1 00:00:00,090 --> 00:00:04,590 Hello and welcome to the Queen's Access podcast. It's so lovely to have you here. 2 00:00:04,590 --> 00:00:08,640 And I hope you find this a useful resource in learning more about life at Oxford. 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:14,370 But more specifically about life at the Queen's College. My guests this week are Katie Humphreys, a second J. 4 00:00:14,370 --> 00:00:19,980 Historian Yang Gwang The Current Sports Wrap and a second year studying philosophy and psychology. 5 00:00:19,980 --> 00:00:23,760 And Hamish Smeeton, who's just finished his fourth year studying maths. 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:28,860 They'll talk to me about getting involved in sports, both at a college on a university level. 7 00:00:28,860 --> 00:00:35,670 My apologies for any poor audio. These interviews have all been conducted over Zoome, and the Internet connexion isn't always completely reliable. 8 00:00:35,670 --> 00:00:49,700 For a transcript of this episode, please visit the Queen's Web site. I hope you enjoy. 9 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:54,560 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for being here. I really appreciate it. To get things sorted. 10 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,710 Could you each tell me a little bit about your Clean's Danny? So how you ended up of college? 11 00:00:59,710 --> 00:01:06,420 Noah Yangs. You want to give us a. Yes, sir. I actually only have like a day to look around different colleges. 12 00:01:06,420 --> 00:01:12,330 When I came to light is actually a March day and we could only visit like one college. 13 00:01:12,330 --> 00:01:19,560 And so I actually just chose based on its proximity, like High Street and hot to have gym. 14 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:26,630 And also, when I'd like went around, it kind of had a very different atmosphere. So that was like my choice for choosing Queens. 15 00:01:26,630 --> 00:01:36,030 Her characters. Katie, what about you? And so I went up to see Queens on on a Sunday and just loved the atmosphere. 16 00:01:36,030 --> 00:01:40,350 I thought the chords on the guitar at the front was so pretty. 17 00:01:40,350 --> 00:01:44,820 And also, as a historian, I thought the library was a big thing to take into account. 18 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:49,240 And I just loved the three floors in the Queens library and the software work, the old one. 19 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:53,400 So that was a big deciding factor for me. Yeah. Brilliant. Hamish, what are you. 20 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,760 Yes, I'm from Kincumber in the northwest, which is one of Queens link regions. 21 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:04,140 So when I came in on open day, they kind of hosted us and put us up for a couple of nights while they open day was opening. 22 00:02:04,140 --> 00:02:07,080 So having already stayed there, I felt no reason not to apply. 23 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,280 I really liked all the people I met, the accommodation I was given, the meals, the food. 24 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:17,340 Obviously, as Katie mentioned, the record is stunning. Such an amazing place to be. 25 00:02:17,340 --> 00:02:21,720 So I when she found out I had to pay in college, I was a no brainer. 26 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,170 I've not really considered any others. And I she stayed at Queen's already. Okay, perfect. 27 00:02:26,170 --> 00:02:28,950 Yeah. That's gonna be covered a little bit more in the access scenario each episode 28 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:32,680 going to talk a little bit about the link regions and about open day plus. Yeah. 29 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,080 Feel free to tune into that. Okay. 30 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:42,840 So for each of you, if you could kind of take me through what a week looks like generally in your life at Oxford, you will study different subjects. 31 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,260 You're in different years. So what what does your average week look like? 32 00:02:47,260 --> 00:02:51,610 So, Katie, you want to jump start us off with that? Yes. 33 00:02:51,610 --> 00:02:58,570 So and my week is quite different from some of it on science, because it's a lot of self teaching. 34 00:02:58,570 --> 00:03:05,490 So I'd spend usually most the day in the life reading, independent reading. 35 00:03:05,490 --> 00:03:11,770 And I try and alternate between the Queen's library and the Radcliffe camera for the change of scenery. 36 00:03:11,770 --> 00:03:19,750 And then once a week, I'll have a tutorial where I go through the essay that I've researched and written during the course of the week. 37 00:03:19,750 --> 00:03:30,670 And then also I have two lectures, which tend to be on a Monday on Wednesday, which are good to go to when they connect to your essay question. 