• Question: what was your favourite university to go to

    Asked by Tubster,dicko to Amy on 10 Jun 2017.
    • Photo: Amy Grayson

      Amy Grayson answered on 10 Jun 2017:

      Hmm, tricky question! I really enjoy working at Manchester Metropolitan now but I also loved working at the University of Sheffield. All the researchers were great and we used to do lots of different events outside of work like bowling and pub quizzes and weekend trips to Whitby and the Lake District. My supervisors from Sheffield are also fab, they still email me to ask how I am and how my new research project is going.
      I particularly enjoyed the research I was doing there, which was a project on tissue-engineering – we made a model of the tonsils in the lab and used this to show what a tonsillitis infection looked like and what happened to the cells when they were infected!

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  • Photo: Helen

    Helen commented on :

    If you ask that question to 100 different graduates, I bet the vast majority will tell you that their university was the best. I absolutely loved my time at both the University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester, but that’s because of the things I did during both of those periods in my life. When I was trying to decide which university to study at, I was really torn between a couple of great unis, and my Mum helped me realise that which ever university you pick (as long as the course is right for you), you’ll get out of the experience what you put into it. If you waste time, don’t go to lectures, spend all your student loan on useless junk and devote hours to watching re-runs of Friends on Netflix then university won’t be a very enriching experience. On the other hand, if you work hard, join a society that suits your interests, meet like-minded people and try plenty of new experiences then you can’t really go far wrong.