Welcome Week – Page 2 of 2

28Sep

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Middle East Soc welcomes you!

Join Middle East Society NOW to benefit from: Free beginner and intermediate Arabic lessons, frequent social events including shisha café & restaurants, interaction with people from all over the globe and academic events featuring guest speakers. Do you want to explore the culture of the Middle East? Then sign up via the SU's website to become a member! Learn a new language with beginner Arabic classes; or brush up on your skills with the intermediate class, both run weekly by experienced staff. You can make friends for life whilst enjoying fine Arabian cuisines or socialising at a shisha café - common social arenas for our society. With new potential additions to the society – such as Persian classes, belly dancing classes and trips abroad, there couldn’t be a better time to joi...

Advice for Freshers they won’t tell you in the Welcome Pack

15Sep

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Advice for Freshers they won’t tell you in the Welcome Pack

Here you are. A bright-eyed young student, arriving for your first day of Freshers at Royal Holloway. When you get to your Halls, you'll get given lots of information and bits of paper (which you'll most probably lose - I did). One of these is the Welcome Pack. However, the university only tell you the things they want you to know in the Welcome Pack. Here's the unofficial advice guide to Freshers courtesy of yours truly, The Orbital. Ps - make sure you enter our Golden Ticket competition to win FREE entry to Freshers events during Welcome Week. 1. Buy a toastie maker for a range of midnight snacks and friends will love you 2. Grow your beard out full length then shave it half way through the year so you fool others into believing you’re a post-grad 3. Ask for a sip of strongbow...

18Aug

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My Advice to Freshers? Be a Snob.

A-Levels well and truly in the past, exam certificates already lining the bottom of your wardrobe, you’ve made it to one of the top universities in the country. Congratulations. You’re young, intelligent – the cream of the crop – and you can do anything, right? Well, so they tell you anyway. We’re bred on the American Dream (yes, even here in good old Blighty), which proclaims that you can achieve, you will succeed, and that it’s your right and privilege to do so. But the problem is, it isn't that easy; success – as a serial failure, I can attest to this fact – is not glamorous and takes a lot of effort (more even than those glossy film montages would have you believe, as inconceivable as that is) and yet few of us are held to the standard required to go on to great things by those around ...

17Aug

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Fresher’s football future at Royal Holloway

Are you looking to meet new friends and have a great social life at university as well as playing competitive sport week in week out? Whether you are a Fresher or a returner, RHUL Men’s Football is the place for you. As the biggest sports club on campus, featuring six teams and over 100 members, Men’s Football welcomes players of all levels, whether you are new to the game or have been playing since before you could walk. With two games and one or two training sessions a week, regular socials, various volunteering opportunities and an end-of-year football tour, Men’s Football promises to make your time at RHUL as good as it can be. Last season the club knew great successes, with the 1st team winning the LUSL Cup, and the 2nd and 4th teams getting promotions in both BUCS and LUSL l...