38 00:03:30,670 --> 00:03:36,340 Sometimes they're on different topics. So, yeah, I most my week is a lot of independent reading. 39 00:03:36,340 --> 00:03:41,050 And then I play hockey. So it's kind of broken up by a bit of training here and there. 40 00:03:41,050 --> 00:03:50,830 But that's my week. Lovely. Hamish, what about you? Yeah, you mentioned the STEM subjects are a bit more kind of structured than less independent. 41 00:03:50,830 --> 00:03:56,230 I have anywhere between six and 14 lectures a week, depending on what year which you are within. 42 00:03:56,230 --> 00:04:02,290 And then that's complemented fairly, fairly regularly by tutorials. 43 00:04:02,290 --> 00:04:10,450 An annual eight years. I get that big and some more like class sizes. But the first week as a tutorial with only one three people in the class. 44 00:04:10,450 --> 00:04:14,530 And you do weekly probably sheets based on the content of the lecture. So it's very, very structured. 45 00:04:14,530 --> 00:04:18,790 The election I actually tweet posted. So I just couldn't get a table. 46 00:04:18,790 --> 00:04:21,430 They're not like crucial the tutorials on the main thing. 47 00:04:21,430 --> 00:04:29,530 So it's kind of up to five in first and second and then maybe only to one half hour long ones in third and fourth year. 48 00:04:29,530 --> 00:04:35,860 But yeah, it's still kind of 15 hours plus of contacts on a week. And then the hours are not in those three times. 49 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:39,950 Obviously, I've got to complete my problem sheets again. I choose to work in the library. 50 00:04:39,950 --> 00:04:46,450 My second Queen's library is right. And yeah, I guess when I'm not doing that, I've got a sport. 51 00:04:46,450 --> 00:04:53,830 I play football for the university and that college goes, well, do some kind of music sometimes as well. 52 00:04:53,830 --> 00:04:59,380 So yeah, I kind of feel my free time and I'm not doing. I'm not studying. 53 00:04:59,380 --> 00:05:00,170 Okay. Really? 54 00:05:00,170 --> 00:05:08,630 It's worth noting, so Haymond Hamish has just graduated from an integrated masters and Mass is quite different in that the fourth is taught. 55 00:05:08,630 --> 00:05:14,140 Yeah. So chemistry. And my fourth year will be an entirely research based. 56 00:05:14,140 --> 00:05:22,690 Yeah. Yeah. I find it interesting that Haima, you still had like lectures and she, it's, it's far more you'll follow your 40. 57 00:05:22,690 --> 00:05:27,050 It's far more similar to the rest of your call. Yeah, it is an exception. 58 00:05:27,050 --> 00:05:31,850 I think they are integrated master's course of the sciences, chemistry, bioscan, physics. 59 00:05:31,850 --> 00:05:34,050 They all have much more independent research. 60 00:05:34,050 --> 00:05:40,260 The fourth year kind of a project lab style based I guess why is nice for here is essentially another third year. 61 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:43,940 The substructure is exactly the same. We do exam video lectures. 62 00:05:43,940 --> 00:05:47,650 This is all consuming to the station. And fourth. Yeah, but that's also there. 63 00:05:47,650 --> 00:05:50,130 And so yeah, it's just less taken up. 64 00:05:50,130 --> 00:05:56,420 It's people like us don't feel I know enough to write one yet, but the structure of the 40 hour masters is no different. 65 00:05:56,420 --> 00:06:00,080 I think we're also an exception that we get two grades for our degree. 66 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:05,420 So I have a grade for my first three years and my fourth year, even though it's technically integrated. 67 00:06:05,420 --> 00:06:11,840 I think that's unique amongst the Masters as well. Yeah, and a massive muffin, interesting cause in the way that it works. 68 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:16,390 Okay. Lustick Yang, do you want to take us through your week? Yeah. 69 00:06:16,390 --> 00:06:18,910 So mine varied quite a lot, actually, Tom, 70 00:06:18,910 --> 00:06:29,560 because the way my quarters stretch is you do all the prelim stuff in the fast times and then you go into like a fight, just stuff in the third time. 71 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,670 In the first two times I think I had about six lectures per week. 72 00:06:33,670 --> 00:06:36,130 And then tutorials were change like week to week. 73 00:06:36,130 --> 00:06:42,160 I had quite a lot like fortnight organised and Cheat's so I probably have about three to five a week and 74 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:49,570 each of them would be either have like an essay or some problem sheet because obviously I do joint cause. 75 00:06:49,570 --> 00:06:57,490 So I'd have a bit of a lot of like self reading philosophy and then more like kind of structured. 