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One good thing that you've gotta do as soon as you get here is get involved in societies.
It can be a good way for you to get to know people that you'll
never meet possibly until later in your degree and get really settled in very quickly
UCL has a ridiculous amount of extracurricular activities
in fact there is even a dinosaurs appreciation society
I'm not sure about the official but it's definitely on Facebook.
So my first year I joined the women's football team
and that was so fun, quite intense training but it gives you the break of
meeting people on different courses
and getting to know people in different years which is really important for me
to get to know the university
and then I joined the MODO fashion society last year
and I'm now pursuing PR or head of PR next year in my final year
and preparing to organise all the events for next year
and for me it gives me an amazing opportunity to kind of mix my passion for fashion with my passion for politics.
Film society is something I've been quite involved in
and they hold like monthly screenings, they have these workshops where you can get
started on whatever you want to be interested in like directing or writing
And art society have actually recently held an exhibition
in which they encourage all students to get involved and submit a piece of artwork
I was really lucky to be a part of that as well and they had a
really nice opening with the jazz society who got involved.
You can really start meeting a whole bunch of new people.
I signed up to the rowing club and it's come on quite a way since then
we train 3-4 times a week, Wednesday afternoon like all sports teams
Saturday and Sunday and when it's coming up to race season
we throw in some extra sessions Tuesday morning, Thursday morning, some early wake ups- 5 am sometimes
but it's a great way to wake up, you go out on the Thames, you see the sunrise
get set for a great day and you can be back in central London for about 9 am ready for your lectures and ready for a full day.
I've joined things that I never thought I'd join which is rugby
I started rugby this year and I'm loving it so far, never saw myself
in a rugby field until this year and you also get to know
many people. The girls are lovely and we have lots of fun
and I also do model United Nations and I've had the opportunity to go to Nottingham
and Warwick and also another conference in London, which
again you get to know lots of people and you get to think in a different way about many different things
and I also joined the orchestra in January, I play the violin and the people again are so nice.