residue. Chimmy sniggers throughout. You are already planning your revenge.
It's too late for breakfast now so grab a take-away mocha from the Gulbenkian cafe on your way. This perks you up, ready for your Academic Adviser group meeting.
A steady stream of students files into the small seminar room. Bob sat over on the left. She waves. Gabriel is sat nearer the centre. Do you go and sit [[next to Bob]] or [[next to Gabriel]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/sit this one out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Smashed Egg">
Surely there'll be other opportunities to meet your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@? You guess they'll just be repeating stuff from Welcome Week events and lectures? You're head is already full of advice.
Eventually, you roll out of bed. As you leave your room you hear a delicate 'crack' by your feet. On the floor is a smashed raw egg. Chimmy's giggling face appears from the kitchen. He had balanced the egg on your door handle and had been waiting a good hour for you to emerge.
A kitchen roll later and the mess is removed, leaving a sticky residue. Chimmy sniggers throughout. You are already planning your revenge.
After a coffee and several slices of Nutella on toast you walk onto campus via the Gulbenkian toilets (which you have awarded joint top marks for being the best campus toilets). The autumn sunshine ensures you [[get some vitamin D]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/learning all that in a day.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Options">
It feels like an eternity since you last did a big assignment. Can you even remember how to plan and structure your work? Do you persevere with [[your own natural talents]] or go onto the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website and book yourself onto the [[assignment writing workshop]] or [[drop your Academic Adviser an email]] and pick their brains?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/next drop in office hour.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge's Office">
Mark's door is ajar at the drop-in time. He sees you before you get the chance to knock and ushers you in.
He hastily removes the pile of papers from a chair for you. You tell Mark you just don't know where to start with your $assignmentType, it's been ages since you did an assignment and the reading list is intimidating. Mark asks what first comes to mind about the $assignmentType. What are the gaps and where might you be able to find out more? Just because it is in a book, is it right? Does another author says something different? Look at all perspectives then provide your own judgement, backed up by research. After exploring potential ideas together your confidence grows. Mark says you are welcome to drop by next week to discuss how your thoughts are developing.
You leave feeling ready to [[start writing this assignment]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<<set $adviserScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/An academic peer mentor.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Academic Peer Mentor">
Within a day, you've been matched to an Academic Peer Mentor called Dave. You send a couple of introductory emails back and forth. Dave sounds busy, but keen to impart some of his positive experiences. You explain you're struggling to start the first $assignmentType. When do you stop researching and start writing? He says this is just one $assignmentType of many. It's OK to struggle at first, mistakes are valuable. It took him time to figure it out too and now gets good grades. He advises breaking the $assignmentType into chunks and pace yourself, leaving time to alter and add more detail if necessary. Dave's happy to meet you to go through your ideas if it will help. You thank him for giving you the boost you needed. Stop procrastinating and commit to getting this task done!
You are finally ready to [[start writing this assignment]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/finishing stage 1 at kent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Daffodils">
You return to your Kent home after the Christmas holiday. It was fantastic to go back to family and friends sporting your University of Kent logo hoodie!
This quest is to finish your first year at Kent, keep up with assignments and completing the end-of-year exams.
It seems ages since you were last with your flatmates. Saffa hugs everyone as they come through the door, even the parents! Saffa's Dad is hauling her holographic suitcase upstairs. Zak continues living light with his rucksack. Chimmy arrives with his older brother, Jimmy. You can hear the throaty modified engine and pulsating music long before the car appears. Jimmy only stays long enough to drink the free tea and grab a handful of jammy dodgers before he roars off, leaving Chimmy to it.
After unpacking you all [[convene in the kitchen]].
<<if previous() is "Quests" and visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 60>>
<<set $wellScore += 25>>
<</if>>
<<script>>
if(State.getVar('$skipped') == true)
{
GA.sendEvent("Skipped Quest", "Player Progression", "Skipped to Quest 3");
}
<</script>>
<<set $skipped = false>><img src="images/passages/convene in the kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Christmas Kitchen">
You each share daft holiday stories including Chimmy's Dad serving Christmas dinner wearing an inflatable sumo costume. It's good to be back with everyone again. You make a group online shopping order for tomorrow and Tiz's mum has supplied enough pasta and sauce to feed Rome.
Chimmy doesn't want to risk getting the washing up chore each week so suggests the house tries out a new game called <a href="http://chorewars.com" target="_blank">Chore Wars</a>. The house battle against each other to earn experience points or get the scapegoat duty if they have slacked off their share of cleaning. You all agree to give it a go and select avatars.
You [[retreat to your room to finish unpacking]] and ramp up the radiator thermostat now the wintery weather is kicking in.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/click on your assignment link.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lego Man at Desk">
After clicking the assignment title, it displays a load of highlights and comments from the marker. The notes are succinct and frank telling you what could be done better, how one argument doesn't hold weight and your conclusion isn't conclusive! Harsh. You slump back into your chair.
Do you [[use the feedback as a way to improve]] or switch off your laptop and make a mental note [[not to look at feedback in future]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 3>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/decide to leave it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Bedroom">
What's done is done. You can't change it. You can improve over time and most of the marks weren't that bad anyway.
You go to bed [[blissfully unbothered|next day relaxed]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore -= 3>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/use the feedback as a way to improve.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Using Feedback">
Take it on the chin. Stop making it personal. The marker made those comments to be helpful. Get some paper and write 'feedback' at the top. Now list the type of comments you got. Was it sentence structure, poor research, grammar problems, lack of or too many citations or something else? Do the same for the other marked assignments. Can you see a pattern? Do this for EVERY piece of feedback you get. Use it to help hone your skills.
You congratulate yourself for using the feedback as a learning point to improve going forwards.
Yet some of the comments don't make sense. Do you make an [[appointment to see your Academic Adviser]], email an [[Academic Peer Mentor]] or just [[ignore the feedback]], you've got the main points?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 3>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/not to look at feedback in future.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Reading">
Your New Year's Resolution was to stay positive so you're justified in ignoring negative comments all over your work. Stay focused on the numerous other assignments going forwards.
You stewing over those comments all night. Perhaps you're not academic afterall? You hope you can scrape through the rest of the course.
After a few restless hours you [[manage to sleep|next day depressed]].<img src="images/passages/academic peer mentor_appointment to see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Looking at your phone">
While it is still fresh, you drop your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, Prof. Mark Partridge an email, to say you'd like to discuss your feedback. He must be working late and replies almost immediately, asking you to drop by tomorrow to help unravel the feedback with you.
Relief sweeps over you and [[you go to bed feeling like you're going to be able to claw something back|next day 2]] from this own goal.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 3>>
<<set $adviserScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/academic peer mentor_appointment to see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Looking at your phone">
You draft an email to Dave, your Academic Peer Mentor. It sounds defensive, emphasising how you toiled over that $assignmentType and you don't feel the criticism is deserved. You ask to chat, to see if you're being unreasonable.
You [[go to bed still feeling hurt|next day3 hurt]] Dave can wave his magic wand and fix it all.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/ignore the feedback.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tickboxes">
You've got a page full of good points to concentrate on. That's plenty to keep you busy. The page gets stuck onto the pin board. Take it one day at a time. You shut down your laptop and [[get an early night|next day relaxed]]. <img src="images/passages/retreat to your room to finish unpacking.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Bedroom">
Boo, the toy cat, is back on the bed, now missing his second eye. Clothes are hung up and clean shoes lined up along the wall.
You login to view your timetable. It's totally different this term. This one seems more consolidated. You transfer the details to your timetable planner on your wall.
On @@.serviceLink;<<link "KentVision">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, the marks for work submitted before Christmas are viewable. It's as you expected, although one mark causes your stomach to sink.
Do you go to @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, [[click your assignment link]] to check your mark and feedback or [[decide to leave it]] as there's nothing you can do about it now?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next day2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge's Office">
After morning lectures you call by Prof. Mark's office. He clears a pathway through piles of papers to access his spare chair.
You describe how the feedback made you want to crawl into a bin and eat pencil shavings. Mark explains comments are never a personal attack. He opens the $assignmentType and takes a moment to digest the highlighted comments.
Within 10 minutes Mark explains the purpose of each comment. It makes so much sense! He is pleased you used the opportunity to talk it through and suggests doing the same for all your marked work. For a confidence boost, Mark suggests you look at the wide range of workshops offered by @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to further develop the ideas he has discussed with you.
You thank Mark and promise to [[check out the SLAS web pages]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/check out the SLAS web pages.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="SLAS Essay Writing Process">
The @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ web page displays a plethora of short, one-off workshops for essay/report writing plus longer courses for those who want the full shebang.
You book onto a one-hour general writing workshop which explores the key ways to research, plan and draft an assignment. It runs next week in between your timetabled events.
You smugly stroll over [[to your next lecture|to your lecture]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next day relaxed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Path">
Waking refreshed, you make a warm bowl of porridge with an added brown swirl of Nutella. Striding to campus on this frosty morning, you are eager to experience this term's new set of modules. You get to the Templeman library lecture theatre and [[walk in|to your lecture]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next day3 hurt.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Cafe">
You wake feeling refreshed and down a bowl of warm porridge with a large swirl of Nutella on the top.
You settle into the new rhythm of lectures, workshops and seminars. Mid week an email from Dave confirms he can meet you in Sibson cafe for a coffee and chat.
As you swish the peach and cranberry tea bag around your cup you share your $assignmentType feedback woes to Dave who nods knowingly. He shares his (extensive) experiences of bad feedback and has even fallen at the same hurdles as you. Dave reassures that constructive criticism is not a personal attack. Different writing qualities are expected at university, but all comes with practice. He advises how to find the best resources and checks you're using all the library services.
You thank Dave then head off [[to your lecture]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/to your lecture.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students">
There are plenty of familiar faces jostling for a seat in the lecture theatre. Do you go and sit next to [[Pomeline (aka Bob)]] or [[Gabriel]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Pomeline (aka bob)_Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecturer">
You tell Bob about your $assignmentType feedback and she shares her similar story with you. Bob is doing two of the modules you've chosen for this term, one of which involves giving a group presentation. You squirm at the thought.
The lecture begins, run by a new face called Dr Tomas Quelin, or Tom. He is so eager to share his knowledge that the words tumble out at speed. You hopelessly jot odd key points down. Bob also struggles, using the 'Cornell Notes' template page she has adopted this term. You're left with several pages of scrawl and feel shellshocked. Bob has a neat single page of bullet points and key words.
Bob suggests creating work-study group to help keep up to date and share thoughts. Do you say [[yes, you're in]] as this module is going to need some new tactics or [[no, you'll just go and listen to the lecture recordings]] on Kent Player instead?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Pomeline (aka bob)_Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecturer">
Gabriel has his Tottenham scarf around his neck and slurps noisily from his Tottenham travel mug. You quiz Gabriel about last term's assignments. He admits he didn't get blinding results and received a letter from his school stating one of his marks have been withheld after being accused of plagiarism. He has been summoned to a Senior Tutor meeting later in the week to explain himself. It sounds terrifying but Gabriel shows no emotion.
The lecture begins, run by a new face called Dr Tomas Quelin, or Tom. He is so eager to share his knowledge that the words tumble out at speed. You hopelessly jot odd key points down. Gabriel doesn't write anything and just listens instead (with his ear buds in). By the end of the lecture you have several pages of scrawl. Gabriel is relaxed and asks if you fancy a game of pool. Do you [[go and play pool]] or decline and find somewhere to [[listen to the lecture recording]] again?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/yes youre in.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Group Study">
Bob has gathered 4 other students from the module at the group study area in Templeman library. You're introduced to Hannah, Marta, Brian and James. You all agree the new module is a challenge.
Bob demonstrates her Cornell note taking method which makes sense and significantly reduces unnecessary writing. Brian provides his perspective on the lecture which gets everyone thinking and triggers a debate between him and Marta. Hannah suggests the group meet every other week to discuss lecture and seminar notes and to plan the group presentation. [[This group means business]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/no youll just go and listen to the lecture recordings.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Studying">
You listen to Tom's rapid-fire hypotheses on the lecture recording and try to improve your notes. It still doesn't make 100% sense. You research Bob's Cornell note taking technique and promise yourself to give it a try. You [[message Bob]] and ask if she'd like to join you for the group presentation. <img src="images/passages/go and play pool.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Playing Pool">
Gabriel quickly navigates the labyrinth corridors in Eliot college. The pool room is in the heart of the building. Gabriel walks to the nearest of the 3 pool tables and prepares the table for a game. As morning turns into afternoon Gabriel shares his intention for the next 3 years is to have the best time possible. You ask if that includes going for plagiarism meetings with the senior tutor? He shrugs dismissively. You ask about the forthcoming group presentation suggest he joins forces with you. Gabriel gratefully accepts so you arrange to meet next week to discuss ideas.
Gabriel asks if you want to join him in Canterbury on Saturday night to try out a local night club. Do you agree to [[sample the Canterbury night life]] or decline and just [[meet next week for the presentation planning|end of first week]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/listen to the lecture recording.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Computer Suite">
In the library, you sit at a spare PC, plug in your headphones and re-listen to the lecture on Kent Player. Tom's rapid-fire hypotheses are forced upon you once more. You try to improve your notes but it still doesn't make sense.
You [[message Bob]] and ask whether she'd like to join you for the group presentation.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/message bob.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Students">
Before long Bob confirms she would love to join you for the presentation group and rounds up 4 others from the module, Hannah, Marta, Brian and James to join you. You hope they can pull their own weight and [[get the work done fairly|This group means business]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/this group means business_end of the first week.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group Study">
You feel settled into your routine by the end of the first week back. Chimmy and Tiz agree, but Zak has barely been out of his room and Saffa is starting to feel anxious about deadlines.
Chimmy suggests Saturday night at Kent Union's [[The Venue]] to spend some time together. Or would you rather stay in your room and [[have some time to yourself]]?<img src="images/passages/sample the canterbury night life.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Cathedral at night">
By Saturday you're keen for a night out. Gabriel is waiting at the bus stop and 5 minutes later you're both in town. It's busy. Elegant Christmas lights still twinkle above the streets providing the last festive hurrah. No-one seems phased by the near-zero temperatures. You walk through Dane John Gardens, whose fountain is dormant and flower beds long empty, towards Club Chemistry. The doormen are checking groups of people flowing steadily in [[to the club]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/to the club.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Club Chemistry">
After scrutinising your ID (thank goodness you brought that) you're let in. Up some stairs the main doors open and your ears receive the full auditory assault of music. Lights and people are moving everywhere. DJ Joe-Zeff, Canterbury's version of Jay-Zee apparently, rates his music choice as perpetually excellent after each track. The next couple of hours are spent alternating between refreshment scavanges and bouncing up and down on the dancefloor sandwiched within the sweaty horde. It's the best night out you've had in months!
Eventually DJ Joe-Zeff winds down the tempo, marking the end of club hours. Gabriel appears and introduces you to his new 'friend' Maxine (also a Kent student). You agree to catch the bus back to campus together. Maxine is carrying her shoes and has no coat. What a rebel!
Enroute to the bus station [[the kebab van beckons]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/the kebab van beckons.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Doner Kebab">
You hold the huge doner kebab as it drips lashings of garlic sauce. Annoyingly, Maxine and Gabriel help themselves to slices of the lamb forcing you to eat it quickly with minimal ettiquette. Wow, it tasted good. You catch the night bus back to campus. Gabriel and Maxine disappear into the night leaving you to walk back to Parkwood alone. The paths are well lit and you can see CCTV cameras but you still use your SafeZone app (smartly downloaded onto your phone) to request [[a walking taxi]]. <img src="images/passages/a walking taxi.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Campus Security">
Within moments a uniformed campus security guy appears and seems happy to have the preoccupation of walking to Parkwood. He laughs at the recollection of your night out and supports your outrage of the kebab theives. Deposited safely at your house door, the security guard turns and vanishes back down the path. You creep to your room. You squeeze toothpaste into your mouth, chew it for a few seconds then spit it into the sink. That will do. [[You pass out on your bed]] still fully dressed.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/back to parkwood_back to parkwood2_you pass out on your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Shower Head">
The following afternoon (morning got cancelled) you wake up with a mouth like matted shagpile. You wash the dry toothpaste from the side of your face and strands of your hair and stand for several statuesque minutes under the warm shower. Your clothes are splattered with a garlicky derivative that immediately engages your stomach muscles. You shove the clothes into a bag which is then kicked under the bed.
Breakfast (at 3pm) is needed so you [[go into the kitchen]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/this group means business_end of the first week.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group Study">
You feel settled into your routine by the end of the first week back. Chimmy and Tiz agree, but Zak has barely been out of his room and Saffa is starting to feel anxious about deadlines.
Chimmy suggests Saturday night at Kent Union's [[The Venue|The Venue2]] to spend some time together. Or would you rather stay in your room and [[have some time to yourself|time to yourself2]]?<img src="images/passages/The venue.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Venue">
The Venue queue, next door to Kent Union, confirms its popularity. Students are quickly admitted into the night club. Both dance floors are packed with people, waving glow sticks and bouncing up and down to the music. Many are in pyjamas - is it a theme night? Somehow Zak has already acquired a drink and he gloats about the bargain price. You all rush to be served at the bar then cuddle your bottle and secure a good vantage point.
The music is a mixture of RnB and drum and bass this evening. Before long, Saffa and Tiz are on the dance floor and you're left [[holding all the drinks|holding all the drinks2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/The venue.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Venue">
The Venue queue, next door to Kent Union, confirms its popularity. Students are quickly admitted into the night club. Both dance floors are packed with people, waving glow sticks and bouncing up and down to the music. Many are in pyjamas - is it a theme night? Somehow Zak has already acquired a drink and he gloats about the bargain price. You all rush to be served at the bar then cuddle your bottle and secure a good vantage point.
The music is a mixture of RnB and drum and bass this evening. Before long, Saffa and Tiz are on the dance floor and you're left [[holding all the drinks]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/brave breakfast at 3pm_go into the kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tin Cans">
Fry up? No eggs. Sugar puffs and a strong coffee then. Now THAT was a night out! No-one else has emerged yet so you seize the opportunity to remove all the labels from the Chimmy's food tins. You intend to pick up a tin of cat food to add to the mix later for added amusement.
You spend the remainder of the day sprawled on your bed getting through your core reading.
Oh cool, it has started snowing and is settling quickly on the ground. Will [[lectures will be affected in any way]]?<img src="images/passages/holding all the drinks.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Alcoholic Drinks">
After a few floor fillers, Saffa appears to reclaim her drink and sniffs it nervously. Did you hold it the whole time? Was it unattended? You assure her that nothing came between you and her J20 but she insists going to the bar to use one of the Union's tamper testing kits. She returns several minutes later, reassured by the power of chemistry.
You're handed a glow stick which signals the switch to dance mode as you're dragged into the euphoric throng. Surrounded by friends and pulsating lights as bass beats resonate through your bones.
At 3am the club is emptied and campus security staff outside ensure everyone is capable of getting home, offering their walking taxi service if needed. You walk with your flatmates along the brightly lit paths, through the frosty night [[back to Parkwood|back to Parkwood2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/holding all the drinks.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Alcoholic Drinks">
After a few floor fillers, Saffa appears to reclaim her drink and sniffs it nervously. Did you hold it the whole time? Was it unattended? You assure her that nothing came between you and her J20 but she insists going to the bar to use one of the Union's tamper testing kits. She returns several minutes later, reassured by the power of chemistry.
You're handed a glow stick which signals the switch to dance mode as you're dragged into the euphoric throng. Surrounded by friends and pulsating lights as bass beats resonate through your bones.
At 3am the club is emptied and campus security staff outside ensure everyone is capable of getting home, offering their walking taxi service if needed. You walk with your flatmates along the brightly lit paths, through the frosty night [[back to Parkwood]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/back to parkwood_back to parkwood2_you pass out on your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Shower Head">
The following afternoon (you missed the morning) you wake up with a mouth like an old fur boot. You stand for several statuesque minutes under the warm shower, then clear up your floordrobe and [[brave breakfast at 3pm]].<img src="images/passages/back to parkwood_back to parkwood2_you pass out on your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Shower Head">
The following afternoon (you missed the morning) you wake up with a mouth like an old fur boot. You stand for several statuesque minutes under the warm shower, then clear up your floordrobe and [[brave breakfast at 3pm|go into the kitchen]].<img src="images/passages/brave breakfast at 3pm_go into the kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tin Cans">
Fry up? No eggs. Sugar puffs and a strong coffee then. Now THAT was a night out! No-one else has surfaced yet so you seize the opportunity to remove all the labels from Chimmy's food tins. You make a note buy a tin of cat food to add to the mix, for added amusement.
You spend the remainder of the day sprawled on your bed getting through some core reading.
Oh cool, it has started snowing and is quickly settling on the ground. Will [[lectures will be affected in any way|lectures affected 3]]?<img src="images/passages/lectures will be affected in any way_lectures affected3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Snowy Campus">
A good 15cm of snow is on the ground by Monday morning. Rabbit footprints criss-cross the entire area. You don't own any snow boots so now your shoes are sodden and your toes are numb. Chimmy is out unusually early rolling a big snowball across the submerged grass. It's the first time you notice, now the trees are bare, that a pair of shoes has been flung over one of the branches.
Tiz emerges from the house sporting a mohair bobble hat and metallic puffer jacket. Tiz and Chimmy start flinging handfuls of snow at each other. You [[tread carefully towards central campus]] before a snowball comes your way.<img src="images/passages/lectures will be affected in any way_lectures affected3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Snowy Campus">
A good 15cm of snow is on the ground by Monday morning. Rabbit footprints criss-cross the entire area. You don't own any snow boots so now your shoes are sodden and your toes are numb. Chimmy is out unusually early rolling a big snowball across the submerged grass. It's the first time you notice, now the trees are bare, that a pair of shoes has been flung over one of the branches.
Tiz emerges from the house sporting a mohair bobble hat and metallic puffer jacket. Tiz and Chimmy start flinging handfuls of snow at each other. You [[tread carefully towards central campus|towards campus3]] before a snowball comes your way.<img src="images/passages/tread carefully towards central campus 1_2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Seminar Room">
Everything is open as normal on campus. You attend a seminar, thankful for having done that reading yesterday, and even asked a few questions which delighted Dr Eden Funyer, the seminar leader.
Afterwards, you meet Gabriel for the presentation work. Gabriel arrives late but eventually you describe your research how you questioned its critical value. Gabriel thinks it sounds fine. It transpires he hasn't done any research as he didn't understand the requirements. He asks for your help. The presentations are next week and time is limited.
Do you [[offer to take on more of his share of the task]] or continue with your [[own portion of work]]?
<img src="images/passages/tread carefully towards central campus 1_2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Seminar Room">
Everything is open as normal on campus. You attend a seminar, thankful for having done that reading yesterday, and even asked a few questions which delighted Dr Eden Funyer, the seminar leader.
Afterwards you meet your study group to prepare for the group presentation. Everyone has selected a task and completed the required research. You each discuss your findings, resources used, debate its critical value and whether further evidence is required. You all agree to meet the following week to construct the presentation for submission. You're feeling positive and astounded at what you have collectively created. Hannah suggests reading the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website for lots of useful presentation tips to give a real competitive edge!
Do you [[take Hannah's advice]] or stick with what you've got and [[avoid the extra chore]]?<img src="images/passages/take hannahs advice.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Winter view of the Cathedral">
A quick phone check reveals a ton of presentation tips on the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website so you promise yourself to skim-read those later.
It is snowing again and you have a full afternoon of lectures in various buildings. Your shoes will be sodden. The trademark green campus spaces now match the cloud ridden sky. The view is postcard perfect as the cathedral majestically rises from the chimney plumes.
After your last seminar you collect a research book you'd reserved from the library [[before walking back to Parkwood]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/avoid the extra chore.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Winter view of the Cathedral">
Your timetable is already full to bursting and you have other assignments to work on.
It is snowing again and you have a full afternoon of lectures in various buildings. Your shoes will be sodden. The trademark green campus spaces now match the cloud ridden sky. The view is postcard perfect as the cathedral majestically rises from the chimney plumes.
After your last seminar you collect a research book you'd reserved from the library [[before walking back to Parkwood]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/offer to take on more of his share of the task.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Book Shelves">
Maybe he doesn't understand the topic. You're confident you do. Although it is more work for you, it means you will deliver something suitable instead of losing marks to Gabriel's poor research.
You reluctantly agree to research and prepare the slides if Gabriel completes the introduction and creates the diagrams. You'll meet again next week to plan how to [[deliver the presentation]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/own portion of work.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students working together">
Your timetable is full and this is supposed to be GROUP work. You advise Gabriel to see his @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ or the seminar leader if he needs academic support. Gabriel shrugs reluctantly. You know your marks will unfairly take a hit.
Do you try to [[see your Academic Adviser about it]] or continue as you were, [[just doing your share of the task]]?<img src="images/passages/deliver the presentation.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Winter view of the Cathedral">
You're angry about the increased workload. He should have asked for help, not give extra stuff to you. But now you've got to find some extra resources and time from somewhere. No Netflix evening with Saffa now.
It is snowing again and you have a full afternoon of lectures in various buildings. Your shoes will be sodden. The trademark green campus spaces now match the cloud ridden sky. The view is postcard perfect as the cathedral majestically rises from the chimney plumes.
After your last seminar you collect a research book you'd reserved from the library plus an extra tome for the presentation work [[before walking back to Parkwood|walking back to Parkwood3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/see your academic adviser about it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ has their drop-in hour today. Prof. Mark Partridge waves you in and gestures to a camouflaged chair. You explain the situation which Mark says is surprisingly common. He grasps your frustration and suggests you swap groups. At this late stage that would create even more work so you decline the offer. Mark promises to inform the seminar leader of the situation and advises you deliver your share of the research and not feel tempted to undertake more. If this creates a poorer presentation, Gabriel's lack of involvement will be taken into consideration.
What a relief! You leave, [[thanking Mark for his time|outside]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/just doing your share of the task.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Stressed Student">
You feel cheated. Unless Gabriel does his share of the work your presentation will be half the size it should be. You suspect he won't put the effort in and slam your notebook shut in frustration.
You angrily step [[outside]] for some cold, fresh air.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/outside.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Winter view of the Cathedral">
It is snowing again and you have a full afternoon of lectures in various buildings. Your shoes will be sodden. The trademark green campus spaces now match the cloud ridden sky. The view is postcard perfect as the cathedral majestically rises from the chimney plumes.
After your last seminar you collect a library book you had reserved for some assignment research before [[walking back to Parkwood|walking back to Parkwood2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/parkwood walk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Walking back to Parkwood">
At home, Tiz is pacing, with fingers on her temples. Zak and Saffa look worried. After the full-blown snowball fight that morning, Chimmy climbed a tree to shake down more snow but misjudged the icy branches and fell. Tiz said it was clear from his twisted shin that he had broken his leg and Chimmy quickly went into shock. Tiz called Campus Security on her SafeZone app who in turn called an ambulance. Chimmy was crying with pain as he was transferred into the ambulance. His school was notified and Chimmy called his family from A&E.
You momentarily forget your frustration with Gabriel and quickly microwave your now famous 5 minute chocolate mug cake, guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face. With trembling fingers, Tiz shares the cake out and calms down.
Eventually you [[retreat to your room|retreat to your room3]] to add the finishing flourishes on your presentation.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/parkwood walk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Walking back to Parkwood">
At home, Tiz is pacing, with fingers on her temples. Zak and Saffa look worried. After the full-blown snowball fight that morning, Chimmy climbed a tree to shake down more snow but misjudged the icy branches and fell. Tiz said it was clear from his twisted shin that he had broken his leg and Chimmy quickly went into shock. Tiz called Campus Security on her SafeZone app who in turn called an ambulance. Chimmy was crying with pain as he was transferred into the ambulance. His school was notified and Chimmy called his family from A&E.
You momentarily forget your frustration with Gabriel and quickly microwave your now famous 5 minute chocolate mug cake, guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face. With trembling fingers, Tiz shares the cake out and calms down.
Eventually you [[retreat to your room|retreat to your room]] to work on your presentation.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/parkwood walk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Walking back to Parkwood">
At home, Tiz is pacing, with fingers on her temples. Zak and Saffa look worried. After the full-blown snowball fight that morning, Chimmy climbed a tree to shake down more snow but misjudged the icy branches and fell. Tiz said it was clear from his twisted shin that he had broken his leg and Chimmy quickly went into shock. Tiz called Campus Security on her SafeZone app who in turn called an ambulance. Chimmy was crying with pain as he was transferred into the ambulance. His school was notified and Chimmy called his family from A&E.
You momentarily forget your frustration with Gabriel and quickly microwave your now famous 5 minute chocolate mug cake, guaranteed to put a smile on anyone's face. With trembling fingers, Tiz shares the cake out and calms down.
Eventually you [[retreat to your room|retreat to your room2]] to start the extra presentation research.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/retreat to your room 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Broken Leg">
Two days later Chimmy is back home, on crutches. His right leg is encased in orange plaster, sprinkled with green glitter. Bizarre! Using crutches in the snow is going to be interesting.
Chimmy asks if you could help him rustle up beans on toast before you depart to your room. You remember what you did with all his tinned food labels before his accident! Do you [[apologise and say you are too busy to help|too busy to help3]] and disappear quickly or [[stay and help so you can witness Chimmy's reaction|Chimmy's reaction3]]?
<img src="images/passages/retreat to your room 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Broken Leg">
Two days later Chimmy is back home, on crutches. His right leg is encased in orange plaster, sprinkled with green glitter. Bizarre! Using crutches in the snow is going to be interesting.
Chimmy asks if you could help him rustle up beans on toast before you depart to your room. You remember what you did with all his tinned food labels before his accident! Do you [[apologise and say you are too busy to help|too busy to help2]] and disappear quickly or [[stay and help so you can witness Chimmy's reaction|Chimmy's reaction2]]?
<img src="images/passages/retreat to your room 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Broken Leg">
Two days later Chimmy is back home, on crutches. His right leg is encased in orange plaster, sprinkled with green glitter. Bizarre! Using crutches in the snow is going to be interesting.
Chimmy asks if you could help him rustle up beans on toast before you depart to your room. You remember what you did with all his tinned food labels before his accident! Do you [[apologise and say you are too busy to help]] and disappear quickly or [[stay and help so you can witness Chimmy's reaction]]?
<img src="images/passages/finish off presentation 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Microphone">
By 3am the presentation is a self-proclaimed masterpiece. Some excellent podcasts and TED talks were invaluable, taking care not to plagiarise (worth some extra points, surely?). After a few meagre hours of sleep your alarm rudely wakes you.
Chimmy has his leg propped on a kitchen chair. Tiz is making him a gourmet breakfast and fussing around him. Zak offers to keep him company as he wants to avoid his lectures today. Chimmy's concession from school gives him approval to be absent but this doesn't extend to Zak.
Your head aches. You attempt to eat a bowl of dried rice crispies but they stick to your mouth and drop over the table and floor. Tiz states you look off-colour and forces a coffee on you [[before you leave]].<img src="images/passages/finish off presentation 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Microphone">
By 3am the presentation is a self-proclaimed masterpiece. Some excellent podcasts and TED talks were invaluable, taking care not to plagiarise (worth some extra points, surely?). After a few meagre hours of sleep your alarm rudely wakes you.
Chimmy has his leg propped on a kitchen chair. Tiz is making him a gourmet breakfast and fussing around him. Zak offers to keep him company as he wants to avoid his lectures today. Chimmy's concession from school gives him approval to be absent but this doesn't extend to Zak.
Your head aches. You attempt to eat a bowl of dried rice crispies but they stick to your mouth and drop over the table and floor. Tiz states you look off-colour and forces a coffee on you [[before you leave|leave2]].<img src="images/passages/before you leave_before you leave2_leave2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pharmacy">
As the day progresses your feel worse and your nose is a geyser. You stop at the pharmacy on your way home for cold rememdy supplies.
Chimmy is still in the kitchen, reading and typing up notes. Zak can be heard in lethal online combat in his room.
At your desk, you message your lecturers and school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ saying You'll miss tomorrow's classes due to illness. Within minutes the support coordinator, Philippa, replies advises you submit a self-certification form on their absence system instead of a doctor's note so your absence is correctly recorded. You do as suggested and [[retreat to bed]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/retreat to bed 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Soup">
Hours later Tiz knocks at the door, insisting you take the mug of veggie soup and a cup of tea. You can't taste anything but it's the [[best thing you've had all day]].<img src="images/passages/best thing youve had all day 123.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Book Deposit">
After 2 days in bed you've binge watched all your lectures on Kent Player. You also finished skim reading a book due back in today and are ready for your presentation.
It's not the finest delivery but your research and arguments are sound, balanced and used reputable sources. Dr Tomas Quelin takes notes and nods periodically. Gabriel hardly says a word and stands next to you, as useful as chop sticks in space.
You masterfully manage the Q&A session afterwards then return to your seats. Gabriel remains in shameful silence. At the end of the session you tell Gabriel how much effort you'd put in and future joint presentations were out of the question. Gabriel shrugs as you stomp off to Create cafe for a [[well earned cake]]. You drop off your library book at the 24 hour drop-box en-route.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/well earned cake.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cupcakes">
Whaaaaat?! No chocolate cake left. [[Carrot cake]] or [[lemon drizzle]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/before you leave_before you leave2_leave2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pharmacy">
As the day progresses your feel worse and your nose is a geyser. You stop at the pharmacy on your way home for cold rememdy supplies.
Chimmy is still in the kitchen, reading and typing up notes. Zak can be heard in lethal online combat in his room.
At your desk, you message your lecturers and school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ saying You'll miss tomorrow's classes due to illness. Within minutes the support coordinator, Philippa, replies advises you submit a self-certification form on their absence system instead of a doctor's note so your absence is correctly recorded. You do as suggested and [[retreat to bed|retreat to bed2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore -= 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/retreat to bed 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Soup">
Hours later Tiz knocks at the door, insisting you take the mug of veggie soup and a cup of tea. You can't taste anything but it's the [[best thing you've had all day|best thing you've had all day2]].<img src="images/passages/best thing youve had all day 123.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Book Deposit">
After 2 days in bed you've binge watched all your lectures on Kent Player. You also finished skim reading a book due back in today and are ready for your presentation.
It's not the finest delivery but your research and arguments are sound, balanced and used reputable sources. Dr Tomas Quelin takes notes and nods periodically. You announce the second part will be delivered by Gabriel who is now rigid with fear. Dr Tomas asks him to describe his research but there's no reply. You both to return to your seats.
Gabriel remains in shameful silence. At the end of the session you tell Gabriel how much effort you'd put in and future joint presentations were out of the question. Gabriel shrugs as you stomp off to Create cafe for a [[well earned cake]]. You drop off your library book at the 24 hour drop-box en-route.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/finish off presentation 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Microphone">
By 1am the presentation is a self-proclaimed masterpiece. Some excellent podcasts and TED talks were invaluable, taking care not to plagiarise (worth some extra points, surely?). After a few meagre hours of sleep your alarm rudely wakes you.
Chimmy has his leg propped on a kitchen chair. Tiz is making him a gourmet breakfast and fussing around him. Zak offers to keep him company as he wants to avoid his lectures today. Chimmy's concession from school gives him approval to be absent but this doesn't extend to Zak.
Your head aches. You attempt to eat a bowl of dried rice crispies but they stick to your mouth and drop over the table and floor. Tiz states you look off-colour and forces a coffee on you [[before you leave|before you leave2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/before you leave_before you leave2_leave2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pharmacy">
As the day progresses your feel worse and your nose is a geyser. You stop at the pharmacy on your way home for cold rememdy supplies.
Chimmy is still in the kitchen, reading and typing up notes. Zak can be heard in lethal online combat in his room.
At your desk, you message your lecturers and school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ saying You'll miss tomorrow's classes due to illness. Within minutes the support coordinator, Philippa, replies advises you submit a self-certification form on their absence system instead of a doctor's note so your absence is correctly recorded. You do as suggested and [[retreat to bed|retreat to bed3]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/retreat to bed 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Soup">
Hours later Tiz knocks at the door, insisting you take the mug of veggie soup and a cup of tea. You can't taste anything but it's the [[best thing you've had all day|all day2]].
<img src="images/passages/best thing youve had all day 123.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Book Deposit">
After 2 days in bed you've binge watched all your lectures on Kent Player. You also finished skim reading a book due back in today and are ready for your presentation.
Your group stands in front of the class, notes shaking in hand. Hannah and Marta were born to present. You each pitch your research, arguments and a balanced review of reputable sources. It knits together beautifully. Dr Tomas Quelin nods and takes notes throughout.
Brian and James masterfully manage the Q&A session afterwards. At the end Bob suggests you all go to Create cafe for a [[well earned cake]]. You y drop off your library book at the 24 hour drop box en-route.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/carrot cake.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Carrot Cake">
Your wodge of cake is gone within a minute. It must have been a tiny slice.
Satisifed, you attend your last lecture then [[go back to the flat]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/lemon drizzle.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lemon Drizzle Cake">
Wow, it's a tangy plate of pleasure. It's soon gone. It must have been a tiny slice.
Satisifed, you attend your last lecture then [[go back to the flat]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/beat a hasty retreat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working on a Laptop">
You feel sorry for Zak even though it is all self-inflicted. You stare at your laptop. There's a number of emails from your school. One is a reminder to check your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you [[click on the link]] or [[leave it for now]], you have had a busy day.<img src="images/passages/click on the link.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark vs Attendance Graph">
The link goes directly to your own personalised @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ report. You're surprised at the detail. It colourfully depicts all your modules, marks and. You've only missed a couple of days due to illness so in the green 'good zone'.
However, your eye is drawn to the darker coloured module with consistently lower marks. Seeing it on a graph makes it stand out. You find module difficult as there's statistics and maths involved. The @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ report suggests seeing your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to discuss your data so you promise to go and see Prof. Mark during his [[next drop-in hour]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next drop in hour_leave it for now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Success Project">
Surely you'd receive a school communication if there was an issue with your progress, like Zak did?
Another school email catches your eye for an 'Inspirational Speaker' event. A visiting academic from an international university is giving a lecture on one of your topics. You've already referenced one of her books in an assignment.
