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Brighton University Open Day

Oxford Brookes Open Day

I LOVE OXFORD BROOKES! I can barely find any faults with this uni at all, the course looks really good and the Interior Architecture and Architecture courses are run together in year 1 so they follow the exact same syllabus. I think this is perfect because I was worried that with Interior courses it would become heavily based on 'decorating' rather than learning about architectural principles and concepts. Also pleased because in year 1 absolutely no computers are used (other than essay writing obviously....) which is awesome because I'm terrified of auto CAD haha (Normal PC's at Oxford Brookes unlike the Mac suites at UCA-another win win) The studio space is much larger at Oxford Brookes also. Each year has about 100 Architecture Students and 30 Interior Architecture students, and about 1300 people apply every year making it 10 applicants per place :/ Entry requirements for Interior is ABB (which is my predicted grades so I gotta work hard this year haha) The social life looks great, my cousin started there this year and he said its a really good uni in terms of nightlife. He showed me round his students accommodation flat and it looks pretty normal uni accommodation- small bedroom with en-suite with a shared kitchen of about 5-6 people. Also if I did end up going next year he'd be able to tell me all the good bars to go to/cheapest places to eat, etc

This is part of the Architecture and Interior Architecture Studio space with the computer area.

Students have 24 hour access to Studio space and the library which is amazing because you could literally go into uni at 3am and do work haha, also pretty handy to stay late on the night before hand-ins haha

The head of Architecture seems great! He gave a talk about the 2 courses and the whole time I was thinking 'this is perfect for me' and really like his attitude towards the subject and uni in general. I almost don't want to look at any other university's because I love Oxford Brookes so much- I will though, been convinced by sister because she said its good to have more places to compare and you never know I might find somewhere even better (unlikely..hahah)

(Above- Design for the new building which is currently being built which will be finished by the time I would go there which is awesome because there will be a brand new library in this building)

UCA Farnham Open Day

I went to look around UCA Farnham to see what the uni was like and to look at their Interior Architecture course. I'd always wanted to do Architecture but since looking at various courses I've realised that Interior Architecture is more suited to me and my interests. At the beginning of college last year I was thinking about doing Fashion Promotion but was never really that excited about the idea of studying that course,it was more just for the sake of going to uni. I'm 100% sure that I want to study Interior Architecture and I'm super excited to start uni next year. I don't really want to spend another year at college because I just want to start this course at uni ASAP! haha

Anyywaayyyy, UCA, The course looks absolutely amazing and all the students work is great but the town is pretty sleepy and I want to go to a uni with a good nightlife. The room we would be taught (and spend most of our time in) is really nice, it has a lot of windows so a good amount of light and there is a lot of table space and materials to use for model making. But another downside is that the uni uses Mac computers which (although the mac suite looks absolutely beautiful) kind of bothers me because I much prefer normal PC computers.

Example of students (year 2) work (below)

haha saw this as we walked in, its a man with a potato for a head, thought that was pretty funny

Some glass sculptures on display which I liked because they looked very elegant and polished.

My mum pointed out this bench/table

In summary of UCA Farnham- Perfect course, sleepy town :(