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Planet-Black0psSwansea University
Yesterday I took my cousin to Swansea Univerisity's open day. I was also curious to see what another university offered.
They seem to paint a brighter picture of the place than when you are actually there - pictures of the place look so clean and bright, but it was rather dull, out-dated, and generally VERY un-welcoming. It was a miserable wet day, but it seems, even the sun can't do this place any favours.
What I liked about Swansea University was that their Computer Science degree covers some MUCH more interesting and useful modules than Glamorgan, which seems as if the lecturers have diluted the modules in a hope that students will understand, say, programming in Java, more successfully than if we were doing C++. Thing is, Java doesnt seem near as useful in the industry compared to C++ which, personally, I havent found to be the utter nightmare the lecturers seem to make it out to be.
Starting from the beginning of the day - we arrived at Swansea's gates, only for a guard at the front gate to direct us 200 yards away to some muddy car park. We the walked back to the university in the rain - again, not their fault, and understandable that there is no way they can fit lecturers cars, and guests all into the on-campus parking. But they could have invested in sign posts at least.
Again with the signs - they seperated their toilets to having "toilets for guests". The gents was easy to find, but the ladies was not. So many people ended up using the disabled toilet as there were no signs to even hint where the female's toilets were. This signage problem was throughout - we did have a visitors guide telling us which rooms to go to - which almost ALL had been switched to other rooms. So really, the visitors guide was un-accurate and pretty much worthless.
After the first course intro, we decided to grab lunch - we found a couple signs saying where all the food places were and which ones were open to guests or closed to public. Okay, very welcoming - lets bung all the visitors into one cafe which only sells pasta and cheese. In the end we bought a few sandwiches from a tiny corner shop which you had to queue up for just to get into the bloody thing!
Most the university felt like a building site, with large yellow cranes, scaffolding, and whatnot. Other than that, there were a few nice, modern looking buildings, but others were considerably worn looking, and the inside was decorated like a hospital.
The lecturers sounded dull as dishwater as they gave their intro to each course - one suprisngly said he was "enthusiastic" despite sounding as if he pre-recorded the speech whilst up at 4am after a long day. Another lecturer went on for what felt like an hour, ending with "so, that was the course in a nutshell". This was such a long boring, dull speech that a number of people actually got up and left the room. This speech included reading what was on an overhead projector sheet which, you know, being in university, we can read...
I didnt see much of the university as a whole, but from what I did see (wherever we were directed to), left a lot to be desired. In comparison, Glamorgan feels like a far more happy place which is important for a work environment.
They seem to paint a brighter picture of the place than when you are actually there - pictures of the place look so clean and bright, but it was rather dull, out-dated, and generally VERY un-welcoming. It was a miserable wet day, but it seems, even the sun can't do this place any favours.
What I liked about Swansea University was that their Computer Science degree covers some MUCH more interesting and useful modules than Glamorgan, which seems as if the lecturers have diluted the modules in a hope that students will understand, say, programming in Java, more successfully than if we were doing C++. Thing is, Java doesnt seem near as useful in the industry compared to C++ which, personally, I havent found to be the utter nightmare the lecturers seem to make it out to be.
Starting from the beginning of the day - we arrived at Swansea's gates, only for a guard at the front gate to direct us 200 yards away to some muddy car park. We the walked back to the university in the rain - again, not their fault, and understandable that there is no way they can fit lecturers cars, and guests all into the on-campus parking. But they could have invested in sign posts at least.
Again with the signs - they seperated their toilets to having "toilets for guests". The gents was easy to find, but the ladies was not. So many people ended up using the disabled toilet as there were no signs to even hint where the female's toilets were. This signage problem was throughout - we did have a visitors guide telling us which rooms to go to - which almost ALL had been switched to other rooms. So really, the visitors guide was un-accurate and pretty much worthless.
After the first course intro, we decided to grab lunch - we found a couple signs saying where all the food places were and which ones were open to guests or closed to public. Okay, very welcoming - lets bung all the visitors into one cafe which only sells pasta and cheese. In the end we bought a few sandwiches from a tiny corner shop which you had to queue up for just to get into the bloody thing!
Most the university felt like a building site, with large yellow cranes, scaffolding, and whatnot. Other than that, there were a few nice, modern looking buildings, but others were considerably worn looking, and the inside was decorated like a hospital.
The lecturers sounded dull as dishwater as they gave their intro to each course - one suprisngly said he was "enthusiastic" despite sounding as if he pre-recorded the speech whilst up at 4am after a long day. Another lecturer went on for what felt like an hour, ending with "so, that was the course in a nutshell". This was such a long boring, dull speech that a number of people actually got up and left the room. This speech included reading what was on an overhead projector sheet which, you know, being in university, we can read...
I didnt see much of the university as a whole, but from what I did see (wherever we were directed to), left a lot to be desired. In comparison, Glamorgan feels like a far more happy place which is important for a work environment.