Do you click the link to [[book yourself a place|book a place 2]] or [[delete the email|delete email2]] to preserve your 'free' afternoon next week?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next drop in hour_leave it for now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Success Project">
You close the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and sift through other school emails. One for a forthcoming 'Inspirational Speaker' event catches your eye. A visiting academic from an international university is giving a lecture on one of your topics. You've already referenced one of her books it in an assignment.
Do you click the link to [[book yourself a place]] or [[delete the email]] to preserve your 'free' afternoon next week.<img src="images/passages/book yourself a place_delete the email.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Right, all booked, and totally free. You hope it will include some real information nuggets for a later $assignmentType.
The following week is warmer and bulbs are bravely pushing up through the soil. Thankfully winter is behind you.
As planned, you go to Prof. Marks's drop-in hour to discuss your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. He congratulates you for checking your report, it is a real opportunity to spot things that may go unnoticed. You discuss your statistical module and he suggests checking the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ maths and statistics pop-in clinic every Wednesday. Mark also shows you tons of self-help resources you hadn't spotted in the module listing in @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Overall, Mark provides great feedback from your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and confirms you are on track for a good grade.
You leave Mark's office [[feeling rightfully smug]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/book yourself a place_delete the email.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Wednesday afternoons are normally for sport or society events, even though you have neither scheduled. But hey, lazy afternoon!
The following week is warmer and bulbs are bravely pushing up through the soil. Thankfully winter is behind you.
As planned, you go to Prof. Marks's drop-in hour to discuss your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. He congratulates you for checking your report, it is a real opportunity to spot things that may go unnoticed. You discuss your statistical module and he suggests checking the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ maths and statistics pop-in clinic every Wednesday. Mark also shows you tons of self-help resources you hadn't spotted in the module listing in @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Overall, Mark provides great feedback from your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and confirms you are on track for a good grade.
You leave feeling [[pleased with yourself]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/book a place2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Success!">
Right, all booked, and totally free. You hope it will include some real information nuggets for a later $assignmentType.
The day of the [[speaker event]] arrives.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/delete email2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Daffodils">
Wednesday afternoons are normally for sport or society events, even though you have neither scheduled. But hey, lazy afternoon!
The following week is warmer and bulbs are bravely pushing up through the soil. Thankfully winter is behind you, [[it plays havoc with your skin|pleased with yourself]]!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/feeling rightfully smug_speaker event.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Lecture Theatre">
By Inspirational Speaker day the whole campus looking incredibly spring-like. The 17 layers of clothes are no longer required and you brave a thinner jacket.
The lecture theatre in Keynes college is packed, enticed by the event posters on every plasma screen. The speaker has been invited by the Student Success Team. Professor Ellen Drover from Dowiefields University, USA begins her presentation. With half her head shaved and the other with bright red flowing locks, she not your stereotypical academic. The talk doesn't disappoint. You've jotted some fantastic quotes recommended resources.
At the end, you join the fan mob around Prof. Ellen and Sahar, the organiser. Is it too geeky to ask her to sign your copy of her book? You wait patiently in the queue until [[it is your turn]].<img src="images/passages/it is your turn.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Writing">
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Sahar and Prof. Ellen take you and the other student, Alex, to the Cafe des Amis restaurant in Canterbury. Mexican food...yum! Whilst you wait for the fajitas and burritos the conversation flows as freely as the Mexican lagers! Prof. Ellen shares her journey into academia, which wasn't planned at all. In fact she had started off as a technical illustrator. All 4 of you discuss her research throughout the meal. She provides you and Alex her contact details and promises to be available for further research support if needed.
Wow! You promise yourself to attend [[more Inspirational Speaker events|pleased with yourself]] now you see their full value.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/thank sahar and decline.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Lecture Theatre">
The talk was great but you're not sure you could manage a whole evening, even if free food is available.
You leave the lecture theatre feeling [[pleased with yourself]] that you have expanded your knowledge.
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/feeling rightfully smug_speaker event.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Lecture Theatre">
By Inspirational Speaker day the whole campus looking incredibly spring-like. The 17 layers of clothes are no longer required and you brave a thinner jacket.
The lecture theatre in Keynes college is packed, enticed by the event posters on every plasma screen. The speaker has been invited by the Student Success Team. Professor Ellen Drover from Dowiefields University, USA begins her presentation. With half her head shaved and the other with bright red flowing locks, she not your stereotypical academic. The talk doesn't disappoint. You've jotted some fantastic quotes recommended resources.
At the end, you join the fan mob around Prof. Ellen and Sahar, the organiser. Is it too geeky to ask her to sign your copy of her book? You wait patiently in the queue until [[it is your turn]].<img src="images/passages/pleased with yourself.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bluebell Woods">
Over the next few weeks the campus becomes surrounded by carpets of bluebells. It looks amazing.
Tiz, ever organised, announces that accommodation for the next academic year needs to be discussed as Parkwood students tend to move out after 1 year. You say you'd like to spend next year living with Tiz, Chimmy, Saffa and Zak as they make you feel at home. Chimmy, now out of his leg plaster, signs the group up for [[viewing some student lets]].<img src="images/passages/viewing some student lets.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Home Stamp Web Page">
You all view several 5-bedroomed properties listed on Kent Union's Home Stamp website. Every house seems to contain one bedroom the size of carrot.
Zak soon decides he will join a smaller group of other all-night gamers on his course in a different shared house instead even though his senior tutor has warned he won't get to stage 2 if his attendance doesn't improve. You admire his optimism.
Before longyou find a suitable 4 bedroom house mid-way between Canterbury and campus, so no need for bus passes. You ask the Student Union Advice Centre to check the tenancy agreement before you all sign it.
Phew, you've [[just rented your first house]]!
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/just rented your first house.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Deep in thought">
The end of the spring term involves a flurry of $assignmentType deadlines. You've stayed on track with your notes and reading, sometimes even dipping into unchartered resources (just for fun).
You've got a few <<print $assignmentType>>s to submit before the Easter break. Which ones do you finish first? Do you use Bob's [[weighted scoring]] technique, do you do the <<print $assignmentType>>s you like the most first and [[leave the worst till last]] or work through them alphabetically and [[apply staggered deadlines using the ASK tool]]?
<img src="images/passages/weighted scoring.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Laptop Notes">
Bob's method involves calculating which $assignmentType carries the most weight within your modules and work on those first. Some modules are worth 30 credits and others only 15. Some of the <<print $assignmentType>>s are worth 20% and others are worth 50%. You rank the highest percentage <<print $assignmentType>>s in the 30 credit modules first, down to the lowest percentage <<print $assignmentType>>s in the 15 credit modules. Now you can identify where to spend most of your time for maximum grade impact.
Your 4 ranked <<print $assignmentType>>s are assigned time on your wall calendar ahead of the deadline. Feeling focused, you [[start work on your assignments]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave the worst till last.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Stress/Relax Sign">
Words flow better when you write about something you enjoy, right? The imminent looming deadline will concentrate your mind better if you save the dreaded $assignmentType until last. You rank your 4 <<print $assignmentType>>s in order of preference and evenly allocate time on your calendar ahead of the submission date. Feeling focused, you [[start work on your assignments]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/apply staggered deadlines using the ASK tool.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="ASK Tool">
You list your <<print $assignmentType>>s in module alphabetical order then log onto Kent's '@@.serviceLink;<<link "Assignment Survival Kit">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@' (ASK). You calculate each $assignmentType needs a week of write-up so you stagger the deadlines acordingly. The @@.serviceLink;<<link "ASK Tool">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ then cleverly calculates a timescale of tasks required for each $assignmentType which you transfer onto your calendar tick list. Feeling focused, you [[start work on your assignments]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/start work on your assignments.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working on an assignment">
You write a bit each day and re-reading what you wrote the previous day. You're soon ticking off tasks and adding to the bibliography using the library's @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ tool.
Everyone is similarly focused on end-of-term assignments (except Zak who still games into the twilight hours). Saffa is feeling the strain but visits her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ officer each week. She has been referred to the central @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support and Wellbeing Centre">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ too for additional counselling. She has already been granted an extension for one of her essays.
You are all ships in the night, no shared meals or leisure time, trying to [[get your work done]].
<img src="images/passages/get your work done.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Take Away">
By deadline day you're exhausted but that planning paid off. You re-read each <<print $assignmentType>> before submitting them on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ before the 3pm deadline. In the kitchen Tiz reassures Saffa her French citations are correct. Chimmy is still doing his final lab report. Zak's is regularly shouting expletives as his keyboard receives intense abuse. Zak has left all his assignment work until this final week but he reckons he works best under pressure it will be fine.
By 3pm everyone has submitted their work apart from Zak who has one stuck in the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ queue and another still to submit (although apparently complete). He is pacing between his room and the kitchen food cupboard until his last piece of work is accepted. It is done.
To celebrate, you all order take-away curry. [[It's a great way to end the term]].<img src="images/passages/its a great way to end the term.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Rabbit">
The next 4 weeks are a blur. You intended to revise for the post-Easter exams but instead you mostly visited friends and family. Much more fun.
You return to campus for the final term of your first year at University. It's going to be brief as all your exams finished by June.
Saffa is anxious despite only having 2 exams as most of her modules are coursework only. Zak is unbothered, saying that they don't count towards his degree so there's no incentive. Chimmy interjects that he can't proceed to stage 2 without passing stage 1 plus if you're doing a year in industry or abroad in your course then the exam grades really matter. Zak's doing the year in industry but is that enough to persuade him to revise?
It's 2 weeks until your first exam. Do you [[create a revision strategy]] or continue to [[dedicate time each day to reading your notes]]?
<img src="images/passages/create a revision strategy.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Studying">
Your school has scheduled some additional revision events which you add to your calendar. SLAS are running an 'Effective revision and exam techniques' workshop and also recommend seeking advice from an Academic Peer Mentor, someone who sat the exams you're about to take.
Time is limited. Do you [[stick to your school revision session]], do your [[school session plus a SLAS workshop]], or your [[school session plus see your Academic Peer Mentor]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/dedicate time each day to reading your notes.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
You dedicate each day to reading different module notes. It's dull. The reading makes you sleepy so frequently change location between the library's quiet study area, Parkwood study hub and your room.
Eventually, the day of your [[first exam draws near|bolt-holes1]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stick to your school revision session.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
This important event will be tailored to your modules. Take advantage of your school's extra teaching and support. The event is at the [[start of the week]] and will help guide all subsequent revision you need to do.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/school session plus a slas workshop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="School Session and SLAS Workshop">
This important event will be tailored to your modules. Take advantage of your school's extra teaching and support. It's never too late to pick up new exam tactics from a @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ workshop - worth the two hour investment. They'll cover tips for effective use of memory and concentration and tactics for writing quickly under exam conditions.
The school revision session and the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ workshop are next week and will help guide [[all subsequent revision]] you need to do.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/school session plus your academic peer mentor.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="School Session and Academic Peer Mentor">
This important event will be tailored to your modules. Take advantage of your school's extra teaching and support. It's never too late to pick up exam tips from those who have trodden your path. Nothing matches the insight of an actual student. You email your Academic Peer Mentor, Dave, asking to meet soon. Dave responds with a date early next week, over a latte, in the Gulbenkian cafe.
The school revision session is also next week and will help guide all [[subsequent revision]] revision]] you need to do.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/start of the week.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
The school revision session was several mini-sessions covering all the core modules for stage 1. The exam process and the format for each paper was clearly explained. It sounded very straightforward. Bob, Brian and Hannah agree to meet for lunch at Origin's Bar at lunch time to discuss the session and ask if you'd like to join them.
Do you decide to [[forgo the lunch invite]] in favour of lone revision or break up the day and [[agree to meet them later at Origin's]]?
<img src="images/passages/an afternoon of revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Library Cafe">
The Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You allow a 5 minute cafe dash and order a toasted teacake and a double espresso. [[The revision resumes|bolt-holes1]], as the carbs and caffeine kick in.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/all subsequent revision_subsequent revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
The school revision session was several mini-sessions covering all the stage 1 core modules. You spot Bob, Hannah and Brian there too. Gabriel is nowhere to be seen.
The exam process and the format for each paper was clearly explained. It sounded very straightforward. Bob, Brian and Hannah agree to meet for lunch at Origin's Bar at lunch time to discuss the session and ask if you'd like to join them.
Do you [[forgo the lunch invite|lunch invite2]] in favour of lone revising or break up the day and [[agree to meet them later at Origin's|later at Origin's2]]?<img src="images/passages/all subsequent revision_subsequent revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
The school revision session was several mini-sessions covering all the stage 1 core modules. You spot Bob, Hannah and Brian there too. Gabriel is nowhere to be seen.
The exam process and the format for each paper was clearly explained. It sounded very straightforward. Bob, Brian and Hannah agree to meet for lunch at Origin's Bar at lunch time to discuss the session and ask if you'd like to join them.
Do you [[forgo the lunch invite|lunch invite3]] in favour of lone revising or break up the day and [[agree to meet them later at Orgin's|later at Origin's3]]?
<img src="images/passages/an afternoon of revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Library Cafe">
The Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You allow a 5 minute cafe dash and order a toasted teacake and a double espresso. [[The revision resumes|bolt-holes2]], as the carbs and caffeine kick in.<img src="images/passages/an afternoon of revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Library Cafe">
The Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You allow a 5 minute cafe dash and order a toasted teacake and a double espresso. [[The revision resumes|bolt-holes3]], as the carbs and caffeine kick in.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/bolt holes1.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Eliot College">
As the revision days pass you feel more confident and nervous in equal measure. Your flatmates have already had an exam by the time your first exam day arrives.
It's sunny, but not too hot. You walk over to Eliot college with a water bottle, clear pencil case filled with lucky stationery and revision notes. Students are gathered in the courtyard. You spot Gabriel, do you [[go and speak to him]] or sit down and [[read your notes one last time]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/bolt holes2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
The following day you attend the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ effective revision and exam technique workshop. The large lecture theatre is jam-packed. Among the sea of faces you spot Chimmy waving at you. You take the seat next to him.
The session is run by Dr Heidi Remote. Dr Heidi doesn't stop smiling for the next two hours. Impressive. Absorbing her optimism, she advises how to staying calm, maximise time and performance, how to spot wasteful effort and stay motivated. In a nutshell, it is a light bulb moment of how to organise your remaining revision time.
You walk back to Parkwood with Chimmy, keen to put your [[new revision tactics to the test|bolt-holes1]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/bolt-holes3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Cafe">
The next day you meet Dave as agreed. He is already chatting to another student who, as they turn round, you realise is Bob. Bob has also been picking Dave's brains, gleaning where to focus any remaining revision effort. Over a frothy latte Dave recounts the exam procedure. He advises going through your bibliography list on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to memorise some key quotes from core texts for extra points.
Before Dave dashes off he reminds you that some modules are only 15 credits whilst others are 30 so apply revision time accordingly. You MUST pass the core modules to proceed to stage 2. With that he grabs his bag and wishes you both the best of luck.
You go to Templeman library with Bob to identify some [[core text key quotes|bolt-holes1]] together.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go and speak to him.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Revision">
Gabriel (in his lucky Tottenham shirt) smiles weakly. He hasn't revised much as "the first year doesn't count". You know that it does count but figure it's too late to argue that now. He looks at your condensed revision notes in your hand and asks to see them. Do you [[share your notes with him]] or [[laugh politely and say it won't do any good at this late stage]]!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/read your notes one last time.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Reading Notes">
Good idea. Stay calm, read your condensed notes one last time and remain focused.
Soon you all file into the exam hall to your [[designated desks]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/share your notes with him.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cornwallis View">
You hand him notes, hoping that he can't understand your scribble. Surely it's too late to start memorising stuff? After a pause he says, yeah, he knew all of that and returns the notes.
The crowd goes quiet. You're all filed into the exam hall to your [[designated desks]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/designated desks.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Exam Hall">
The exam hall is large and open with no distracting low-level windows. Your desk is at the front against a wall. You arrange all your pens. You are ready.
You're soon lost in writing. Words and quotes flow onto the pages. No nasty surprises. Timed to perfection.
After the papers are collected you stride out of the hall into the sunshine. You feel great and are now [[ready for your remaining exams now]].
<img src="images/passages/ready for your remaining exams now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students outside Templeman Library">
You plough through your other exams in quick succession. After the last one, grinning students spill into the plaza, cheering and hugging each other. Many of them are going to Mungo's for a freakshake and you're asked if you want to join them. Do you accept the [[dairy binge]] challenge opt to walk home to [[FaceTime your family]]?<img src="images/passages/dairy binge.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Path">
Too right! You order a 'Cheeky Freak' (it's got Nutella, yay!). Various shakes topped with obscene mounds of cream arrive at the table and are quickly gulped and slurped. It appears most students are going home for the summer but a couple have got a research contract at the University. You didn't even know that was an option.
You need to get back to Parkwood and pack to go home. You leave Mungo's and waddle [[back to your room to pack|finish quest3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/facetime your family.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Facetiming Family">
Family first. Your mum wants to hear how your last exam went and confirm plans to travel back home. She confirms Dad will be there with the car tomorrow ready to drive home for the summer. [[You can't wait|finish quest3]].
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<</if>><img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest3badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
You have earned yourself a shiny Stage 1 Completion badge!
''Your Academic Score for Quest 3:''
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Your Academic Score is impacted by how frequently you visited your Academic Adviser and how often you utilised resources and @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Services">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ such as the library. @@.serviceLink;<<link "What can Academic Advisers do for me?">><<run Namespace.AADialog();>><</link>>@@
''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 3:''
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Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many times you made the most of social interactions and how well you looked after yourself.
Your first year at Kent has finished. You have navigated the minefield of resources, research, presentations, revision and exams. You know who to turn to for extra help if needed and the benefits of working collaboratively. Enjoy the long summer holidays - you will be able to check your stage 1 results online after an email notification.
You are ready for quest 4: [[Stage 2 at Kent]].
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<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Quest Completion", "Player Progression", "Quest 3");
<</script>><img src="images/passages/Stage 2 at Kent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pretty Flower">
Your new quest is to develop your critical thinking and complete stage 2 of your degree.
Early into the summer break your phone pings with an email. Stage 1 results are available to view on the results web page. What if you've failed a compulsory module and need to do August re-sits or, worse still, failed several modules and have to repeat the year?
Carefully seated, you log on with shakey fingers, click on your name and hold your breath. Please say 'Proceed to Stage 2'! But it doesn't. You panic. Then red the words 'Pass with Merit'. You can't believe it! You re-read the message. Not only can you move to stage 2, you aced stage 1.
The remaining summer break takes on a relaxed, positive vibe and you [[return to Kent for stage 2 at the end of September]].
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if(State.getVar('$skipped') == true)
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GA.sendEvent("Skipped Quest", "Player Progression", "Skipped to Quest 4");
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<<set $skipped = false>><img src="images/passages/return to Kent for stage 2 at the end of september.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Terraced Houses">
It seems odd arriving at your new student house and not Parkwood anymore. You can't wait to see everyone. Chimmy opens the door like he's Lord of the Manor. Bags of belongings litter the hallway, the commotion is instantly homely.
Your room is light and airy. At the front of the house, the two large sash-windows overlook the street and morning sun. There's an old-fashioned wardrobe, double bed, pristine white desk and decent looking chair. Your belongings are hastily dumped on your bed so you can get back down to see everyone in [[the large kitchen]].<img src="images/passages/the large kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Sad Excuse for A Sandwich.">
Tiz is organising all her kitchen paraphernalia into an ergonomically pleasing arangement while her mum loads jam and cream onto a plate of home made scones. Saffa and her parents are sat at the long table and waste no time accepting a plate of goodies.
You more or less throw everything inside your designated cupboard. This makes Tiz visibly twitch. You tell her you'll sort it later.
Your stomach growls for sustenance but the tub of cheese sandwiches from home look anaemic and floppy. Do you begrudgingly [[take one of the sandwiches]], you don't like food waste afterall, or pop the tub into the cupboard 'for later' and accept [[a cream scone will do]]? <img src="images/passages/take one of the sandwiches_a cream scone will do.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cream Scones">
It takes a few gulps of tea to swill the dry bread, with stingey lack of butter, down your throat. You reward yourself with the largest scone from the plate, followed by another. You need the calorific energy to do your bag lifting and unpacking. The group shares exam results, work experience and holiday stories. Eventually, with parents waved off you turn to each other and high-five your [[new level of freedom]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/take one of the sandwiches_a cream scone will do.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cream Scones">
It's not strictly a balanced meal but tell yourself you need the calorific energy to do your bag lifting and unpacking as you grab the largest cream scone. The group shares exam results, work experience and holiday stories. Eventually, with parents waved off you turn to each other and high-five your [[new level of freedom]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/new level of freedom.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Timetable">
Your room unpacked and your soft toy cat, Boo sits on your bed watching (even though he has no eyes!) you login to check the new timetable. You jot down all your sessions onto your wallchart. Immediately you notice a seminar clash between your favourite compulsory module and an optional 'filler' module.
Do you [[email the programme coordinators]] to let them know about the clash or decide to [[only attend the compulsory seminars]] and not bother with the optional ones (you can probably borrow some notes or do extra reading)?<img src="images/passages/email the programme coordinators_only attend the compulsory seminars.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pizza">
Whether your modules are optional or not, if your attendance dips below the Academic Diligence levels (that Zak fell foul of last year) you'll be summoned to a school meeting. Within a couple of hours your progamme coordinator, John has responded and switched you to an alternative seminar group for the optional module. Clash averted! You look at your updated planned week. Pretty busy apart from Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Take-away pizza is ordered and the house mates mull over what the [['Welcome back' sessions]] early next morning will bring.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/email the programme coordinators_only attend the compulsory seminars.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pizza">
If your optional module attendance is queried you can tell them you had no choice. You finish your timetable poster and admire the planned week. Pretty busy apart from Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.
Take-away pizza is ordered for dinner ahead of the [['Welcome back' sessions]] early next morning.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/welcome back sessions.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Theatre Lecture">
You all walk up to campus together. The place is teeming with new, disorientated students. You feel for them.
Your 'Welcome Back' session is in the Gulbenkian lecture theatre where you spot Bob and manage a hurried catch-up. She also received a stage 1 merit. Gabriel however, had to return to Kent for resits during August. He's sat the other side of the theatre, so you assume he passed.
Once more, Professor Colin Lucas (resplendent in technicolour tank top) congratulates you collectively on your stage 1 achievements and describes the path ahead. Expect to have your developing critical thinking skills tested this year. Make maximum use of the academic and professional service resources on offer. You are in charge of your own learning. Questioning feedback, broadening reading sources and getting really involved in seminar discussions were also promoted. It sounds daunting.
Afterwards you walk over to [[Blackwells bookshop]] with Bob who is keen to grab a copy of a new core text.
<img src="images/passages/Blackwells bookshop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Blackwells Bookshop Shelf">
The smell of freshly printed pages wafts through the bookshop, Bob asks about the core text and is gestured to the far end. The assistant also mentions second hand core texts, sold back to the bookstore by previous students, will be clearly marked by green stickers and are sold at a reduced price. Sure enough several copies of the core text are present, both new and second hand. One is more dog-earred than the others but is heavily discounted. Bob selects a new copy despite acknowledging the library will have multiple copies too.
Do you [[grab a pre-loved copy]] or decide to rely on [[using a library]] copy to save your pennies?
<img src="images/passages/mocktail.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar">
Let's mocktail! You order a Tahitan Coffee mocktail (for the caffeine hit) and Bob orders a latte and toastie combo. Piri piri chicken toastie at 10:30am?
You see an advert by the till for a part-time post at K-Bar. Before your brain has a chance to object you ask about the job. The post covers one afternoon and 2 evenings a week. If you're interested you'd need to return later to speak to the manager.
You're definitely interested. Will you [[come back later]] to enquire further or [[shrug it off]], focus on your studies and not worry about your dwindling funds?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/mocktail.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar">
Perfect, mocktails can wait. You order your cup of tea and Bob requests a latte and toastie combo. Piri piri chicken toastie at 10:30am?
You see an advert by the till for a part-time post at K-Bar. Before your brain has a chance to object you ask about the job. The post covers one afternoon and 2 evenings a week. If you're interested you'd need to return later to speak to the manager.
You're definitely interested. Will you [[come back later]] to enquire further or [[shrug it off]], focus on your studies and not worry about your dwindling funds?
<img src="images/passages/grab a preloved copy_using a library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar">
You pick up a virtually pristine copy of the book. You won't have to compete for the library versions now. Smart move for a core module. You pay the cashier using the money loaded onto your KentOne card (saves going to the cash machine).
You go with Bob to K-Bar as your first lecture is in Keynes later. Do you fancy a [[mocktail]] or stick with a [[regular cup of tea]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/grab a preloved copy_using a library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar">
Why spend money when you can access free library copies? For core texts, the library will have 1 copy for every 10 students on the module. You just have to hope that you and the other 9 don't want it at the same time!
You go with Bob to K-Bar as your first lecture is in Keynes later. Do you fancy a [[mocktail]] or stick with a [[regular cup of tea]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Professor Mark Partridge_partridge2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark, in trademark combat trousers, pockets fully loaded with miscellaneous bulky items, looks over the rims of his round glasses from the lectern. He describes his research with such passion. His refreshing perspective on the topic brings new ideas and renews your enthusiasm for the term ahead.
Mark says you're expected to formulate your own ideas, find new resources, perhaps beyond the readng lists, to evaluate for a large project this term. All ideas will be discussed in forthcoming seminars. He finishes by advertising a speaker event on this topic at the Medway campus next week. Places are limited and can be booked online.
Do you [[book a place at the presentation in Medway]] or decide it is [[too much hassle]] to get there plus it's your spare afternoon and you have so much to do!
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<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/medway2_book a place at the presentation in Medway.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Campus Shuttle">
You look at Bob, she nods and you both immediately scan the QR code on your phones to book a free place. You're not even sure where Medway is!
Bob accesses the online student guide which reveals a free shuttle bus service every hour between the two campuses. Bonus. You book return tickets and immediately receive email confirmations.
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/too much hassle_hassle2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Smart Watch">
You know there'll be other visiting speakers throughout the year. In the meantime you've got reading lists as long as your arm AND you're now expected to find new sources too!
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour|drop-in2]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar|next seminar2]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Prof Marks next drop in hour_dropin2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark is pleased to see you and congratulates you on your stage 1 merit. He's delighted at your project enthusiasm and quizzes you over several options. He doesn't hand you any answers but equips you to answer them yourself.
You mention you're attending the Medway speaker event and he advises making note of the pointers to new authors, research and ideas.
You thank him then return to the [[study area of the library]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it until the next seminar_next seminar2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Prof. Mark delivers a very animated seminar delivery which is exhausting to watch!
Discussion turns to project ideas so you test your thoughts on the audience. It sparks a debate, fuelled by Mark ontinuously stoking the fire. It really helps you to formulate some alternative perspectives for your project. Armed with pages of notes, you head to the [[study area of the library]] to add more detail.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Prof Marks next drop in hour_dropin2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark is pleased to see you and congratulates you on your stage 1 merit. He's delighted at your project enthusiasm and quizzes you over several options. He doesn't hand you any answers but equips you to answer them yourself.
You mention you're attending the Medway speaker event and he advises making note of the pointers to new authors, research and ideas.
You thank him then return to the [[study area of the library|study area of the library2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it until the next seminar_next seminar2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Prof. Mark delivers a very animated seminar delivery which is exhausting to watch!
Discussion turns to project ideas so you test your thoughts on the audience. It sparks a debate, fuelled by Mark ontinuously stoking the fire. It really helps you to formulate some alternative perspectives for your project. Armed with pages of notes, you head to the [[study area of the library|study area of the library2]] to add more detail.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/study area of the library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Study Area">
You've almost completed your notes when you hear a commotion by the stairwell. Suddenly, a man-sized Pikachu runs through the library, persued by a super-sized penguin and athletic Mario. With Pikachu cornered, the penguin and Mario wrestle him to the floor and prise a Poké ball from his grasp before running back down the stairs. An exhausted eventually follows. Just another regular day in the library.
The following week you meet Bob at the bus terminus outside Keynes to catch the [[shuttle bus to Medway]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/study area of the library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Study Area">
You've almost completed your notes when you hear a commotion by the stairwell. Suddenly, a man-sized Pikachu runs through the library, persued by a super-sized penguin and athletic Mario. With Pikachu cornered, the penguin and Mario wrestle him to the floor and prise a Poké ball from his grasp before running back down the stairs. An exhausted eventually follows. Just another regular day in the library.
You take the parkland path down the hill [[to your student house]] in the Autumn sunshine.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/shuttle bus to Medway.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Medway Campus">
A modern Kingsferry coach is at the bus stop. You show your phone ticket and take a seat next to Bob. The coach is chock-full with people, including some from your module.
The coach heads down the M2 towards the Medway campus. It's amusing to see the driver wave to his counterpart going in the opposite direction, at the half way point. You wonder if they do that in the same place every hour.
Fifty minutes later you arrive at Medway campus. The campus looks totally different to Canterbury and is a beautiful red brick former naval base with grand Victorian style facades and large open spaces. You easily locate the [[Pilkington building]] and find a space in the busy lecture theatre.<img src="images/passages/Pilkington building.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Medway Pilkington Building">
The speaker, Professor Bob Gerunkle, delivers a polished presentation to a packed audience. You're torn between writing everything down or sitting and absorbing it all. He manages to join up factual dots that you never even knew existed and you noted his use of 'itunes U' as a source of inspiration to investigate further.
After the talk you enjoy a drink and snack in the Student Hub before catching the shuttle bus back to Canterbury campus. It was so easy that you'd definitely consider a similar trip again.
Bob goes home and you walk through the parkland in the Autumn sunshine [[to your student house]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/to your student house.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Green Pasta">
You're in no mood to cook a big dinner so reach for the economy pasta twists and emergency jar of pesto sauce. Chimmy, Saffa and Tiz are sat at the long table. Saffa is eating her awful mackerel salad again which stinks out the kitchen. Tiz and Chimmy are sharing nachos and keep looking at you and giggling. They're up to no good. You dish up your pasta and hunt for your fork. Your cutlery draw is empty. Chimmy laughs like a drain and Tiz advises you to look in the freezer. Sure enough, there's all your cutlery, encased in a large block of ice. You've been pranked good and proper. The ball is back in your court.
Eventually Saffa lends you her fork (which still pongs of mackerel despite washing it).
After dinner you withdraw to your room. The air smells homely thanks to clean clothes drying on airers. You [[make a start on your project plan]].<img src="images/passages/make a start on your project plan.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Study Workshops">
Alongside your classes, you plan, research, write and refine your project. You found podcasts on 'itunes U' which led to new discoveries beyond your reading list. Prof.Mark had suggestsed you sharpen your academic writing to ensure you can apply critical thinking.
@@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ run various writing courses that would help expand your ideas and perfect your writing style. Their webpage shows a series of 8 1-hour lunch time sessions for which you receive a certificate and it also appears on your @@.serviceLink;<<link "KentVision">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ record. Alternatively there are 1:1 appointments with a learning adviser to assess your writing technique, discuss project structures and help you avoid plagiarism.
Do you book the 8-session [['Writing Well' course]], drop in on the [[learning adviser lunch time clinic]] or use Prof. Mark's feedback to [[adjust your own writing style]] beacuse you don't like asking for help?<img src="images/passages/writing well course.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Learning">
This will be a big time investment but it will be so useful for future submissions. Each hour long session flies by as the lecturer explains different styles and throws ideas at you to try. You try to incorprate them in your draft project alongside the workshops. You missed two workshops and forgot about one of them thanks to a date with a bowl of red Thai curry in the Dolche Vita restaurant. What you missed out on analytical writing you made up for in spoonfuls of mouth-numbing spices and a skyscraper of flatbread.
As the deadline approaches you [[burn some midnight oil]] to give it everything.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/learning adviser lunch time clinic.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers and Employability Service">
The lunch-time clinic is busy. Advisers are always in demand in the deadline season. The @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ officer recommends you book a face-to-face appointment with a Royal Literary Fellow. It sounds formal but you agree and book in.
The Fellow isn't a fellow at all but Anne Morgan, an actual author and editor who has years of experience writing for newspapers, magazines plus several books. The anticipated intimidation soon dissipates as you listen to Anne's guidance to understanding the task, picking the best research and how to plan your work. It seems so logical but she warns it takes practice to make it perfect.
She suggests another appointment to review your draft submission and scan for plagiarism. Do you [[take her up on her offer]] or feel like you [[have enough advice now to go it alone]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/adjust your own writing style.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student working at a computer">
You decide to be independent (is that the same as being an independent learner?), and figure out how to use Mark's feedback to improve your writing yourself. You test out the new techniques, hoping they bear fruit. You produce a recipe; loads of research, quotes, multiple perspectives (including your own), a splattering of diagrams then finally an impressive, formatted bibliography (thank you @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@). It reads fine, but will the marker agree?
As the deadline approaches you [[burn some midnight oil]] to give it everything.<img src="images/passages/shrug it off_come back later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
Extra cash would be handy plus it will look good on your CV. You'll come back to K-Bar after your lecture.
You settle into a chesterfield sofa with Bob and compare timetables. Only two of your modules match. She's taking fewer, bigger 30 credit modules whereas you have several 15 credit modules. You debate which is more work, more subjects or more meaty <<print $assignmentType>>s.
Eventually, you both leave and walk to the lecture theatre. Marta and Brian spot you both and wave. The lecture is being taken by [[Professor Mark Partridge|Partridge2]], your friendly @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@.
<img src="images/passages/shrug it off_come back later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
Extra cash would be handy but you're aware of your stage 2 increased workload too.
You settle into a chesterfield sofa with Bob and compare timetables. Only two of your modules match. She's taking fewer, bigger 30 credit modules whereas you have several 15 credit modules. You debate which is more work, more subjects or more meaty <<print $assignmentType>>s.
Eventually, you both leave and walk to the lecture theatre. Marta and Brian spot you both and wave. The lecture is being taken by [[Professor Mark Partridge]], your friendly @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@.<img src="images/passages/Professor Mark Partridge_partridge2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark, in trademark combat trousers, pockets fully loaded with miscellaneous bulky items, looks over the rims of his round glasses from the lectern. He describes his research with such passion. His refreshing perspective on the topic brings new ideas and renews your enthusiasm for the term ahead.
Mark says you're expected to formulate your own ideas, find new resources, perhaps beyond the readng lists, to evaluate for a large project this term. All ideas will be discussed in forthcoming seminars. He finishes by advertising a speaker event on this topic at the Medway campus next week. Places are limited and can be booked online.
Do you [[book a place at the presentation in Medway|Medway2]] or decide it is [[too much hassle|hassle2]] to get there plus it's your spare afternoon and you have so much to do!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/medway2_book a place at the presentation in Medway.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Campus Shuttle">
You look at Bob, she nods and you both immediately scan the QR code on your phones to book a free place. You're not even sure where Medway is!
Bob accesses the online student guide which reveals a free shuttle bus service every hour between the two campuses. Bonus. You book return tickets and immediately receive email confirmations.
After the lecture you go to K-Bar to [[see the manager]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/too much hassle_hassle2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Smart Watch">
You know there'll be other visiting speakers throughout the year. In the meantime you've got reading lists as long as your arm AND you're now expected to find new sources too!
After the lecture you go back to K-Bar to [[see the manager|see the manager2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/see the manager_see the manager2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K Bar Beer Tap">
A man appears from the kitchen area, smartly dressed in black trousers and waistcoat and a name badge with 'Tom Martowe, Manager' displayed.
He asks you about experience and timetable commitments. You haven't pulled pints before, but how hard can it be? He offers you a [[trial session that evening]].<img src="images/passages/see the manager_see the manager2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K Bar Beer Tap">
A man appears from the kitchen area, smartly dressed in black trousers and waistcoat and a name badge with 'Tom Martowe, Manager' displayed.
He asks you about experience and timetable commitments. You haven't pulled pints before, how hard can it be? He offers you a [[trial session that evening|that evening2]].<img src="images/passages/trial session that evening_that evening2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toasties">
You arrive in good time for your trial shift and Tom shows you the ropes. The other members of staff working that evening are Abiola and Nova. You're in charge of the panini grill, soft drinks and clearing glasses from tables. Abiola chats easily with the students, some of whom spend their entire evening in the bar playing pool and drinking. You manage 3 paninis without burning anything and quickly master the soft drinks jet. 3 hours later Tom offers you the job. Do you [[accept]] or [[decline]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/accept_accept2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cheersing Glasses">
Congratulations, you just boosted your employability! The hours are very low and you can work the hours around your studies. Tom says there is always the flexiblity of turning shifts down if you need.
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/decline_decline2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Marlowe at Night">
Although it was fun, you tell Tom you're worried about how many extra shifts you might be asked to do and turn the job down. You don't want to negatively impact your chances of a good degree for the sake of a few extra pounds. He says he understands. Tom pays you for the evening and you head back home.
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/trial session that evening_that evening2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toasties">
You arrive in good time for your trial shift and Tom shows you the ropes. The other members of staff working that evening are Abiola and Nova. You're in charge of the panini grill, soft drinks and clearing glasses from tables. Abiola chats easily with the students, some of whom spend their entire evening in the bar playing pool and drinking. You manage 3 paninis without burning anything and quickly master the soft drinks jet. 3 hours later Tom offers you the job. Do you [[accept|accept2]] or [[decline|decline2]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/accept_accept2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cheersing Glasses">
Congratulations, you just boosted your employability! The hours are very low and you can work the hours around your studies. Tom says there is always the flexiblity of turning shifts down if you need.
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour|drop-in2]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar|next seminar2]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/decline_decline2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Marlowe at Night">
Although it was fun, you tell Tom you're worried about how many extra shifts you might be asked to do and turn the job down. You don't want to negatively impact your chances of a good degree for the sake of a few extra pounds. He says he understands. Tom pays you for the evening and you head back home.
The rest of the week passes in a blur of new topic discussions, seminars and tutorials. You aready have some ideas for your project $assignmentType but they need refining. Do you go to [[Prof. Mark's next drop-in hour|drop-in2]] to discuss them or [[leave it until the next seminar|next seminar2]] to discuss in the presence of your peers?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/take her up on her offer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Appointment with Anne">
After some intense writing sessions, you make another apointment with Anne. She casts her expert eye over your work. You have some good points and unusual sources. She tests your hypothesis and soon exposes it to be as airtight as a waffle. You leave with a to-do list as long as your overdraft but know the additional effort will be worth it.