76 00:06:57,490 --> 00:07:00,070 But still I say it's for psychology. 77 00:07:00,070 --> 00:07:10,780 And then in the third time I, I did I was I had like practical sessions because we had a lot report into the end of time. 78 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:17,770 Yeah, I think Al's an interesting one, so, yeah, it's psychology, philosophy, linguistics for those of you who don't know. 79 00:07:17,770 --> 00:07:22,270 So unlike PPA, which is politics, philosophy, economics, 80 00:07:22,270 --> 00:07:29,290 ways that each of the three disciplines in the first year, I believe the people you pick to go in. 81 00:07:29,290 --> 00:07:32,830 Well, yeah. So you can yeah. You only have to pick two, some people. Two, three. 82 00:07:32,830 --> 00:07:37,740 I think we had one person this year. Right. So yeah. 83 00:07:37,740 --> 00:07:42,070 Now it's an interesting cause. I think it's always sounded very interesting. Okay. 84 00:07:42,070 --> 00:07:49,750 So let's get off into kind of the main point of this episode, which is or l think sport both in college and in the university. 85 00:07:49,750 --> 00:07:55,910 So I'll it off with Yangs. So Young, as I mentioned in the introduction, is the sports rap for Queens. 86 00:07:55,910 --> 00:08:06,310 So what's up like and what does your role entail? So so far it's mostly like talked to older sports captains in Queens College. 87 00:08:06,310 --> 00:08:16,780 I'm just trying to like, make this in conversations with them and just passing on any information that I need to know will pass on to that team. 88 00:08:16,780 --> 00:08:22,910 And then also, I know this. So it's just like raising any issues that they may have to the team. 89 00:08:22,910 --> 00:08:29,750 And it is a time that meal with everybody sports related in college. 90 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:34,450 Another main task is to organise like the Stosh. So what sports from VicRoads. 91 00:08:34,450 --> 00:08:38,700 And so we do not in the fast time. I haven't done that yet. 92 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:45,210 And then also, you're just answering general questions anybody has in school about sports in Queens. 93 00:08:45,210 --> 00:08:50,280 And also trying to like, encourage participation in the multiple teams as well. 94 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:54,430 Yes. So the sport is part of the JCR Izak. 95 00:08:54,430 --> 00:09:01,420 So if you want to tune into our student leadership episode, Izabel and I will go through a lot of the different exact positions. 96 00:09:01,420 --> 00:09:07,410 And yeah, you have to stand up and do a speech and tell us what she should be fought for. 97 00:09:07,410 --> 00:09:12,040 Yeah. And Masab. And that's that's the position I believe, that you hold for a year. 98 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,580 Yeah. No, it's it's an interesting job and it's nice, I think as well. 99 00:09:15,580 --> 00:09:23,290 The fact that with all of the exact positions you have, the parts are actually formally relate to your role. 100 00:09:23,290 --> 00:09:29,860 And then you also get to be involved in the wider back in terms of like working groups and general decisions for them. 101 00:09:29,860 --> 00:09:40,570 So I think that's really nice. Okay. So for each of you, what has been your experience of college sport, uni sport, just generally sport in Oxford? 102 00:09:40,570 --> 00:09:45,940 So, Katie, do you want to start off? Yes. So I play. 103 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:56,530 University Hockey and I in my first year, I played for the Ladies Third team, which was really fun, and we trained twice a week. 104 00:09:56,530 --> 00:10:03,180 And then on a Tuesday morning and Friday afternoon and then had a match on Wednesday. 105 00:10:03,180 --> 00:10:07,290 On the Saturday. So it was quite a time commitment, but I think it was amazing. 106 00:10:07,290 --> 00:10:15,460 It was such a good way to make friends out of college and also just so much fun and a nice break from your studies. 107 00:10:15,460 --> 00:10:21,730 And then this year coming, I'm cutting the woman's voice, which is another really fun thing today. 108 00:10:21,730 --> 00:10:27,550 And I just it gives you a chance to get even more involved in a club that you love. 109 00:10:27,550 --> 00:10:34,810 And then outside of hockey, I played netball for college, which was really great fun on a Thursday afternoon. 110 00:10:34,810 --> 00:10:40,740 And it's just, again, another really good way to make friends with people in different year groups doing different subjects. 111 00:10:40,740 --> 00:10:50,210 He wouldn't really see any other point. So I think sport's pretty unique just for the friendship aspect on that like team team environment. 112 00:10:50,210 --> 00:10:57,220 So I love it. Yeah, definitely lovely. And I think, as you say, sport is such a good way to satellite and make me friends. 