Trip to Teeside Uni

It has been an interesting week, as me and students from Health and Social and Public Services were invited to Teesside University for the day. An amazing opportunity that we gladly took with both hands.

No waiting about, as soon as we got there we were ushered into one of the large lecture theatres where we listened to different presentations from different staff that work at Teesside. The first presentation was mostly information we had all heard before but with little quirky things about uni life that were mixed into the presentation still made this interesting. Next was a presentation on finance and the different types of support that we can receive once at uni. I personally have heard a lot of different rumours about the cost of going to university and this really helped put my mind at rest. Lastly, we had a graduate from the university speak to us about what uni is like from a student’s point of view. This was very informative for me personally and gave me a good idea of what to expect when/if I do go to university. Most importantly we learn to be careful with bananas :D

After a quick lunch it was time to split up and have our taster sessions. Myself and the rest of the IT students went for a crash course in Game Design. I’m going to be honest, Game Design wasn’t my first choice of subjects, personally I’m a very logical and unimaginative person so I was very surprised when I ended the day and loved the session I had taken part in.

It was a very relaxed session where we learned about some of the different aspects of Game Design and how different types of people can fit into the industry. The session ended with us creating an “Escape the Room” game with random objects that we had selected. Some of these objects were;

A cryptex… (if you don’t know what this is get watching the Da Vinci Ccde)

A pirate ship

An axe

This was all based in Ancient Egypt and did I mention the 15 minute time limit we had to make this all make sense?

We just managed to finish this before we had to meet up with everyone else again and head home.

Overall a very enjoyable day and not at all what I was expecting from a trip to a university.

I can’t wait to go back.

Thomas Black