As the deadline approaches you [[burn some midnight oil]] to give it everything.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/have enough advice now to go it alone.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Working in EDA Lab">
Some days you're in the writing zone, other days you barely get a coherent sentence onto paper. Eventually you have a well structured project, plenty of evidence and a balanced arguement. You've taken Mark's feedback onboard to back up your own ideas with valid research. A few classy diagrams and an impressively long bibliography in the correct format (thank you @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@) finishes the project.
As the deadline approaches you [[burn some midnight oil]] to give it everything.<img src="images/passages/burn some midnight oil.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Flat">
There's something about night work that makes you hungry. Tiptoeing into the kitchen, you prepare your signature 'speedy pizza' (cheese on toast scattered with circles of salami). The cheese bubbles noisily under the grill. Heated voices are coming from Tiz's bedroom. That's odd. As you bite into your gourmet pizza, Tiz's door opens and Chimmy rushes out looking resplendent in a sailor's outfit. The molten cheese burns your mouth as you stare in disbelief at each other. He folds his arms to try and hide the outfit's identity.
Eventually, Chimmy breaks the silence stand-off and asks for a bite of your 2am feast. You give him a whole slice as you know you'll be dining off this revelation for weeks!
With no mention of the outfit, or Tiz, you both [[return to your respective rooms]], with Chimmy promising to do the washing up tomorrow.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/return to your respective rooms.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Yellow Submarine">
Over the next week Chimmy fails to find your sailing related emails as funny as you. You love the look on his face when his phone pings with another hilarious meme.
Once more, focus switches to finishing your project. Deep down you know it's worthy of a medal. You submit it via @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ well ahead of the 3pm deadline. Leaving it right up to the wire is too risky.
To celebrate handing in such a large piece of coursework, Bob asks whether you'd like to [[take advantage of the '2 for Tuesday' cinema offer]] <a href="https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/whats-on/" target="_blank">at the Gulbenkian cinema</a> or would you rather have a [[free evening with Netflix in your room]]?.<img src="images/passages/funny rabbit.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Funny Rabbit Comedy Club">
Funny Rabbit is on every second Friday evening of the month at the Gulbenkian. It showcases stand-up comedy routines from famous faces as well as those studying at the University. It's a great stress-buster and the next event is coming up. Bob's friend Tobias is doing a routine and Bob is going to provide moral support. She asks if you'd like to come along too.
It's on the evening of another deadline day. Will you say [[yes and go along for a well-deserved humorous end to the week]] or [[decline and say that you'll be out celebrating that evening]]?<img src="images/passages/decline and say that youll be out celebrating that evening_yes and go along for a well deserved.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Broken Bicycle">
As your $assignmentType deadline and comedy club date draw near you have an disaster. Cycling home one evening and hit a pot hole and fall off your bike. Your laptop, which acted as a ruck sack crash mat, takes the brunt. Your bike is still rideable so you go home to inspect the damage. You empty your rucksack onto the kitchen table. The laptop screen is smashed and it doesn't boot up. There's only 2 days until your deadline. Have you lost all your work? You've sensibly stored the main documents on the cloud but there are drafts, letters and links on the hard drivethat you saved on your laptop.
Saffa makes you a consolation green tea. You drink it politely, bleugh!. Do you email your school's @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to [[ask for an extension to your assignment]], try to [[work out how to borrow another laptop]] or just [[submit a concession online]] saying you can't hand it in as your work was lost in an accident?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/decline and say that youll be out celebrating that evening_yes and go along for a well deserved.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Broken Bicycle">
As your $assignmentType deadline looms you have an absolute disaster. You are cycling home one evening, hit a pot hole in the road and fall off your bike. Your laptop, which acted as a ruck sack crash mat, takes the brunt. Your bike is still rideable so you go home to inspect the damage. You empty your rucksack onto the kitchen table. The laptop screen is smashed and it doesn't boot up. There's only 2 days until your deadline. Have you lost all your work? You've sensibly stored the main documents on the cloud but there are drafts, letters and links on the hard drivethat you saved on your laptop.
Saffa makes you a consolation green tea. You drink it politely, bleugh! Do you email your school's @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to [[ask for an extension to your assignment|extension2]], try to [[work out how to borrow another laptop|borrow2]] or just [[submit a concession online]] to say all your work was lost in the accident?<img src="images/passages/ask for an extension_extension2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sending an Email">
By morning you've had an email from Philippa, the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ coordinator. You remember Philippa, she told you how to record your absences when you were poorly last year. However, it's not such good news this time. Extensions and concessions cannot be issued for broken IT equipment or failure to save work securely with a back-up. She recognises it wasn't your fault but suggests you use the laptop loan service in the library to finish your work.
You [[call into the Library]] before your first lecture.<img src="images/passages/work out how to borrow_borrow2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
After lectures you go to Parkwood study hub. With deadline week underway, there's no spare PCs. Eventually you ask your school reception for help. Jo the receptionist informs you the school doesn't have a laptop loan service. However, she says you can borrow one from the library, free of charge. You thank Jo and [[go straight to library reception|call into the Library]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/call into the library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Laptops">
There's plenty of laptops but they can only be used within the library. You reserve one for later so you can continue on your assignment in case there are no spare PC's in the study hubs. The next couple of days seem much longer now you're on campus all day and evening. The library is open 24 hours but you hadn't intended to utilise that service!
You fill out an insurance claim so you can buy a new laptop.
By the end of the week the $assignmentType is complete (thankfully most of it was on the cloud). [[You submit your work several hours before the deadline]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/you submit your work several hours before the deadline.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus">
You don't feel up for the Funny Rabbit comedy club. Do you reluctantly [[stay on campus]] until it begins or tell Bob you now [[need to be elsewhere|before deadline2]] that evening?
<img src="images/passages/walk across the floodlit campus to the Gulbenkian.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Funky Rabbit Comedy Club">
Zak is also there and introduce him to Bob. He shakes his head at your laptop story and suggests letting him look at your broken laptop to see if he can retrieve some hard drive stuff. He confesses he's managing to keep his lecture and seminar attendance up (just) unless a new online game is released. You agree to bring your broken laptop to Zak before the Christmas break.
Bob's friend Tobias is one of the first comedy acts and his hilarious observations of student life are surprisingly entertaining. The final act is always a well-known comedian. This evening it is Vikki Stone, you remember seeing her on TV. Using a piano, she plays and sings several brilliant sketches. Afterwards, Bob [[drives you the short distance home afterwards]]. Bonus. You promise to catch up again before the Christmas break.<img src="images/passages/ask for an extension_extension2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sending an Email">
By morning you've had an email from Philippa, the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ coordinator. You remember Philippa, she told you how to record your absences when you were poorly last year. However, it's not such good news this time. Extensions and concessions cannot be issued for broken IT equipment or failure to save work securely with a back-up. She recognises it wasn't your fault but suggests you use the laptop loan service in the library to finish your work.
You [[call into the Library|call into the Library2]] before your first lecture.<img src="images/passages/work out how to borrow_borrow2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
After lectures you go to Parkwood study hub. With deadline week underway, there's no spare PCs. Eventually you ask your school reception for help. Jo the receptionist informs you the school doesn't have a laptop loan service. However, she says you can borrow one from the library, free of charge. You thank Jo and [[go straight to library reception|call into the Library2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/call into the library.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Laptops">
There's plenty of laptops but they can only be used within the library. You reserve one for later so you can continue on your assignment in case there are no spare PC's in the study hubs. The next couple of days seem much longer now you're on campus all day and evening. The library is open 24 hours but you hadn't intended to utilise that service!
You fill out an insurance claim so you can buy a new laptop.
By the end of the week the $assignmentType is complete (thankfully most of it was on the cloud). [[You submit your work several hours before the deadline|before deadline2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/you submit your work several hours before the deadline.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus">
Thank goodness you didn't go to the Funny Rabbit comedy club. You stay at home with Saffa whilst Tiz and Chimmy go to the Cuban bar in town.
Saffa listens to your laptop woes and congratulates you on backing everything up. If you hadn't, she said it is better to hand in a half finished $assignmentType than nothing at all. It might get a terrible mark but it will be higher than 0% for a non-submission. Back-ups, you now know, are the student's responsibility.
Saffa demonstrates how to make cauliflower rice and lentil curry and you teach her the card game 'chicken'. Just [[one more week until the Christmas break]] and only one more assignment to hand in.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/one more week until the christmas break.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Thanks to the cauliflower rice and lentil curry, a note is attached to the bathroom door banning you from using it due to your recent crimes against the environment!
In the library you spot Zak trying to finish off his assignments before the end of term. He shakes his head at your laptop story and suggests letting him look at your broken laptop to see if he can retrieve some hard drive stuff. He confesses he's managing to keep his lecture and seminar attendance up (just) unless a new online game is released.
Hampered by needing to work from the library, do you [[find time to go and see Zak]] with your broken laptop or live without some files and [[focus on getting everything that needs to be done]] by the end of the week?<img src="images/passages/drives you the short distance home afterwards.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Working in the Library">
The following week your final piece of work still remains. You're chained to the library laptop.
Do you [[find time to go and see Zak]] with your broken laptop or live without some files and [[focus on getting everything that needs to be done]] by the end of the week?<img src="images/passages/find time to go and see Zak.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Beer Cans">
Zak is sharing a house with 4 other students from the school of computing. He is really pleased to see you and shows you his downstairs bedroom at the back of the house. Instead of curtains he has a wall of beer cans. They block so much daylight that the study lamps are on in the day.
Zak has at least 7 computers in his room, some of which are in pieces. He offers you a can of beer. Do you [[accept|yes beer]] or [[decline|no beer]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/focus on getting everything that needs to be done.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Group Study Area">
You've written off all that laptop information so you stick with the library laptop. You just hope your saved research is sufficient.
You submit your work just in time, not even time for a final edit. It's not your best, but it's only a few percent of your final degree mark.
The day before the end of term, your house hosts a [[full Christmas dinner]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/yes beer_no beer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Fixing A Motherboard">
It's only 3pm, but why not! Zak hands you a can. He opens his can with a single hand and takes a long swig. You sip yours and try to find an uncluttered surface to put it down.
Zak opens the bag containing your broken laptop. He can't hide his glee when he sees the destruction. He soon has the laptop cover off leaving the mysterious machine guts on display. He quickly locates another laptop and begins to create a Frankenstein hybrid. A few beer sips later he has your information displayed on a new screen then loads the files onto your memory stick. You can't thank him enough and promise to return the favour some time.
You finish your assignment, including adding the retrieved research, with a couple of hours to spare. It's a good effort after such challenging conditions.
The day before the end of term your house hosts a [[full Christmas dinner]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/yes beer_no beer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Fixing A Motherboard">
Despite your respomse, Zak locates a can of beer, opens it with one hand and takes a long swig.
Zak opens the bag containing your broken laptop. He can't hide his glee when he sees the destruction. He soon has the laptop cover off leaving the mysterious machine guts on display. He quickly locates another laptop and begins to create a Frankenstein hybrid. A few beer sips later he has your information displayed on a new screen then loads the files onto your memory stick. You can't thank him enough and promise to return the favour some time.
You finish your assignment, including adding the retrieved research, with a couple of hours to spare. It's a good effort after such challenging conditions.
The day before the end of term your house hosts a [[full Christmas dinner]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/full christmas dinner.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Toilet Poo Sign">
The kitchen is a hive of activity. Saffa is creating a veggie dish. Chimmy is checking the turkey every few minutes like an expectant dad. You've gone overboard on condiments and table decorating. Tiz is concocting elaborate puddings whilst singing the Christmas songs on the radio.
The final feast would rival even your mum's efforts. After the main course it is time for secret santa gifts. Saffa is delighted with her stress relief kit and bracelet with inspirational quote. Likewise Tiz adores her shimmering peacock themed diary. Chimmy opens his gift and gives you the side-eye as he puts the sailor's hat on. You get a small yellow plastic warning sign saying 'Bio-Hazard' on it. Chimmy tells you to leave it outside the bathroom door if you dare to have cauliflower rice and lentil curry again.
It is the [[perfect way to end the term]].<img src="images/passages/perfect way to end the term.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Autumn Trees">
The new term begins in a frosty January. The house takes a few days to get warm, as does your brain. At least you can work in your room again now you have a new laptop.
Chimmy starts applying for year in industry placements before his final year. Prospective placements use first year grades to decide who to accept. Chimmy's were excellent so he should be OK. Tiz and Saffa are also thinking ahead to their year in France. Saffa is nervous about it but Tiz keeps her focused. You suddenly realise they won't be your house mates next year so you'll need to reconsider your accommodation plans soon.
Seminars, lectures and the normal rhythm of work quickly get into full swing. Your project and <<print $assignmentType>>s will have been marked by now. Do you [[check them]] on @@.serviceLink;<<link "KentVision">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ or [[leave it]]?<img src="images/passages/check them.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Calculator and Graph">
Your project mark accurately represents the amount of hard work you put into it so you're happy. Your final $assignmentType was also good considering the laptop disruption. Do you want to [[have a look at your feedback]] or [[not bother]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it_not bother.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Be Optimistic">
You're not ready to face criticism from last term. You're keen to move on and do this term's work to the best of your ability.
You have an [[email from your school]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/have a look at your feedback.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Man Looking at a Book">
The project feedback is thorough. You remember not to take comments personally and see them as constructive pointers. You jot down the improvements suggested and do the same for your other assignments. Your last report had quite a few grammatical errors, not very surprising given the time pressure you were under. You know this term's assignments are going to be your best yet.
You have an [[email from your school]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it_not bother.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Be Optimistic">
The marks were as expected and you know where you could have improved. What is done is done. You're ready to face this term's assignments with fresh vigour.
You have an [[email from your school]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/email from your school.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Looking at Work">
The email, from Head of School, reminds you to stay in contact with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and checking your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ online to guide you through the remainder of your second year.
Do you want to [[check your Progress Profile]] or [[choose to leave it for another time]]?<img src="images/passages/check your progress profile.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Checking Her Phone">
The email link opens your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ dashboard. The report is pleasantly green with some top marks exclamation marks! Your eye is drawn to an orange anomaly though. It takes you by surprise. Most assignment types are green but 2 of the online tests are in orange across different modules. It knocks your confidence a bit.
Do you [[drop-in to see your Academic Adviser]], Professor Mark Partridge or do you [[wait and see how this term pans]] out first?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/choose to leave it for another time.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Signpost">
You're confident with how you're doing and don't want to waste time pouring over tiny potentiually deflating details. Instead you consider contacting your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you go and [[see Prof. Mark at his next drop-in session]] or decide to [[leave it and see how this term pans out first]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/drop in to see your academic adviser_see prof mark at his next drop in session.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark ushers you into his office. He asks if you've looked at your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ yet. They show things that might not otherwise be apparent and give you improvement clues. You confess that you haven't so Mark accesses it on his screen spends a few minutes looking over the dashboard. He queries your attendance so you explain you're watching lectures on Kent Player to catch up. The Progress Profile higlights lower marks for online in-class tests. You hadn't noticed that. He explains such tests are more challenging and offers hints and tips to make a difference this term. You leave his office feeling empowered about the work ahead.
You bump into Gabriel. He's on his way to the Gulbenkian cafe and asks you to join him. Do you [[take some time out]] to see how Gabriel is doing or say [[you've got somewhere else you need to be right now]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it and see how next term pans out_wait and see how this term pans.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Cafe">
Feeling deflated, you'll focus on keeping your attendance high and sticking to your non-timetabled research time.
You bump into Gabriel. He's on his way to the Gulbenkian cafe and asks you to join him. Do you [[take some time out]] to see how Gabriel is doing or say [[you've got somewhere else you need to be right now]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/take some time out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Gulbenkian Cinema">
You order a skinny latte and Gabriel has a glass of red wine! You sink into a sofa as Gabriel tells you he isn't looking forward to this term. He's procrastinating over his work and has to give two presentations. Last term, his project mark was withheld due to a high plagiarism score. The Senior Tutor has summoned him and, if the claim is upheld, he won't have enough credits to pass the module or year. He doesn't seem to care about the impending doom. Whatever your marks are, you will always be a more conscientious student than Gabriel.
Gabriel offers to house-share with you next year, if he is still around. You thank him for the suggestion and promise to let him know.
You leave the Gulbenkian and attend your [[afternoon tutorials]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/youve got somewhere else you need to be right now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bird Man">
You collect some books from the library. At the self-service machine, a female student is in a T-Rex outfit in front of you. When she turns to leave the tail nearly takes you out.
Outside, the falcon man is flying his bird of prey, keeping the greedy student-lunch-hunting seagulls at bay. You go back to your school for the [[afternoon tutorials]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/see Prof Mark at his next drop in session_drop in to see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark ushers you into his office. He asks if you've looked at your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ yet. They show things that might not otherwise be apparent and give you improvement clues. You confess that you haven't so Mark accesses it on his screen spends a few minutes looking over the dashboard. He queries your attendance so you explain you're watching lectures on Kent Player to catch up. The Progress Profile higlights lower marks for online in-class tests. You hadn't noticed that. He explains such tests are more challenging and offers hints and tips to make a difference this term. You leave his office feeling empowered about the work ahead.
You bump into Gabriel. He's on his way to the Gulbenkian cafe and asks you to join him. Do you [[take some time out]] to see how Gabriel is doing or say [[you've got somewhere else you need to be right now]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it and see how next term pans out_wait and see how this term pans.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian Cafe">
You don't want to be over-shadowed by last term. You're going to keep your attendance high and stick religiously to your non-timetabled research.
You bump into Gabriel. He's on his way to the Gulbenkian cafe and asks you to join him. Do you [[take some time out]] to see how Gabriel is doing or say [[you've got somewhere else you need to be right now]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/afternoon tutorials.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Common Room">
After tutorials, Bob, Marta and Brian are eating the contents of the common room vending machine. They are discussing this term's assignments. It's fascinating to hear how their take on the tasks differs to yours.
You mention your accommodation dilemma. They are intending to stay where they are next academic year and don't have any spare rooms but will let you know if that changes. Marta mentions the new studio apartments in town which are popular so you make a note to explore that.
Bob says she has signed up to be a Student Ambassador. She will guide prospective students and their families around campus and describe her course on the open days. She gets paid for her time AND earns employability points. They're still looking for other Ambassador candidates. [[Are you interested in becoming an Ambassador]] or do you [[leave it to the others to get the next generation of Kent students motivated]]?<img src="images/passages/Are you interested in becoming an Ambassador.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Student Ambassadors">
Bob recommends you check the webpages first. Roles at different pay scales are available depending on time required and complexity. Full training is provided and all the skills would look great on your CV. Applicant and open day roles are plentiful and appealing. You're not required to be at every event but the cash will be very handy.
Ambassador training occurs between your lectures and seminars but you had intended to go Christmas shopping then. Do you [[leave it and see if you can enrol in the new year]] or [[book yourself a training place now]] and go late night shopping instead?
<img src="images/passages/leave it to others to get the next generation of Kent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Foyer">
Showing prospective students and their families around campus in the rain is not your idea of easy cash. You go to the library to [[use the Kent Union 'Home Stamp' web page]] to look at studio apartments.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/home stamp 2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Westgate Gardens River Stour">
Your eye is drawn to a little 1 bed annexe in a house on the banks of the River Stour. You [[book a viewing|viewing2]] and hope no-one else has snapped it up already.<img src="images/passages/use Kent Union Home Stamp web page.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Westgate Gardens River Stour">
Your eye is drawn to a little 1 bed annexe of a house on the banks of the River Stour. You [[book a viewing]] and hope no-one else has snapped it up already.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/book a viewing_viewing2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Appartment Viewing">
Despite the wintery weather, the apartment feels warm and cosy. It has been recently decorated and has basic cooking and washing facilities. The best part is that it is just a 9 month rental so you don't need to pay for it over summer. Lone living is daunting but the task of finding a spare room is even more unnerving. You ask the Home Stamp team to check the T&C's before signing contracts.
Do you [[proceed with securing this apartment|this apartment2]] or see if you can [[find another group to share a house with|another group2]]?
<img src="images/passages/book a viewing_viewing2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Appartment Viewing">
Despite the wintery weather, the apartment feels warm and cosy. It has been recently decorated and has basic cooking and washing facilities. The best part is that it is just a 9 month rental so you don't need to pay for it over summer. Lone living is daunting but the task of finding a spare room is even more unnerving.
Do you [[proceed with securing this apartment]] or see if you can [[find another group to share a house with]]?
<img src="images/passages/return to your current house.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Student Ambassador">
Over the next few weeks you work at various applicant and open days as an Ambassador. They're either at the weekend or Wednesday afternoons so no missed lectures or seminars. The more you do, the better you get. By the time you finish guiding them round the quiet prospective students are probing you for campus life details. The parents are more concerned with facilities, costs and safety, all of which you are now an expert in.
All the events were popular and you earn yourself a healthy pot of money whilst [[staying on top of all your assignments and research|the seasons change]].<img src="images/passages/current house2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Mens Rugby Team">
Chimmy invites you all to his end of season rugby match at the University sports ground.
You, Tiz and Saffa wrap up, take a travel mug of coffee and cheer from the edge of the pitch. You debate whether Chimmy's leg that he broke last winter, will take the force of a scrum. In the end Chimmy leaves the pitch early having received an accidental poke in the eye. It looks painful so he's sent to the campus nursing service.
You walk back home with Saffa whilst Tiz goes with Chimmy. You stop at the Co-op and buy a tub of 'consolation' brownies to share. Several hours later Tiz walks Chimmy, sporting a white eye bandage, through the door. A few brownies later he's [[starting to see the funny side|the seasons change]]. His doctor's note confirms his ability to study is limited so his school will provide a concession for his assignments for a next week.
<img src="images/passages/the seasons change.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bluebell Woods">
There's no snow this year but on some days the freezing rain feels even colder.
The bluebells eventually confirm that spring is here and, as the Easter break draws near, your attention turns to exam preparation. These exams mark contribute to 40% of your total degree.
Industry and year abroad placements will only go ahead if all core modules are passed. Saffa's feeling the pressure and being monitored weekly by her school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Officer.
Before the end of term Tiz invites everyone to come and watch her perform in the Rock Choir at the Gulbenkian Theatre. Do you [[go along for moral support]] or [[stay home and revise]]?
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<img src="images/passages/go along for moral support.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Colyer-Fergusson Music Building">
You've heard all the songs already as Tiz has been singing constantly around the house for weeks. She can hold a tune but you wish her volume control lower. The tickets are cheap and you all have pre-show drinks at the Gulbenkian bar.
Tiz, with her rich red hair, is easy to spot in the choir within the vast Colyer-Fergusson Music Building. The performance gives you goosebumps. They didn't do choirs like that at school! Saffa sings along to several songs. Badly. At the end Tiz joins you at the bar and you all end up staying several hours. It's good to [[forget all about deadlines and revision]]
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay home and revise.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Social Media Links">
You're not a choir fan. You left those evenings behind at school. Besides, with assignment deadlines and exams around the corner, you ought to stay in and work.
Tiz doesn't mind and she goes out with Saffa and Chimmy. The house is blissfully silent. You open the laptop. You just check Instagram first. Then TikTok. Then a couple of hundred videos later yu decide to view all the national and local news pages. What happened - it's nearly midnight? Too late to start work now. You hear the others come back home in the small hours, noisily raiding the fridge and bumping into walls. You hear voices whispering loudly outside your room but they don't knock or come in. After nearly an hour [[it is silent again]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/it is silent again_forget all about deadlines and revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Freedom">
You wake at 2:30pm. Your head feels like it has imploded into your mouth. Despite your eyes refusing to coordinate, you make an urgent dash for the bathroom only to be bounced back by an invisible force keeping you in your room. It takes a moment to solve the mystery. A thick layer of clingfilm is stretched across your doorway from top to bottom. It's too thick to burst through and your bathroom need is urgent so you get down on your hands and knees and crawl like a desperate rodent underneath the lower edge.
Chimmy appears with his phone to take an unflattering snap of you spread-eagled across the landing. You make it to the bathroom just in time.
Do you spend the rest of the day [[comatose on your bed]] or try [[staring at one of your books]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/not a moment to spare_comatose on your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Study Space">
Sunday sees the head fog lifting. Chimmy sends the photo he took of you trying to escape your room. It's humiliating but it was a good prank.
Although you needed a whole day to recover, it had been worth taking time out with your friends. For the rest of the term you are a model student, [[attending everything and completing all your assignments as required]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/attending everything and completing all your assignments as required.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Working in the EDA Lab">
The house feels distinctly different after the Easter break. You each have revision sessions and exams on different days so are like ships passing in the night. But the format is familiar as you line up to enter the exam hall. Saffa has endured the exams better than she expected, having benefitted from of a smaller separate exam room plus extra time to reduce her anxiety.
If everyone passes their exams this will be the last week you are all together. Chimmy starts his placement in two weeks and Saffa and Tiz will be off to France. You suggest a celebration. How about a [[BBQ in your overgrown garden]], [[a night out in Canterbury]] or go large and [[book a day out on the Eurostar]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/it is silent again_forget all about deadlines and revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Freedom">
You awake late morning. Making your normal morning bathroom visitation, you're stunned to find an invisible force keeping you in your room. It takes a moment to solve the mystery. A thick layer of clingfilm is stretched across your doorway from top to bottom. It's too thick to burst through and your bathroom need is urgent so you get down on your hands and knees and crawl like a desperate rodent underneath the lower edge.
Chimmy appears with his phone to take an unflattering snap of you spread-eagled across the landing. You make it to the bathroom with [[not a moment to spare]].<img src="images/passages/not a moment to spare_comatose on your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Study Space">
By Sunday you return to work mode and control the distractions. Chimmy sends you the photo he took of you trying to escape your room. It was humiliating but you admit it was a good prank.
For the rest of the term you are a model student, [[attending everything and completing all your assignments as required]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/BBQ in your overgrown garden.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="BBQ in your overgrown garden">
The grass is waist height and no-one has a lawnmower. You each trample a patch of grass the size of a doormat. It's enough for the 2 disposable BBQ's (one for meat and one for vegetables for Saffa). How many people does it take to light an 'easy to light' BBQ? It takes a whole box of matches to get them lit.
As you enjoy drinks and various blackened food items you take this moment to appreciate all the good times you've shared with this lot and how different next year is going to be for everyone.
<img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest4badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
You have now earned yourself a shiny Stage 2 Completion badge!
''Your Academic Score for Quest 4:''
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''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 4:''
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Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many times you made the most of social interactions and how well you looked after yourself.
Your second year at the University of Kent is over. You've navigated critical thinking, clashing timetables, student employment, checking your progress and keeping in contact with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. You know to manage distractions but take time out for fun too. Now it is the long summer holidays. Your exam results will be sent in due course.
You are ready for quest 5: [[The final stage at Kent|Finish Quest 4]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/a night out in Canterbury.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Tokyo Tea Rooms Club">
It seems appropriate that your last meal is at Cafe Des Amis overlooking the River Stour. Then you weave your way up the High Street to the Tokyo Tearooms. Having pre-arranged a VIP booth you are spoiled with great cocktail service. After a stint on the dance floor you spend the rest of the night humiliating yourselves in the karaoke room.
As you catch the late bus back home you take this moment to appreciate all the good times you've shared with this lot and how different next year is going to be for everyone.
<img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest4badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
You have now earned yourself a shiny Stage 2 Completion badge!
''Your Academic Score for Quest 4:''
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''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 4:''
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Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many times you made the most of social interactions and how well you looked after yourself.
Your second year at the University of Kent is over. You've navigated critical thinking, clashing timetables, student employment, checking your progress and keeping in contact with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. You know to manage distractions but take time out for fun too. Now it is the long summer holidays. Your exam results will be sent in due course.
You are ready for quest 5: [[The final stage at Kent|Finish Quest 4]].
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<img src="images/passages/book a day out on the Eurostar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Eiffel Tower">
An early start, with passport in hand, you catch a train to Ashford International 20 minutes away, and then the Eurostar direct to Paris which is another 1 hour 52 minutes. It's ludicrous that you can do a train trip to Paris from Canterbury. With Tiz and Saffa being fluent in French you can sample France without fear. You catch the river bus along the Seine and eat a huge lunch at an outdoor cafe. Fully fuelled, you walk up the hundreds of steps on the Eiffel Tower and drink in the view. With a picnic tea for the train ride home, and wearing obligatory new berets, you're back in Canterbury by night.
As you catch the late bus back home from the station you take this moment to appreciate all the good times you've shared with this lot and how different next year is going to be for everyone.
<img class="passagebadge" src="images/quest4badge.png" height=30% width=30%>
You have now earned yourself a shiny Stage 2 Completion badge!
''Your Academic Score for Quest 4:''
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''Your Wellbeing Score for Quest 4:''
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Your Wellbeing Score is impacted by how many times you made the most of social interactions and how well you looked after yourself.
Your second year at the University of Kent is over. You've navigated critical thinking, clashing timetables, student employment, checking your progress and keeping in contact with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. You know to manage distractions but take time out for fun too. Now it is the long summer holidays. Your exam results will be sent in due course.
You are ready for quest 5: [[The final stage at Kent|Finish Quest 4]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/the final stage at kent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Looking into Microscope">
Your new quest as an independent finalist is to complete the final stage of your degree. You will navigate your studies whilst keeping your eye on your future career, whether that is employment or further study.
After this last quest you'll be able to don your mortar board and gown and graduate in the full splendour of the Canterbury Cathedral World Heritage site.
With 60% of your degree still to complete, it is all [[still to play for]].
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<img src="images/passages/still to play for.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Celebration">
Results day is early into the summer break. Once more, you check results online. This is 40% of your degree.
It says 'PROCEED'. Such a short word to reflect the effort, but preferable to 'FAIL' with associated re-sits or a repeat year. You've passed all the credits needed to continue to the final year.
Time to celebrate. Do you crack open the new jar of Nutella and [[dish up several rounds of toast]], run round the house [[shouting "YAAAASSSS, I KILLED IT!"]] or sit down and [[post your success onto every conceiveable social media platform whilst simultaneously FaceTiming]] your friends?
<img src="images/passages/dish up several rounds of toast.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jar of Nutella">
You've earned the sugar. Six slices of toast topped with centimetres of Nutella later, your stomach insists you ease off the celebrating. You admire the severe dent you've made inside jar. Job. Well. Done.
The rest of summer continues to plan. Temporary employment keeps your bank balance bouyant and you enjoy the home comforts, even managing to impress the family with some (not all) of your cooking every now and then.
At the end of September it is [[time to return to Kent for the start of stage 3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Yaaaaas I killed it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Disapproving Cat">
You race around the house declaring your success. The cat is rudely awoken from his slumber, yawns nonchalantly then resmumes his nap. You disrupt your mum's conference call in the home office. She beams widely and gives you the thumbs up.
The rest of summer continues to plan. Temporary employment keeps your bank balance bouyant and you enjoy the home comforts, even managing to impress the family with some (not all) of your cooking every now and then.
At the end of September it is [[time to return to Kent for the start of stage 3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/post your success onto every conceiveable social media platform.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Facebook Like">
The congrats start rolling in. You've practically got half a degree now!
The rest of summer continues to plan. Temporary employment keeps your bank balance bouyant and you enjoy the home comforts, even managing to impress the family with some (not all) of your cooking every now and then.
At the end of September it is [[time to return to Kent for the start of stage 3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/time to return to kent for the start of stage 3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="House Keys">
You're driven to your little apartment at the start of term.
Your Dad is impressed. It smells of fresh and the kitchen has had a lick of paint. It's a bit neutral, but nothing a few pictures won't sort out. After a hasty supermarket shop you're left to your unpacking.
Reality hits.
You're on your own. The bills, the cooking, the cleaning. Oh, and studying. You get your playlist running on your phone. That's better. You can do this. [[It's the final countdown!]]<img src="images/passages/It's the final countdown!.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Flower Beds on Campus">
Campus looks greener, more mature. The flower beds are still blooming. There are so many new young faces. The new stage 1 students look worried, in a couple of weeks they will be transformed.
Your timetable looks heavy but well spaced. You spot Bob and Hannah in the foyer of your school. Bob is deeply tanned. She spent the summer in the south of France. You wonder how Tiz and Saffa are managing on their French placements. Must message them. You each compare your timetables and note that several modules match.
You enter the main lecture hall for [[your 'Welcome back' talk]].<img src="images/passages/your welcome back talk.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
As is customary, the Head of School, Professor Lucas welcomes you back. He wishes everyone a healthy final year, rich in learning, self-discovery and not too much partying! You look around the room and notice Gabriel isn't there. Did he fail or not bother turning up?
Prof. Lucas urges you to investigate employability opportunities and independently seek out university resources which will improve your grades. The @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ Manager Christine reminds everyone support is always available, you only have to ask and, as usual, all attendance will be monitored closely in this final year.
You leave the lecture theatre with Bob and Hannah and take root in the [[sofa corner of the common room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sofa corner of the common room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Vending Machines">
Hannah looks lovingly at the fully stocked vending machine. You were too nervous/excited for breakfast but you're hungry now.
Do you fancy the largest bag of [[crinkle crisps]], a sensible pack of [[breakfast biscuits]] or the [[chocolate Boost bar]] which looks tiny but sticks to your teeth and takes 2 hours to consume as a result?<img src="images/passages/chocolate boost bar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Common Room">
Crinkle crisps, yum. You join Bob and Hannah on the sofa and crunch noisily through the bag. You compare your summer breaks. You learn Marta had to return to University in mid August to re-sit a core module exam. She passed, so is in stage 3.
Bob mentions Prof. Colin's employability comment and says she has signed up to be an Academic Peer Mentor. You remember how helpful your mentor Dave was. Do you [[find out more about being a mentor]] to newer students or would you rather [[not lose any potential study hours in your final year]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/chocolate boost bar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Common Room">
If only every meal was a biscuit - what a brilliant business idea. You join Bob and Hannah and munch noisily through the biscuits. You compare your summer breaks. You learn Marta had to return to University in mid August to re-sit a core module exam. She passed, so is in stage 3.
Bob mentions Prof. Colin's employability comment and says she has signed up to be an Academic Peer Mentor. You remember how helpful your mentor Dave was. Do you [[find out more about being a mentor]] to newer students or would you rather [[not lose any potential study hours in your final year]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/chocolate boost bar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Common Room">
The bar looks deceptively small. Within moments chocolate and caramel has glued your jaws together. You join Bob and Hannah on the sofa and compare your summer breaks. You learn Marta had to return to University in mid August to re-sit a core module exam. She passed, so is in stage 3.
Bob mentions Prof. Colin's employability comment and says she has signed up to be an Academic Peer Mentor. You remember how helpful your mentor Dave was. Do you [[find out more about being a mentor]] to newer students or would you rather [[not lose any potential study hours in your final year]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/find out more about being a mentor.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
You go up to the school Reception. You ask Jo, the receptionist, if you could talk to someone about the Academic Peer Mentoring scheme. She immediately takes you to the Mentor Co-ordinator, Philomena.
Philomena's office is a cross between a crime scene and a boot fair. Philomena smiles and wheels the trolley of rain ponchos away to reveal a chair for you.
She explains the volantary mentor scheme fits around your availability and preferences. You get full training, looks great on your CV and provides many transferable skills. You receive a certificate at an awards evening at the year end and will feel pride having helped other students to excel.
Do you [[want to sign up]] or tell Philomena [[you'll think about it]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/not lose any potential study hours in your final year.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Building">
You decide to wait until you've ascertained how much extra work stage 3 is.
After your snack you [[walk over to Sibson building|sibson building 2]] for your next lecture.<img src="images/passages/want to sign up.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Philomena's Office">
Philomena looks delighted and promises you can tailor it around your commitments to make sure you have sufficient study and mentee time. Philomena is available for any questions about the process. She schedules your training which is a couple of hours next week. After that, Philomena will email you if there's a student she thinks would benefit from seeing you.
You feel proud to have done something that's good for you but benefits others too.
You thank Philomena and [[walk over to Sibson building]] for your next lecture.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/youll think about it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Stack of Papers">
You suddenly get cold feet. You're not sure how much work stage 3 will entail. You may need all the study time you can get. Philomena doesn't mind and hands you a piece of paper about the scheme. She advises you see her any time if you change your mind.
You thank Philomena and [[walk over to Sibson building|sibson building 2]] for your next lecture.<img src="images/passages/walk over to Sibson building.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
You file into the lecture theatres. Brian is near the back so you sit in the same row. Brian introduces you to Leila and Mahat. All Leila's belongings are 100% holographic. Mahat, in contrast, must have been rushed getting ready today.
You mention the Academic Peer Mentor scheme. Leila has used the mentors before. She says signing up to become one too as she says it helps consolidate her own learning from previous years. Good idea.
A new lecturer, Dr Yoo Hu is teaching this module. You like his style, which includes quizzes via your phone. You get assigned to the lime green team but you're soon is lagging behind the others. Leila's violet team is zooming ahead, 'whooping' with each correct answer. Your team comes last.
At the end of the lecture the others go to Woody's. Do you [[join them at Woody's]] or [[make an early start on the reading list]] at Templeman library?<img src="images/passages/sibson building 2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Lecture Theatre">
You file into the lecture theatres. Brian is near the back so you sit in the same row. Brian introduces you to Leila and Mahat. All Leila's belongings are 100% holographic. Mahat, in contrast, must have been rushed getting ready today.
You mention the Academic Peer Mentor scheme. Leila has used the mentors before. She says signing up to become one too as she says it helps consolidate her own learning from previous years. Good idea.
A new lecturer, Dr Yoo Hu is teaching this module. You like his style, which includes quizzes via your phone. You get assigned to the lime green team but you're soon is lagging behind the others. Leila's violet team is zooming ahead, 'whooping' with each correct answer. Your team comes last.
At the end of the lecture the others go to Woody's. Do you [[join them at Woody's]] or [[make an early start on the reading list]] at Templeman library?<img src="images/passages/join them at woodys.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woodys terrace">
Woody's is a modern student hub containing 2 dance studios, a mini-supermarket, an IT study hub and bar serving everything from toast at breakfast, rice pots at lunch to sunday roast for dinner.
Upstairs two large pool tables overlook the roof terrace. You're not surprised to see Gabriel playing pool and go to say hi. He looks surprised. He is currently repeating stage 2 and doesn't want to talk about it.