113 00:10:57,220 --> 00:11:03,940 Okay. Hamish, what about you? Yeah, I've played quite a lot of sport during my four years here. 114 00:11:03,940 --> 00:11:09,330 I play Koeppel for university, as I mentioned before, but I've kind of been involved in lots of different college sports. 115 00:11:09,330 --> 00:11:15,650 In my first year, I played a lot of lacrosse and basketball for college and then some of those teams from the struggle to kind of get membership. 116 00:11:15,650 --> 00:11:20,770 Obviously, the biggest sports in rugby and football are much more popular. 117 00:11:20,770 --> 00:11:24,650 So I played a lot of that as well. Did you aspire to at school for that? Kind of easy for day. 118 00:11:24,650 --> 00:11:29,110 But football is not something I'm geared up, but it's something that everyone in college, 119 00:11:29,110 --> 00:11:31,320 you know, you never really played is encouraged to get involved. 120 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:36,110 And if you want to this, there's lots different things that we have matches that all the time. 121 00:11:36,110 --> 00:11:41,530 And the fact that we don't have training that kind of helps you kind of feel that you don't 122 00:11:41,530 --> 00:11:44,860 really need to have a certain level of talent because they're really just looking for numbers. 123 00:11:44,860 --> 00:11:47,560 It's more a bit of a fun, always a uni sport, so much more serious. 124 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:54,990 But at a college level, it's kind of obvious, you know, all the first teams for each sport, which are a bit more, you know, ability based. 125 00:11:54,990 --> 00:12:03,730 But I think it's the right acquaints that people are really encouraged and welcomed into any sport, even if they're just trying it for the first time. 126 00:12:03,730 --> 00:12:11,000 Obviously, I know that from starting Copel at the university, which I've never played before, but I'm in college. 127 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:16,680 So the different sports going to both. They are playing pretty much every week. 128 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:18,820 If there's any other sport that they need to play, 129 00:12:18,820 --> 00:12:23,830 I'll play this case before I play netball pathologies just when they're kind of short plays one week. 130 00:12:23,830 --> 00:12:31,460 So it's really good not to get involved in anything really that it's a great way to meet people in college and outside. 131 00:12:31,460 --> 00:12:36,280 Yeah, definitely. I think that's nice to highlight. Well, the difference between college in municipal and the fact that, you know, 132 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,950 you can very much salivated to take up a sport that you've never done before and you 133 00:12:39,950 --> 00:12:44,090 don't have to be some kind of Olympic athlete able to make friends just for you. 134 00:12:44,090 --> 00:12:52,250 Yeah. And finally, Ying, what about you? So, know, I kind of dabbled in a lot of random sports over the year. 135 00:12:52,250 --> 00:12:59,990 So like I said, I joined a lot of college teams because I thought that I like that commitment and they're just fun to like meeting people. 136 00:12:59,990 --> 00:13:05,090 So I did it because netball, football and brother and then uni sport. 137 00:13:05,090 --> 00:13:11,870 So so did a lot of random development teams said, which didn't require a lot of commitment. 138 00:13:11,870 --> 00:13:17,560 Again, timing. So I did a bit of like, look, cross t. 139 00:13:17,560 --> 00:13:25,450 I get to like a few cool for training sessions and some of the stuff society like socials and stuff. 140 00:13:25,450 --> 00:13:29,680 It is quite fun, again, to meet people outside and college. 141 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:33,170 I like different groups. Yeah, definitely. Okay. 142 00:13:33,170 --> 00:13:39,230 Brilliant. So, hey, if you've already mentioned that you took a course which I want haven't heard of until you mentioned it. 143 00:13:39,230 --> 00:13:43,790 So yes, you have the experience of taking up a completely Brownie's for adults. 144 00:13:43,790 --> 00:13:51,000 So how did you find out? I think it was really good because I came into work for really hoping to try out some new sports. 145 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,900 Obviously, I'd always been told. When you get to university, there's such a wide range of people to try anything. 146 00:13:55,900 --> 00:13:58,100 So when I went to the freshest air in the last year, 147 00:13:58,100 --> 00:14:06,260 I signed up for 70 different sports and then continued to get many emails from all these clubs for the rest of my that degree. 148 00:14:06,260 --> 00:14:10,160 In first year, I tried out lots of things. I tried out handball. I tried out waterpolo. 149 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:16,280 I tried to undergo hockey. I had never heard of COFO at the time, which meant I was unfortunately actually start playing little. 