hiya I'm Ben I'm first-year chemistry student here at the University of Birmingham and for me each morning starts here on the rail a lot of freshers stay here if they're staying in halls although there are other sites it takes about 15 minutes to walk into chemistry so you don't have to get up too early for your lectures we have about 10 to 12 lectures a week and they're about 50 minutes each they're all really interesting what they do here at Birmingham is that you're not expected to write everything down in the lectures you get handouts
and you make additions and notes on that so you needn't worry about learning a new shorthand or whatever we have tutorials on each area of the course so that's organic physical inorganic and analytical usually have one a week and the questions for the tutorials set a week in advance tutorials are great because you can ask questions you have about the subject matter and really work through the problems or difficulties that you might have I personally find tutorials helped me a lot we have two for our labs a week and you work on the theory that
you learn in lectures because there's always so much to do in lab she always kept really busy it's good chemistry and it's really social as well you get to know your lab group really well chemistry as a subject is one that involves a high level of practical so you would expect labs to be of the highest quality and they definitely deliver I really enjoy labs this is our work room here in the chemistry building issues by all students and it's a really good place to study and to meet between lectures hi I'm Megan a final
year student here at the University of Birmingham I'm now on my way to meet my supervisor to discuss my final year project in final year you will be able to choose an independent research project I have regular meetings with my supervisor to discuss my findings and to see if I'm on the right track you will get to work with staff and PhD students and there are also opportunities to use specialist equipment that are not used in the first few years it's not all hard work as well as running in my free time I also get
to play in the uni brass band we meet on Wednesday evenings in the brand more Music Building it's really sociable and we often go out afterwards you