You join Brian, Leila and Mahat on the roof terrace, on one of the outdoor sofas. Brian helps run the Football Fans Society and is organising a game of bubble football this Wednesday. He's looking for team volunteers. Leila says she's busy but Mahat is keen to take part. Do you [[join Brian and Mahat for the bubble match]] or say [[you'll support the players from the sideline]] instead?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/make an early start o the reading list.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bubble Football">
Before you go your separate ways, Brian explains he helps run the Football Fans Society and is organising a game of bubble football this Wednesday. He's looking for team volunteers. Leila says she's busy but Mahat is keen to take part. Do you [[join Brian and Mahat for the bubble match]] or say [[you'll support the players from the sideline]] instead?
You then stroll over to the library for first dibs on the new reading material.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/join Brian and Mahat for the bubble match.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Sport Bubble Match">
Wednesday afternoon arrives and you're ready for your 30 minute game against the university staff team. You are put on the same team as Mahat, encased in a 'red' zorb. Mahat's long legs allow him to run at speed both at the ball and other 'blue' players, ruthlessly bouncing them aside. Being shorter, your upper legs are already in the zorb ball, so you can only run from the knees down. You are easy prey and a competitor soon has you rolling on the floor, legs flailing in the air. Cackles of laughter ring out from the sidelines. It takes ages to get upright and within moments you're staring at grass again but not before you inadvertently head the ball! Shame it was into your own goal.
You're not a bubble football natural even though it was good fun. The red team wins, mainly thanks to Mahat's barging skills.
You all go to the [[Sports Pavilion cafe]] for refreshments afterwards.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/join Brian and Mahat for the bubble match.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Sport Bubble Match">
On Wednesday you watch the bubble football match. Mahat and Brian are encased in red zorb balls and university staff are in the blue balls.
Mahat's long legs allowed him to run at speed both at the ball and other 'blue' players, ruthlessly bouncing them aside. Being shorter, Brian's upper legs are already in the zorb ball, so he can only run from the knees down. He's easy prey and a competitor soon has him rolling on the floor, legs flailing in the air. You cackle with laughter from the sidelines. It takes ages for Brian to get upright and within moments he's staring at grass again but not before he inadvertently heads the ball! Shame it was into the red team's goal.
Despite Brian's disaster, the red team win, thanks to Mahat's barging skills.
You all go to the [[Sports Pavilion cafe]] for refreshments afterwards.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sports pavilion cafe.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Sports Pavilion Cafe">
The extent of this term's assignments are soon apparent. There's more of them and you're expected to demonstrate extensive knowledge. This increased complexity is expected so you're feeling confident you can do it.
The first assignment is group work. Luckily, two groups have asked you to join them. Do you [[join Bob, Marta and Hannah]] (they got a high grade in previous presentations) or the [[lesser known group comprised of Brian, Leila and Mahat]]?<img src="images/passages/join Bob Marta and Hannah.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Group Work">
You stick with people who work hard and pull their weight. The group want to meet early to discuss the task so each person has an equal share. You suggest everyone starts some research so the meeting is productive.
You conscientiously study each evening in your cosy apartment and come to the meeting [[armed with a host of ideas|host of ideas 2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/lesser known group comprised of Brian Leila and Mahat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group Study">
University provides opportunities to mix with other people, whether as part of study or leisure. It'll be interesting to see the dynamic of this new group unfold. You agree to meet next week split up the task fairly. You suggest everyone starts their research to ensure the first meeting is productive.
You conscientiously study each evening in your cosy apartment and come to the meeting [[armed with a host of ideas]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/armed with a host of ideas.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Common Room">
Brian has researched various strategies and Leila has some creative delivery ideas. Mahat has been more leisurely, not wanting to waste effort until he's been assigned a task. The group agree you should be team leader, a role you're delighted to accept. You discuss and subdivide the task depending key interests and ability. You have 5 weeks to produce an innovative presentation so you agree to weekly progress meetings.
Later that evening you get a [[message from Saffa|message from Saffa2]].<img src="images/passages/host of ideas 2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Study Area">
Bob has studiously gathered and compiled a thorough bibliography to analyse. Hannah has sourced and tested an amazing presentation app and explains how different data is best presented. Marta is less forthcoming, wanting to be assigned a task before committing any effort.
The group agree you should be team leader, which you're delighted to accept. You discuss and subdivide the task based on key interests and ability. The team has 5 weeks to produce an innovative presentation so you agree on weekly progress meetings.
Later that evening you get a [[message from Saffa]].
<img src="images/passages/back in the rhythm.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
The next week is a blur of seminars and lectures. More assignments are set. This requires some careful time management now.
Do you [[use the Assignment Survival Toolkit]] to help schedule some deadlines to avoid a last minute rush or [[just get one assignment done at a time]]?
<img src="images/passages/use the Assignment Survival Toolkit_ASK2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Assignment Survival Kit">
Good idea, this helps to pace everything evenly. A final week rush is a definite stress recipe. You use the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Assignment Survival Kit">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to set your $assignmentType breakdown milestones. You enter the deadline dates and select the assignment type and the @@.serviceLink;<<link "ASK Tool">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ plots how and when you should be working on each key element - so clever. You add the details to your timetable. You're now in control again.
Back to the presentation. You meet with Brian and Leila. They've both made made excellent progress. Marta is absent as she has a meeting booked with her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you [[chase her up in an email]] or [[leave it for the following week]] and hope all is well?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/just get one assignment done at a time_one at a time2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Building">
Surely you can keep focused on one thing at a time without getting overwhelmed? Starting with this presentation.
You meet Brian and Leila. They've both made excellent progress. Marta is absent as she has a meeting booked with her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you [[chase her up in an email]] or [[leave it for the following week]] and hope all is well?<img src="images/passages/chase her up in an email_chase email2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Cafe">
Marta is clearly miffed you are checking up on her. She confirms she has done her share and will see you at the next meeting as planned. You're not convinced but [[you've done what you can]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it for the following week_following week2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Marta knows the schedule. If she hasn't done any work yet she can work extra hard the following week. You don't like the uncertainty but [[you've done what you can]].<img src="images/passages/youve done what you can_done what you can2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Seminar Group">
A week later Bob and Hannah meet you in the Parkwood study hub. It's busy but you've booked yourself a quiet study pod. Hannah mentions Marta is ill and can't make it. As team leader, Bob and Hannah say it's your call what to do. It's getting harder to create the presentation without Marta's component.
Do you ask Marta to [[send over her work so far]] or [[seek advice from the module convenor]]?<img src="images/passages/use the Assignment Survival Toolkit_ASK2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Assignment Survival Kit">
Good idea, this helps to pace everything evenly. A final week rush is a definite stress recipe. You use the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Assignment Survival Kit">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to set your $assignmentType breakdown milestones. You enter the deadline dates and select the assignment type and the @@.serviceLink;<<link "ASK Tool">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ plots how and when you should be working on each key element - so clever. You add the details to your timetable. You're now in control again.
Back to the presentation. You meet with Brian and Leila. They've both made made excellent progress. Mahat is absent as he has a meeting booked with his @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you [[chase him up in an email|chase email2]] or [[leave it for the following week|following week2]] and hope all is well?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/just get one assignment done at a time_one at a time2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Building">
Surely you can keep focused on one thing at a time without getting overwhelmed? Starting with this presentation.
You meet Brian and Leila. They've both made excellent progress. Mahat is absent as he has a meeting booked with his @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. Do you [[chase him up in an email|chase email2]] or [[leave it for the following week|following week2]] and hope all is well?<img src="images/passages/chase her up in an email_chase email2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sibson Cafe">
Mahat is clearly miffed you are checking up on him. He confirms he has done his share and will see you at the next meeting as planned. You're not convinced but [[you've done what you can|done what you can2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it for the following week_following week2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Mahat knows the schedule. If he hasn't done any work yet he can work extra hard the following week. You don't like the uncertainty but [[you've done what you can|done what you can2]].<img src="images/passages/youve done what you can_done what you can2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Seminar Group">
A week later Brian and Leila meet you in the Parkwood study hub. It's busy but you've booked a really quiet study pod. Leila says Mahat is ill so can't make it. As team leader, Brian and Leila say it's your call what to do. It's getting harder to create the presentation without Mahat's component.
Do you ask Mahat to [[send over his work so far|send work so far2]] or [[seek advice from the module convenor|advice from module convenor2]]?<img src="images/passages/send over her work so far.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Workbook">
After two days Marta responds stating she has had a nasty throat infection. She even got a doctor's note from the medical centre. The illness disrupted her work and her notes aren't in an emailable state. She promises to meet next week and help assemble the presentation.
Do you email your school to [[find out if you can get an extension]] to the deadline due to Marta's illness or [[carry on as planned]] as the rest of the team are fine?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/seek advice from module convenor_advice from module convenor2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Module Convenor">
After your next seminar, you ask the module convenor for their advice. Two weeks into task and one team member has contributed nothing. The convenor explains that this is common with group work. The team leader's job is to schedule, motivate and re-plan work as necessary. He explains you may be eligible for an extension if Mahat's illness causes continued disruption. After some reassurances you decide to [[carry on as planned]] for the time being.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/find out if you can get an extension_get an extension2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Receptionist">
You receive a reply from Philippa, the school support coordinator who has spoken with the module convenor. Having looked at your planning and Marta's doctor's note, they grant a presentation extension of 3 days.
You inform the group. [[Marta thanks you for sorting that out]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/carry on as planned_carry on as planned2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lego man at Desk">
By the next meeting, Marta has still not completed her tasks and the presentatioin is poorer for it. You urge Marta to send more information asap. Marta instantly boils. With a raised voice, she says you've made her feel burdened, unmotivated and guilty for being ill.
You remind Marta of her lack of engagement from the start. Her illness was unfortunate but it's her responsibility to catch up to not penalise the team.
Do you [[reconvene in a couple of days when Marta should have the extra material]] or ask each person to [[take on a little extra responsibility|responsibility2]] to finish the presentation properly?
<img src="images/passages/Marta thanks you for sorting that out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working">
By the next meeting, Marta has still not completed her tasks and the presentatioin is poorer for it. You urge Marta to send more information asap. Marta instantly boils. With a raised voice, she says you've made her feel burdened, unmotivated and guilty for being ill.
You remind Marta of her lack of engagement from the start. You have negotiated an extension so do you tell her [[she needs to use the time to catch up]], or ask the team to use the 3 days to [[each take on a little extra responsibility]] to finish the presentation properly?
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<img src="images/passages/she needs to use the time to catch up_reconvene in a couple of days when Marts should have the.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working Late at Night">
If you miss work due to illness, you need to catch up or suffer the consequences. Marta works into the small hours for a few nights to complete her tasks. It greatly improves the presentation. You thank Marta although she's still cross with you about the nagging.
Team leaders need to make difficult decisions. [[You're ready for your presentation]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/each take on a little extra responsibility_responsibility2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Group Study Session">
Marta is grateful some work has been delegated but there's not much time left now. Bob and Hannah are unhappy about the extra work which means less time for other assignments. You remind them the alternative is a lower graded presentation.
You all do some long extra hours and Marta pulls a couple of all-nighters to finish her part. The assembled presentation flows pretty well. The group is keen to get it over and done with now. [[You're ready for your presentation|ready for your presentation2]].
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If you miss work due to illness, you need to catch up or suffer the consequences. Marta works into the small hours for a few nights to complete her tasks. It greatly improves the presentation. You thank Marta although she's still cross with you about the nagging.
Team leaders need to make difficult decisions. [[You're ready for your presentation|your presentation3]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/responsibility2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Communing">
Marta is grateful some work has been delegated but there's not much time left now. Bob and Hannah are unhappy about the extra work which means less time for other assignments. You remind them the alternative is a lower graded presentation.
You all do some long extra hours and Marta pulls a couple of all-nighters to finish her part. The assembled presentation flows pretty well. The group is keen to get it over and done with now. [[You're ready for your presentation|ready for your presentation4]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/youre ready for your presentation_ready for your presentation4.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Group of Students">
Three days later than planned, your seminar group watches your presentation. You talk enthusiastically through the research and field questions at the end. Marta is less than enthusiastic and deliberately contradicts some of your points.
After receiving a top grade you propose a hot Belgian waffle celebration in the Origins Bar. Marta declines but Bob and Hannah join you. Bob congratulates you leading the team and and ensuring each person sticks to their tasks.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].
<img src="images/passages/ready for your presentation2_your presentation3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Row of Students">
Three days later than planned, your seminar group watches your presentation. You each talk enthusiastically through the research and field questions at the end.
After receiving a top grade you propose a hot Belgian waffle celebration in the Origins Bar. Bob congratulates you leading the team and helping Marta out when she needed support.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].<img src="images/passages/ready for your presentation2_your presentation3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Row of Students">
Three days later than planned, your seminar group watches your presentation. You talk enthusiastically through the research and field questions at the end. Marta is less than enthusiastic and deliberately contradicts some of your points which allows the seminar leader to scrutinise you further.
After receiving a top grade you propose a hot Belgian waffle celebration in the Origins Bar. Marta declines but Bob and Hannah join you. Bob congratulates you leading the team and and ensuring each person sticks to their tasks.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].<img src="images/passages/youre ready for your presentation_ready for your presentation4.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Group of Students">
Three days later than planned, your seminar group watches your presentation. You each talk enthusiastically through the research and field questions at the end.
After receiving a top grade you propose a hot Belgian waffle celebration in the Origins Bar. Bob congratulates you leading the team and helping Marta out when she needed support.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].<img src="images/passages/Zak comes out and spots you.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="3D Printer">
It's great to see him. He is a reformed character, attending everything, hoping to get that First Class degree. He's also the chair of the Tinkering Society (TinkerSoc) which convenes in a building containing some amazing hardware including 3-D printers and lathes.
Zak and his friends have dismantled and reprogrammed a mobility scooter to perform crazy manoeuvres. He offers you a test drive. Do you [[defer your home tidying and cleaning duties]] to try Zakj's invention or decide you've had enough drama for one day and [[tell Zak you'll catch up another time]]?<img src="images/passages/send work so far2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Scrunched Up Paper">
After two days Mahat responds claiming he has had flu and couldn't even get to the doctors. He was too ill to read anything and his notes are in no state to email. He promises to catch up by next week.
Do you email your school to [[find out if you can get an extension|get an extension2]] due to Mahat's illness or [[carry on as planned|carry on as planned2]] as the rest of the team are fine?
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After your next seminar, you ask the module convenor for their advice. Two weeks into task and one team member has contributed nothing. The convenor explains that this is common with group work. The team leader's job is to schedule, motivate and re-plan work as necessary. He explains you may be eligible for an extension if Mahat's illness causes continued disruption. After some reassurances you decide to [[carry on as planned|carry on as planned2]] for the time being.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/carry on as planned_carry on as planned2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lego man at Desk">
At the next meeting Mahat is absent again. Brian mentions spotting Mahat at The Venue the other evening. The presentation doesn't have enough content and time is short. The only solution is to re-distribute Mahat's tasks to the rest of the group to get the presentation finished.
Brian and Leila are agitated. They accuse you for not planning and chasing work effectively and insist they can't do the extra work due to their other assignments. They refuse to accept Mahat's tasks.
Do you [[try and complete the extra work yourself]] to keep everything on track, [[send a very curt message to Mahat]] demanding his work otherwise you'll report him or [[go back and speak to your module convenor]]?
<img src="images/passages/find out if you can get an extension_get an extension2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Receptionist">
You soon get a reply from Philippa, the school support coordinator who has spoken with the module convenor. As Mahat doesn't have a medical note to confirm his illness they cannot grant an extension.
You email Mahat requesting he gets a doctors note but he doesn't reply. Time is limited yet a quarter of the research is untouched. You call an [[urgent meeting with Brian and Leila]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/urgent meeting with Brian and Leila.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Coffee and Work">
You meet Brian and Leila. Still no news from Mahat. Brian mentions spotting Mahat at The Venue last night. The presentation is lacking content and you're short of time. The only solution is to re-distribute Mahat's tasks to the rest of the group to get the presentation finished.
Brian and Leila are agitated. They accuse you for not planning and chasing work effectively and insist they can't do the extra work due to their other assignments. They refuse to accept Mahat's tasks.
Do you [[try and complete the extra work yourself]] to keep everything on track, [[send a very curt message to Mahat]] demanding his work otherwise you'll report him or [[go back and speak to your module convenor]]?
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You get minimal sleep over the next week. It is a lot of extra reading. It's not your finest work but the presentation is complete.
You meet Brian and Leila. Still no Mahat who, ironically is meeting his Senior Tutor to discuss his attendance. Brian and Leila are impressed with what you've achieved. Leila makes the presentation look incredibly professional. [[You're ready for your presentation|ready for your presentation5]].
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You email Mahat,insisting you'll be forced to ask the module convenor to removed him from the group is he cannot contrinute his tasks. He will get a zero grade for the assignment.
Mahat responds promptly to confirm he'll send some work although he hasn't been able to do it all.
You all meet to compile the presentation. Mahat's arguements are weak, but it is too late now. You [[agree to deliver the presentation with what you have]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go back and speak to your module convenor.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Module Convenor">
Your seminar leader is sympathetic and will consider Mahat's involvement during the presentation delivery.
Mahat doesn't appear at the last team meeting. Instead he's been told to meet his Senior Tutor about his lack of attendance! You complete the presentation as best you can. Leila's creativity makes it look incredibly professional. [[You're ready for your presentation|ready for your presentation6]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/ready for your presentation5.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Row of Students">
Your seminar group watches your presentation. Even Mahat appears for the event. Do you [[let him join in]] to provide a united front or [[tell him to sit back down]] as he hasn't contributed to the group's work?
<img src="images/passages/let him join in.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Row of Students">
The team gives Mahat the benefit of the doubt so he doesn't receive a zero grade. His delivery demostrates zero topic knowledge leaving the team to answer all the tricky questions whilst Mahat stands red-faced.
After receiving a reasonable grade you propose a hot Belgian waffles celebration in Origins Bar. Mahat declines but Brian and Leila join you. Brian congratulates your team leading and taking on extra work.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].<img src="images/passages/tell him to sit back down.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Presentation">
Thanks to Mahat, you have eye bags as big as Cardiff and you're in a foul mood. He sheepishly sits back down.
The group talks through the research and answers most of the questions. Afterwards, the seminar leader asks why Mahat was not involved. Mahat unconvincingly shares his catalogue of weak excuses.
You receive a lower grading than you'd hoped. The three of you console yourselves with hot Belgian waffles in the Origins Bar. Brian congratulates you for your team leading and taking on extra work. Leila is unhappy that Mahat will receive a zero grading but your conscience is clear.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].
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The group talks through the research and answers most of the questions. Mahat is less than enthusiastic about his section which contradicts some of your points, leaving the group to further scrutiny by the seminar leader.
You receive a lower grading than you'd hoped. You propose consolation hot Belgian waffles in the Origins Bar. Mahat declines but Brian and Leila join you. Brian congratulates you for trying to sort out all the problems and ensuring each person sticks to their tasks.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].<img src="images/passages/ready for your presentation6.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Row of Students">
The seminar group assembles to watch your presemtaion. No Mahat. You're fuming.
The group talks through the research and answers most of the questions. Afterwards, the seminar leader asks why Mahat was not involved. You catalogue your attempts to engage Mahat and his constant refusal to contribute.
You receive a lower grading than you'd hoped. The three of you console yourselves with hot Belgian waffles in the Origins Bar. Brian congratulates you for your team leading and taking on extra work. Leila is unhappy that Mahat will receive a zero grading but your conscience is clear.
After waffles you head back home to give the apartment an overdue clean.
As you pass the Kent Union shop [[Zak comes out and spots you]].
<img src="images/passages/defer your home tidying and cleaning duties.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Shed Maker Space">
'The Shed' is a misleading term for the purpose built 'maker-space' packed with fascinating equipment. A group of students huddle around 3-D printers churning out modern chainmail clothing for a textiles exhibition.
Zak reveals his mobility scooter. It looks menacing. The trademark shopping basket and handlebars have been replaced with an XBox controller. The padded seat is taped on top of an over-sized battery. A blue flashing light and red-eyed demonic face on the front bumper complete the look.
Zak wheels it outside, attaches the flimsy seat belt and tightens his crash helmet. XBox controller in hand, he makes his first mistake by going backwards into the hydrangea bushes at such speed only the demon face is left visible. You snigger but he soon exits the bushes and attempts a donut in the car park. His body is slumped sideways by centrifugal force. This is epic!
Zak offers you a turn on the scooter. Do you say [[yes, you only live once]] or [[no, you fully intend to be alive for your graduation]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/tell Zak youll catch up another time.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Shed">
Before you leave, Zak explains he is going to speak about his inventions to potential employers at careers fair next week. You're attending that too so you'll probably see him there.
You leave Zak and his scooter to [[walk back to your apartment]] to give it a much needed clean.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/yes you only live once.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Modified Electric Scooter">
Before you change your mind, you're strapped in with a crash helmet wedged on your head. After a mere 20 second training session, Zak instructs you to press the green button. This sets in motion a pre-programmed routine causing you to intermittently jolt backwards and forward, throwing your limbs around like a bunch of sausages. The friction of your backside against the seat is most unpleasant. Zak is doubled over laughing. Eventually the scooter stops and Zak unclips you. You admit that was excellent fun!
Zak explains he is going to speak about his inventions to potential employers at careers fair next week. You're attending that too so you'll probably see him there.
You leave Zak and his scooter to [[walk back to your apartment]] and do a much needed clean.
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Zak shrugs and demonstrates his pre-programmed scooter moves. He clicks the controller and the scooter jolts into action. Zak intermittently jolts backwards and forwards, throwing his limbs around like a bunch of sausages. You can't help doubling over with laughter. Eventually the scooter stops and Zak unclips himself. You congratulate him on his excellent invention!
Zak explains he is going to speak about his inventions to potential employers at careers fair next week. You're attending that too so you'll probably see him there.
You leave Zak and his scooter to [[walk back to your apartment]] to do a much needed clean.<img src="images/passages/walk back to your apartment.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Small Kitchen">
How does burnt pasta sauce bond so tightly to a cooker top? Or the wall tiles? Or the roller blind? You scrub for hours until your castle looks stately again. It seems a shame to ruin it, but you've got a desire to to transform a tin ofe plum tomatoes into mulligatawny soup. Within minutes the kitchen is splattered with red sauce again.
Your phone pings. It's Bob. She is driving with friends to Whitstable this evening and asks if you'd like to come along. Whitstable? You've heard it's a seaside town 5 miles away where folk like eating oysters (yuk).
Do you say [[yes, why not]], you've never been there or [[no, you don't like oysters or the sea]] very much, thanks anyway?<img src="images/passages/yes, why not.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Whitstable Oyster Co.">
By late afternoon Bob parks her pristine Fiat Panda in the harbour carpark. You, Bob, Hannah and Bob's friend Tobias (a budding comedian who cracked jokes about fabric conditioner for the entire journey) climb out of the car. Little black huts huddle around the harbour, selling intriguing products, crafts and oysters for which the town is famous (Tobias: why don't oysters give to charity? Because they're shellfish.). You spot a boat in the harbour called "Nautiboy" - funnier than Tobias. The place heaves with walkers and joggers getting their quota of sea air.
Bob guides you beyond the harbour to the long, wide shingle beach. The sky is streaked with orange, pink and red. It's the best sunset you've ever seen. You each purchase a box of delicious chips. Bob has cleverly picked an evening at low tide which reveals a shingle 'road' stretching into the sea. You wander along this road for what seems like miles out into the sea. The view back to shore is postcard perfect; colourful beach huts crouch on the grassy bank and nod to the sinking sun.
[[Why hadn't you discovered Whitstable before]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/yes, why not.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Whitstable Oyster Co.">
You haven't explored the area at all and promise yourself to get a bus or train at some point to do the tourist bit.
The following week is [[the careers fair]].<img src="images/passages/Why hadn't you discovered Whitstable before.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Whitstable Beach Huts">
You all amble onto the town to explore the quirky shops and the modern castle (Tobias: I tried reading a book once about a castle with the drawbridge up, but I couldn't get into it). You promise to catch the bus to Whitstable again - there is a direct service from the university.
Bob drives everyone back to Canterbury and you thank her for a brilliant evening, despite Tobias' jokes.
The following week is [[the careers fair]].<img src="images/passages/the careers fair.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Careers Fair">
The annual careers fair is run by the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Careers and Employability Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. They host an impressive number of employers who showcase their graduate schemes, placements, internships and insight days.
The sports hall is buzzing with eye-catching displays and chatter. You understand now why there's an earlier, quieter 'accessible hour' for those with mental health, anxiety or disability issues. Tables littered with freebies and leaflets are surrounded by students and company staff. Every discipline is covered with some companies interested in multiple subjects.
Who should you approach first? Your email from CES lists companies interested in your degree type. You soon spot Zak deep in conversation at the BAE Systems stand. Best not interrupt.
You feel a bit awkward and shy. You have a [[look at the CES email again]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/look at the CES email again.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="PWC at the Careers Fair">
The CES email lists the companies looking to employ graduates studying your type of degree many others who employ from any discipline. Familiar companies such as PWC and Deloitte, News International and Teach First are there plus more specialist ones like Global Media and GCHQ.
You work through your list, you've heard speaking with companies here effectively fast tracks any subsequent job application you may make. You've researched some of the companies, so you approach the first one.
A staff member spots you. Do you [[go over and start a conversation]] or [[smile, grab a free sweet and move on]], as it isn't your first choice anyway? <img src="images/passages/go over and start a conversation.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers Counter">
You provide your name, what you're studying and your topics of interest. You ask about their graduates schemes. Wow, that was easy! The staff member likes your direct approach. You jot down the responses. She notes your details and offers a company leaflet. She talks enthusiastically about her employer and the company just went up in your personal opinion poll.
You thank her move to the next employer on your email. The conversations get easier with each company but you've saved [[the company you are most interested in]] to the end.
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Eventually you spot a company on your list that isn't snowed under with students. You don't want a career in the Royal Navy, but you're willing to look willing.
You introduce yourself awkwardly. The staff member senses your nervousness and starts their career patter. It's much more varied than you thought. You ask questions about the different schemes and gratefully accept a leaflet with a branded pen. You thank them for their time before moving to another stand.
Eventually you locate [[the company you are most interested in]].<img src="images/passages/the company you are most interested in.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers Fair">
Here is the Civil Service stand, one of the companies who is interested in everything from cyber security to HR to media to IT systems.
A young man with rolled up shirt sleeves and flawless hair acknowledges you. His civil service ID card around his neck reveals his name is Jean-Paul. He's not the middle-aged, grey-suited representative you were anticipating. He takes your details and asks about your course. You describe the areas that you are most passionate about ask how this could translate into a career. This comment starts what could possibly be [[the most important 20 minutes of your life so far]].
<img src="images/passages/the most important 20 minutes of your life.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Careers Fair">
Jean-Paul recounts the different jobs that overlap with your area of interest. He explains graduates are a key part of his organisation. He suggests you consider doing your dissertation on one of these areas which could directly assist you in your career. It will allow you to stretch into your research area and showcase your real interests. You hadn't considered this correlation before. Furthermore, Jean-Paul said his organisation often work with under- and post-graduates on certain research topics where workshadow opportunities can enhance your dissertation and put your research into practice.
You ponder a dissertation versus undertaking other module next term. This is certainly food for thought.
Do you [[pursue the dissertation/research/workstudy offer]] with Jean-Paul or state [[you haven't thought that far ahead yet]] but will contact him if you change your mind?
<img src="images/passages/pursue the dissertation research workstudy offer.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="itv Careers Fair">
This is a great opportunity. You could finish your degree researching something you love whilst interacting with a potential employer and improving your employability. Jean-Paul is delighted and asks you to send him your dissertation proposal so he can connect you with the relevant people.
A wave of anxiety hits, it's so official and spur of the moment, But this is potentially the start of the next exciting stage in your life.
He suggests you attend an insight day at one of their London premises to see the jobs in action and speak with people who've been through the scheme already. You worry about committing yourself to a specific job right now.
Do you [[decline the offer to join an insight day]] or [[sign-up for the day trip]] to pick up some good tips, if nothing else?
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You don't know what next term's modules are and don't want to risk missing out on something new. You thank Jean-Paul and take his contact details in case you do decide to do a dissertation next term.
On your way out you [[bump into Zak]].<img src="images/passages/bump into Zak.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Food Counter">
Zak looks pleased with himself and asks you to Woody's for a drink and so he can share all the juicy details about his careers chat.
There's no lectures for the next half hour but you'd wanted to go to make an appointment to see your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ whilst the careers advice is still fresh.
Do you [[go to Woody's]] or tell Zak [[you'll catch him later]] and go to your school to book an Academic Adviser appointment?<img src="images/passages/decline the offer to join an insight day.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Path">
You're keen to keep in contact with the organisation but, as you're undecided on your career direction right now, it's better to offer the insight place to another candidate.
You thank Jean-Paul, take his contact details and promise to liaise about the dissertation.
On your way out you [[bump into Zak]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/sign up for the day trip.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Career Get Started Now Sign">
You're not sure what you've signed up to, but it's CV material and an interview talking point. The date is in the New Year so won't disrupt any deadlines.
You thank Jean-Paul, take his contact details and promise to liaise about the dissertation.
With one more pass of the tables, grabbing a few pens and sweets as you go, you exit the sports hall and [[bump into Zak]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go to Woody's.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Woodys Complex">
Zak orders two mugs of tea - he really is a reformed character! He has a work experience week with Microsoft but it also has an interview for the Graduate Recruitment Scheme at BAE Systems based his project work. You'll finish university in less than 8 months so you too need to start planning what you want to do next and how to get there.
Zak's clearly focused and is going to use the free CV writing and interview practice sessions at CES to hone his technique. Any project work he does from now on will have direct relevance to his preferred career to boost his interview chances.
You share your more meagre success around the dissertation idea. Zak thinks it's a great suggestion and stresses the importance of such opportunities to make new contacts.
It's soon time for your [[afternoon of lectures]]. But you promise Zak you'll see him at the foam party at the Venue next week.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/you'll catch him later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
You agree to meet at the foam party in The Venue next week.
The school receptionist Jo, is noisily munching crisps. She brushes the crumbs off her grey jumper when you enter. She books an appointment for you to see Prof. Mark Partridge at the end of the week as a quick drop-in appointment won't suffice. Jo resumes her crisp scoffing [[by the time you leave reception]].
<img src="images/passages/afternoon of lectures.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Reception Desk">
After lectures you pop in to your school to make an appointment to see your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@.
The school receptionist Jo, is noisily munching crisps. She brushes the crumbs off her grey jumper when you enter. She books an appointment for you to see Prof. Mark Partridge at the end of the week as a quick drop-in appointment won't suffice. Jo resumes her crisp scoffing [[by the time you leave reception]].<img src="images/passages/by the time you leave reception.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
By the time you see Prof. Mark you've researched Civil Service careers and dissertations. You recount the careers fair dilemma of dissertation versus new modules. Prof. Mark brings up your latest @@.serviceLink;<<link "Progress Profile">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ on screen. He identifies where you excel and how your high $assignmentType marks show a propensity for a dissertation-like study.
As your area of interest overlaps with Prof. Mark's research, he offers to be your dissertation supervisor. He can provide guidance and help you stay focused. He suggests you write a short dissertation proposal for him to read before sending it to Jean-Paul.
Prof Mark discusses module choices for next term. Some sound interesting but are not directly related to the career path you have in mind. The choice has been made - [[you'll be doing a dissertation]]!
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You feel a renewed enthusiasm from having a new goal to aim for. You email Jean-Paul to confirm you'll send him your dissertation proposal once you complete it.
The following Friday night you attend The Venue for the infamous foam party. You meet Zak who has invited Saffa who has dragged her friend Killian (visiting from France) along. This is Killian's first foam party. You wonder if he knows the importance of not standing in 'the sweet spot' where the foam cannons converge? DJ Jezza is playing some epic tracks and the crowd are loving it.
You point out 'the sweet spot' to Killian who assumes you're suggesting he stands there. Moments later the cannons open fire. Foam spews into the sweet spot as Killian disappears beneath the white waves, arms flailing in the air.
Do you [[wade in and save him]] or hope he [[eventually materialises of his own accord]]?<img src="images/passages/wade in and save him.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Foam Party">
Saffa's concerned for Killian's welfare and you feel mildly responsibility for pointing out the spot to him.
You soon locate Killian's leg and haul him across the slippery floor to the sidelines. Foam is on and beneath his glasses and he sports a bulbous foam beard. He's grateful for his daring rescue, Saffa hugs you and Zak's still laughing hysterically.
Amazingly, the whole episode has been caught on camera by Kent Televisiion (KTV) filming from the balcony above balcony. That'll be a must-watch on YouTube or Facebook later.
By the time you make it [[back to your bed]] your clothes are sodden and your head is ringing from the music.
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Zak is laughing hysterically. The floor is nearly waist high in foam apart from the montain of it concealing Killian. You stare at the white mass and wait. Saffa's panicking but you reassure her Killian will be loving this English experience.
Eventually Killian crawls out on all fours. Foam is on and beneath his glasses plus he's sporting a bulbous foam beard. Amazingly, the whole episode was caught on camera by the Kent Television (KTV) filming from the above balcony. That'll be a must re-watch that on YouTube or Facebook later.
By the time you make it [[back to your bed]] your clothes are sodden and your head is ringing from the music. <img src="images/passages/back to your bed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers & Employability Service">
During your weekly check of the university event calendar, you're surprised to see so many events run by the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Careers and Employability Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ this month. Careers fair aside, there's workshops including CV and cover letter writing, career path analysis based on your interests, skill sets and experience plus how to promote yourself to employers. Employability Points are earned at each event, which can be exchanged for training sessions, company experiences or vouchers.
The CV and cover letter writing course is imminent. Do you [[book yourself onto the one hour course]] or [[see how things pan out with your Civil Service contacts]]?<img src="images/passages/book yourself onto the one hour course.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers & Employability Service">
The course lasts an hour and you'll receive Employability Points for that voucher you want.
The course teacher is the softly spoken Mike Ake. Ironically, he starts by offering cake slices around to boost sugar levels. You thought your current CV was good but now you see it's full of common errors. Mike provides clever tips for condensed phrasing techniques for an informative and professional CV.
That evening [[you go home to re-jig your CV]] whilst the advice is still fresh.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/see how things pan out with your civil service contacts.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Postgraduate Information">
If Jean-Paul's contacts bear fruit you won't need to write a CV. Besides, there's plenty of CV writing advice on the Kent website. You're too busy finshing your <<print $assignmentType>>s before Christmas anyway.
Colourful banners advertise the postgraduate fair. It's on a Wednesday afternoon, clashing with your boxercise class at the sports centre. At your next seminar, Bob asks if you're going. Do you [[go with Bob and take a look]] at the opportunities or [[rule out postgrad study for now]], you're focused on that career end goal?<img src="images/passages/message from saffa_message from saffa2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Phone">
She's back in the UK. Being abroad was too much for her. Following deep discussions with her school, she has surrendered the year abroad component of her degree. She feels deflated and disappointed. Tiz however has settled into her French studies at the Paris campus with ease.
She asks to meet you. Do you pause studying to [[meet Saffa]] or promise to catch up later [[once your project is out of the way]]?
<img src="images/passages/meet saffa.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mungo's Bar and Bistro">
Saffa gives you a bear hug when you meet at Mungo's. She looks emotionally drained but you reassure her she did the right thing and you're happy to meet up regularly. You share a plate of chips as she details her trials and tribulations. She's still in contact with a French student, Killian, who took her under his wing. She hopes he can come and visit soon.
Saffa needs to wait until the following academic year to re-join stage 3 so in the meantime, she is working full time at a nearby nursery. It's not a perfect solution but at least she will be graduating with Tiz next year as planned.
You share your news and agree to meet up again soon. Before long you are [[back in the rhythm]] of lectures and assignments.
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From her curt reply, you sense Saffa is upset by your response. She realises you're busy but really wants to see you. She's working full time at a nearby nursery as she can't re-join stage 3 until next academic year. You message back and promise to meet her in a couple of weeks. You need to get [[back in the rhythm]] of staying focused on these vital next few months.
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She's back in the UK. Being abroad was too much for her. Following deep discussions with her school, she has surrendered the year abroad component of her degree. She feels deflated and disappointed. Tiz however has settled into her French studies at the Paris campus with ease.
She asks to meet you. Do you pause studying to [[meet Saffa|meet Saffa2]] or promise to catch up later [[once your project is out of the way|once your project is out of the way2]]?
<img src="images/passages/meet saffa.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mungo's Bar and Bistro">
Saffa gives you a bear hug when you meet at Mungo's. She looks emotionally drained but you reassure her she did the right thing and you're happy to meet up regularly. You share a plate of chips as she details her trials and tribulations. She's still in contact with a French student, Killian, who took her under his wing. She hopes he can come and visit soon.
Saffa needs to wait until the following academic year to re-join stage 3 so in the meantime, she is working full time at a nearby nursery. It's not a perfect solution but at least she will be graduating with Tiz next year as planned.
You share your news and agree to meet up again soon. Before long you are [[back in the rhythm|back in the rhythm2]] of lectures and assignments.
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From her curt reply, you sense Saffa is upset by your response. She realises you're busy but really wants to see you. She's working full time at a nearby nursery as she can't re-join stage 3 until next academic year. You message back and promise to meet her in a couple of weeks. You need to get [[back in the rhythm|back in the rhythm2]] of staying focused on these vital next few months.
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The next week is a blur of seminars and lectures. More assignments are set. This requires some careful time management now.
Do you [[use the Assignment Survival Toolkit|ASK2]] to help schedule some deadlines to avoid a last minute rush or [[just get one assignment done at a time|one at a time2]]?<img src="images/passages/go home to rejig your cv.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Campus">
You remain busy, finishing all your <<print $assignmentType>>s before Christmas.
Colourful banners advertise the postgraduate fair. It's on a Wednesday afternoon, clashing with your boxercise class at the sports centre. At your next seminar, Bob asks if you're going. Do you [[go with Bob and take a look]] at the opportunities or [[rule out postgrad study for now]], you're focused on that career end goal?
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Bob hopes to do a PhD. She loves research and can visualise an academic career. You reckon she'll be one of those academics who is always on TV giving their insight on controversial topics.