150 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:25,010 Secondly, I think if someone describe to me what it was, which is essentially mixed netball, really, it's got a few different rules. 151 00:14:25,010 --> 00:14:30,400 It's a school, but the same objective, a basketball netball score points by getting the ball free. 152 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,140 What kind of race hate is is a different style of to some extra rules. 153 00:14:34,140 --> 00:14:42,260 And that which I the complex very different. And it's much, much faster than kind of college level basketball or or netball. 154 00:14:42,260 --> 00:14:47,630 But yeah, know, I think if anyone had told me what it was, I would have been like, that sounds great, but I just didn't hear about it. 155 00:14:47,630 --> 00:14:53,060 So my advice to anyone is, if you are looking to take any sport, actually go and speak to lots of people. 156 00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:58,870 Even if you look at a sport and they've got no idea what that is. A lot of the time you can actually hear about and they love those. 157 00:14:58,870 --> 00:15:03,590 Sounds like they would work for me. So, yeah, I didn't really get into components a second year. 158 00:15:03,590 --> 00:15:05,210 And then I played for three years. 159 00:15:05,210 --> 00:15:16,790 I was captain of the second team last year and then this year and the second again, we came second in the national play, which was really good fun. 160 00:15:16,790 --> 00:15:21,170 But yeah, taking on a brand new sport is kind of a big step because you feel like maybe 161 00:15:21,170 --> 00:15:24,110 there'll be other people who have more experience and sometimes I can't be the case. 162 00:15:24,110 --> 00:15:32,480 When I went to a humble club, there was a lot of Eesha team countries, people from those countries who played it a lot when they were young. 163 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:40,170 So I kind of felt a bit out my dad, but football was good in that 80 percent of their intake every year. 164 00:15:40,170 --> 00:15:41,030 I've never played it. 165 00:15:41,030 --> 00:15:47,360 And really, as long as you're gonna have played a bit of netball combustible, then you're probably kind of pick it up quite quickly. 166 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:53,870 The first year. It's it's fairly obvious that the second team is kind of three or four complete beginners on the team. 167 00:15:53,870 --> 00:15:54,920 So mentally, really well, 168 00:15:54,920 --> 00:16:01,340 because all the other clubs that we play in the local area or any level have also got brand new players playing for them each week. 169 00:16:01,340 --> 00:16:07,760 So it's really, really good. It meant that, like, especially being second year wasn't complete, they knew to Oxford. 170 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:12,650 So I felt more comfortable and confident speaking to people and getting involved in the club. 171 00:16:12,650 --> 00:16:19,460 So I became, as I said, the captain and second and also the treasurer for the club, which was a really good kind of CV boost, 172 00:16:19,460 --> 00:16:27,470 but also like it meant that, like I got to know other people more often as I was kind of on the exact floor for the club. 173 00:16:27,470 --> 00:16:32,240 Yeah, I think it's just a great kind of way, as I said, with hockey, just to kind of meet people outside of college, 174 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:37,610 because besides your subject and maybe people, you know, mutual friends or whatever. 175 00:16:37,610 --> 00:16:43,000 I think sport is actually the best way to kind of make new friendships outside of college. 176 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:50,740 Fantastic. Thank you. That was really interesting and I think, like what I think is right is going to ratify I'm signing up for everything. 177 00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:54,130 Yeah, you will be in jail for the rest of time. 178 00:16:54,130 --> 00:16:59,830 But also, it can be such a laugh and it's such a good way of finding new things that you never would have done before. 179 00:16:59,830 --> 00:17:08,590 So I think after freshers week in first week, I went to a salsa dancing taster class and I was absolutely awful at it. 180 00:17:08,590 --> 00:17:12,220 But it didn't matter because I went and had a proper laugh. 181 00:17:12,220 --> 00:17:17,770 I went with a couple of friends in college and it was just it was great. It was so much fun and I would never have done that. 182 00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:21,620 And yet they still e-mail me, but it was worth it. It was worth it. 183 00:17:21,620 --> 00:17:27,820 About one experience that I was considering taking it off. And that was really, really good. 184 00:17:27,820 --> 00:17:36,610 Okay, so, Katie, you've mentioned that you play on the uni hockey team, so you carried on playing high level hockey when you came to university. 