Undergraduate study

Transcript for Sam's video

Hi, my name is Sam.  I’m a third year here at Keele, I do English and American Studies and I did a Foundation Year as well, so this is technically my fourth year at Keele.

So Keele Student Union plays a huge part in student life on a day to day basis, from obviously nights out to generally societies or meeting here; you’ve got your local shops and also cafés, you’ve got pool here, arcade games; basically everything a student needs to come and have a good time.

I’ve been here for four years so I have seen so many gigs – there’s been five or six a year, it’s difficult to pick out a favourite; we’ve had S Club 7, Bewitched, Sugar Babes and then the bigger – like Enter Shikari for your Metal, so there’s been so many I think for me cheesy Bewitched was the best just for the overall fun factor, living back a couple of years off the clock.  I mean Keele community is definitely, you know, it’s Hollyoaks in an essence; everyone knows everyone’s business but in a good way.  You can’t walk from your block to the Union without bumping into someone you know. 

In the local area we have got Newcastle-under-Lyme, which is the closest place, you can walk – it’s about half an hour or the bus is every ten minutes.  There is a cinema down there so that’s obviously going to do student promotions and whatever, so that’s always good for during the day; at night times they’ve got loads of different night clubs.  Reflex, which is an 80s based bar there is very fun if you want to get down to your Michael Jackson soul music.  Other than that you’ve got the standard Walkabout, Revolutions, Wetherspoons all around Newcastle are handy for nights out.  By train it’s I think about £9 return to Manchester and it only takes about twenty-five minutes, so also you can go there for gigs or nights out. 

So societies here, the ones I’ve been involved in personally, are Keele Radio; so I hosted my own DJ show for a couple of years which was really, really fun – you get to do your own format and everything like that.  I am also involved in the Creative Writing so you get involved with likeminded people and also I’m a journalist on the Concourse Magazine, which is the local newspaper for the students here.  After that I mean there are societies for anything you want to do; all the sports you can think of, there’s poker, the knitting circle, politics – so it’s like there is literally anything here, I mean at the societies sign up there’s about – I don’t know – about two hundred societies or something that you can come and get involved in; so something for everyone really.

If I had to take away one memory from Keele University it’s our resident squirrel population.  It’s so bizarre but literally everywhere you go you’ll just see a squirrel sprinting across your path.

Okay, thanks very much for listening to me.  See ya!