Three more years university study sounds daunting. However, a Masters degree is as little as one year and perfect for specialising further.
Bob is already chatting with staff at the PhD information stand. Your school is displaying details of the Masters courses. [[Do you want to take a look]] or leave Bob and [[go to the sports centre]] to thrash a boxercise opponent?
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You can undertake a postgraduate course at any time. You're eager to leave education and carve out a career for the next few years.
You spend a [[well earned afternoon at the sports centre|go to the sports centre]] instead.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/do you want to take a look.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Reading A book together">
The staff soon match Masters courses to your areas of interest and skill. You can also potentially build up to a PhD if you want to. They explain the degree entry requirements, scholarships and finance options avalable.
Courses starts in September so you'd need to apply online by the end of June. That leaves 7 months to make a decision. You thank them for their help then locate Bob and discuss your options over a [[coffee in the Create bar]].
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It's strangely satisfying to punch something whilst being hollered at. Angel, your sparring partner, barely flinches when you punch but Angel nearly pushes you over with each jab. By the end of the hour your upper body is exhausted, the six-pack is still elusive and you've lost 3 pints in sweat. These fitness lessons help you stay focused and ready to [[hammer out that dissertation|hammer out that dissertation]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/coffee in the Create bar.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Create Cafe">
Bob is bursting with excitement at the prospect of becoming 'Dr Pomeline'. By the time she's outlined her research plans her Americano is cold. You confess you're not convinced about a postgrad course right now as you want to start your career, perhaps returning to postgraduate education later.
In the meantime you both have deadlines to meet and to [[hammer out that dissertation]].<img src="images/passages/they would be in canterbury before the end of term.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Christmas Meal">
Zak emails his acceptance on the condition that no dish will contain Nutella. Chimmy will still be on his industry placement in London but will join later after work. Tiz will be returning from Paris that week and can't guarantee she'll be back in time.
On the day, Saffa arrives early to help but refuses to have anythng to do with the turkey. She confiscates the Nutella before attempt to put a dollop into the gravy. The doorbell rings and Zak's there with a 4-pack of lager and immediately gets in the way in the tiny kitchen/dining area. Chimmy arrives, having walked from Canterbury West station round the corner. He removes his tie and jacket, seizes a lager can and sinks into your little armchair. He looks exhausted.
Saffa helps to [[dish up your Christmassy feast]]. It looks amazing. <img src="images/passages/dish up your christmassy feast.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Cathedral">
Crackers are pulled and childish paper crowns are worn. Before the first morsel is eaten the doorbell rings again.
Tiz stands in the glow of the street lights holding a bottle of Prosecco and radiating happiness from top to toe. Everyone cheers when she appears and Chimmy insists the spare chair is put next to him. They all made it!
After much wining and dining you all amble into town through the medieval Westgate Towers. Do you [[all go to The Cuban]] to party the evening away or [[pick a quieter pub]] for a drink and gossip?
<img src="images/passages/all go to the Cuban.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury High Street">
The atmosphere always buzzes at The Cuban. You dance for hours, soaking up each other's company. It is the best evening of the year and an awesome way to end the term.
By the weekend you've packed up your apartment and are [[ready to head back home for Christmas]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/pick a quieter pub.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="English Pub">
You find a sleepy pub, just off the High Street. The drinks flow as easy as the conversation. It feels like you've been apart for years and minutes all at the same time. It is the best evening of the year and an awesome way to end the term.
By the weekend you've packed up your apartment and are [[ready to head back home for Christmas]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/ready to head back home for Christmas.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Law Building">
The New Year feels serious. This is the last term before your final exams. Bob has made a headstart on her dissertation over Christmas. Leila and Brian are not far behind. Mahat isn't doing a dissertation and still has no career plan. Hannah has chosen modules that complement her intended career path.
You send your dissertation proposal to Jean-Paul and he suggests some contacts to email within the Civil Service. Do you want to [[start making contact with these new people now]] or [[leave it until you know a bit more]] about the direction the research will take?<img src="images/passages/start making contact with these new people now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Laptop In the Dark">
Good idea. It may take weeks before they get back to you, by which time you'll have a better idea of what you need.
You email one of the project managers Jean-Paul suggested. In the interim [[would you like to go to see your Academic Adviser]], now also your dissertation supervisor) or [[would you rather wait]] until you've completed more research?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it until you know a bit more.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Reading">
You spend your first week back pondering how to tackle your dissertation. You could [[get all the information you need from the Kent web pages]] (there's a ton dissertation writing advice there) or [[book an appointment to see your Academic Adviser]]?<img src="images/passages/book an appointment to see your academic adviser_would you like to book an appointment_would you like to go and see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark welcomes you back to campus and is pleased to discuss your dissertation. He suggests you consider a specific research question you want to answer. He quizzes you about the chapters and case studies you'll need. You hadn't thought that far ahead. He proposes you undertake data gathering, then perform a statistical analysis.He's pleased you've made contact with the Civil Service Project Manager. It's more detailed than you had imagined but they are just the pointers you needed.
You thank Prof. Mark and go to the library and [[start planning out your chapters and data collection]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/would you rather wait.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Surely it's better to see Prof. Mark once you've fleshed out your dissertation ideas? You don't want to appear to be asking him for inspiration now you're in stage 3.
Getting started is daunting. A library search on your topic recommends hundreds of potentially relevant sources. So far you've only written 'Contents Page' and 'Introduction'. The Kent website outlines how @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ have extensive advice for organising and writing a dissertation. First, you need to define a [[question to ask]] that will steer your data gathering.<img src="images/passages/start planning out your chapters and data collection.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Piles of Books">
There is so much reading, you start making lists and recording them on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ for your bibliography. You're just going to have to pace yourself. What data do you need to collect? It's all time consuming. Then there's the the Civil Service case studies. It starts to feel overwhelming.
Do you [[put all the tasks into a list]] then convert that into a gantt chart to pace yourself or [[proceed with a phase of 'research and fact finding']] for now?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/proceed with a phase of research and fact finding_put all the tasks into a list.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Checklist">
More lists means less to remember. Even if plans change, you can track the main tasks. The list looks long. Some need to be done in order. You download a free gantt chart app and transfer the list. It already looks like a tight squeeze before the deadline with only a 2 week contingency.
Bing! [[An email from the Civil Service has arrived]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/proceed with a phase of research and fact finding_put all the tasks into a list.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Checklist">
Your list is going to change daily over the next few weeks so you wait until you're clearer on what the focus is. For 2 weeks you pour over reading material, mostly electronic sources from the comfort of your bed. The research allows you to compile a to-do list. It's extensive and you worry about if it's too much. The panic kicks in.
Bing! [[An email from the Civil Service has arrived|Civil Service2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/send an email to the civil service contact_civil service2_an email from the civil service has arrived.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kids Celebrating">
The email is from Senior Project Manager Alison Wonderland. She has read your dissertation proposal and says it fits beautifully with her current project and suggests you meet her to discuss it further. Do you immediately [[take Alison up on her offer]] and arrange to visit or [[leave the email for a week]] until you've identified what to ask?
<img src="images/passages/take Alison up on her offer_take Alison up on her offer2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury East Station">
Alison suggests you meet in London in a couple of weeks, and provides some key information to consider in the meantime. You book your train ticket to get a cheaper fare. Now you're worried about what to wear. Your student wardrobe isn't exactly professional.
You spend the next couple of weeks [[getting yourself organised for the London visit]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave the email for a week_leave the email for a week2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Train">
You frantically read as much as possible and make notes on data collection requirements. A week later you email Alison and agree to a visit, outlining the areas you're interested in. She's busy so can only offer one visit date, which clashes with boxercise, but you gratefully accept and then spend the remainder of the week getting [[as much reading and information gathering done|getting yourself organised for the London visit]] as possible ahead of the meeting.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/getting yourself organised for the London visit.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="High Speed Train">
Unsure of the dress code, you decide to go smart. Your jacket is hot and itchy. It's mid-week and the capital heaves with city workers and tourists. The travel instructions are straightforward and the high speed train from Canterbury, a 2 minute walk from your apartment, ensures you're at the Civil Service office in less than an hour.
Alison Wonderland meets you at reception. She listens and assesses the research you've made to date. She looks stone-faced. Is she [[as bored as a grape on a cheese board]] or is she [[deep in thought about your proposal]]?<img src="images/passages/send an email to the civil service contact_civil service2_an email from the civil service has arrived.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kids Celebrating">
That's all you need right now, another thing to add to the list.
The email is from Senior Project Manager Alison Wonderland. She has read your dissertation proposal and says it fits beautifully with her current project and suggests you meet her to discuss it further. Do you immediately [[take Alison up on her offer|take Alison up on her offer2]] and arrange to visit or [[leave the email for a week|leave the email for a week2]] until you've identified what to ask?
<img src="images/passages/take Alison up on her offer_take Alison up on her offer2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury East Station">
Alison suggests you meet in London in a couple of weeks, and provides some key information to consider in the meantime. You book your train ticket to get a cheaper fare. Now you're worried about what to wear. Your student wardrobe isn't exactly professional.
You spend the next couple of weeks [[getting yourself organised for the London visit]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave the email for a week_leave the email for a week2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Train">
A week later the overwhelming panic settles and you email Alison and agree to a visit, outlining the areas you're interested in. She's busy so can only offer one visit date, which clashes with boxercise, but you gratefully accept and then spend the remainder of the week getting [[as much reading and information gathering done|getting yourself organised for the London visit]] as possible ahead of the meeting.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/question to ask.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Studying">
The question might be something you disagree with or find controversial. You use the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ resources to refine your question and required resources to read.
Now you have a plan [[would you now like to book an appointment]] with your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ or [[do you feel able to continue on your own]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/book an appointment to see your academic adviser_would you like to book an appointment_would you like to go and see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark welcomes you back to campus and is pleased to discuss your dissertation. You show him your proposal, chapter outlines and how plan of work. He's pleased you've made contact with the Civil Service Project Manager. He offers useful suggestions and endorses extensive data gathering followed by statistical analysis. It's more detailed than you had imagined but they are just the pointers you needed.
You thank Prof. Mark and go to the library and [[start re-jigging your planned chapters and plan your data collection]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/start rejigging your planned chapters and plan your data_do you feel able to continue on your own.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="To do list">
There is so much reading, you start making lists and recording them on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ for your bibliography. You're just going to have to pace yourself. What data do you need to collect? It's all time consuming. Then there's the the Civil Service case studies. It starts to feel overwhelming.
Do you [[put all the tasks into a list]] then convert that into a gantt chart to pace yourself or [[proceed with a phase of 'research and fact finding']] for now?
<img src="images/passages/start rejigging your planned chapters and plan your data_do you feel able to continue on your own.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="To do list">
There is so much reading, you start making lists and recording them on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ for your bibliography. You're just going to have to pace yourself. What data do you need to collect? It's all time consuming. Then there's the the Civil Service case studies. It starts to feel overwhelming.
Do you [[put all the tasks into a list]] then convert that into a gantt chart to pace yourself or [[proceed with a phase of 'research and fact finding']] for now?
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<</if>>Double-click this passage to edit it.<img src="images/passages/get all the information you need from the kent web pages_planning chapters and data collection2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students on A Computer">
There is so much material on line. You start making a bibliography list on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. What data do you need to collect? What about the Civil Service case studies, you haven't even contacted them yet? It feels overwhelming.
Do you [[put all the tasks into a list|list2]] then convert that into a gantt chart to pace yourself or [[proceed with a phase of 'research and fact finding'|proceed2]] for now?<img src="images/passages/book an appointment to see your academic adviser_would you like to book an appointment_would you like to go and see your academic adviser.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark welcomes you back to campus and is pleased to discuss your dissertation. He suggests you consider a specific research question you want to answer. He quizzes you about the chapters and case studies you'll need. You hadn't thought that far ahead. He proposes you undertake data gathering, then perform a statistical analysis. Will you speak to any organisations in the field? You mention the Civil Service. He urges you to make contact soon. These are just the pointers you needed.
You thank Prof. Mark and go to the library to [[start planning out your chapters and data collection|planning chapters and data collection2]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/get all the information you need from the kent web pages_planning chapters and data collection2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students on A Computer">
There is so much reading, you start making lists and recording them on @@.serviceLink;<<link "RefWorks">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ for your bibliography. You're just going to have to pace yourself. What data do you need to collect? It's all time consuming. You haven't even contacted the Civil Service for case studies yet. It starts to feel overwhelming.
Do you [[put all the tasks into a list|list2]] then convert that into a gantt chart to pace yourself or [[proceed with a phase of 'research and fact finding'|proceed2]] for now?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/list_proceed2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Writing a list">
More lists means less to remember. Even if plans change, you can track the main tasks. The list looks long. Some need to be done in order. You download a free gantt chart app and transfer the list. It already looks like a tight squeeze before the deadline. You need to crack on and [[send an email to the Civil Service contact]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/list_proceed2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Writing a list">
Your list is going to change daily over the next few weeks so you wait until you're clearer on what the focus is. For 2 weeks you pour over reading material, mostly electronic sources from the comfort of your bed. The research allows you to compile a to-do list. It's extensive and you worry about if it's too much. The panic kicks in. You need to crack on and [[send an email to the Civil Service contact]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/send an email to the civil service contact_civil service2_an email from the civil service has arrived.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kids Celebrating">
It's a while before you receive a reply from Senior Project Manager Alison Wonderland. She has read your dissertation proposal and says it fits beautifully with her current project and suggests you meet her to discuss it further. Do you immediately [[take Alison up on her offer|take Alison up on her offer2]] and arrange to visit or [[leave the email for a week|leave the email for a week2]] until you've identified what to ask?<img src="images/passages/as bored as a grape on a cheese board.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Working Students">
You need think positive. She requested the meeting for a purpose. If you're pessimistic this will show in your presentation. Remain confident and [[deliver the rest of your proposal]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/deep in thought about your proposal.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Meeting">
Yes, stay positive. She requested the meeting because she's interested. Remain confident and [[deliver the rest of your proposal]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/deliver the rest of your proposal.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="London Cafe">
Alison loves your ideas and spends the morning discussing them further. She highlights how her project constitutes an excellent case study and introduces you to her colleague Dr Helen Back, a key researcher on her project. You shadow Helen for the remainder of the day. At lunch time, the staff canteen is a revelation. Helen says your lunch is covered by hospitality. Knowing this do you [[go all out and start building a mini-empire of food on your tray]] to maximise the freebie or [[play it cool]] and select sushi and a pot of healthy oaty muesli crumbs?<img src="images/passages/go all out and start building a mini empire of food on your tray.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cheeky Kid">
You might as well get your money's worth! Helen raises an eyebrow as you pile chicken and new potatoes on your plate and wedge packets of crisps, chocolate and biscuits around the edge of the tray.
Helen chooses a panini which she finishes long before you've cleared your plate. You are so hungry. You stab another potato, the fork misses and the gravy-coated potato scoots off into your lap. Helen laughs as you stare at a brown stain on your trousers. Appetite now ruined, you mop the gravy and stash the crisps, chocolate and biscuits [[into your bag for later]].
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You're worried you made the wrong choice but this tastes surprisingly good. Helen chooses a mozarella panini and you chat about what it's like to work there.
You can't face the pot of oaty floor crumbs right now so you stash them [[in your bag for later|into your bag for later]].<img src="images/passages/into your bag for later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bedside Table">
By the end of the day you've amassed many new ideas. Alison and Helen ask you to remain in regular contact. The train journey back home so quick you barely have time to eat the hoarded food. You hardly sleep that night as dissertation ideas clash noisily in your head.
Over the coming weeks you make great progress, checking in regularly with Prof. Mark who makes literature suggestions and comments on draft chapters. But your data analysis statistical skills are weak and trawling through YouTube tutorials is frustrating.
Do you book an appointment at the [[SLAS 'maths and stats clinic']] for stage 3 dissertation writers or [[muddle through with YouTube]]?
<img src="images/passages/SLAS maths and stats clinic.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Maths Class">
The one hour workshop run by maths whizz, Dr Al Jebbra makes your statistical task look like a doddle. He has some great ideas for presenting those findings too. That was so easy!
You do the final edit, checking for critical analysis and absolutely no plagiarism. It's ready to take to the Design and Print centre. They bind two copies of your dissertation for you while you wait. You leave the centre holding two copies of your first book! You submit one copy to Prof. Mark and submit an e-copy via @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. [[Your dissertation is complete]]!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/muddle through with youtube.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Printing Shop">
After a few late nights you finally manage all the analysis required. It's exhausting.
You do the final edit, checking for critical analysis and absolutely no plagiarism. It's ready to take to the Design and Print centre. They bind two copies of your dissertation for you while you wait. You leave the centre holding two copies of your first book! You submit one copy to Prof. Mark and submit an e-copy via @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. [[Your dissertation is complete]]!
<img src="images/passages/your dissertation is complete.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Funny Rabbit Comedy Club">
To celebrate, Bob asks if you want to go to Funny Rabbit Comedy Club tonight. Her budding comedian friend Tobias is performing again.
Do you [[join Bob at Funny Rabbit]] or celebrate your achievement [[with Zak down at The Venue]]?<img src="images/passages/join Bob at Funny Rabbit.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Funny Rabbit Comedy Club">
The Gulbenkian is heaving. It has nothing to do with Tobias and everything to do with visiting comedian Ed Byrne making an appearance.
Tobias takes to the stage and goes for it. As a Forensic Science student, the chemical jokes and puns are aplenty. (Tobias: what does Helium do when you stamp on its foot? It doesn't react). The crowd are in a good mood. (Tobias: Did you hear oxygen went on date with potassium. It went OK).
It was an entertaining evening. By the end, Tobias excitedly appears. Apparently a comedy scout in the audience has just invited Tobias perform at the next Edinburgh Fringe Festival! What an impressive end to his time at Kent, if he can [[concentrate on getting through the final exams]]!
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It's 80's night at The Venue and everyone sports luminous tutus, legwarmers and t-shirts. Human-sized Pikachu has also put in an 80's inspired apearance too. Zak is still in his black uniform but does concede to a green headband.
DJ Jezza is playing floor-filler 80's tunes which everyone is bouncing in unison to. This is the last big night out before you [[concentrate on getting through the final exams]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/concentrate on getting through the final exams.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Outside">
Spring is fading and the first signs of summer are here. You have attended your school revision sessions and you're working through your notes. Occasionally you dip into the Kent Player lecture recordings to fill in any gaps.
There's one big piece of research that you just cannot get right. Do you sit in your apartment and work it out and then [[reward yourself with a takeaway pizza]] or put your books down and [[go to your boxercise class at the sports centre]] instead?<img src="images/passages/reward yourself with a takeaway pizza.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Dominos Pizza Website">
It takes an eternity, but by late evening you've cracked it. You've watched hours of Kent Player recordings and read pages of notes and research to get there. Dinner is long overdue. The pizza menu stares back at you.
Do you [[play it safe with a pepperoni pizza]] or risk a [[large stuffed crust Tandoori pizza]] instead?
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Angel is in the boxercise studio, already with her gloves on. Half way through the class you're exhausted and the sweat stings your eyes. Angel barely gets out of breath. By the end everything hurts but you leave the sports centre feeling 7 feet tall.
Luckily the cycle home is all downhill. You need a snack before getting back to your revision but food supplies are limited. A packet of [[mediterranean couscous and a tin of tuna]] or some delicious [[Nutella and toast]]?
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The delivery moped arrives at your door and you relieve the driver of the precious pizza box. You flip the lid and stuff the first slice into your mouth. Wow, always, always so satisfying. It's a great reward for hard work. Brain and stomach now fully charged, you are [[ready for your final exams]].
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The delivery moped arrives at your door and you relieve the driver of the precious pizza box. You flip the lid and stuff the first slice into your mouth. Within moments your mouth is on fire but you continue devouring the slices as tears roll down your cheeks and your vision becomes blurred. With two slices left (tomorrow's lunch?) you close the box. Your stomach growls all night, interupting that deep sleep you needed.
The next morning, your brain is foggy and your tummy is tender. You hope you're [[ready for your final exams]].
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Outside the sports hall, you sip from your water bottle to calm your nerves. These last exams are vital. The next 3 weeks will be tough.
You're ushered into the largest sports hall and locate your row, in the middle. You are surrounded by a sea of students, adding to your anxiety. This is a nightmare. Do you [[put your hand up and ask to be moved]] to another smaller room where you could focus better or [[take a moment to do some controlled breathing]]?<img src="images/passages/put your hand up and ask to be moved.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Exam Hall">
Other students stare at you for requesting assistance already. An invigilator comes to see you. He checks his clipboard to see if you're scheduled to sit in a separate room by prior arrangement. It isn't. You're told you're free to leave but you won't be allowed back in and will be marked absent. He gently assures you that, once the exam starts, you'll be so focused you won't notice your anxiety so much.
Anxiety levels already unbearable, do you [[leave the hall to get some fresh air]] or [[stay and see how long you can last]]?
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This calms anxiety every time, whether for exams or presentations. Using the 4-7-8 rule you breathe in whilst counting to 4, hold your breath for 7 counts and breathe out slowly for 8 counts. By the third cycle your heart rate has slowed and your shoulders drop. You focus only on your desk to avoid studying the fidgety students nearby.
The exam begins. [[You're ready to show them what you can do]].
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Full of good energy, this will sustain an evening of revision. It's ready in minutes and eaten in seconds. Fully recovered from boxercise, you look again at the tricky research with fresh eyes. You soon crack the problem from your seminar notes. That the break really helped. You promise yourself to take regular breaks to prevent exam fatigue over the next 3 weeks.
Your notes are organised and you're confident about [[your first exam tomorrow|ready for your final exams]] morning.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Nutella and toast.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Nutella on toast">
The Nutella tastes as good as ever. You paste a chunky brown layer on toast and devour it messily. That sugar hit gives you the boost you need. You look again at the tricky research with fresh eyes. You soon crack the problem from your seminar notes. That the break really helped. You promise yourself to take regular breaks to prevent exam fatigue over the next 3 weeks.
Your notes are organised and you're confident about [[your first exam tomorrow|ready for your final exams]] morning.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave the hall to get some fresh air.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Sports Centre">
The need to escape was overwhelming. You suck in the air as you look skywards. You've just blown it. Your next exam is here tomorrow. Do you [[convince yourself that you'll be fine tomorrow]] or try to get an [[urgent appointment with Student Support in your school]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay and see how long you can last.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ticklist">
Your heart is thumping and your hands are clammy. You remember a great trick that calms anxiety every time, whether for exams or presentations. Using the 4-7-8 rule you breathe in whilst counting to 4, hold your breath for 7 counts and breathe out slowly for 8 counts. By the third cycle your heart rate has slowed and your shoulders drop. You focus only on your desk to avoid studying the fidgety students nearby.
The exam soon begins. [[You're ready to show them what you can do]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/convince yourself that youll be fine tomorrow.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Writing">
The following morning is the same scenario. But the sight of hundreds of desks is not so overwhelming. You take your seat and see Leila squirming uncomfortably. Then you remember a great trick to calm your anxiety, whether for exams or presentations. Using the 4-7-8 rule you breathe in whilst counting to 4, hold your breath for 7 counts and breathe out slowly for 8 counts. By the third cycle your heart rate has slowed and your shoulders drop. You focus only on your desk to avoid studying the fidgety students nearby.
The questions were decent and you feel you've done yourself proud. An army of invigilators gliding swiftly up and down the rows, collecting papers.
Finally, you stand outside in the warm sunshine. You did it! You know you can power through the remaining exams. [[It will all soon be over]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/urgent appointment with student support.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo The Receptionist">
Jo, the receptionist, is chewing sweets when you arrive and convinces you to have one too. She starts tapping on her keyboard to check for available @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ appointments. There's a cancellation at 3pm.
[[Do you want to some back later for that]] or [[insist it is urgent and you need to see someone RIGHT NOW]]. <img src="images/passages/youre ready to show them what you can do.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sports Centre">
The questions were decent and you feel you've done yourself proud. An army of invigilators gliding swiftly up and down the rows, collecting papers.
Finally, you stand outside in the warm sunshine. That's the first one done. You spot Bob consoling Hannah over by the bike racks.
Do you [[go over to see if you can help]] or decide you need to [[stay positive and get back to your revision]]?<img src="images/passages/go over to see if you can help.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sad Person">
Hannah is sobbing and Bob looks concerned. You suggest a chat in a quiet corner of Woody's. It transpires Hannah thinks she messed up a third of her paper in an exam worth 80% of her module. You and Bob listen and reassure. Bob suggests making an appointment with school @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ or her @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to allay any fears.
Hannah concedes she can't change the past but she can still focus on the next exams. It reminds you of the [[impact you still have over your future|It will all soon be over]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay positive and get back to your revision.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library">
Bob looks concerned and you cross your fingers and mouth 'good luck' as you pass. You can't afford to lose a whole afternoon of revision at this late stage. Bob will help Hannah, won't she?
You spend the afternoon revising in the Silent Study Zone of Templeman library, periodically visiting the cafe for a reward and break from your notes. You're feeling confident about the remaining exams and how [[it will all soon be over|It will all soon be over]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/do you want to come back later for that.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Support Meeting">
Jo books you in and you head over to Sibsons cafe to kill time. You can't believe you walked out of that exam. That is a definite zero for a paper that constitutes 80% of the module!
Your 3pm @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ appointment doesn't go to plan. Support officer Elaine explains it's OK to feel anxious and that she can help by noting an exam concession for you. This means your anxiety appointment will be considered at the exam board meetings. Unfortunately, she can't book you into alternative exam rooms at this late stage to come back if you struggle again.
You trudge home to [[research tips for overcoming anxiety]] ready for tomorrow.<img src="images/passages/insist it is urgent.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo the Receptionist">
Jo looks at you over the top of her glasses. She's not pursuaded by your outburst. She repeats the cancellation is at 3pm, do you want it or should she offer it to someone else? You embarrassingly accept the 3pm offer.
You amble over to Sibsons cafe to kill time. You can't believe you walked out of that exam. That is a definite zero for a paper that constitutes 80% of the module!
Your 3pm @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ appointment doesn't go to plan. Support officer Elaine explains it's OK to feel anxious and that she can help by noting an exam concession for you. This means your anxiety appointment will be considered at the exam board meetings. Unfortunately, she can't book you into alternative exam rooms at this late stage to come back if you struggle again.
You trudge home to [[research tips for overcoming anxiety]] ready for tomorrow.
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The next morning you file into the sports hall again. You have barely slept. Your heart is thumping and your hands are clammy. You deploy your researched breathing technique. Using the 4-7-8 rule you breathe in whilst counting to 4, hold your breath for 7 counts and breathe out slowly for 8 counts. By the third cycle your heart rate has slowed and your shoulders drop. You focus only on your desk to avoid studying the fidgety students nearby.
The questions were decent and you feel you've done yourself proud. An army of invigilators gliding swiftly up and down the rows, collecting papers.
Finally, you stand outside in the warm sunshine. You did it! You know you can power through the remaining exams. [[It will all soon be over]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/it will all soon be over.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Clovers">
Eventuall the last exam is here.
You receive a new message from Saffa. She's just come out of the doctors and they have confirmed chicken pox, presumably caught at the nursery where she works. She wanted wish you luck and is sending positive vibes. You message back remarking it's fortunate she isn't sitting her finals this year and promise to meet when she is feeling better.
You work efficiently through the paper until the end. You close your eyes and smile to yourself. That was the end of your degree!
The sense of urgency to get out of the building is palpable. Outside people cheer, hug and throw water from their bottles into the air. You spot Hannah, Brian, Marta and Hannah and suggest you go somewhere to celebrate. Do you [[go to K-Bar for a full-on blow-out]] or go to [[Dolche Vita for a delicious celebratory meal]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go to K-Bar for a full-on blow-out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="K-Bar Courtyard">
Liquid celebrations, here we come!
With drinks in hand you clink glasses and congratulating each other. You spot Gabriel through the window playing pool. You feel sorry for him not yet finishing due to repeating a year.
Bob, Mahat and Zak turn up. The cocktails flow as more students come to the bar to celebrate. The music is turned up loud and the courtyard glows by lantern light in the warm evening. You remember eating 3 packets of cheese and onion crisps for dinner, swilled down with a strange green cocktail from Mahat. It's a fantastic night you probably won't remember.
The next morning you spot an email from Alison Wonderland from the Civil Service. You speculate whether she has got around to reading your dissertation yet.
[[You click to open it]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Dolche Vita for a delicious celebratory meal.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Dolche Vita Restaurant">
From Dolche Vita you watch the ducks enjoying themselves on the pond. You order a fat bowl of Korean BBQ chicken wings with extra cheesy garlic bread. Marta smirks at your BBQ sauce 'smile'. Everyone devours their meal then you all go to K-Bar which is full of jubilant students. The music gets progressively louder throughout the evening as you celebrate in the warm courtyard lit by orange lanterns.
Eventually you share a taxi back home. It was a [[fantastic evening and one you probably won't remember]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/you click to open it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Looking At Your Phone">
Alison has read your dissertation and is impressed with the critical analysis and conclusions. She also appreciated your work for Dr Helen Back's department. Alison is heading a project and wants to know if you are interested in attending an interview for one of the posts!
Do you [[reply immediately and say yes, absolutely]] or play it cool and have some [[time to think over a suitable reply first]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/reply immediately and say yes absolutely.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Laptop Work">
You quickly reply saying you're super interested but could shesend further details about the post. Within the hour the full job description is emailed. You don't meet 100% of the criteria, but that doesn't mean you can't apply. She asks for your CV and cover letter by the end of the week plus at least one reference.
You start writing your CV and letter. It's pretty good if you say so yourself. Do you want to [[get it checked over at the Careers and Employability Service]] or are you happy to [[stick with your own version]]?
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Is it really the career you envisaged? Will there be opportunities there? Is the job at the right level for you? What's the pay like?
Eventually you reply to Alison confirming you're interested but would like to see the full job description first. Within the hour the full job description is emailed. You don't meet 100% of the criteria, but that doesn't mean you can't apply. She asks for your CV and cover letter by the end of the week plus at least one reference.
You start writing your CV and letter. It's pretty good if you say so yourself. Do you want to [[get it checked over at the Careers and Employability Service]] or are you happy to [[stick with your own version]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/stick with your own version.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Productivity">
It is factually correct, concise and relates your experience to the job description. You just need a referee now. Do you [[see your Academic Adviser and ask him to be a referee]] or [[put his name down anyway and hope that he doesn't mind]]?<img src="images/passages/get it checked over at CES.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Careers & Employability Service Desk">
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Do you go to [[see your Academic Adviser and ask him to be a referee]] or [[put his name down anyway and hope that he doesn't mind]]?
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Professor Mark is marking exams. He's delighted that the Civil Service have invited you for interview after working with them earlier. He's happy to supply a reference, specifically mentioning the skills in the job description. You are confident that your application will be stronger for Mark's focused input. You send off your CV, cover letter and referee details to Alison electronically that evening.
Whilst waiting for a reponse, you pack up your apartment and sell most of your books back to Blackwells Bookshop on campus. Plus there's the final summer ball to attend this weekend.
You soon receive another email from Alison. You've made it through the selection panel and been invited to interview! It's in 5 days. You need to get organised. You google interview techniques. Do you [[work through some online guidance]] or play it safe and ask to [[have an interview practice session]] at the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Careers and Employability Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@?
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@@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Advisers">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ ordinarily supply references on request for their advisees. Now see why it's been important to stay in contact with them throughout your degree so they can write a more informed reference.
You send off your completed CV, cover letter and referee details to Alison by email that evening. Whilst waiting for a reponse, you pack up your apartment and sell most of your books back to Blackwells Bookshop on campus. Plus there's the final summer ball to attend this weekend.
You soon receive another email from Alison. You've made it through the selection panel and been invited to interview! It's in 5 days. You need to get organised. You google interview techniques. Do you [[work through some online guidance]] or play it safe and ask to [[have an interview practice session]] at the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Careers and Employability Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@?
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So many YouTube clips highlight good and bad interview ettiquette. You find a document on the Kent @@.serviceLink;<<link "Careers and Employability Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website outlining really good interview advice. After each question, don't feel rushed into answering straight away. Pause. Why are they asking that? What specific experience are they looking for? Answer how you would handle a particular scenario then back it up with an example of how you put that into practice. Be prepared to say why you want the role at the start, and have at least 3 good questions to ask them at the end.
Your outfit must be smart but comfortable as you'll need to concentrate. Don't wear the gravy-stained trousers.
You're ready to [[give the interview your best shot|let him know how the interview goes]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/have an interview practice session.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Interview Practice">
Careers adviser, Corbin books you an appointment in two days' time. You're advised to research the organisation and hiring department ready for your dummy interview. You hadn't thought about doing that, but it makes sense.
At the appointment, Corbin explains a handy interview recipe. After each question, don't feel rushed into answering straight away. Pause. Why are they asking that? What specific experience are they looking for? Answer how you would handle a particular scenario then back it up with an example of how you put that into practice. Be prepared to say why you want the role at the start, and have at least 3 good questions to ask them at the end.
You thank Corbin for his excellent guidance and promise to [[let him know how the interview goes]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/let him know how the interview goes.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="London St Pancras">
You catch the fast train from Canterbury West station and you're in St Pancras in 52 minutes. You feel queasy. At the Civil Service offices, you're shown into an air-conditioned office. Alison is there along with Dr Helen Back and another panel member, Kiril.
You manage a 45 minute grilling but answer everything competently. They cover your time with Helen and your dissertation work. You confidently explain your research process and how you drew your conclusion. Alison explains you'll hear tomorrow whether you have been successful.
You fill your time shopping for summer ball outfits with Saffa and Zak.
They are both back at your apartment enjoying a mug of tea when you get an email alert. NO WAY - you've been offered the job without knowing your degree outcome! They'll send a contract by post to sign and return. They want you to start as soon as possible. The [[summer ball is going to be a double]] celebration now!
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/agree to the starting day and forgo your graduation day.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Career Compass">
You send the signed contract and accept the starting date. Your parents aren't entirely happy when you tell them. Your mum's bought a new outfit and has taken your dad's suit to the dry cleaners. But they are so proud you you're taking your career seriously in accepting the job.
[[So that just leaves degree results day....|determine degree]]
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<img src="images/passages/see if you can negoiate a different start date so you can attend your graduation.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tickbox">
You return the signed contract then email Alison about the start date. She replies to say she's disappointed you won't be able to attend the rare corporate event but understands you want to experience graduation too. She delays your start date by another week.
[[So that just leaves degree results day....|determine degree]]
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/now you're on your own.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Accomodation">
You have just been dropped off, collected your house keys and deposited your bags and an emergency food shop in your new room.
You feel really sick and a bit wobbly. The stress of not knowing what to do suddenly hits you, yet simultaneously you're itching to explore.
Do you want to see some [[viewpoints|views]] around your new home or would you prefer to look at the [[campus in more detail|maps]] to get orientated?
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Looking at your map, you pretend to be engrossed.
"I'm Nayan," says the voice opposite. You sigh. You're going to have to acknowledge. Nayan gushes about his busy morning. He's been everywhere, registered at everything then holds up a canvas 'University of Kent' bag and tells you it is full of 'swag' that he's acquired from different places. Free stuff, eh? From where? Without permission, he snatches the map from your hands and points to each location giving out swag. Nayan values each freebie as a trophy. He asks you what you've been up to. [[Do you lie]] and tell him that you've been all over campus too or admit you've spent the morning [[drinking coffee|confess]] and haven't even registered yet?
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He sits in the chair anyway and tells you he'll disappear once your friend arrives.
"I'm <span id="nayan">Nayan</span>," says the voice opposite. You sigh. You're going to have to acknowledge. Nayan gushes about his busy morning. He's been everywhere, registered at everything then holds up a canvas 'University of Kent' bag and tells you it is full of 'swag' that he's acquired from different places. Free stuff, eh? From where? Without permission, he snatches the map from your hands and points to each location giving out swag. Nayan values each freebie as a trophy. He asks you what you've been up to. [[Do you lie]] and tell him that you've been all over campus too or admit you've spent the morning [[drinking coffee|confess]] and haven't even registered yet?
<img src="images/passages/register in the hall to the right.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mobile Phone">
Registration is done and dusted in 10 minutes.
YOU ARE OFFICIALLY A UNIVERSITY STUDENT!
You've worked hard to get here but you have earned this place. This is your big chance to get a degree. You laugh in the face of hard work.
The registration helper asks you for a passport style photo to use on your Kent One ID card. You scroll through all your selfies. Can't decide. Select camera mode. [[What look are you going for|face]]?
You're shown how to access your online record and timetable. A notification informs you of an imminent Welcome Induction event in Woolf lecture theatre. The helper strongly recommends that you attend that before you go exploring the campus. Do you go to your [[ Welcome Induction event|induction]] or [[investigate campus|explore]] a bit more instead?
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Then Christine takes over. She talks slowly and softly. She describes all the support mechanisms in place within the school if you need them, you only have to ask.
Professor Lucas then strongly adviss everyone to attend their school subject induction events later in the week as you will get lots more information as well as introductions to the staff who will be teaching you. In the meantime, he suggests that you take the rest of the day to familiarise and [[explore]] key campus locations.
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/dawdle back to the house.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sunset">
Other students are negotiating the lit pathways back to Parkwood. Some look worse for wear. You wonder how many will make it to campus tomorrow morning. Thank goodness you only had a couple.
Ah, back to your room at last.
Before you have had a chance to count sheep it is already [[morning]].<img src="images/passages/he then goes on to explain.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="EDA Lecture">
...the importance of regularly going to see your [[Academic Adviser]]). They are your mentor, answer queries, give advice and highlight areas for improvement.
Professor Lucas describes the school's dedicated [[Student Support]] department, for help with any personal concerns you may have.
Finally he discusses time management. Apparently you need to get your head around pacing yourself, staying focused and keeping good notes. He then introduces the teaching staff for your subject. Each person has a teaching speciality as well as undertaking cutting edge research, so they really know their stuff.
By the end, do you leave the theatre feeling [[energised and ready to go|energised]], [[slightly anxious]] about how you'll cope or so [[overwhelmed|overwhelmed]] with all the information that your hand is already speed dialling 'home'?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/rest of the afternoon.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Walking down a path">
Do you go back onto campus with Tiz to attend the [[Welcome Fair]] and join some university societies?
