Most lecturers do the bare minimum and don’t really care for students success. You can tell that a lot of them are there for their research and are forced to teach which is something they don’t want to do. There is also a very strong lack of support for students, many lecturers ignore student emails, barely provide question that can help students practice for exams and if you have any issues with anything they tend to blame the students and most importantly do not try to help, and instead they usually just say it’s always been that way. Honestly, it just feels like the department it out to get you instead of support you and help you. The course overall is a mess. The mechanical aspects of it are the better part of it, better organised and more useful and better lecturers. Whilst the electrical part is not well structured at all, with some modules that are extremely useless overall, and could easily be swapped for more generally useful modules. The workload is pretty extreme, especially taking into account that, unlike most other students in the humanities and management, engineering students do not get a reading week. In terms of non academic aspects, the uni is nice, I have made good friends and there are a lot of societies available. However, withing sports clubs it’s hard to feel included and “belong” If you are not good enough to make it to the team. Team members tend to be clicky so it ends up feeling a bit like you are in high school with the “popular kids”.
Overall, I feel like the academic aspect of it has really affected my mental health.

What a place to go to uni, where do I start. Well, a beautiful city with amazing architecture but also a world leading stem uni with sports facilities that will thrust you into the next level.
Socially being an engineer I managed to cope rather well despite the initial stereotype of an engineer, attending many socials where I met many friends and had lots of fun.
In my first year, I had a great flat in Norwood house where I was rather comfortable living for my first year, the second year I lived in the quaint village of oldfield where again I was very comfortable.
All in all cracking place, wouldn’t have wanted to go anywhere else.

Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering always interesting varied course structure. Lectures are good. Great sports facilities and SU. The town is down on a big hill which can get frustrating and not much nightlife.