185 00:17:36,610 --> 00:17:41,470 So how did you find that transition coming to play a university sport? 186 00:17:41,470 --> 00:17:49,090 What's your experience been of being on a uni team? So hockey is a pretty popular sport. 187 00:17:49,090 --> 00:17:53,080 A lot of schools will play it and primary schools will pay it. 188 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:59,470 So there is a lot of people that have a lot of experience in the game. 189 00:17:59,470 --> 00:18:08,470 So it's definitely one it's more competitive clubs to get into. However, I loved it and it was a really great way to make friends. 190 00:18:08,470 --> 00:18:16,480 I did pre-season for two weeks before I came to Oxford, so I felt by the time freshers came around, I already knew the city a little bit better. 191 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:24,910 I already had some friends from different colleges and I just felt that little bit more settles and the commitment level for hockey. 192 00:18:24,910 --> 00:18:32,590 I signed the start quite overwhelming because I was trying to balance how to work on an Oxford degree on top of making its training sessions. 193 00:18:32,590 --> 00:18:39,490 But I think in the long run playing sport, especially at one of the clubs where there is that little bit more commitment, 194 00:18:39,490 --> 00:18:47,500 is actually a really good thing because it teaches you how to discipline yourself and get really good time management. 195 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:53,080 And then outside of that, I think also playing high level hockey is a really, really sets. 196 00:18:53,080 --> 00:19:00,650 And I think health is a really important thing because you're always stressed and not always stressed, but you can't get over stressed Oxford. 197 00:19:00,650 --> 00:19:07,220 And so it's quite good to just have that relaxation protected time period where, you know, like, okay, 198 00:19:07,220 --> 00:19:13,680 I'm definitely over the library here or I'm going to leave the S.A.M. girlies up problem sheet and just go and have some fun. 199 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,360 And then also the social aspect of the club is amazing. 200 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:23,740 And Wednesday nights tend to be sports nights, a park and and especially if you go with a team, 201 00:19:23,740 --> 00:19:28,630 sometimes there's like a theme for the night or you're coming from a crew date with another hockey team. 202 00:19:28,630 --> 00:19:32,080 And it's just a really great, like team bonding atmosphere. 203 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:38,500 So on the pitch, I've loved it in terms of keeping physically fit, getting competitive hockey at a really high level. 204 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:43,290 I played this lady's third team and everybody on that team cared their school first. 205 00:19:43,290 --> 00:19:46,900 So it's really high level and but also off the pitch as well. 206 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:53,650 The social side of making new friends and just having loads of fun has really it my uni experience so much better. 207 00:19:53,650 --> 00:20:01,900 So, yeah, I've loved playing hockey and find the integration from school to uni and pretty, pretty easy. 208 00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:06,100 I mean, I'm no Olympic athlete. The first team plays National League and they're amazing, 209 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:11,830 but I still feel really content and getting a really great level hockey on the woman's third team. 210 00:20:11,830 --> 00:20:15,790 And I'm sure I'll be the same when I'm capturing the force. Brilliant. 211 00:20:15,790 --> 00:20:20,830 Thank you, Katie. Katie. So we've had some really, really great perspective there. 212 00:20:20,830 --> 00:20:25,570 I think we've really covered a lot of different aspects of sport. 213 00:20:25,570 --> 00:20:29,590 And I'm not gonna lie. I want to take some may not now. Maybe second year is gonna be my year. 214 00:20:29,590 --> 00:20:39,250 You kind of inspired me. Okay, perfect. So I think just organised clothes can be sports related, but isn't necessarily for each of you. 215 00:20:39,250 --> 00:20:44,930 What is your favourite thing about Queens? Why so, Hamish? 216 00:20:44,930 --> 00:20:49,690 You want to start with a. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of changed throughout the years, I guess. 217 00:20:49,690 --> 00:20:57,430 I've really enjoyed the sports in general. But I guess the thing that sounds really lame, but I know I think I really like the library about Queens. 218 00:20:57,430 --> 00:21:01,000 It really is kind of my favourite part of the college. I learnt some of the stuff I like. 219 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:06,290 I was at the bar. The courts are amazing. The college itself is just really grinding poverty to people. 