Dose anyone study physics at warwick, southampton, UCL or imperial, if so whats it like?

Question

Not to sure what their like, what modules do you study in greater depth? + what sort of support do you get if you have a learning disibility?
please can i get some serious answers this time instead of people critising my spelling, thanks!

Answer 1

I don't study Physics but I study Law at Warwick and I have to say in all honesty that choosing this University was probably one of the biggest errors I have made to date.
I dislike it here immensely. Most of the students are preoccupied with social class and their parent's income and it's this clas preoccupation makes it a very bizarre environment to study in.. that's all I can say...
There are a lot of Conservative politician's kids at Warwick and a very large proportion of the students attended private schools/boarding schools, etc so IT IS snobby, so much so that the Uni has little to do with Coventry University which is in the very same city!!

I wish that I had gone to UCL or Kings and if I was you I would look at going to a London Uni. Also Warwick is a campus Uni so the environment is very artificial with students having little contact with folk outside the uni as everything there is self-contained...

Answer 2

I studied at Imperial, though Computing, not Physics which was next door. Please look at their website http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/prospectivestudents
or the Physics sylabus in particular http://www.publications.ad.ic.ac.uk/ugs/pdfs/physics01.pdf

In terms of support, even some of the lecturers have difficulties communicating sometimes. One brilliant professor did not say a word in his first lecture, but proceeded to play a tape - he had a stammer when nervous.
If your intellectual ability is very high, you will enjoy the challenge. Imperial ties with Cambridge for science study, on average over several years.

Be prepared for some teasing - you are talking about mainly immature male students here! - particularly in rag week. However this would also occur at other colleges.
Their support centre used to be very good when I was there, many moons ago, but cannot say what it is like now. Your best bet is to visit on the interview round and ask.
Accommodation is very limited. Most first years get a place, in either the more homely, but remote from the main campus, student houses or the student blocks (small bedsits). You are on your own from year 2+, with certain exceptions (speak with the counselling service to see if you qualify, if that is what you want).
The main adavantage is the access to London facilities - for example the science museum is right on the doorstep.

Answer 3

I've never been to any of those universities you have mentioned but the only reliable way of finding out if you like the look of a university is to visit it, not just to look at the carefully selected pictures and student profiles in the prospectuses.

Just because Warwick or Imperial might tend to score the highest of the universities you mentioned in league tables covering all subjects doesn't necessarily mean that they are the best for physics.

Having been to York University, I understand the above poster's viewpoint about self contained campuses- they can be cliquey. Most universities student unions tend to be left-wing (the loudest students tend to be left wing) and Warwick has the most famous feminist Germaine Greer teaching there.

There's nothing wrong with being conservative in nature- your politics don't necessarily affect how fun/intelligent/witty you are.

Answer 4

i am not going to criticise your spelling, as there is no need to, if you have a genuine disability and are not doing it on purpose as most young kids do nowadays, with "text speak" - I digress. UCL or Imperial - hmmmm London is very expensive to live in and full of Polish people and blacks. Coventry is fulll of asians. Southampton is full of chavs. Have you thought of anywhere else, abroad perhaps, M.I.T. ?