Do you [[sit outside Saffa's room]] and persuade her to see @@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Support">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@?
Do you go to your room for some quiet [[me-time]] because you've had enough of Welcome Week for today?<img src="images/passages/you dawdle round the tables with Tiz_subject only.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Societies">
The Kent Cheer group is ....cheering...in the centre of the plaza. The UKC Hogwarts Society look like they're re-living World Book Day. Someone is demonstrating the stand up comedy society. There's something for every interest, with many offering free taster sessions. You remember it free to joining your subject related academic society so you go to them first. They say they'll email you details of their first event and reward your interest with a free lolly.
Do you sign up straight away but just stick to the [[free subject related societies|subject only]], afterall you don't want to over commit yourself?
Do you decline the offer to join, take leaflets from various tables and as many lollies as you can manage and [[leave|wait]]?
Or do you go mad, [[join your subject societies|join]] then join the archery club, Adventure Gaming Society and the Baking Society, beacuse why not?
<img src="images/passages/is that right_or have you got the wrong end of the stick.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Studying">
Not quite. Sure, attend as much as possible, but you won't get all the answers on a plate. Extra independent work is needed if you want to bag that top grade.
So there's 10 weeks until the deadline. Any sense of urgency drifts away and you wonder if all that 'time management' chat was scaremongering?
You make some lecture notes in your pristine notebook and are again reminded of the importance of attendance to all lectures and seminars.
At the end, you leave the lecture theatre and head to the [[school common room]].
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You're right to be suspicious. Sure, you need to attend as much as possible, but you won't get all the answers on a plate. Extra independent work is needed if you want to bag that top grade.
So there's 10 weeks until the deadline. Any sense of urgency drifts away and you wonder if all that 'time management' chat was scaremongering?
You make some lecture notes in your pristine notebook and are again reminded of the importance of attendance to all lectures and seminars.
At the end, you leave the lecture theatre and head to the [[school common room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/summer ball is going to be a double.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Summer Ball Elvis">
The ball is amazing. Three thousand students, dressed to impress, fill the marquees, bars and fairground rides. Example, Jax Jones and Lady Leshurr are playing in The Venue. There's even a tent where an imitation Elvis resides over fake wedding ceremonies with a friend of your choice. You've soon 'married' Saffa and Brian and have Haribo rings and certificates to prove it. You make it to Woody's Survivor's Party by 2am. It was THE BEST NIGHT EVER.
By the time you get home there's a Civil Service envelope on your doormat. It contains your contract and joining instructions. Wow - you spot the starting salary! You immediately sign the contract and place it in the return envelope. Then you read the joining instructions. They want you to start on the day of a one-off corporate event. It's a unique chance to meet everyone and is the perfect start to your career. BUT it is on graduation day.
Do you [[agree to the starting day and forgo your graduation day]], or [[see if you can negotiate a different start date so you can attend your graduation]] and miss the networking opportunity?<img src="images/passages/take a short pit stop.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Rutherford Dining Hall">
You're both eating slowly but neither wants to be defeated first. Chimmy gives up with 14 chips, a ribbon of batter and some orphan peas left. You throw in the towel leaving 7 chips and a snall batter canoe. It's going to be a struggle to waddle over to your [[next lecture]].<img src="images/passages/food collection area.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Rutherford Dining Hall">
You follow Chimmy. Hot plates and numerous dishes steam under the bright lights. Serving staff generously build food towers on plates which hungry diners attempt to balance back to the tables. The odd yorkshire pudding doesn't make it.
Today's menu is [[fish and chips]], the [[wok bar]] or [[vegetable lasagne]]?<img src="images/passages/a plan is born.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tobasco Hot Sauce">
Tiz raids the fridge for more ingredients. You quickly 'borrow' the Tabasco sauce and simultaneously grab Chimmy's bottle of ketchup. As Tiz starts chopping some celery, you pour a sizeable dollup of Tabasco into Chimmy's ketchup bottle, much to Zak's amusement. With both bottles back to their rightful places you exit to your room.
Chimmy walks in looking vexed. He was asked to leave one of his lectures today for heckling his lecturer! Now Chimmy is adamant he wants to change courses to an alternative within his school. He disappears to his room to email his @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ about it.
Saffa [[comes home]] looking tired and pale.<img src="images/passages/a plan is born.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tobasco Hot Sauce">
Tiz raids the fridge for more ingredients. You quickly 'borrow' the Tabasco sauce and simultaneously grab Chimmy's bottle of ketchup. As Tiz starts chopping some celery, you pour a sizeable dollup of Tabasco into Chimmy's ketchup bottle, much to Zak's amusement. With both bottles back to their rightful places you exit to your room.
You pin up your timetable up then spread out all the reading materials. There so much. Surely there's a mistake? Feeling stressed.
Eventually, Tiz announces [[dinner is ready]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/dinner is ready.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tasty Shepherds Pie">
The sloppy shepherds pie is dished out. What starts as a mound of food slowly spreads like slow lava across the plate forming a chunky pancake. Despite this it tastes good. Chimmy gets his beloved ketchup and covers his meal in sauce. You can tell the Tabasco is starting to kick in. He takes a large gulp of water from his bottle. You can hardly hold your face together. He comments to Tiz that the dish is quite fiery. She replies she only put a tiny bit of Tabasco in it. Ahh, Chimmy is too polite to make a scene. Somehow, he finishes his plate despite sweat running down his temples.
Who washed up? You cleverly suggest a [[game of rock, paper, scissors]] to decide.<img src="images/passages/game of rock paper scissors.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Rock Paper Scissors">
Tiz's paper wraps Zak's rock so Zak goes on to play Saffa, whose scissors eventually cut Zak's paper. You've selected rock which blunts Zak's scissors. It's not looking good for Zak. Finally Zak wins by wrapping Chimmy's rock with paper. Chimmy scowls.
Chimmy washes up the dishes, pans and utensils. Badly.
You go to your room for some [[R&R time]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/set yourself a reminder_reminder2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Great. You can always cancel the appointment if necessary.
Prof. Mark alerts you to the inspirational speakers visiting this term, stressing the importance of other people's opinions on subjects related to your degree. He reminds you to manage your time, stick to deadlines, join clubs or societies and utilise resources such as [[SLAS|SLAS Gabriel]], the library and [[Academic Peer Mentors|Mentors Gabriel]].
Gabriel whispers that's rubbish. He doesn't need help from @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, he always got top grades at school. And he certainly doesn't need an @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Peer Mentor">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to fill his time. You are undecided. With an hour before your seminar do you [[go to the library to do your background reading]], ask about being [[paired with an Academic Peer Mentor]] at the school reception, or sit at a picnic table and [[get some vitamin D]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it and see him when genuine need_genuine need 2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Lecture">
OK. You don't want a reputation as a time waster.
Prof. Mark alerts you to the inspirational speakers visiting this term, stressing the importance of other people's opinions on subjects related to your degree. He reminds you to manage your time, stick to deadlines, join clubs or societies and utilise resources such as [[SLAS|SLAS Gabriel]], the library and [[Academic Peer Mentors|Mentors Gabriel]].
Gabriel whispers that's rubbish. He doesn't need help from @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@, he always got top grades at school. And he certainly doesn't need an @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Peer Mentor">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ to fill his time. You are undecided. With an hour before your seminar do you [[go to the library to do your background reading]], ask about being [[paired with an Academic Peer Mentor]] at the school reception, or sit at a picnic table and [[get some vitamin D]]?<img src="images/passages/SLAS_SLAS Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="SLAS Website">
@@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ stands for '@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Learning Advisory Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@'. It's a one-stop shop for FREE tips and tricks to boost your learning. There's 1:1 sessions with an advisor for specific advice or workshops for essay writing, exam revision techniques and maths tricks. It's a no-brainer. You promise yourself to book a workshop when the need arises.
[[Go back|set yourself a reminder on your phone straight away]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Academic Peer Mentors_Mentors Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group of students studying">
This scheme pairs more experienced students with newer students in the same school. It's direct access to someone who has walked the path you're currently on. Discuss module details, settling into university, learning techniques and support resources. It's totally voluntary. Speak to your school if you want to be paired with an APM and they will sort it out for you.
You consider the benefits of having an APM to hand when you're pulling your hair out over a particular $assignmentType.
[[Go back|set yourself a reminder on your phone straight away]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/SLAS_SLAS Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="SLAS Website">
@@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ stands for '@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Learning Advisory Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@'. It's a one-stop shop for FREE tips and tricks to boost your learning. There's 1:1 sessions with an advisor for specific advice or workshops for essay writing, exam revision techniques and maths tricks. It's a no-brainer. You promise yourself to book a workshop when the need arises.
[[Go back|leave it and go and see him when you have a genuine need]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/Academic Peer Mentors_Mentors Gabriel.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Group of students studying">
This scheme pairs more experienced students with newer students in the same school. It's direct access to someone who has walked the path you're currently on. Discuss module details, settling into university, learning techniques and support resources. It's totally voluntary. Speak to your school if you want to be paired with an APM and they will sort it out for you.
You consider the benefits of having an APM to hand when you're pulling your hair out over a particular $assignmentType.
[[Go back|leave it and go and see him when you have a genuine need]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/set yourself a reminder_reminder2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Professor Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark alerts you to the inspirational speakers visiting this term, stressing the importance of other people's opinions on subjects related to your degree. He reminds you to manage your time, stick to deadlines, join clubs or societies and utilise resources such as [[SLAS]], the library and [[Academic Peer Mentors]].
Bob whispers she'll be doing everything Mark suggested. With an hour to kill before your seminar do you [[go to the library to do your background reading]], ask about being [[paired with an Academic Peer Mentor]] at the school reception, or sit at a picnic table and [[get some vitamin D]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it and see him when genuine need_genuine need 2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students Lecture">
OK. You don't want a reputation of being a time waster.
Prof. Mark alerts you to the inspirational speakers visiting this term, stressing the importance of other people's opinions on subjects related to your degree. He reminds you to manage your time, stick to deadlines, join clubs or societies and utilise resources such as [[SLAS]], the library and [[Academic Peer Mentors]].
Bob whispers she'll be doing everything Mark suggested. With an hour to kill before your seminar do you [[go to the library to do your background reading]], ask about being [[paired with an Academic Peer Mentor]] at the school reception, or sit at a picnic table and [[get some vitamin D]]?<img src="images/passages/slas Bob2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Learning Advisory Service">
@@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ stands for '@@.serviceLink;<<link "Student Learning Advisory Service">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@'. It's a one-stop shop for FREE tips and tricks to boost your learning. There's 1:1 sessions with an advisor for specific advice or workshops for essay writing, exam revision techniques and maths tricks. It's a no-brainer. You promise yourself to book a workshop when the need arises.
[[Go back|reminder2]].<img src="images/passages/mentors Bob2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Academic Peer Mentor">
This scheme pairs more experienced students with newer students in the same school. It's direct access to someone who has walked the path you're currently on. Discuss module details, settling into university, learning techniques and support resources. It's totally voluntary. Speak to your school if you want to be paired with an APM and they will sort it out for you.
You consider the benefits of having an APM to hand when you're pulling your hair out over a particular $assignmentType.
[[Go back|genuine need2]].<img src="images/passages/it isn't exactly as you left it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Hoover">
It's been snowing. In your room. Everything is coated in a fine white layer of 'snow'. You grab the communal hoover and start removing the dust. The commotion draws Zak from his bedroom. He says Chimmy was using a hairdryer and was blowing hot air under your door earlier. Zak didn't question him, nor ask about the bag of flour next to him.
By the time Chimmy returns your room is back to normal. Chimmy looks puzzled but inside you plan to prank him back as soon as [[this assignment is out of the way]].
<img src="images/passages/this assignment is out of the way.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Deadline Day">
A few final tweaks and you're ready to submit the $assignmentType via the @@.serviceLink;<<link "Turnitin">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ service on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@. The deadline is 2 days away. Do you leave it [[right to the last minute]] just in case you want to do a final edit or [[submit it now]] and concentrate on getting the other work done before their respective deadlines?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/next day depressed.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Dollop of Nutella">
You wake up still feeling down about the negative comments. The mirror confirms new eye bags have appreared and the slouched body language shouts 'failure' back at you.
A warm bowl of porridge with an added brown swirl of Nutella does little to cheer you. The frosty walk to campus punishes your lungs. You are anxious about handling this term's modules. You get to the Templeman library lecture theatre and [[walk in|to your lecture]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/too busy to help 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Baked Beans">
You do a runner before Chimmy gets to his feet. He hobbles to his cupboard and discovers the reason for your vanishing act. Behind your locked door, you hear him loudly voicing his dismay!
After a minute you return to the kitchen where Chimmy has 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You update him on your presentation strategy as he has a similar assignment later in the term. You highlight the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ resources and group study hubs. Eventually you return to your room to [[finish off the presentation|presentation3]].<img src="images/passages/chimmy's reaction 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tin Cans">
Sure! You nervously open his cupboard, step to one side to ask him which tin is the! Chimmy gasps at the ease with which he has been pranked. He hobbles over to the 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You update him on your presentation strategy as he has a similar assignment later in the term. You highlight the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ resources and group study hubs. Eventually you return to your room to [[finish off the presentation|presentation3]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/too busy to help 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Baked Beans">
You do a runner before Chimmy gets to his feet. He hobbles to his cupboard and discovers the reason for your vanishing act. Behind your locked door, you hear him loudly voicing his dismay!
After a minute you return to the kitchen where Chimmy has 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You recount your frustrations about Gabriel. Chimmy advises you use this as a learning experience, take it on the chin just once then move on. Now you've put things into perspective, you get back to your room to [[finish off the presentation]].<img src="images/passages/chimmy's reaction 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tin Cans">
Sure! You nervously open his cupboard, step to one side to ask him which tin is the! Chimmy gasps at the ease with which he has been pranked. He hobbles over to the 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You update him on your presentation strategy as he has a similar assignment later in the term. You highlight the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ resources and group study hubs. Eventually you return to your room to [[finish off the presentation]].
<img src="images/passages/too busy to help 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Baked Beans">
You do a runner before Chimmy gets to his feet. He hobbles to his cupboard and discovers the reason for your vanishing act. Behind your locked door, you hear him loudly voicing his dismay!
After a minute you return to the kitchen where Chimmy has 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You recount your frustrations about Gabriel. Chimmy advises you use this as a learning experience, take it on the chin just once then move on. Now you've put things into perspective, you get back to your room to [[finish off the presentation2]].<img src="images/passages/chimmy's reaction 1_2_3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tin Cans">
Sure! You nervously open his cupboard, step to one side to ask him which tin is the! Chimmy gasps at the ease with which he has been pranked. He hobbles over to the 8 labelless tins, shaking each one to his ear to identify the contents. He has 3 tins which are possibly beans. You also shake them to assess weight and sploshiness. Chimmy offers the tin opener. Peach slices! You both laugh. He hands you a second tin. It's beans! The remaining mystery tins go back into his cupboard for another time. He promises to prank you back in payment.
Chimmy rests as you make beans on toast for him. You update him on your presentation strategy as he has a similar assignment later in the term. You highlight the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ resources and group study hubs. Eventually you return to your room to [[finish off the presentation2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/go back to the flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lego Man">
In the kitchen, Zak is in a foul mood. He slams cupboard doors and opens the fridge to shout expletives at the yoghurts. Zak received a written warning about his (lack of) attendance. This has contravened the Academic Diligence Procedure that all students are expected to uphold.
Zak complains it is his right to miss lectures if he wants (and hand work in late) and it's unfair he has to meet his Senior Tutor. The same letter has been sent to his home address and his Mum is furious!
You state the school could be worried he is struggling and just want to help. That isn't received well so grab a box of jaffa cakes from your cupboard and [[beat a hasty retreat]].<img src="images/passages/walk of shame.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kennedy Common Room">
You [[return to the undergraduate common room|school common room again]], download whatever resources you can and leave the book collection for another day when you're reunited with your KentOne card.<img src="images/passages/ask the help desk staff.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Book Shelves">
Apparently it's no problem. They issue you a temporary card which gives access all day.
Your 4 books could be anywhere. But wait, when you click the book in your reading list it gives the precise shelf location. In no time you locate the shelf and tiptoe along the aisle. It transpires there's several copies of core books, so there was no rush afterall.
One copy looks much older than the others. Inside, pencil notes have been made in the margin (naughty) and near the centre a leaflet for a pizza delivery service acts as a bookmark. The molten cheesey photos make your mouth water. That's one down, and you soon locate the other three nearby.
Back down in the foyer do you go to one of the [[machines to automatically check your books out]] or go to [[the service desk]] for a manual issue?
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/forgo the lunch invite.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Library Foyer">
Lunch dates can wait until after the exams. Your current priority is revision.
You look for a free study pod in the library for [[an afternoon of revision]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/agree to meet them later at origins.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
The Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You stride across the green to Origins Bar. Bob and Brian are there, no sign of Hannah. You discuss the morning revision session then order food. The hanging chicken skewers look amazing. Bob picks the Bugs Bunny burger and 'voodoo fries' whilst Brian chooses has bean chilli nachos.
In between mouthfuls of food you all try to predict exam questions. Whilst devouring your last skewer Hannah breathlessly rushes in. She had fallen asleep listening to an ASMR cat purring video thinking it would be great background revision noise. You agree to meet again in a few days for lunch on the green over-looking Canterbury.
You each go back to your [[respective revision bolt-holes|bolt-holes1]].
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<</if>><img src="images/passages/lunch invite2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Foyer">
Lunch dates can wait until after the exams. Your current priority is revision.
You look for a free study pod in the library for [[an afternoon of revision|revision3]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/agree to meet them later at origins.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
he Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You stride across the green to Origins Bar. Bob and Brian are there, no sign of Hannah. You discuss the morning revision session then order food. The hanging chicken skewers look amazing. Bob picks the Bugs Bunny burger and 'voodoo fries' whilst Brian chooses has bean chilli nachos.
In between mouthfuls of food you all try to predict exam questions. Whilst devouring your last skewer Hannah breathlessly rushes in. She had fallen asleep listening to an ASMR cat purring video thinking it would be great background revision noise. You agree to meet again in a few days for lunch on the green over-looking Canterbury.
You each go back to your [[respective revision bolt-holes|bolt-holes3]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<<set $libraryScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/lunch invite2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Templeman Library Foyer">
Lunch dates can wait until after the exams. Your current priority is revision.
You look for a free study pod in the library for [[an afternoon of revision|revision2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/agree to meet them later at origins.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Origins Bar">
he Cornell notes system makes revision so much easier. Armed with key points to revise, you quickly identify the relevant notes, access library resources and boost your knowledge and confidence levels. You're really motoring now!
You stride across the green to Origins Bar. Bob and Brian are there, no sign of Hannah. You discuss the morning revision session then order food. The hanging chicken skewers look amazing. Bob picks the Bugs Bunny burger and 'voodoo fries' whilst Brian chooses has bean chilli nachos.
In between mouthfuls of food you all try to predict exam questions. Whilst devouring your last skewer Hannah breathlessly rushes in. She had fallen asleep listening to an ASMR cat purring video thinking it would be great background revision noise. You agree to meet again in a few days for lunch on the green over-looking Canterbury.
You each go back to your [[respective revision bolt-holes|bolt-holes2]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
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<<set $libraryScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/laugh politely and say it wont do any good.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cornwallis View">
You're not going to share notes now. If he didn't bring his own notes then that's his loss.
Before you re-read any of notes yourself you are all filed into the exam hall to your [[designated desks]].<img src="images/passages/agree to another round.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Pub Bar">
Zak gets just one more drink each.
The conversation is positively gushing now.
You get another couple of drinks
Zak buys anover wun for luk....
You're not sure how, but at some point you both [[stagger back to the house|dawdle back to house2]].
<img src="images/passages/dawdle back to the house2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Bins">
Other students are also negotiating the lit pathways back to Parkwood. You pass a litter bin, it's two gaping mouths begging for recyclable and general waste. It is suddenly utterly hilarious. You crouch and shout into the bin, requesting to be let in. Zak is huddled on the other side, playing the bin resident, stating the door is stuck so you need to climb through the window.
Window? Must mean opening at top.
Can't get head in. Foot fits though.
Foot stuck.
Foot freed but no shoe.
Shoe in bin (recyclable side) and yet shoe not recyclable.
Must liberate shoe.
Left arm now foraging in bin. The shame.
You can't reach the shoe, which has dropped heavily to the bottom, but have retrieved a large, A4 padded brown envelope.
Envelope is now on your foot and is sturdy enough to walk back to your flat in.
Ah, back to your room at last.
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}
// If the player is in the Character Descriptions passage, add onclick functions to each character to forward the player to the relevant passage
if(Story.get(passage()).title == "Character Descriptions")
{
document.getElementById("Tiz").onclick = function()
{
State.display("TizDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Chimmy").onclick = function()
{
State.display("ChimmyDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Zak").onclick = function()
{
State.display("ZakDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Saffa").onclick = function()
{
State.display("SaffaDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Bob").onclick = function()
{
State.display("BobDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Gabriel").onclick = function()
{
State.display("GabrielDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Mark").onclick = function()
{
State.display("PartridgeDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Dave").onclick = function()
{
State.display("DaveDesc");
}
document.getElementById("Jo").onclick = function()
{
State.display("JoDesc");
}
}
// If the player is in the Character Descriptions passage, add onclick functions to each character to forward the player to the relevant passage
if(Story.get(passage()).title == "Medway Character Descriptions")
{
document.getElementById("Ben").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Ben desc");
}
document.getElementById("Nobandile").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Nobandile desc");
}
document.getElementById("Elliott").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Elliott desc");
}
document.getElementById("Rama").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Rama desc");
}
document.getElementById("Cassie").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Cassie desc");
}
document.getElementById("Arun").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Arun desc");
}
document.getElementById("Aiqing").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Aiqing desc");
}
document.getElementById("Frank").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Frank desc");
}
document.getElementById("Ellie").onclick = function()
{
State.display("Dr Ellie Kopta desc");
}
}
if(Story.get(passage()).title == "Report")
{
var elements = ["academicProgress"];
var scoreVar = ["$acaScore"];
var maxValues = [200];
var width = 1;
var index = 0;
var id = setInterval(frame, 25);
function frame() {
if(index <= elements.length) {
var elem = document.getElementById(elements[index]);
var getVar = State.getVar(scoreVar[index]);
var maxvalue = maxValues[index];
var percentage = (getVar / maxvalue) * 100;
if (width >= 40)
{
elem.style.backgroundColor = '#CCCC00';
}
if (width >= 70)
{
elem.style.backgroundColor = '#00FF00';
}
if (width >= percentage) {
clearInterval(id);
elem.innerHTML = getVar + "/" + maxvalue;
index++;
} else {
width++;
elem.style.width = width + '%';
elem.innerHTML = width * 2 + "/" + maxvalue;
}
}
}
}
document.body.scrollTop = 0; // For Safari
document.documentElement.scrollTop = 0;
// Send GA the passage details (for tracking purposes)
if(performance.navigation.type != performance.navigation.TYPE_RELOAD)
{
gtag('config', window.GATrackingID, {
'page_title' : Story.get(passage()).title,
'page_path': '/#' + Story.get(passage()).domId
});
}
<</script>>
<img src="images/passages/report.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Graduation Ceremony">
Congratulations for finishing your degree at the University of Kent! You have navigated your surroundings, learned who to work with and how to organise your time. You have also gained an insight to the resources at Kent to maximise your degree outcome.
''Your total Academic Score:''
<div id="academicBar">\
<div id="academicProgress"></div>\
</div>\
Your Academic Score was impacted by how frequently you visited your Academic Adviser and how often you utilised resources such as the library. Did you know, you visited your @@.serviceLink;<<link "Academic Adviser">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ $adviserScore times. @@.serviceLink;<<link "What can Academic Advisers do for me?">><<run Namespace.AADialog();>><</link>>@@
You called into the library $libraryScore times. @@.serviceLink;<<link "What’s the big deal about Library Interactions?">><<run Namespace.libraryDialog();>><</link>>@@
You made use of @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ $SLASScore times during this game! @@.serviceLink;<<link "Why should I bother with SLAS?">><<run Namespace.SLASDialog();>><</link>>@@
''Your total Wellbeing Score:''
<div id="wellbeingBar">\
<div id="wellbeingProgress"></div>\
</div>\
Your Wellbeing Score was impacted by how many times you maximised social interactions and your self-care. Did you know, you ate Nutella a total of $nutellaScore times. Everyone knows how important Nutella is to wellbeing!
@@.serviceLink;<<link "How can I increase my score?">><<run Namespace.increaseScoreDialog();>><</link>>@@
@@.serviceLink;<<link "Surely the wellbeing score is pointless?">><<run Namespace.wellbeingDialog();>><</link>>@@
There are short and long paths through this game. In total you made <<print turns()>> decisions, and your chosen path was one of millions of different combinations! What you do next is down to you, however we urge you to check out the Careers & Employability Service (CES) before you graduate! @@.serviceLink;<<link "The Careers Employability Service is just for end-of-course CV’s, right?">><<run Namespace.CESDialog();>><</link>>@@
Thank you for playing the One Hour Degree game, we hope you have found it fun and informative. We would value your feedback by taking this <a href="https://kent.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/1-hour-degree-feedback-survey-live" target="_blank">Feedback Survey</a>.
\
<<if $job == true>>
It's a shame you'll miss the graduation ceremony, but congratulations on finding a job. Don't be late now!
\
[[Start your job!]]
<<else>>
And now sit back and enjoy your very special graduation ceremony at the Cathedral. Who knows, maybeyou'll do this for real one day.
[[Graduate!]]
<</if>>
<<set $allowMultiple += 1>>
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $quest4Badge = true>>
<</if>>
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Quest Completion", "Player Progression", "Quest 5");
GA.sendEvent("Final Academic Score", "Game Completion", State.getVar('$acaScore'));
GA.sendEvent("Final Wellbeing Score", "Game Completion", State.getVar('$wellScore'));
GA.sendEvent("Final Grade", "Game Completion", State.getVar('$grade'));
GA.sendEvent("Final Score", "Game Completion", 'Aca:' + State.getVar('$acaScore') + ' Well:' + State.getVar('$wellScore') + ' ' + 'Grade:' + State.getVar('$grade'));
<</script>><img src="images/passages/1st.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Graduation Ceremony">
CONGRATULATIONS! You got a 1st class degree!
This is the highest degree classification possible and you have evidently made some excellent choices throughout the game.
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
Click on your [[game report|Report]] to see how you achieved this dizzy height of awesomeness.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade", "Player Progression", "1st");
<</script>>
<<elseif $campus == "medway">>\
Click on your [[game report|Medway Report]] to see how you achieved this dizzy height of awesomeness.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade (Medway)", "Player Progression", "1st");
<</script>>
<</if>>\<img src="images/passages/2_1.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Graduation Ceremony">
CONGRATULATIONS! You got a 2:1 class degree (also referred to as an upper second)!
This is the second highest degree classification possible and you have evidently made some good choices throughout the game.
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
Click on your [[game report|Report]] to see how you achieved this accolade and where you may have missed out on achieving the top award.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade", "Player Progression", "2:1");
<</script>>
<<elseif $campus == "medway">>\
Click on your [[game report|Medway Report]] to see how you achieved this accolade and where you may have missed out on achieving the top award.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade (Medway)", "Player Progression", "2:1");
<</script>>
<</if>>\<img src="images/passages/2_2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Graduation Ceremony">
CONGRATULATIONS! You got a 2:2 class degree (also referred to as a lower second)!
This is the third highest degree classification and you have evidently made some positive choices throughout the game.
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
Click on your [[game report|Report]] to see how you achieved this classification and where you may have missed out on achieving a higher award.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade", "Player Progression", "2:2");
<</script>>
<<elseif $campus == "medway">>\
Click on your [[game report|Medway Report]] to see how you achieved this classification and where you may have missed out on achieving a higher award.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade (Medway)", "Player Progression", "2:2");
<</script>>
<</if>>\<img src="images/passages/3rd.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kent Graduation Ceremony">
CONGRATULATIONS! You got a 3rd class degree!
Whilst this is the lowest degree classification it is much more preferable than a fail but falls way short of the top award.
Click on your [[game report|Report]] to see how you achieved this degree classification and the areas of opportunity you may have missed.
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
Click on your [[game report|Report]] to see how you achieved this degree classification and the areas of opportunity you may have missed.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade", "Player Progression", "3rd");
<</script>>
<<elseif $campus == "medway">>\
Click on your [[game report|Medway Report]] to see how you achieved this degree classification and the areas of opportunity you may have missed.
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Received Grade (Medway)", "Player Progression", "3rd");
<</script>>
<</if>>\
<<script>>
Engine.restart();
<</script>>/* DEVELOPER OPTIONS PAGE, NOT TO BE SEEN BY THE PLAYER */
This page is for development purposes, should not be in final release.
<<button "Give Academic Point">><<set $acaScore += 1>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Academic Point">><<set $acaScore -= 1>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setAca" "">><<button "Set Aca">><<set $acaScore = $setAca>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Wellbeing Point">><<set $wellScore += 1>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Wellbeing Point">><<set $wellScore -= 1>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setWell" "">><<button "Set Well">><<set $wellScore = $setWell>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setNut" "">><<button "Set Nutella">><<set $nutellaScore = $setNut>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setLib" "">><<button "Set Library">><<set $libraryScore = $setLib>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setAdv" "">><<button "Set Adviser">><<set $adviserScore = $setAdv>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<textbox "$setSLAS" "">><<button "Set SLAS">><<set $SLASScore = $setSLAS>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Quest 1 Badge">><<set $quest1Badge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Quest 1 Badge">><<set $quest1Badge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Quest 2 Badge">><<set $quest2Badge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Quest 2 Badge">><<set $quest2Badge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Quest 3 Badge">><<set $quest3Badge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Quest 3 Badge">><<set $quest3Badge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Quest 4 Badge">><<set $quest4Badge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Quest 4 Badge">><<set $quest4Badge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Quest 5 Badge">><<set $quest5Badge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Quest 5 Badge">><<set $quest5Badge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Give Easter Egg Badge">><<set $easterEggBadge = true>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
<<button "Remove Easter Egg Badge">><<set $easterEggBadge = false>><<goto "developer options">><</button>>
(These badges are placeholder images).
Goto a passage (passage name must be entered correctly, case sensitive)
<<textbox "$gotopassage" "">><<button "goto">><<goto $gotopassage>><</button>>
<<print Story.get(passage()).domId>>
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/morning.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Student Dorm">
You wake up sprawled across your bed. You admit you're not feeling 100%. It must have been the dinner you ate last night.
You go [[to the kitchen|downstairs2]].<img src="images/passages/downstairs.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Parkwood Accomodation">
Either the house is empty or the others are still asleep. Your head feels like scrambled egg. You can only manage a glass of water and a teaspoon of Nutella.
Hey, aren't you supposed to be somewhere? The induction event! You check your watch. It starts in 7 minutes. If you power walk you can make it in 5. Do you drop everything, [[put your shoes on and dash for it|dash]] or decide you need to [[top up your beauty sleep|hangover]]? Surely there'll be induction information available all week?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/hammer out that dissertation.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus Map">
In the last few weeks of term you churn out <<print $assignmentType>>s with the competence of a final stage student. You spot Saffa walking out of the shop, munching a puff pastry cheese slice. She's wearing an Oaks Nursery uniform, the on-campus child day care centre. She loves it, working with children and using her creative teaching skills. It's kept her anxiety at bay and is close to campus so she can stay in contact with her student friends too.
You promise to host a meal at your apartment before the Christmas break. You send an invite out to Zak and also to Chimmy and Tiz, on the off chance [[they would be in Canterbury before the end of term]].<img src="images/passages/fantastic evening and probably one you wont remember.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A shelf of Nutella">
You're surprisingly clear-headed the next morning despite still tasting garlic bread.
You check emails whilst eating delicious Nutella on toast. Ooh, a message from Alison Wonderland from the Civil Service. You speculate whether she's read your dissertation yet.
[[You click to open it]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><<script>>
Namespace.determineGrade();
<</script>>
<<if $grade == "first">>
<<goto [[1st]]>>
<<elseif $grade == "twoone">>
<<goto [[2:1]]>>
<<elseif $grade == "twotwo">>
<<goto [[2:2]]>>
<<else>>
<<goto [[3rd]]>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/you manage to wake up in time for.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="A Confused Person">
Right, let's start this $assignmentType. You don't need to wait a certain number of weeks before you start drafting your work.
It feels like an eternity since you last did a big assignment. Can you even remember how to plan and structure your work? Do you persevere with [[your own natural talents]] or go onto the @@.serviceLink;<<link "SLAS">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ website and book yourself onto the [[assignment writing workshop]] or [[drop your Academic Adviser an email]] and pick their brains?<img src="images/passages/have some time to yourself.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Nutella Jar">
It's just you, Netflix, a jar of Nutella and a teaspoon. After falling asleep somewhere through the third film you're aware of the others 'silently' coming home at around 3am. You reciprocate by 'silently' getting yourself breakfast at 10am the following morning!
Oh cool, it has started snowing and is settling quickly on the ground. Will [[lectures will be affected in any way|lectures affected 3]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/time to yourself2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jar of Nutella">
It's just you, Netflix, a jar of Nutella and a teaspoon. After falling asleep somewhere through the third film you're aware of the others 'silently' coming home at around 3am. You reciprocate by 'silently' getting yourself breakfast at 10am the following morning!
Oh cool, it has started snowing and is settling quickly on the ground. Will [[lectures will be affected in any way]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/submit a concession online.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Computer Room">
Surely you can't continue without a laptop and re-do all that research?
You submit an online concession (also called extenuating circumstances) and add a photo of your laptop in pieces. Now that you can focus on the other work that are due in before Christmas from the study hub.
The day before the end of term, your house hosts a [[full Christmas dinner]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore -= 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/betapage.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Alison and Joe">
The One Hour Degree game has been produced within and financed by the <a href="https://www.kent.ac.uk/studentsuccess/" target="_blank">Student Success Project</a>.
This game was<span id="devtools"> developed </span>and written by Alison Webb, and technically implemented by Joseph Riley. Both Alison and Joe are pretty cool, even in the summer.
Special thanks to Dr Heidi Colthup for her invaluable insight on research into simulation gaming.
Our thanks are also given to <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimhigham/" target="_blank">Jim Higham</a>, who has provided some of the very finest photographs of our wonderful parkland campus.
The narrative of this game was developed using the open source software called <a href="https://twinery.org" target="_blank">Twine</a>.
Background music for the graduation video has been provided by <a href="https://www.ashamaluevmusic.com" target="_blank">AShamaluevMusic</a>
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/graduate.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Cathedral">
Your last day at the University of Kent is in the stunning surroundings of Canterbury (or Rochester!) Cathedral. You're fitted for your gown and mortar board then walk the ancient passageways and cloisters into the great cathedral itself. Shake hands with the <span id="karen">Chancellor</span> and collect your well deserved certificate. <b> Turn up the volume and enjoy every moment.</b>
<div class="videoWrapper">
<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2afb0EJJQlY?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<<if $skipped == true>>\
Thank you for playing The One Hour Degree!
With a virtually infinite number of pathways through the game, why not play again and see how different choices impact your outcome?
[[Play Again|Restart]]
<<set $skipped = false>>\
<<else>>\
As a reward for completing the One Hour Degree, you are eligible to receive <b>15 Employability Points!</b>
[[Claim Your Employability Points|Employability Points]]
<</if>>Find out more about the main characters in the Canterbury story by reading their [[Character Descriptions (Canterbury)|Character Descriptions]].
Find out more about the main characters in the Medway story by reading their [[Character Descriptions (Medway)|Medway Character Descriptions]].
Numerous University of Kent Services are referred to throughout the game. These are described in more detail [[here|Kent Services]].
Game Version: $betaVersion
Last Updated: $lastUpdate
<<back "Go Back">>Throughout the "One Hour Degree" you will encounter many characters along your journey! Some of which you meet often, others not so much. Each character has their own unique personality. Click on their names to find a bit of information about each character.
<div class="grid-container">\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Tiz" src="images/TizDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Tiz">
[[Tiz|TizDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Chimmy" src="images/ChimmyDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Chimmy">
[[Chimmy|ChimmyDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Zak" src="images/ZakDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Zak">
[[Zak|ZakDesc]] </div> \
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Saffa" src="images/SaffaDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Saffa">
[[Saffa|SaffaDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Bob" src="images/BobDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Bob">
[[Bob (aka Pomeline)|BobDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Gabriel" src="images/GabrielDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Gabriel">
[[Gabriel|GabrielDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item"><img id="Mark" src="images/PartridgeDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
[[Prof. Mark Partridge|PartridgeDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item">\
<img id="Dave" src="images/DaveDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Dave">
[[Dave|DaveDesc]] </div>\
<div class="grid-item">\
<img id="Jo" src="images/JoDesc.jpg" class="characterimg" alt="Jo">
[[Jo|JoDesc]] </div>\
</div>\
There are many [[Other Characters]] in the game too!
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/kent services.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Sign">
''School Student Support''
School student support is your contact for any difficulties a student may be experiencing. They provide pastoral support for long or short term personal or medical difficulties which may interfere with their studies. They are a confidential service committed to providing students with a high quality school based support system. They will also put students in touch with other specialist university support services if appropriate.
''Academic Advisers (AA’s)''
Academic Advisers are provided for all undergraduate students at Kent. Your adviser is usually an academic within your school with a subject connection to your chosen course. They support your academic and professional development, encouraging independent learning and personal planning skills. Students should meet their AA’s once a term to gain support, discuss available opportunities and develop graduate attributes and skills. AA’s also provide written references for further career or research opportunities. You can find out more about Academic Advisers here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/teaching/advisers/index.html .
''Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS)''
SLAS’s mission is to guide student achievement and enhance the student learning environment. Their dedicated team of learning advisers offer everything from 1:1 appointments to group workshops and even access to Royal Literary Fellows! SLAS champion a range of useful online resources and tools, such as the Assignment Survival Toolkit (ASK) https://www.kent.ac.uk/ai/ask/index.php . SLAS have extensive knowledge and advice to all students whether they are concerned with organisational skills, essay writing techniques, dissertations, presentations, referencing or revision. They are the one-stop-shop for anyyone who is interested in boosting their academic prowess to the max. For more information about SLAS go to https://www.kent.ac.uk/ai/ask/index.php .