220 00:21:06,290 --> 00:21:10,760 But the library is kind of been a very useful thing for me the whole way through. 221 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:15,350 Like lots of other colleges don't have as nice a library that I have 24/7 library. 222 00:21:15,350 --> 00:21:17,710 The library staff are a bit more strict with them. 223 00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:23,660 And I think our library is kind of best of all those worlds where you're really kind of welcomes and it's a big open space. 224 00:21:23,660 --> 00:21:30,490 You have the kind of old fashioned area that's kind of, if you would like that kind of style and is also the modern bit downstairs. 225 00:21:30,490 --> 00:21:37,110 So it's kind of something for everyone. It's very easy for me, that kind of thing from my brain in college just fine. 226 00:21:37,110 --> 00:21:41,320 I was when I have free time, whereas I think sometimes it's a bit difficult to motivate yourself. 227 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:46,630 If that wasn't bad, I think from the perspective of me, actually from taking my degree. 228 00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:51,720 The library has been on its cyberpower college. Yeah, I'd agree, I think. 229 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:56,930 I don't know, libraries, you know. Okay, gang. Do you want to take us out? 230 00:21:56,930 --> 00:22:00,550 Yes. For me, this is like a quiet life. 231 00:22:00,550 --> 00:22:07,450 Just the general sex for college. Let's go. It's quiet. Not small, but like the way we kind of bump into a lot of people. 232 00:22:07,450 --> 00:22:15,010 So you get to like a lot of places and it just goes quiet like a quite like a kind of little community. 233 00:22:15,010 --> 00:22:22,220 Yeah. You just see a lot of people naming and talking to different people at different courses and different more groups. 234 00:22:22,220 --> 00:22:27,340 I can guess your whole life, you see. Mm hmm. Yeah, I think that's nice. 235 00:22:27,340 --> 00:22:33,010 Kind of a nice size. I'm Katie, finally. How about you? Yeah, I'd say civility. 236 00:22:33,010 --> 00:22:39,670 I think the size of Queens really makes it for me because it's not it's not a tiny college, but it's definitely not too big. 237 00:22:39,670 --> 00:22:48,520 So you get to know everybody from your own year and then you get to make some really good relationships with people in different years, 238 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:53,920 too, which is helped by the college family. I love that part is Queens that we can all be coached on. 239 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:59,830 They say, yeah, I just really like the atmosphere which is helped by the good middle sides of the college. 240 00:22:59,830 --> 00:23:00,380 Yeah, definitely. 241 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:07,510 Katie, do you mind just explaining the kind of family really, really briefly to anyone who hasn't kind of isn't familiar with the concept? 242 00:23:07,510 --> 00:23:17,080 Yeah, of course. So college for me is when you're a fresher, you get given a cook and a college mom at some college mom. 243 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:25,660 So some college dads or a college mom and a college dad, which is two people in the airports who's got college married, which is a platonic thing, 244 00:23:25,660 --> 00:23:32,550 where two friends just decide that they're gonna come together and raise their future little children as their subject. 245 00:23:32,550 --> 00:23:37,480 So you are paired with somebody who usually tends to your subjects and they're your 246 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:42,520 port of call in terms of getting help and guidance and just fitting into college. 247 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:47,470 And I think it really helped a lot of people to settle in. 248 00:23:47,470 --> 00:23:54,280 Yeah, definitely. Theran and I discussed that in the in the well of food and we both said it's an underrated resource and an underrated system, 249 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:59,410 but it's value you in so quickly clean and sober for. And I love the way the queen sells it. 250 00:23:59,410 --> 00:24:04,770 Well, thank you all so much for talking to me. I think you've been absolutely fantastic. 251 00:24:04,770 --> 00:24:20,700 And I'm sure everybody who listened and would agree. I hope you all have a lovely, lovely day and I'll see you soon. 252 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:25,050 Thank you so much to Yang, Himesh and Kati for that fantastic conversation. 253 00:24:25,050 --> 00:24:30,750 And a massive thank you to all of you who listened. 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