Feb 11, 2010
Cardiff University Part Two
I’m now on the way back from Cardiff, as I posted earlier I spent today there on a physics applicant day.
Its been a brilliant day, and I’m very pleasantly surprised that Cardiff has made me consider my previous decision that it would be my fallback uni, behind Birmingham. Granted, I have only so far been to Cardiff uni open day and the applicant day in next week, so I’ll compare the two directly, but I really enjoyed my time at Cardiff today.
The department looked great, the atmosphere was brilliant and I really liked that the department isn’t vast like Birmingham’s is, I like how personal everything seemed.
The facilities were also very good, and everything just seemed really nice, enough for me to sway from being definite about Birmingham for a while 
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I also met an absolutely awe inspiring guy while I was there, on the same applicant day as me, called Glyn. I’m hoping to find his blog, and I believe I have his Facebook details but he was absolutely brilliant – him and catching back up with an old friend made the day for me.
Back on track though, I have Birmingham open day next Tuesday, and after that, now that my offers are all through, I can start thinking about my actual choices.
Interesting food for thought is that if I firm with Cardiff and achieve AAA grades (two A’s and my welsh bac) then I’ll automatically be eligible for a sizable grant, which I don’t think applies at Birmigham. I’ll find this out on Tuesday, though.
Well, I’m now about an hour from my train change for home, so I’m going to have a read.