''Careers and Employability Service (CES)''
Staff at the Careers and Employability Service are committed to helping you make the most of your achievements by providing advice on everything from CV and cover letter writing, surviving assessment centres, interview techniques, career planning and job searching. They leave no stone unturned! Whether participating in one of their organised events or taking advantage of some 1:1 advice, the CES has something to offer everyone to help improve their employability and chances of success. Find out more about this service at https://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/advice.html .
''Library Services''
The magificent Templeman Library sits in the centre of campus and has recently undergone a colossal renovation programme. Spread over 4 floors, it contains a plethora of books, multi-media and journals for you can access throughout your degree. The LibrarySearch tool allows you to locate any book with ease, right down to the shelf it sits on. There's even a laptop and headphone loan service. A variety of study spaces are available, from group study hubs to silent and general study areas as well as PC rooms and printing/scanning facilities. In addition, the Academic Liaison team within the library offer can advise students on literature searching, referencing, open access and research needs. Find out more about all the facilities available to you from this impressive library at https://www.kent.ac.uk/library/index.html .
''Information Services (IT)''
Information Services organise your IT account as well as providing email, wifi, software, PC and printing support. In short, everything that you cannot live without! As soon as you register, you will be set up with your IT account which unlocks a whole host of services. You can raise a helpdesk ticket with them at any time and their professional team will be there with immediate assistance. You can find out more about Information Services at https://www.kent.ac.uk/itservices/index.html .
''Student Support and Wellbeing (SSW)''
SSW’s aim is to ensure that your time at Kent is a positive one and can provide a wide range of support for you to access your learning needs. This may be in the form of note takers, helping to identify specific learning difficulties, helping with lecture and exam arrangements, applying for relevant funding, counselling and creating Inclusive Learning Plans (ILP) to help you learn. SSW can also help if you have specific requirements relating to a disability, can provide emergency wellbeing support and access to medical assistance. You can find out more about this incredible service at https://www.kent.ac.uk/studentsupport/
''KentVision''
All your student data is accessed via KentVision. This includes your contact information, your attendance, your modules and marks. It is a useful place to see a summary of your development to date. You will get access to your KentVision record once you have completed registration and have been allocated your IT account. For more information on KentVision go to https://www.kent.ac.uk/guides/using-kentvision .
''Progress Profiles (PP’s)''
PP’s have been created by the Student Success team to provide a colourful, graphical representation of key data in KentVision. It allows you to quickly identify patterns in your learning and attendance and highlights strengths and anomalies where further skill development may be useful. The PP is the perfect starting point for any conversation you have with your Academic Adviser. For more information on PP’s go to https://www.kent.ac.uk/studentsuccess/progressprofiles.html .
''Moodle''
Moodle is the University of Kent’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Every taught module has an associated page on Moodle that you can search for via the module code. The page will outline the module content week by week, who teaches it, the reading list (links directly to the library – amazing!), what resources are available, what assignments are due and a tool for uploading them (called Turnitin). The Moodle pages change each academic year as the modules change. You can find out more about Moodle on https://www.kent.ac.uk/elearning/moodle/index.html?tab=information-for-students
''Assignment Survival Kit (ASK)''
The ASK tool has been developed as an online tool to help students plan their time when completing assignments. The user enters their assignment type (essay, maths, report etc) and the due date and the tool calculates a breakdown of the tasks required within a clearly defined schedule. These dates can then be used by the student to plan time more effectively and prevent work being hastily (and stressfully) completed just before the deadline. Take a look at https://www.kent.ac.uk/ai/ask/
''Turnitin''
Students normally submit their work via Turnitin within Moodle. Turnitin matches the submitted work against previously submitted work from every other institution that uses Turnitin and provides an ‘originality score’. This may subsequently be investigated if plagiarism is suspected. Turnitin allows markers to leave comments and marks on the assignments for the student to read in the form of feedback.
''All Services''
The University of Kent is home to many other useful services for students. These may relate to college life, financial advice, disability advice and well being, to name a few. Full details of the entire range of student services can be located on the Kent Website at https://www.kent.ac.uk/student
<<if $dialogOpen is true>>\
<<link "Close">><<run Dialog.close("Kent Services")>><</link>>\
<<set $dialogOpen = false>>
<<else>>\
<<back "Go Back">>\
<</if>>\
<<script>>
gtag('config', window.GATrackingID, {
'page_title' : "Kent Services",
'page_path': '/#passage-kent-services'
});
<</script>>''Hannah''
Hannah is hard working and very funny. Hannah’s main survival technique is to raid every vending machine on campus.
''Marta''
Marta is from Portugal but loves being at Kent. When Marta is happy, she is very, very happy. When Marta is cross, run!
''Mahat''
Mahat is from India. He is incredibly intelligent but his lack of organisation can frustrate those around him. He loves paintballing and always wins.
''Brian''
Brian is a grafter but never actually gets the grades he was aiming for. His enthusiasm and kindness is infectious and he loves a good party.
''Leila''
Leila is funny, thoughtful but is easily side tracked, usually in favour of her favourite YouTubers. She is obsessed with all things holographic.
''James''
James’ love of using overly complicated words often means he is regularly misunderstood. But he has good intentions and is known to be hard working. He loves taking hoovers apart.
''Philippa''
Philippa is the school support coordinator and the first port of call when any request is made to student support. Nothing shocks Philippa. She likes red wine and chickpea salads.
''Professor Colin Lucas''
Prof Colin is the Head of School and takes his role very seriously. He is always at work and has an endless supply of tank tops.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/TizDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Tiz">
Tiz is sensible and caring thanks to her similarly thoughtful parents. Her outgoing, easy nature makes her very popular amongst her peers. She is always thinking about the welfare of others and goes out of her way to ensure everyone is feeling cared for. She is quietly studious too and loves to make the most of any new opportunities that arise. She has an incredible singing voice and would love to be a French speaking, lacrosse playing journalist.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/ChimmyDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Chimmy">
Chimmy is a playful, emotional character. He is caring and respectful towards others, a value instilled in him by his Korean mother. He loves his gadgets and is a bit of a practical joker however he takes his future development very seriously and therefore studies hard and thinks ahead. He believes he would make an excellent sportsman but frequently doesn’t get very far due to injury. Chimmy aims to make it big in the world of industry.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/ZakDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Zak">
Zak likes to take things easy and doesn’t feel pressured by deadlines, unless they are associated with one of his beloved computer games. Despite spending most of his time in his room, Zak is very sociable and enjoys being around people who are having fun. Zak’s love of computers and gaming means that his degree course was an easy choice even though he struggles to make it to his lectures and seminars some days. Zak always, always wears black clothes because it saves him having to worry about whether they coordinate properly and also they never look grubby, so it saves on laundry too.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/SaffaDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Saffa">
Saffa is a quiet, gentle character who takes every decision in life very seriously. She has a tendency to worry and questions herself regularly. She prefers the company of a few, very close friends and is fiercely protective of them. She is a dedicated vegetarian, a creative cook and an avid Netflix watcher. Saffa aims to be a top French teacher.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/BobDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bob">
Pomeline was given her name by her French mother but it was soon abbreviated to Bob (long story). Bob is incredibly bright, outgoing and displays organisational skills that would make you cry with envy. Bob has the ability to become world class in almost any discipline due to her propensity to ‘make things happen’ and ‘talk to the right people’. It is likely that she will be running the university or the country (or both?) at some stage in the future.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/GabrielDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gabriel">
Gabriel fancies himself as a bit of a bad boy and is willing to push the boundaries at university to see what he can get away with. He is obsessed with Tottenham Hotspurs and playing pool. University, to Gabriel, is a jolly good excuse to have a good time and not, under any circumstances, get bogged down with assignments or stress. He loves nothing more than exploring new entertainment haunts and relies on the goodwill of others for much of his survival. Gabriel is one of the few people who finds ministrone soup delicious.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/PartridgeDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mark Partridge">
Prof. Mark has taught at the University of Kent for over 20 years and is a well respected author and researcher in his field. He genuinely loves being involved with his students’ development and once he starts talking about his speciality topic it is difficult to get him to stop. Prof. Mark’s trademark look is the combat trouser and trench coat combo which are his go-to staple garments of choice. He has an anecdote for every occasion and students regularly vote his lectures as the best. Mark eats a lot of sardines, straight from the tin.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/DaveDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Dave">
Dave genuinely wants to be helpful to everyone. He didn’t find university life easy at first but has turned himself around and now uses that experience to advise others who may be struggling. He is more than happy to drop whatever he is doing if a latte is on offer. Conversation always flows when Dave is around and he seems to know everyone on campus. Dave hopes to make it big in the world of politics as he can talk his way out of anything.
<<back "Go Back">>
<img src="images/passages/start your job.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Office Banter">
With your degree completed, you’re ready to be a responsible professional! Alison Wonderland is eager to introduce you at the corporate event. She's lined up a 1:1 for you to meet the <span id="karen">Directors</span>. You're starting your networking at the highest level!
Well done and good luck!
It's a pity you missed the graduation, but <b> turn up the volume</b> and take a sneak peek of what it would look like:
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As a reward for completing the One Hour Degree, you are eligible to receive <b>15 Employability Points!</b>
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<<button "Close">><<script>>Dialog.close();<</script>><</button>>/* The inner dialog of the Beta Test Dialog */
Hello!
Thank you for participating in our beta test of the "One Hour Degree", we're grateful for your help!
This game is in a working state and a full playthrough is possible. As a beta tester, we'd like you to play through the game in any way you'd like - there are more ways to play this game than there are cells in the human body (we did the math).
Please take note of any comments and feedback you'd like to make, and of course if you find any bugs (we hope there aren't any!) then make a note of the passage name simply by finding it in the address bar of your browser (after the #).
When you have finished - please find the "Feedback" button on the sidebar which will take you to an online survey, all feedback is welcome! It would help us if you uploaded your save file to our survey, you can export your save file from the save menu onto your device to then upload onto our feedback survey. From this file we can see exactly what path you took through the game.
Please note that we will be continually updating the game throughout the testing period, and will make revisions each working day at approximately 4.50pm.
Thank you for your help and enjoy the game!
- The Student Success Project
E: onehourdegree@kent.ac.uk
Beta Version $betaVersion
Last Updated $lastUpdate
<<button "Close">><<script>>Dialog.close();<</script>><</button>>/* This passage adds things onto every passage header */\
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/* If a passage has no image and should do, display a placeholder "image coming soon" image */\
<<if tags().includes("hasimage") or tags().includes("noimage")>>
<<else>>
<img src="images/passages/placeholder.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Placeholder Image">
<</if>><img src="images/JoDesc.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Jo">
Jo is the school’s receptionist. She knows everyone and everything that is going on. It is impossible to pull the wool over Jo’s eyes as she has heard it all before. Jo’s addiction to Starburst sweets means she regularly spends her lunch times jogging around campus to burn off all that sugar.
<<back "Go Back">><img src="images/passages/welcome.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Graduation">
[[Welcome|temporary link to student scavenger hunt]] to the "One Hour Degree" game. This is a text-based game that squeezes a three year degree at the University of Kent into a game that can be played in as little as one hour. Numerous game elements are from actual Kent students, others are fabricated.
Navigate through the simulation, make choices, and ultimately earn yourself the best ‘degree’ possible. Then enjoy your very own graduation ceremony video at the end.
The game presents information about University of Kent facilities and services. These key services will be @@.serviceLink;<<link "highlighted">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ and you can find further information by clicking, or in the ‘About’ tab on the left hand menu panel.
The game was written just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some Covid restrictions are still in place. Consequently, some storylines may differ with the real campus experience however, the vast array of support and advice services remains the same. Pandemic aside, we will help you achieve the best degree possible.
First off, please choose the category that best represents you (this will not affect your game experience):
[[Kent Student]] – You are a registered student at the University of Kent, but have not yet graduated.
[[Prospective Kent Student]] - You are not yet in Higher Education but contemplating coming to Kent or another university.
[[Kent Staff]] - You are currently employed as a University of Kent member of staff. If you are also a registered student at Kent, please select the ‘Kent Student’ option.
[[Other]] - If you are none of the above.
[[Parent Supports|Parent tour]] - If you are a parent or guardian of a student coming to Kent, why not try out the campus tour first?<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Player Type", "Player Data", "Student");
<</script>>
<<goto "Campus Choice">>
<<silently>>[[Campus Choice]]<</silently>><<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Player Type", "Player Data", "Prospective");
<</script>>
<<goto "Campus Choice">>
<<silently>>[[Campus Choice]]<</silently>><<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Player Type", "Player Data", "Staff");
<</script>>
<<goto "Campus Choice">>
<<silently>>[[Campus Choice]]<</silently>><<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Player Type", "Player Data", "Other");
<</script>>
<<goto "Campus Choice">>
<<silently>>[[Campus Choice]]<</silently>>/* This is the Easter Egg Page */
<center><h3>CONGRATULATIONS!</h3></center>
You are one of a small number of people who have cracked the code and found the Easter egg page from the One Hour Degree game!!
As a reward, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Kent, Professor Karen Cox has recorded this message for you.
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<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kd1ytqdwz6U?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
With over 100 million unique pathways through the game, why not play again and see where different decisions will take you.
Congratulations again,
The One Hour Degree Development Team.
As of 27th July 2021, a total of 4 players have found this secret page.
<<set $easterEggBadge = true>>
<<if State.isEmpty()>>\
<<back "Go Back">>\
<<else>>\
<<link "Restart">><<script>>Engine.restart();<</script>><</link>>\
<</if>>\
<<script>>
Namespace.seenEasterEgg();
GA.sendEvent("Easter Eggs", "Player Interaction", "Karen Cox");
<</script>><<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Quest Completion", "Player Progression", "Quest 4");
<</script>>
<<silently>>[[The final stage at Kent]]<</silently>>
<<goto "The final stage at Kent">><img src="images/passages/take advantage of the two for tuesday.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gulbenkian">
You panic. You've just allowed Bob to book 2 tickets to see 'Rocketman'. You're going to need a lot of sugar to get through that. It turns out Bob's Dad is obsessed with Elton so it reminds her of home. Poor girl.
Luckily, the film is great and you have renewed respect for platform shoe wearers. After the film you have a drink at the bar whilst Bob explains the stand-up comedy club, [[Funny Rabbit]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/free evening with Netflix in your room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Laptop watching Netflix">
Bob isn't too upset and tells you about the stand-up comedy club, [[Funny Rabbit]] instead.
You have a fab evening snuggled on your bed with Boo (the toy cat), a bottle of lager and a jar of Nutella whilst watching Game of Thrones.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $nutellaScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/stay on campus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Huge Burger">
Bob suggests you go to Mungo's for an obscene burger first. You could devour a filthy burger right now. Decision made.
Bob listens to your laptop woes and congratulates you on backing everything up. If you hadn't, she said it is better to hand in a half finished $assignmentType than nothing at all. It might get a terrible mark but it will be higher than 0% for a non-submission. Back-ups, you now know, are the student's responsibility.
Once the burgers have vanished, you [[walk across the floodlit campus to the Gulbenkian]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/leave it and see if you can enrol in the new year.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Canterbury Skyline">
The extra cash would be great but the Christmas shopping is urgent.
You follow up Bob's recommendation and [[look at the Kent Union 'Home Stamp' web page|use the Kent Union 'Home Stamp' web page]] for decent studio apartments to rent next academic year.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore -= 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/book yourself a training place now.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students In the Library">
You apply and enrol on the core training. It's really informative and you meet other new student ambassadors too. You get a free green t-shirt with 'Student Ambassador' written on the back. How haute couture.
You follow up Bob's recommendation and [[look at the Kent Union 'Home Stamp' web page|home stamp 2]] for decent studio apartments to rent next academic year.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 2>>
<</if>><img src="images/passages/proceed with securing this apartment_this apartment2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="House Key">
You take it. It's perfect. You ask Kent Union's Advice Centre to check the T&C's before signing contracts.
You [[return to your current house]] and tell the others that you've just maxed out on 'being responsible'.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/find another group to share a house with_another group2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Looking On Your Phone">
Zak will be doing his industry placement next year but you don't know any of his current house mates. Bob confirms she won't have a spare room and they don't want to relocate to a larger property. Sharing with Gabriel might be fun but likely to have a detrimental impact on productivity levels.
You view the Home Stamp pages every evening but nothing else appeals. With no other options available, you snap the little apartment up before it goes. You ask Kent Union's Advice Centre to check the T&C's then [[sign contracts|return to your current house]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore -= 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/proceed with securing this apartment_this apartment2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="House Key">
You take it. It's perfect. You ask Kent Union's Advice Centre to check the T&C's before signing contracts.
You [[return to your current house|current house2]] and tell the others that you've just maxed out on 'being responsible'.
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/find another group to share a house with_another group2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Looking On Your Phone">
Zak will be doing his industry placement next year but you don't know any of his current house mates. Bob confirms she won't have a spare room and they don't want to relocate to a larger property. Sharing with Gabriel might be fun but likely to have a detrimental impact on productivity levels.
You view the Home Stamp pages every evening but nothing else appeals. With no other options available, you snap the little apartment up before it goes. You ask Kent Union's Advice Centre to check the T&C's then [[sign contracts|the seasons change]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore -= 1>>
<</if>>
<img src="images/passages/staring at one of your books.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Reading a book">
You select the smallest book with the largest text. The words prance all over the page and make no sense. You slam the book shut and [[resign yourself to recuperation instead|comatose on your bed]].
(well being score +1)<img src="images/passages/quests.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="University of Kent Logo">
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
The 5 quests ahead of you are as follows, you may skip ahead to any quest:
Quest 1: [[Surviving Welcome Week|now you're on your own]]
Quest 2: [[The First Assignment][$skipped to true]]
Quest 3: [[Finishing Stage 1 at Kent][$skipped to true]]
Quest 4: [[Stage 2 at Kent][$skipped to true]]
Quest 5: [[The final stage at Kent][$skipped to true]]
I just want to see what it's like to [[Graduate!][$skipped to true]]
<<elseif $campus == "medway">>\
The 5 quests ahead of you are as follows, you may skip ahead to any quest:
Quest 1: [[The Medway Campus|Medway Campus]]
Quest 2: [[Handing In Your First Assignment|Handing in your first assignment][$skipped to true]]
Quest 3: [[Finish The Rest Of Your First Academic Year|finish the rest of your first academic year][$skipped to true]]
Quest 4: [[Begin Stage 2 at Kent|Begin stage 2 at Kent][$skipped to true]]
Quest 5: [[Finish Quest 5 at Medway|Finish Quest 5 at Medway][$skipped to true]]
I just want to see what it's like to [[Graduate!][$skipped to true]]
<</if>>\
You earn 'knowledge' and 'happiness' points throughout the game as well as a badge for each completed quest. Together they dictate the classification of the 'degree' you receive at the end.
'Good' knowledge and happiness points are earned by taking advantage of all educational facilities and networking opportunities. Fewer points are earned if the player chooses to try resolve issues by themselves or favours being solitary rather than networking with others.
You can jump to any of quest listed above by clicking on the corresponding link, but in doing so you will only inherit an ‘average’ number of knowledge and wellbeing points. To fully earn your ‘degree’ and enjoy the full range of opportunities on offer it is best to play each quest sequentially.
Are you ready to complete the fastest degree in the land?
<<if $campus == "canterbury">>\
Let's get started and go to [[The Canterbury Campus|now you're on your own]]
<<elseif $campus == "medway">> \
Let's get started and go to [[The Medway Campus|Medway Campus]].
<</if>>\<img src="images/passages/nayan.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Nayan">
HAHA! You found Nayan. Isn't he a barrel of lawfs. This is not the main Easter Egg, but well done for finding this.
<<back "Go Back">>
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Easter Eggs", "Player Interaction", "Nayan");
<</script>><img src="images/passages/employabilitypoints.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Employability Points">
As a reward for completing the One Hour Degree, you are eligible to receive <b>15 Employability Points!</b>
The Employability Points Scheme rewards Kent students for their active engagement with co-curricular activities.
For each activity, students can claim 'Employability Points', which can be cashed-in for exclusive internships, work placements, vouchers and more!
<a href="https://www.kent.ac.uk/employabilitypoints/signupnow.html" target="_blank">Sign up to the EP Scheme here!</a>.
<b>To log your points, please enter your Student ID (eg. abc123) into the text box below, and click submit.</b>
<<if State.metadata.get('receivedEP') == false>>
<<textbox "$kentID" "">><<button "Submit">><<goto "sendEPdata">><</button>>
<<else>>
<i>Your points have been submitted! Please allow a few weeks for them to appear on your account.</i>
<</if>>
Please note: we use your login details to assess the number of Kent students completing the One Hour Degree and the take-up of the Employability Points scheme. This data is not shared externally.
Thank you for playing The One Hour Degree!
With a virtually infinite number of pathways through the game, why not play again and see how different choices impact your outcome?
[[Play Again|Restart]]
<<silently>>
[[sendEPdata]]
<</silently>>
<img src="images/medway/medway_campus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Medway Campus">
Ahoy! Welcome to what was once a very impressive naval base and is now a very impressive and unique university study space. Nestled within an area called Medway, the region is home to not one but three lively towns; Rochester, Gillingham and Chatham. The Medway campus perches on the banks of the River Medway, which is especially handy if you are a naval officer.
Let's start by listing some of Medway's impressive points of interest. The magnificent Rochester Cathedral towers over the area and is also home to the acclaimed 'Knife Angel', a National Monument against Violence and Aggression. The Historic Dockyard at Chatham is literally on the doorstep of the Medway campus, with free entry for Medway students. The Medway towns offer numerous restaurants, bars and attractions and the shopping hotspots of the Dockside Outlet and Blue Water are nearby.
London is only a 35 minute train journey away making this an ideal campus to commute to.
The campus is shared with Greenwich and Canterbury Christchurch University which not only provides a larger student community but also a bigger range of facilities on offer.
Let's get started with the [[Welcome Weekend]].
<<script>>
GA.sendEvent("Campus Choice", "Player Data", "Medway");
<</script>>
<img src="images/medway/Welcome_weekend.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays">
First things first. At your alloted unloading time, your parents park the car outiside your accommodation at Liberty Quays. You soon realise your stash of emergency food wasn't required as there is a Tesco Metro on site as well as Domino Pizza and SubWay plus a huge Asda supermarket just across the road.
You collect your keys (flat/door key, post box key and fob to get into the building) from reception and are told you are the first to arrive from your flat on the first floor.
A student helper in a bright purple 'Welcome' t-shirt approaches. Alex (the helper) appears to have had more coffee this morning than you and, with an unhealthy amount of energy, picks up some of your bags and bounces up the stairs. Without seemingly taking a breath, you are cheerfully informed that Liberty Quays is only a 15 minute walk away from campus. Or a free shuttle bus runs every hour from outside the building if you don't fancy the walk. She's also keen to share the safety and friendliness record of the accommodation area and eerily predicts that you'll soon feel at home. Right now, you don't believe her.
Within minutes, bags and boxes of belongings litter your new room.
So. Much. Stuff.
Without warning, your Mum begins making your bed up to make the room more homely. It's her way of helping you feel settled. Do you stay to [[give her a hand]] or go and [[investigate the rest of the flat]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $acaScore += 2>>
<</if>>
<<script>>
var today = new Date();
var datenow = today.getUTCDate()+'/'+(today.getUTCMonth()+1)+'/'+today.getUTCFullYear();
if(State.metadata.get('receivedEP') == false) {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "email.php" ,
data: { kentID: state.active.variables.kentID },
success : function() {
}
});
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "https://script.google.com/macros/s/AKfycbx7PRDhludxsk7iOYKouXE8VcngsJCKf96evEvLJv_4Gt0s0JE/exec" ,
data: { Date: datenow, KentID: state.active.variables.kentID, Added: "No" },
success : function() {
}
});
State.metadata.set('receivedEP', true);
}
<</script>>
<<goto "Employability Points">>
<<silently>>
[[Employability Points]]
<</silently>><img src="images/medway/give_her_a_hand.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bedroom">
You regret dumping so many items on the bed now. To make matters worse, one of the bags falls sideways and empties its contents everywhere. You are now angrily scrabbling around, retrieving teaspoons and the potato peeler from down the back of the bed. GERM ALERT!
All the bags are now on the floor and you've marooned yourselves on the only patch of spare carpet. After an unwarranted amount of puffing and panting, the bed is made. You question the wisdom of bringing your Minions duvet cover now and your room feels no more homely than it did 5 minutes ago. Perhaps it will look better once you've unpacked the rest of your belongings.
Your mum nods approvingly at the made up bed and sighs with satisfaction. She asks you whether you want her to [[start unpacking the bags]] or would you rather [[save that for later]]?
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/medway/investigate the rest of the flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Flat">
You leave your Mum to heave the bags and boxes off your bed and venture out into the corridor. The other 4 bedrooms are locked so you make your way down to [[what you hope is the kitchen]], given what you can see through the slim door window.
<img src="images/medway/start unpacking the bags.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Various Items">
Sure, you're doing your mum a favour by keeping her occupied! She eyes the wheelie suitcase, her victim is chosen. Quicker than a slug up a pint glass, the bed is full of piles of clothes, books, stationary and various sprays, gels and potions. She rolls her eyes upwards when she spots you have sneaked "Mr Beanz", a cuddly cocoa bean toy, and your prized roll of rainbow duct tape into the the bags.
You can't take the chaos any longer. You pick up a heavy looking box full of pots and pans and clatter your way [[into the kitchen]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/medway/save_that_for_later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Kitchen">
You tell her you'll relish the opportunity to unpack for yourself later (plus you don't want her noticing all the unecessary detritus you've packed). She moves all of your bags and the wheelie suitcase into the corner whilst you take a heavy looking box of kitchen utensils and clatter your way [[into the kitchen]] with your dad.<img src="images/medway/what you hope is the kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kitchen Fridge">
The room is big, more of kitchen-diner. The room has been equipped by someone who loves things in pairs. There are two fridges, two ovens and two sinks. A long table has numerous seats neatly tucked underneath.
You open one of the large fridge doors. It is spotlessly clean (won't last long) and devoid of anything to eat. You panic, you'll need to do buy food soon and you've no idea what to get. The anxiety levels continue to rise as you continue investigating the kitchen facilities. The cupboards yield the same lack of contents. You decide the top cupboard between the two cookers will be yours. You breathe a sigh of relief when you spot the microwave. Ding ding. You shall not starve.
Do you want to [[unpack your kitchen paraphernalia]] now or hope that [[your mum and dad will do it]] for you as part of their 'settling in' process? <img src="images/medway/unpack your kitchen paraphernalia.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bedroom">
You go back to your room to collect your kitchen box. Your mum has a 'system' of re-ordering the piles of belongings on the floor into new piles on the floor and your dad is in the way. He seizes the opportunity to help you carry equipment [[into the kitchen]].
<<if visited() is 1>>
<<set $wellScore += 1>>
<</if>><img src="images/medway/your mum and dad will do it.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Kitchen pans">
Back to your room, your mum is busy with her 'system' of re-ordering the piles of belongings on the floor into new piles on the floor. Dad looks at you dispairingly. Now is not a good time to ask them to unpack your kitchen items so you pick up a box of pots and pans and clatter back out [[to the kitchen|into the kitchen]]. Your dad acknowledges your escape route, grabs a box of kitchen utensils and is hot on your heels. <img src="images/medway/into the kitchen.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Kitchen">
You rate your cooking skills as 'primitive' but you have enough stuff to run a small restaurant. Pans, crockery, cutlery, trays, tins, jars of exotic sounding seasoning, mugs and even a mini slow cooker (just in case the two cookers in the kitchen stop working). You stack everything carefully into your alloted cupboard.
Some basic food rations are also unpacked. A loaf of seeded wholemeal bread, a box of Cheerios, the tiniest tub of margarine you've ever seen, a jar of your favourite coffee, 40 tea bags, a pint of semi-skimmed milk, bacon flavoured Super Noodles and the obligatory tin of beans (Heinz, other brands are available).
Dad looks really tired after his early morning start to load the car and drive all the way here in time for the dropping off window. Do you offer to [[make him a cup of tea]] from your rations or leave him to rest and make your way [[back to your room]]?<img src="images/medway/make him a cup of tea.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Kitchen">
You fill the kettle and get the thumbs up from your dad. You're soon both sat at the table hoping you can finish consuming the hot beverage before the parking time is up. You look around the room. You visualise everyone hanging out here, cooking together, eating and chatting at the dining table. You wonder when your flat mates will arrive. Will you get on with them? What if they already know each other? What if they are all on the same course and you're the odd one out? What if one of them is really weird?
Before you have a chance to contemplate all the worst case scenarios you're reminded that your drop-off slot is about to expire so your room needs to be locked and the car moved over to the main campus. The hot tea is downed, the cups left in the sink for later.
The short drive from Liberty Quays to campus takes no longer than 5 minutes. Your dad squeezes his car unecessarily in between two other parked cars when there are dozens of empty spots elsewhere. A mammouth brick wall and a glass lift shaft loom above the vehicle.
Do you [[get registration out of the way|strolling over to the Pilkington building]] or do you want to [[have a look around first]]?
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Your mum has lovingly balanced piles of belongings in various places around your room, a bit like Jenga gone wrong. It still doesn't look homely but you can recify that later. Your drop off slot is almost at an end and the car now needs to be moved over to campus so other cars can unload.
You lock your room, collect dad from the kitchen then go back downstairs to the empty car. It is a short drive from Liberty Quays to campus, no longer than 5 minutes. Your dad parks up next to a mommouth brick wall and a glass lift shaft.
Do you [[get registration out of the way|strolling over to the Pilkington building]] or do you want to [[have a look around first]]?<img src="images/medway/have a look around first.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Drill Hall Library">
The nearest building is Drill Hall which, as you suspected, was a navy drill hall in a previous life. It is HUGE, more than 200m from end to end. Hunting for books in there is going to be a work out in its own right.
Swarms of volunteers in their trademark purple 'Welcome' t-shirts buzz around in the warm sunshine, some seated on the picnic benches and others with huddles of guests in tow.
A volunteer has already spotted you and is making their way over. She introduce herself as Cat. Cat is eager to offer you a guided tour of the campus, to help get yourself orientated with your new surroundings. Do you take [[Cat's offer of a tour]] or decline, prefering to initially [[just wander about with your parents]] instead?
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Cat has way too much energy for your liking and wastes no time ushering you off to the right. She explains that Medway campus is shared between 3 universities, so there is quite a community here. The campus is basically split into two parts; Pembroke (where you are now) and Dockside (which is over the road, about a 10 minute walk away). There is even a free shuttle bus between the two if you really need it.
Cat guides you around the Pembroke site, chatting continuously and answering all the questions your parents are hurling at her. Dad wants to know about the sporting facilities and the price of drinks at student bars and your mum is concerned about travel arrangements in and around campus and what support services are available. You'd think they were going to be the students!
All the key buildings are pointed out, with particular emphasis on the Student Hub (where all the fun stuff happens) and Gillingham building where many of the key Student Services are located. Also highlighted is the Drill Hall library, it's hard to miss given that it is about 4 miles long, and Pilkington building which is where you register to become and official University of Kent student. Cat informs you there is a separate tour for the Dockside campus if you're going to be based over there. Cat strongly recommends you head over to register now just in case it gets manic later.
You thank Cat for her time before [[strolling over to the Pilkington building]] via the car to pick up your registration documents.
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<img src="images/medway/just wander about with your parents.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Welcome Fair">
Cat doesn't seem to mind and tells you that you can pick up a tour any time today. She returns to the volunteer enclave.
Your eye is drawn to the building with bright coloured flags outside, which turns out to be the Student Hub. Again, more volunteers are keen to help with orientation information and supply you with leaflets detailing all the events running this week. The choice looks overwhelming, so you slide the leaflet into your bag and move on. You are surrounded on all sides by many other buildings in the vicinity but, from the outside, their purpose is a mystery. Some are ultra modern glass temples and others are clearly from the Victorian era.
After a few aimless minutes of wandering, your parents proclaim it is time to stop faffing and to get over to Pilkington to [[complete your registration|strolling over to the Pilkington building]]. You pick up your essesntial documents from the car en route.<img src="images/medway/strolling over to the Pilkington building.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Pilkington Building">
The Pilkington Building, with its distinctive red brick archway and pale stone flourishes, was once the naval canteen. Now it boasts a lecture threatre, seminar rooms and a generously proportioned cafe plus multitple sofas for those informal meetings and sneaky naps.
You check your documents required for registration:
Passport, check.
Payment advice letter from Student Finance England, check.
Proof of qualifications just to show that you aced your exams, check!
The queue at the administration desk just got a bit shorter. One student gets turned away as they haven't yet enrolled. At least you remembered to do that online before you left. They are directed over to the library where they will have access to a PC to enroll on before they can return to register.
With great trepidation, you step forwards. The administrator checks all your documents but notes you haven't yet supplied a photograph for your KentOne ID card. Bit embarrassing. No worries, the Kent Hospitality crew are on hand to take photos for your card on the day. They usher you to their photography area and ask you to pose for your photo. Without so much as a whiff of a hairbrush or mirror to check your nostrils, you are requested to strike a pose.
Do you go for a [[totally serious, studious]] mugshot, a [[suspicious undercover agent]] look or an [['I laugh at anything, especially in a lecture']] stance?
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The resulting image is straight out of a 'Most Wanted' poster. This picture is going to haunt you for the next 3 years. Your new KentOne card is handed to you on a bright yellow lanyard. You return to [[finish off the registration activities]].
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You shuffle your way out of the lecture theatre and into the bright atrium. A number of desks are lined up ready for your arrival.
The first table is Student Support. The team supports any students who have a disability, learning difficulty, medical or mental condition during their time at University, whether those issues are temporary or long term. As you didn't declare a disability or condition at enrolment these services do not currently apply to you however you are reminded that the Student Support team are there even if you just need a chat about any concerns you may have and that it will be 100% confidential. You ponder whether this includes home sickness. On the subject of illness, you are handed a card to remind you to register at the nearby Sunlight Surgery just in case you should need a doctor's appointment any time. Both the surgery and the next door pharmacy are within a 2 minute cough and splutter away from Liberty Quays.
The adviser gives you a free undergraduate diary packed with useful information such as key staff contacts, a full listing of support and wellbeing services and a whole raft of FAQs. It is too much to digest at the moment so you tuck the little book into your bag.
"And you can come and see us even if you're just suffering with a bit of home sickness", she says. You walk away from the spooky mind-reader.
You can see two further desks, one labelled [[GKUnions]], one for the [[Ambassadors]] and the other for the [[Chaplaincy]]
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'GKUnions' is what the Medway Student Union is called. This lot are going to be critical to ensure you get the most socially out of your time at university.
The Union staff give you more leaflets about what is on in Welcome Week and events in the first term. There are so many organised events that you wonder if there will be time for lectures. Events are organised into two groups; the 'Give it a Go' events and the 'Team Medway' events.
'Give it a Go' activities are those which the Union has organised and usually involve leaving campus, such as a theme park, shopping or tourist experience. The Union generously subsidises these events making them embarrassingly cheap.
The 'Team Medway' activities are social events for all three universities run every week by the Union which are free and usually on site, such as yoga, pilates, circuits and social football. You just turn up and play and don't need any prior experience or regular attendance. Other one-off events are hosted throughout the term and are publicised each month.
You fully intend to take advantage of both groups of activities on offer just to get your money's worth.
Have you already visited the [[Chaplaincy]] or [[Ambassadors]] tables or are you ready to [[leave Pilkington]]?
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The desk is manned by Lynne, the Medway chaplain. Lynne is keen to let you know that she offers spiritual support for students and staff at Medway, regardless of their faith background and she also runs other social and educational events on campus.
Bizarrely, Lynne also hands you a leaflet relating to another one of her ventures, the 'Bargain Corner'. This is located next to the chaplaincy at the entrance to Pilkington and provides a one-stop-emergency-shop for small household items and clothing that you may have forgotten to pack from home. Your dad is quick to tell her that, given the amount of boxes he has just removed from the car, he is pretty adamant you have everything, but Lynne still inststs on you taking a leaflet 'just in case'. You quickly glance at the contents. Frying pans start at 50p, cutlery is as little as 5p per item and certain items of clothing such as gloves are upwards of 30p. What an utter bargain, and it is in a corner to boot.
You thank Lynne and look at the other desks. Have you already visited the [[GKUnions]] desk and the [[Ambassadors]] desk or are you happy to finish registration and [[leave Pilkington]]?
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Several Ambassadors are gathered at the table, all sporting blue 'Ambassador' t-shirts just in case they forget. They provide you with all the details about the Welcome Week events that they help organise and also those booked throughout the first term and beyond. A campus map is wafted under your nose and various venues and locations of importance are pointed at. You're told that if you have any settling in queries you only have to ask. You try to think of something, just to test their knowledge. You ask what the broadband speed is at Liberty Quays - ha! Not a chance. One of the ambassadors confirms that Liberty rooms get 50Mb per second. Smile instantly wiped off face.
Have you already visited the [[Chaplaincy]] or [[GKUnions]] tables or are you ready to [[leave Pilkington]]?
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You leave Pilkington building (passing 'Bargain Corner') and step out into the unseasonably warm September sunshine. Your parents are keen to share lunch with you before they start the long drive back home. You're keen to share lunch with them too because they will be paying.
You pull the campus map out of your Welcome Week pack. There's several cafes to choose from: the Venue cafe, the Deep End, the No.1 Bistro, the Galvanising Shop cafe and the Archibald Hay Mess Cafe.
You remember seeing the enticing flags outside the Student Hub, which is a sure sign they serve good food at [[the Deep End]] bar, is it not? You all agree to give that a go.<img src="images/medway/the Deep End.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Deep End">
Numerous students are already taking advantage of the picnic tables in the sunshine outside the Student Hub. Immediately, you understand why the venue is called the Deep End as you spot the old fashioned changing rooms at one end and even a section of glass floor revealing part of the original naval swimming pool undereneath.
