As students at the University of Kent, there are certain things only we\u00a0can relate to. Below there are 20 amazing things that make our university special!<\/p>\n
Oh how na\u00efve are people that walk into the Templeman library during the last week of March hoping to sit in a desk with their coffee and do their work. After three rounds in all three floors including the social part, you will finally give up or squeeze yourself between a person who seems to be chewing a little bit too loudly and a group of guys that doesn\u2019t seem to understand they\u2019re in the library.<\/p>\n
Oh that girl you said hello to once? The cute guy\/girl from your seminar group? The president of the one society you\u2019re part of? Your flatmate from last year? That guy\/girl you made out in venue two months ago? THEY ARE ALL THERE, and they all seem to want to talk to you\/sit with you\/ engage in a very serious political conversation with you.<\/p>\n
Anyone who\u2019s walked in front of the plaza at some point wants to taste the thai food. It just smells so good!\u00a0University of Kent\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking from personal experience, you start off the night before your deadline, thinking you will hopefully be done before 1am. Then suddenly it\u2019s 7 in the morning and you\u2019re struggling to get your references together and simultaneously thanking god or whoever it was that decided Templeman library will be open 24\/7 during term time.<\/p>\n During my first year I lived in Rutherford, and every time I told someone, they would all tell me the same thing: \u201cdid you know that Rutherford was designed to be a prison?\u201d Trust me, I know!<\/p>\n Ok but let\u2019s get real, who doesn\u2019t buy stuff they don\u2019t need from essentials? Oh fancy an ice cream at 2am? Of course! A light snack the night before your deadline? Absolutely. Feeling broke yet? Same.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you are one of those lucky ones that get their lectures recorded, you would much rather watch the 9am lecture at home later or even some days before your exam, than actually get up and go to the lecture theatre, even if you live in Rutherford and your lectures are at woold (aka ME). If on the other hand you don\u2019t get your lectures recorded, I am very, very, sorry \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n Sun in England is a rare thing, so the amount of people lying on the grass or having picnics as soon as the sun picks out shouldn\u2019t surprise us. But after a year in Kent, people acting like they\u2019re at the beach even though they\u2019re just outside Templeman Library still surprises me<\/p>\n This thing is like an inside joke that everyone knows. Everyone, and I mean everyone, even people that live in these places, get lost. You think you\u2019re going to mungos but you\u2019re somewhere between a room named bird and a door with a weird number & letter combination. Even getting out of these buildings is hard! You walk up the stairs, and suddenly you\u2019re right in front someone\u2019s door, and you always seem to be walking at the wrong direction. THE STRUGGLE. IS. REAL.<\/p>\n The ques at venue are always so long. Even the que-jump que is long. You can make up for the lost time though with shots from the shots bar\ud83d\ude09 speaking of that..<\/p>\n You walk into venue, probably already drunk from predrinks, and you promise yourself you won\u2019t spend any more money on drinks, and you will certainly not get blackout drunk on shots from the shots bar. Oh the lies we tell ourselves..<\/p>\n Now everyone who goes to University of Kent has had their own encounters with campus security. Either they were really helpful, or they ended up making you want to kill yourself. Most likely the second one.<\/p>\n The smoking area outside venue is the equivalent to the social place in the library. When you just need to get out that place while everyone around you is making out and a creepy guy won\u2019t stop following you, the smoking area is the place to be, even if you don\u2019t smoke. You will always meet new people, and maybe\u2026 visit the shots bar?<\/p>\n After waiting at the que to get it, you suddenly realise you have no cash to pay the entrance, so you have to wait at the longer que to get cash. And after it\u2019s finally your time, your card gets declined, the machine doesn\u2019t have any cash, or something just goes wrong because the ATM\u00a0outside venue hates everyone, it\u2019s not personal.<\/p>\n Now if you ever lived on campus, no matter if it was Parkwood, Rutherford or even Keynes, you have at some point been woken up by drunk strangers walking outside your room. They scream, they dance, and sometimes they enjoy chanting anthems you have no idea how they came up with (also ME all last year.)<\/p>\n For people like me, Parkwood is a strange place. It feels like you\u2019re in your own little village inside the woods. There are so many courts and houses, you wonder how people make it to their lectures on time.<\/p>\n Venue is like the universal meeting place for people who want to meet other people, make out with them and then never see them again. Too bad the same people come to venue again,and again, and again, so you are forced to see them. Awkwaaaard.<\/p>\n Right when your crush texted you, or when you got that really important email, or while you\u2019re skyping your parents from home, your wifi decides to connect to the cloud or wifi guest or whatever else they call it.<\/p>\n Hopefully that will be by September but everyone remembers walking by and seeing the works being done. Are we ready to say goodbye to those days?<\/p>\n Especially in spring. They are outside the library, on the grass between Rutherford and the new law building, we are being concurred by rabbits guys, it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n As students at the University of Kent, there are certain things only we\u00a0can relate to. Below there are 20 amazing things that make our university special! 1. It is nearly impossible to find a seat in Templeman library during deadline season Oh how na\u00efve are people that walk into the Templeman library during the last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21805,"featured_media":117567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[8010],"tags":[7929,8055,8183,8056,7921,7973,8873],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-117562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school","tag-campus","tag-campus-life","tag-kent","tag-uni","tag-uni-life","tag-university-of-kent","tag-university-of-kent-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n4. You thank god Templeman library is open 24 hours<\/h2>\n
5. \u201cRutherford prison\u201d<\/h2>\n
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6. Essentials is the reason you are practically broke right now<\/h2>\n
7. Recorded lectures are sent from god<\/h2>\n
8. When its sunny, everyone is lying down on the grass<\/h2>\n
9. Getting lost in Eliot\/Rutherford<\/h2>\n
10. The ques at Venue<\/h2>\n
11. You won\u2019t do shots<\/h2>\n
12. Campus security<\/h2>\n
13. Smoking area<\/h2>\n
14. You\u2019re convinced the atm outside venue hates you<\/h2>\n
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15. You\u2019ve been woken up by drunk students at least once<\/h2>\n
16. Strange place that Parkwood is<\/h2>\n
17. People making out at Venue<\/h2>\n
18. When eduroam keeps disconnecting<\/h2>\n
19. Is the work at Templeman library EVER going to end<\/h2>\n
20. RABBITS. RABBITS EVERYWHERE<\/h2>\n
What are some other things you’ll only understand if you go to the University of Kent? Let us know down below! University of Kent<\/span><\/h5>\n
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