Your stomach reminds you that breakfast was sometime last week and you are in urgent need of sustenance. As luck would have it, Welcome Weekend has coincided with a new menu launch at the Deep End. Do you go all out with the [['Deep End burger']], try a healthy [[falafel salad bowl]] or go for some [[light nachos]]? <img src="images/medway/deep end burger_falafel salad bowl_light nachos.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="The Deep End Seating">
The chunky beef patty encased in brioche loveliness, swimming in a plate of fries it is! Your parents order their food too and you all pick one of the dining booths at the side of the cafe to eat at. You make light work of that burger and your dad is racing you with his hot dog scoffing tactics. Your mum refuses to get dragged into the chomp fest as she elegantly consumes her Panko chicken and rice meal.
Refuelling complete, you sit and watch other students and parents come and go. At this point that your Dad says it is time to leave you to it and for them to head back home.
You've been looking forward to this big step in independence for so long but now you are somehow dreading it. He asks whether you would like to be [[driven back to Liberty Quays]] first or whether you'd rather [[stay a bit longer on campus]] on your own.
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You all order your meals and drinks then sit in one of the dining booths at the side of the cafe. You make light work of all that hummus and rice and your dad is racing you with his hot dog scoffing tactics. Your mum refuses to get dragged into the chomp fest as she elegantly consumes her Panko chicken and rice meal.
Refuelling complete, you sit and watch other students and parents come and go. At this point that your Dad says it is time to leave you to it and for them to head back home.
You've been looking forward to this big step in independence for so long but now you are somehow dreading it. He asks whether you would like to be [[driven back to Liberty Quays]] first or whether you'd rather [[stay a bit longer on campus]] on your own.
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Mmmm, nachos. You all order your meals and drinks then sit in one of the dining booths at the side of the cafe. Given that it is supposedly a 'light' lunch, the size of the plate of nachos is pleasantly huge. You make light work of all that stringy cheese and guacamole and your dad is racing you with his hot dog scoffing tactics. Your mum refuses to get dragged into the chomp fest as she elegantly consumes her Panko chicken and rice meal.
Refuelling complete, you sit and watch other students and parents come and go. At this point that your Dad says it is time to leave you to it and for them to head back home.
You've been looking forward to this big step in independence for so long but now you are somehow dreading it. He asks whether you would like to be [[driven back to Liberty Quays]] first or whether you'd rather [[stay a bit longer on campus]] on your own.
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/driven back to Liberty Quays.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays">
You decide to take advantage of the last comfy car ride in what could be weeks. All too quickly you are back in the Liberty Quays car park. Other families are still turning up to unload so it is not possible to park for long.
Your parents take it in turns to give you a strong, unrushed hug. You're using all your concentration to hold it together and offer them a weak smile in return. After promising to Facetime, Whatsapp and call regularly you stare in disbelief and perverse excitement as you wave them off down the road.
And just like that, you've officially left home.
You can hear voices from within the flat before the door is opened. Do you enter the flat and [[go straight to your room]] to give you a moment to compose yourself or do you [[make a big entrance]] and start introductions?<img src="images/medway/stay a bit longer on campus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Medway Campus">
You amble back to the car. Your parents take it in turns to give you a strong, unrushed hug. You're using all your concentration to hold it together and offer them a weak smile in return. After promises to Facetime, Whatsapp and call regularly you stare in disbelief as you wave them off down the road.
And just like that, you've officially left home.
Feeling dazed, you look about, like a rabbit in the open. Except the car park is quite enclosed and you're not a rabbit.
What next? You've already got a basic grasp of the layout of the Pembroke campus and can see from the map that the Dockside campus is a short walk away, as is the Dockside Shoping Outlet. [[Dockside campus]] or [[Dockside Outlet]]?<img src="images/medway/go straight to your room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bathroom">
Ninja style, you slip through the front door and slither into your room. You look in the mirror and give yourself a hushed talking to. You've got to share a flat with these people for the next year, you can't avoid them forever. It's not like you've got to hug them or anything.
At that moment you notice a silver cake-shaped package on your desk with a post-it stuck to the top. The note says 'Share it!' in your mum's handwriting. You smile and miss her thoughfulness already, then hope that it really does contain cake and not one of your Dad's anaemic quiches.
Holding the cake shaped parcel, you saunter into the kitchen. Four faces stop mid-sentence and turn to look at you in surprise. With your biggest fake smile you introduce yourself and announce [[you have cake to share]].<img src="images/medway/make a big entrance.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Kitchen">
There's no time like the present. Wearing your best fake smile, you purposefully open the kitchen door and enter the room. Four other faces stop mid-sentence and turn to look at you. You introduce yourself and give a pathetic, uncharacteristic wave. The others break their frozen stance, grin and cheer at the fact that their flat family is now complete.
Ben is the first to introduce himself as he formally shakes your hand. He is studying Business Management and has a year in industry as part of his degree. Elliott looks alternately between you and his phone whilst he explains he is studying Music Technology and Audio Production and intends to also incorporate a year abroad. Nobandile smiles broadly, stands up and gives you a hug and says she is about to start her course in Sport and Exercise Science. Rama manages a brief wave from her chair in the corner. She is studying Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation so is in the same school as Nobandile.
Everyone resumes their discussions as Ben gives instructions on how to pack kitchen belongings most efficiently into various cupboards. You decide to [[drop your bag off in your room and return to chat]].
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With your plan in place, you propel yourself down the hill towards the main road. Once over the crossing, you pick up the footpath that winds through the Historic Dockyard site. You couldn't possibly describe this place as incredible so let's just settle for extraordinary.
Even though you know you are physically in a dockyard it still shocks you to see the maritime buildings and a variety of ships. You don't know why, it just does. Piles of giant chains and anchors echo the ship-themed surroundings as you walk past the Galvanising Shop (where the student cafe is located), the Mast House, and the Timber Seasoning Shed. Peeking between buildings, you can even see a submarine in dry dock.
The University of Kent signs beckon you onwards to a collection of buildings housing several schools, each one also located in their own historic property. It looks very impressive, like a film set. Or a postcard.
Do you want to explore the [[Dockside Shopping Outlet]] now or [[make your way back to Liberty Quays]]?
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With your plan in place, you walk purposefully down the hill towards the main road. Once over the crossing, you can see signs to the shopping complex opposite. A further 5 minute walk leads you to the outlet.
There is a large Odeon cinema, an assortment of shops and a plethora of eateries, many of which offer student discounts. There's also TruGym, to work off all those student discounted meals. Some cold hard cash is going to be spent here over the next 3 years. You note that there is a Cadbury's shop in the complex and feel compelled to buy a bag of Misfits, for energy purposes.
Do you want to explore the [[Dockside campus|campus2]] now or [[make your way back to Liberty Quays]]?
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As you retrace your steps back to the main road, you notice a film crew and actors gathering outside one of the old buildings. Some of the women are wearing distinctive red berets. Then you remember someone telling you they actually film the "Call the Midwife" series here.
You exit the Historic Dockyard and cross the road to the Dockside Outlet shopping complex. There is a large Odeon cinema, an assortment of shops and a plethora of eateries, many of which offer student discounts. The nearby TruGym offers the opportunity to work off all those student discounted meals. There is definitely going to be some cold hard cash spent here over the next 3 years. You note that there is a Cadbury's shop in the complex and cannot resist the temptation to buy a bag of Misfits just to keep your energy levels up.
Feeling weary now, you decide it is time to make your way back to Liberty Quays. Do you [[try and work out how to catch the free shuttle bus]] back or use your map to [[make the 15-20 minute journey on foot]]?
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Feeling weary now, you decide it is time to make your way back to Liberty Quays. Do you [[try and work out how to catch the free shuttle bus]] back or use your map to [[make the 15-20 minute journey on foot]]?<img src="images/medway/try and work out how to catch the free shuttle bus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays">
You quickly check the campus shuttle bus web page. The Dockside stop is slap bang between the outlet and the Dockside campus and usually runs at least once per hour. It is only a 4 minute bus ride back to Liberty Quays. Others are also waiting at the stop, some even wearing their yellow lanyards, so you know they are new students too.
The bright green Kings Ferry coach arrives and you climb onboard. There isn't even enough time to make the most of the free wifi before the bus stops outside Liberty Quays and you alight along with a handful of other students.
You can hear voices from within the flat before you even open the door. Do you enter the flat and [[go straight to your room]] to give you a moment to compose yourself or do you [[make a big entrance]] and start introductions?<img src="images/medway/make the 15-20 minute journey on foot.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Campus View">
It only looks a few centimetres on the map so it can't be far. You take a short cut back through the Pembroke campus and, once out the other side, it's only a brief walk along Pier Road before reaching Liberty Quays. Even so, your legs are weary now.
You can hear voices from within the flat before you even open the door. Do you enter the flat and [[go straight to your room]] to give you a moment to compose yourself or do you [[make a big entrance]] and start introductions?<img src="images/medway/Dockside campus.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Dockside Campus">
Once out of the outlet and over the crossing, you pick up the footpath that winds through the Historic Dockyard site. You couldn't possibly describe this place as incredible so let's just settle for extraordinary! Even though you know you are physically in a dockyard it still shocks you to see the maritime buildings and a variety of ships. You don't know why, it just does. Piles of giant chains and anchors echo the ship-themed surroundings as you walk past the Galvanising Shop, the Mast House, and the Timber Seasoning Shed. Peeking between buildings, you can even see a submarine in dry dock!
The University of Kent signs beckon you onwards to a collection of buildings housing several of the schools, each one also housed in their own historic property. It looks very impressive, like a film set. Or a postcard.
Feeling weary now, you decide it is time to make your way back to Liberty Quays. Do you [[try and work out how to catch the free shuttle bus]] back or use your map to [[make the 15-20 minute journey on foot]]?
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Immediately the others break their frozen stance, grin and cheer at the fact that their flat family is now complete and that you have brought sustenance with you.
Ben is the first to introduce himself as he formally shakes your hand. He is studying Business Management and has a year in industry as part of his degree. Elliott looks alternately between you and his phone whilst he explains he is studying Music Technology and Audio Production and intends to also incorporate a year abroad. Nobandile smiles broadly, stands up and gives you a hug and says she is about to start her course in Sport and Exercise Science. Rama manages a brief wave from her chair in the corner. She is studying Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation so is in the same school as Nobandile.
Everyone resumes their discussions as Ben gives instructions on how to pack kitchen belongings most efficiently into various cupboards. Elliott deliberately ignores Ben by throwing his items directly into the fridge (a shelf is a shelf, apparently). Do you [[offer to make everyone a cuppa]] using your precious rations or locate a knife and [[start serving up cake]]?<img src="images/medway/drop your bag off in your room and return to chat_you have cake to share.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cake">
As soon as you open your door you notice a silver cake-shaped package on your desk. The post-it note stuck to the top says 'Share it!' in your mum's handwriting. You smile. Then seriously hope it is one of her stodgy chocolate cakes and not one of your dad's unset quiches.
With the parcel in hand, you head back into the kitchen and get your second cheer of the day when you reveal the cakey gift.
Do you [[offer to make everyone a cuppa]] using your precious rations or locate a knife and [[start serving up cake]]?<img src="images/medway/offer to make everyone a cuppa.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cup of Tea">
Now that you know there is a Tesco Metro downstairs, you share your rations safe in the knowledge you can purchase tea bags at literally any time of the day or night.
The kettle is on and your mouth is racing out of control, blurting out sketchy information relating to your home town, your course, your family and your interests. Elliott starts a playlist on his phone which is now sat in a sideways saucepan to maximise the volume.
Everyone sits at the dining table with mugs of tea and coffee. The kitchen soon falls silent as the group hungrily devour the homemade chocolate cake. Ben insists on having his slice of cake served on one of his plates. Elliott is eating his whilst dancing about to the music. Rama and Nobandile eat over the table and promise to clean up any crumbs. Note to self: Cake is likely to be a better tool to make new friends than quiche will ever be.
After a further half hour of talking and eating, do you [[stay chatting in the kitchen]] or make your excuses and go back to your room to [[finish off the unpacking]]?
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Everyone is drawn to the magnetic attraction of the cake package on the dining table. Elliott starts a playlist on his phone, which is now sat in a sideways saucepan to maximise the volume. The kitchen soon falls silent as the group hungrily devour the homemade chocolate cake. Ben insists on having his slice of cake served on one of his plates. Elliott is eating his whilst dancing about to the music. Rama and Nobandile eat over the table and promise to clean up any crumbs. Note to self: Cake is likely to be a better tool to make new friends than quiche will ever be.
Do you [[stay chatting in the kitchen]] or make your excuses and go back to your room to [[finish off the unpacking]]?
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The others have already registered and talk soon turns to what to do next.
Elliott and Ben are going back to campus for the full tour whereas Nobandile and Rama want to finish unpacking then go to campus this evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session.
Do you [[accompany Ben and Elliott]] on a campus tour or [[stay at the flat]] until the evening?
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/finish off the unpacking.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Liberty Quays Desk">
You prop your door open with your doorstop so the others can marvel at your duvet cover.
Unpacking involves throwing items of clothing into drawers and the wardrobe and neatly piling stationary on your desk. Emergency snacks are squirrelled away, in particular your jumbo bag of Wotsits (codename 'dibbles'). A handful of photos you brought with you are fixed onto your bright blue pin board with duck shaped pins.
So. That's the unpacking done.
It still doesn't look like home. Mr Beanz looks at you from your bed, and agrees.
At that point, Elliott pops his head around the door. He and Ben are going to go back to campus and do the full campus tour and [[asks if you'd like to join them|accompany Ben and Elliott]] or whether you'd rather [[stay at the flat]] with Nobandile and Rama. He reminds you that there is a free 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session back at the Student Hub this evening.
<img src="images/medway/accompany Ben and Elliott.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ariel Medway Shot">
You are just in time to catch the shuttle bus which deposits you a stone's throw from the Student Hub where you meet your tour guide, Duggan. As it is the last guide session of the day, the group is pretty big and it looks like a street party. A party without food or music. So just a crowd, really.
It is soon apparent that students from Greenwich are also on the tour so ALL the buildings are pointed out. The site is much bigger than you had first realised which offers more opportunities to share facilities and events.
[[Your school is pointed out]] along the way. You calculate how long it will take you to walk from there to the Student Hub/the Drill Hall Library/ Liberty Quays. Waking up 5 minutes before your lectures start is sadly not going to be an option.
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/within 20 minutes you are back at the flat_stay at the flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bedroom">
Rama is in the kitchen sorting out her cupboard away from Ben's critical observations and you can hear Nobandile singing whilst busily sorting out her room with her door propped open.
You join Rama who is now preparing what appears to be a stir fry. She loves cooking (very handy) and chops a pepper and some mushrooms like a pro. She asks you [[what your school is like|Your school is pointed out]]. Within minutes she is dishing up and offers to share some noodles but you decline, having already stuffed out on your mum's chocolate cake.
<<set $flatflag = true>><img src="images/medway/your school is pointed out_what your school is like.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ariel Medway Shot">
University is made up of a combination of different schools, each one with its own specialities. Although you will have lectures and seminars across the whole university, your own school is likely to be based in one particular building. The Medway campus is split between 'Pembroke' and Dockside' both of which are only a 10 minute walk from each other so every building is within easy reach. The building you want to check out will depend on the course you are taking:
The Medway Building for the <<link [[School of Computing|Medway Building]]>><<set $school = "Computing (Medway)">><</link>>, the <<link [[School of Sport and Exercise Sciences|Medway Building]]>><<set $school = "Sport and Exercise Sciences">><</link>> and the <<link [[Centre for Professional Practices|Medway Building]]>><<set $school = "Professional Practices">><</link>>.
The Clock Tower Building for the <<link [[Centre for Higher Degree Apprenticeships|Clock Tower Building]]>><<set $school = "Higher Degree Apprenticeships">><</link>>.
The Old Surgery for the <<link [[Centre for Music and Audio Technology|Old Surgery]]>><<set $school = "Music Tech">><</link>>.
The Anson Building for the <<link [[Medway School of Pharmacy|Anson Building]]>><<set $school = "Pharmacy">><</link>>.
The Gillingham Building for the <<link [[Centre for Journalism|Gillingham Building]]>><<set $school = "Journalism">><</link>> and the <<link [[School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research|Gillingham Building]]>><<set $school = "SSPSSR Medway">><</link>>.
The Sail and Colour Loft for <<link [[Kent Business School Medway|Sail and Colour Loft]]>><<set $school = "KBS Medway">><</link>>.
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/within 20 minutes you are back at the flat_stay at the flat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Bedroom">
You decide to have some time to yourself in your room and flop onto the bed. You're just going to shut your eyes for a few seconds to give them a rest.
Before you know it, you are rudely awoken by a knock at the door. A full 2 hours seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Nobandile asks whether you're coming with the group to the free Meet. Eat. Greet event at the Student Hub. What?
Do you decide you're far too tired and want to [[stay at home and will make your own dinner arrangements]] or hastily get ready and [[join them on your first night out]]?<img src="images/medway/Medway building_Medway3.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Medway Building">
The Medway building is located on the Pilkington campus and is home to School of Computing, the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences (SSES) and the Centre for Professional Practices.
The Medway building has several fully equipped computing rooms providing students with access to the latest hardware and software. Within SSES, students have access to industry-standard equipment – we were the first university to install an anti-gravity treadmill – and also have three specialist clinics, two rehabilitation gyms and several laboratories. We even have a heat and altitude environmental chamber. Open to the public and run by our students (supported by members of staff) the three clinics give you a chance to work on real-life cases using world-class equipment and implementing the latest ideas.
The clinics house diagnostic equipment, for example for blood testing and gas analysis, alongside treatment facilities for sports therapy, sports massage and injury prevention, including equipment for brain and muscle stimulation.
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The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<<script>>
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/clock tower building_clock2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Clock Tower Building">
The Clock Tower building is located within the Historic Dockyard and is home to the Centre for Higher Degree Apprenticeships. The University of Kent has worked in partnership with leading employers to deliver apprenticeships since 2011. The launch of the Centre for Higher and Degree Apprenticeships in 2016 means we can offer a wider range of apprenticeships to meet employers’ organisational needs. With numerous teaching and meeting rooms, the building is well suited to deliver all your training needs.
<<if $flatflag == false>>\
The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/Old Surgery_Surgery2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Music Studio">
Located within the Historic Dockyard, the Centre for Music and Audio Technology is housed in the Old Surgery. It contains state of the art audio and recording studios, rehearsal spaces and practice rooms. The studios are packed wth technology from leading manufacturers and are so big they are spread over several buildings (The Fire Station, The Smitheries and The Drilling Shed).
<<if $flatflag == false>>\
The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/Anson building_Anson2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Anson Building">
Anson building is located on the Pilkington campus. It is home to the Medway School of Pharmacy. Our state-of-the-art facilities include an over the counter room, dispensing lab, pharmaceutical technology laboratory, Viral Pseudotype Unit, clean room, simulation laboratory, four learning classrooms and a number of specialist teaching laboratories.
Our teaching rooms and laboratories house industry-standard equipment such as a dissolution tester, microscopes, mock feed bags, and a computerised simulated patient (SimMan®).
<<if $flatflag == false>>\
The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/Gillingham building_gillingham2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Gillingham Building">
Gillingham building is on the Pilkington campus. You'll find Student Support and Wellbeing, Careers Employability and the Student Learning Advisory Service (SLAS) in Gillingham building. It is also the home of the Centre for Journalism and the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR). As well as many modern teaching spaces and academic offices, it also houses the KMTV newsrooms.
<<if $flatflag == false>>\
The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/sail and colour loft_sail2.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Sail and Colour Loft">
Located in the Historic Dockyard, the Sail and Colour Loft is home to Kent Business School. This historic 18th-century building was renovated and adapted to create a unique learning and teaching space. Before work began, our students and staff were asked for their views on how the building should look and it now includes: seminar rooms, private study spaces and a computer suite. Your lectures take place in the nearby Royal Dockyard Church lecture theatre.
<<if $flatflag == false>>\
The tour ends at the Student Hub where GKUnion reps remind everyone to come back in the evening for the 'Meet. Eat. Greet' session. After a grabbing a promotional coffee (Elliott takes 4 sugars in his), the three of you walk back to Liberty Quays, taking the scenic route back along Purser Way. [[Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
<<else>>\
You go to your room and [[flop onto your bed|Within 20 minutes you are back at the flat]].
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<</script>><img src="images/medway/stay at home and will make your own dinner arrangements.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Baked Beans">
You can't be bothered to drag yourself over to campus again today and make small talk. You promise to attend other events later in the week. Your flat mates leave. It is deathly quiet and you wonder how to kill time. A growl from your stomach indicates that you have dozed well past dinner time.
You open your kitchen cupboard. The tin of beans looks pleadingly back at you. Can you muster up the energy to [[heat a can of beans]] and scatter them over some toast or do you fancy venturing to the Tesco downstairs and [[blow some cash on a ready meal]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/join them on your first night out.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Ball Pit">
Within 10 minutes you're ready to roll. The Student Hub is packed. A man, frantically waving his arms about, appears to be trapped in an inflatable 'Surf Shack' prison at the far end. It transpires this is the DJ, which also explains the thumping music. In the middle of the Hub is a giant inflatable pool filled with millions of bright plastic balls. Every so often a person's squealing face pops up from the middle. It is not clear if they are squeals of pleasure or concern for their welfare. You'll keep an eye on that.
With drink in hand, you observe Rama diving into the plastic waves. Elliott joins you, eating a giant slice of floppy pizza. Free pizza tastes better, apparently.
As the night continues, starting conversations with new people becomes easier. You realise you're all in the same boat and you just need to ask where they're from or what they're studying. The conversation just seems to flow after that. Easy.
Much, much later, Nobandile finds you and says she, Rama and Ben are catching the last shuttle bus back to Liberty Quays. Do you want to [[join them]] or stay a bit longer and [[walk back later with Elliott]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/join them_stagger back to your room_get up and see what the commotion is.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Peanut Butter Toast">
You all agree that was an excellent evening and promise to make the most of other Welcome Week events before life gets too studious.
Unfamiliar street sounds keep you awake for hours. It is well into the small hours before you drift off.
It is almost midday by the time you surface the next day. Ben is in the kitchen working his way through a neat pile of toast smothered in peanut butter. You join him at the table with your bowl of cheerios and the dregs of the milk, the rest of which has annoyingly disappeared. Eventually Elliott, Rama and Nobandile come in. Ben nods at the sink and reminds everyone that you are jointly responsible for keeping the flat clean. Nobandile sighs but agrees that some sort of communal area cleaning rota is required. She says she will create a fair rota and pin it to the kitchen noticeboard. Everyone cleans their own rooms and does their own washing up then take it in turns to clean the kitchen and corridor.
[[On the subject of rotas]]...
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<img src="images/medway/walk back later with Elliott.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Footpath">
The DJ announces the evening is over and it is time to leave. You now have the minor issue of having to walk back to Liberty Quays. Luckily Elliott spots you in the crowd and you meander your way back home along Pier Road along with many other suitably jovial students.
You're suddenly quite sure your name has been called from a nearby hedge and stumble over to investigate. As you are calling 'hello?' into the hedge Elliott sways into you and you both end up in the depths of the undergrowth, laughing hysterically, to the cheers of the other students. With assistance, you are rescued, holding a rogue empty Hula Hoop crisp packet, and returned to the path. The crisp packet is soon your super-crinkley new glove puppet which chats incessently to you and Elliott in a poorly mastered West Country accent all the way back home.
The collective ensures everyone makes it back to the accommodation safely and you [[stagger back to your room]].<img src="images/medway/heat a can of beans.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Washing Up">
Very sensible. And uncharacteristically frugal. You misjudge how long beans take to heat and your toast is as cold as a frog by the time you eat. Who knew it was so complicated?
While convincing yourself how much you are enjoying your first cooked meal you stare out of the window. Unfamiliar landmarks light the night sky and you can guess the location of the river from the band of blackness weaving between the glowing buildings. A steady flow of headlights file past Liberty Quays on their way to somewhere exciting, probably to be with people they know, not on their own in a strange town.
The dirty saucepan, plate and cutlery are thrown into the sink alongside the mugs from earlier. Are you going to [[wash up now]] or [[later]]?<img src="images/medway/blow some cash on a ready meal.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Shop">
Yeah! The bank account is looking flush from the injection of student loan cash and you feel you need something lavish to celebrate.
As you go downstairs, you pass the common room. Several people are playing pool and watching TV. You notice that is also where the laundry facilities are, should you ever have the urge to actually clean your clothes. Surely more clever to eek out the contents of your wardrobe until you next return home?
You're not alone in your ready meal hunt. Huddles of students gather round the chilled unit like their lives depend on it. But Tesco's are one step ahead and have stocked up for the event so there is still plenty of choice. Hmmm, [[Thai green curry]] or [[chow mein noodles]]?<img src="images/medway/wash up now_later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Washing Up">
All members of the flat are responsible for keeping the place clean and, if they don't, there is a charge for the Residences Team to do it for you. Best get into a good habit of cleaning up from the start, besides, there's nothing else to do right now.
Horror - no washing up liquid! You improvise with a dollop of shower gel. The mugs are left on the draining board and all your own cooking implements are packed away. You [[wearily return to your room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/wash up now_later.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Washing Up">
Having identified that there is no washing up liquid, you use the excuse to save the washing up for later, even if that doesn't go down well with your flat mates.
Instead you [[wearily return to your room]].
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/wearily return to your room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Mr Beanz">
You sit on your bed alongside Mr Beanz and open your laptop. You've already set up the free internet connection and waste no time in checking what's been going on since you left home. No news yet from your friends at other universities. Perhaps they are out enjoying their own freshers events? You dedicate a few hours to messaging people (including your mum), watching video clips of people ruining their holidays and catching up on general news. You eventually drift off to sleep.
You are awoken suddenly by an unfamiliar sound and take a moment to orientate yourself. There are voices outside your room, loud voices, and a lot of banging and clattering as doors are opened and closed. Do you [[get up and see what the commotion is]] or sit tight and [[hope your flat mates will be quick to quieten]]?<img src="images/medway/Thai green curry.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Thai Green Curry">
Excellent choice. In the bakery section, you rescue a pack of 5 choc chip cookies and a packet of croissants from shelf-loneliness. What a hero. You manage to carry all the food and a 2 litre bottle of drink back to your room without using a bag (forgot you needed to bring your own carrier bag, so much to remember).
The curry is cheffed to perfection without so much of a splatter on the inside of the microwave and you only need to wash up a fork after your meal. You go [[back to your room|wearily return to your room]] with the bottle of drink and bag of cookies.<img src="images/medway/chow mein noodles.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Noodles">
Oooh, noodles! In the bakery section you rescue a pack of 5 choc chip cookies and a packet of croissants from shelf-loneliness. What a hero. You smanage to carry all the food and a 2 litre bottle of drink back to your room without using a bag (must remember the carrier bag next time).
The noodles are cheffed to perfection without so much of a splatter on the inside of the microwave and you only need to wash up a fork after your meal. You go [[back to your room|wearily return to your room]] with the bottle of drink and bag of cookies.<img src="images/medway/join them_stagger back to your room_get up and see what the commotion is.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Peanut Butter Toast">
All four flat mates have caught the last shuttle bus back to Liberty Quays together. Nobandile raves about the evening party at the Deep End. You're slightly jealous at having missed the inflatable ball pool and Elliott reassures you he scoffed your share of free food. You say good night and it doesn't take long before everyone is back in their respective rooms.
It is almost midday by the time you surface the next day. Ben is in the kitchen working his way through a pile of toast smothered in peanut butter. You join him at the table with your bowl of cheerios and the dregs of the milk, the rest of which has annoyingly disappeared. Eventually Elliott, Rama and Nobandile come in. Ben nods at the sink and reminds everyone that you are jointly responsible for keeping the flat clean. Nobandile sighs but agrees that some sort of communal area cleaning rota is required. She says she will create a fair rota and pin it to the kitchen noticeboard. Everyone cleans their own rooms and does their own washing up and takes it in turns to clean the corridor and kitchen.
[[On the subject of rotas]]...
<img src="images/medway/hope that your flat mates will be quick to quieten.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Cheerios">
You silently stew that your sleep has been broken. They could at least whisper! By the time everyone has clattered into their rooms you are left lying awake for a few hours listening to the unfamiliar street sounds as other students are making their way back to base. It is well into the small hours before you drift off again.
It is almost midday by the time you surface the next day. Ben is in the kitchen working his way through a neat pile of toast smothered in peanut butter. You join him at the table with your bowl of cheerios and the dregs of the milk, the rest of which has annoyingly disappeared. Eventually Elliott, Rama and Nobandile come in. Ben nods at the sink and reminds everyone that you are jointly responsible for keeping the flat clean. Nobandile sighs but agrees that some sort of communal area cleaning rota is required. She says she will create a fair rota and pin it to the kitchen noticeboard. Everyone cleans their own rooms and does their own washing up plus takes it in turns to clean the corridor and kitchen.
[[On the subject of rotas]]...
<img src="images/medway/join them_stagger back to your room_get up and see what the commotion is.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Peanut Butter Toast">
It is past midday by the time you surface. Blimey, it is like someone is tap dancing on your head whilst stuffing cotton wool into your mouth. You are still fully clothed and there is an empty Hula Hoop packet on the floor. You don't remember eating those.
Ben is in the kitchen working his way through a neat pile of toast smothered in peanut butter. You can't face breakfast right now and make yourself a strong coffee using up the dregs of the milk, the rest of which has annoyingly disappeared. Eventually Elliott, Rama and Nobandile come in. Ben nods at the sink and reminds everyone that you are jointly responsible for keeping the flat clean. Nobandile sighs but agrees that some sort of communal area cleaning rota is required. She says she will create a fair rota and pin it to the kitchen noticeboard. Everyone cleans their own rooms and does their own washing up then takes it in turns to clean the corridor and kitchen.
[[On the subject of rotas]]...
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<img src="images/medway/stay with Elliott.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Common Room">
You spend the evening with Elliott in the common room challenging each other at pool. Neither of you display any cue mastery as much of the time is spent retrieving the white ball as it repeatedly bounces off the table. You fare slightly better at table football and beat Elliott 27-5 although Elliott redeemed himself at ping-pong because you simply couldn't get the ball over the net. Stupid game.
Eventually you both go back to the flat, via Domino's Pizza so Elliott can purchase some chicken nugget rations, just as the others come back from the fun fair.
Despite setting your alarm early to ensure you make it to your induction lecture, you oversleep by nearly an hour and have missed the shuttle bus to campus. You have no option but to skip breakfast and power walk to campus. You're an unappealing, sweaty mass by the time you reach the Pilkington lecture theatre, where you registered only two days ago. As you stand in the doorway, you observe the room is filling up quickly with students who busily unpack their note books and pens. They all look studious yet calm. This can't be right. You don't belong here, or do you? Decision time; [[do you take a seat]] and just see how it goes or [[leave the theatre]]?
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/at the fun fair.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Fun Fair">
The event is free and if a squeal-o-meter existed, you'd win top prize. Feeling ever so slightly sea-sick and mindful that you have your welcome induction event first thing tomorrow, you don't stay too late and catch the shuttle bus back to Liberty Quays with Nobandile. Rama and Ben stay for a further centrifugal battering. Elliott doesn't even come out of his room when you get back but you can hear what him watching a film on his laptop.
Despite setting your alarm early to ensure you make it to your induction lecture, you oversleep by nearly an hour and have missed the shuttle bus to campus. You have no option but to skip breakfast and power walk to campus. You're an unappealing, sweaty mass by the time you reach the Pilkington lecture theatre, where you registered only two days ago. As you stand in the doorway, you observe the room is filling up quickly with students who busily unpack their note books and pens. They all look studious yet calm. This can't be right. You don't belong here, or do you? Decision time; [[do you take a seat]] and just see how it goes or [[leave the theatre]]?
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<img src="images/medway/do you take a seat.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Lecture Theatre">
You look around the room. The dark grey seats stretch upwards behind pale wooden benches. A line of students stream past you and take their seats. More are filtering in from a door at the back of the room. Do you choose a seat in the [[firing line at the front]], sit in an [[empty row in the middle]] or join the [[huddle at the back of the room]] and hope you can hear what is going on from up there?
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/leave the theatre.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Atrium">
In a pang of hot panic, you rush out of the theatre and throw yourself on the nearest sofa in the atrium, cradling your head in your hands. A student finishing off her coffee nearby asks if you are OK. Without looking up, you confess that you're not sure about this university business and you're not even sure if you weren't given your place by mistake. She calmly says she is feeling the same, but it is OK, this is just imposter syndrome rearing its ugly head. You look up. She doesn't look like she's struggling.
"Trust me", she says, "practically everyone in that room will be feeling the same. Come on, let's go in and just take it easy."
With your heart still pounding in your mouth, you follow her into the lecture theatre and sit in one of the lower rows next to each other. She finally introduces herself as Cassie and before you can get much further into the conversation a power trouser-suited woman takes to the podium at the front of the theatre. The room is suddenenly hushed, you try to suppress the tight, sickness in your stomach as you [[wait for her words]].
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<</if>><img src="images/medway/leave the theatre.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Students listening">
Professor Sally Forth is your Head of School. She explains the university is comprised of many schools of varying sizes. Each school has a range of specialist academic and professional staff who are there to help you gain your degree. She explains that school staff are known by their first names to students (which sounds weird) and even divulges where their offices can be found if you need to contact them. Many of your lessons will be based within the main school building, but you may have timetabled events anywhere on campus. As Medway is split between Dockside and Pembroke sites, it is quite normal to feel a bit lost so check your where your timetabled events are on one of the [[maps|medway maps]].
Sally explains that this is a time for developing [[independent learning|independent2]] and doing some [[critical thinking|critical2]]. You contemplate whether any of your thinking so far has been critical. Probably not.
She also explains the [[differences between lectures, seminars and tutorials|differences2]] which is helpful as you've had no experience of any of those, or have you? Sally is also keen to point out that you'll still have your attendance monitored as, surprise surprise, it has a direct correlation on your marks. So that image of students staying in bed all day is a lie?
She then [[goes on to explain]]....<img src="images/medway/firing line at the front.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Front Seat">
You sense all eyes in the room are locked onto the back of your head. You focus just on getting your note book and pen out of your bag.
Another student soon sits next to you and gets organised. Eventually she introduces herself as Cassie and you learn she is in the same school as you, even doing the same course. What are the chances of that? Oh wait, everyone in the room is in the same school as you. Before you can get much further into the conversation a power trouser-suited woman takes to the podium at the front of the theatre.
The room is suddenly hushed and you [[wait for her words]].
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You pick an empty set roughly in the middle of the row, to get the best view of the multiple screens at the front, and start unpacking your notebook and pen from your bag.
It isn't long before another student sits next to you. She also unpacks her notebook and a tiny undergraduate diary then introduces herself as Cassie. Cassie is in the same school as you and even doing the same course. What are the chances of that? Oh wait, everyone in the room is in the same school as you. Before you can get much further into the conversation a power trouser-suited woman takes to the podium at the front of the theatre.
The room is suddenly hushed and you [[wait for her words]].<img src="images/medway/huddle at the back of the room.jpg" class="passageimg" alt="Back Seat">
You choose one of the handful of empty seats at the back and are immediately impressed with your clear view of multiple screens at the front.
A few minutes later another student sits next to you. She unpacks her notebook and also a tiny undergraduate diary then introduces herself as Cassie. Cassie is not only in the same school as you but is also doing the same degree course. What are the chances of that? Oh wait, everyone in the room is in the same school as you. Before you can get much further into the conversation a power trouser-suited woman takes to the podium at the front of the theatre.
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The Dockside site sits within the Historic Chatham Dockyard and oozes history. You will be surrounded not only by amazing, lovingly restored buildings but also by boats, ships and even a submarine! Kent students have free access to the Historic Dockyard with their KentOne card, so this is definitely something to explore further.
The Pembroke site is only 10 minutes walk away but feels totally different to Dockside. Pembroke is the old naval base and houses a multitude of red brick buildings where the navy trained and worked. Many of the buildings there are shared between Greenwich and Christchurch universities which adds an extra layer of interest.
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This is about you taking control of your work. Being an independent learner is ABSOLUTELY NOT doing everything on your own. You'll need to learn how to make use of the staff and resources around you to get the best degree outcome. You need to find out your preferred learning technique, which might not be how you were told to work at school. Unlike secondary school, you won't be reminded where and when to be every day or how to structure your time. To some, this is daunting, for others they assume they have free time when in fact it would be better used as research time. You need to think about the methods you will use to find out information and meet deadlines. Scary.
Making yourself a timetable is a good starting point, Professor Sally continues. Put on the things you definitely must attend, now the clubs and optional events, factor in your reading/research and assignment time and remember to schedule some me-time each day. She promises that you'll get better at independent learning as you progress through your degree.
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Being a critical thinker doesn't mean you're good at arguing with yourself, although you might be good at that too. It just means that you don't take everything at face value. You want to look at all sides of the story, not just the main points of view. Are the sources reputable? Use your research, experience and ideas to challenge the arguments put forward. It's a skill that you may or may not have developed at secondary school but one which you will get very good at whilst at university.
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Lectures tend to occur in lecture theatres and can contain hundreds of people. Usually, a lecturer shares ideas with the audience. You will be expected to take lecture notes so that you can use them for related work in seminars or assignments. A really good method for taking concise notes is the Cornell notes method - Google it! At Kent, lectures are almost always recorded so you can play them back on @@.serviceLink;<<link "Kent Player">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ via @@.serviceLink;<<link "Moodle">><<run Namespace.servicesDialog();>><</link>>@@ at any time.
Seminars are smaller classes, similar to secondary school. They discuss topics usually related to a previous lecture (so read your notes beforehand). You will probably be asked to do some additional research or reading ahead of the seminar to participate in discussions, ask questions and listen to others. This might feel a bit awkward to start with but it gets easier with experience. These discussions are really useful for highlighting, confirming and testing new ideas which you can then utilise in your assignments.
Tutorials are meetings with an academic tutor and a small number of students, or maybe a 1:1. Tutorials allow you to discuss a topic in detail, ask lots of questions and discuss how best to tackle aspects of assignments. They're really useful for gaining specific advice. You can ask to see your tutor or any lecturer in their drop-in hour for an ad-hoc tutorial. Academics are passionate about their subjects and will be pleased to see you to discuss their modules!
You may also have lab sessions or practicals (depending on your course). They all offer slightly different things and will require different preparation and participation but all will require you to have gained knowledge from lectures and/or seminars so you can participate fully. You'll get the hang of it as you go along, so don't panic.
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...the importance of regul