RE: [kent-grads] Any university's collegiate system fading?

["iakudi" <iakudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm so many memories from so many friends...regardless of what these
memories were how many would go back to them right now? I personally would
be delighted to go back!

When I was at UKC (90-94) I was assigned to Rutherford, in the first month I
got to know some people in my corridor but by the end of the year knew many
faces in the college - I could easily wonder into the bar/JCR and know I
would know some people. For me this was great, whatever the idea was for the
collegiate system, I found it an excellent place to relax, meet people and
have a laugh. I was quite sad to leave the college at the end because I knew
so many people and we loved to meet up in the JCR.

I made a lot of friends in Darwin and was there often, Elliot was fun but
always full of smoke and Keynes was where I met my first girlfriend and I
used to study in Keynes most of the time - mainly for the burger bar (I
really miss the tuna melts!)

I remember at Christmas time in 1990 the Christmas tree kidnappings (or
attempts) we (Rutherford) were trying to 'steal' the Darwin tree and I think
Elliot was trying to steal ours. I do vaguely remember 'guarding' some part
of the Darwin tree and decorations in someone's room where we fell asleep,
explaining the pines to the porters were tricky...

I strongly believe the college system was a great concept, it allowed new
students to stay together, socialise and it created a real sense of
'belonging'. I was grateful of this, even though I lived off campus and then
in Parkwood, I always missed Rutherford College. 

One thing I noticed when I was last at UKC (a few years back) was the
atmosphere, the new student shop + 'nightclub' (Venue?) may have bought all
the entertainment on campus but I never felt the same charisma or character
as there was in my time. Back then it almost appeared that people had more
time for each other, having to create you own entertainment made people more
sociable and friendly.

Ismail (Ish)

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Sent: 16 December 2005 15:55
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Subject: RE: [kent-grads] Any university's collegiate system fading?

I too found the love of my life at UKC

After being "thrown out of" Cambridge at the end of my second year, my 
Dad got a friend on the staff at UKC to talk to the Maths department for 
me, and arranged an interview.

I got in, and was assigned to Darwin and (as I suspected would happen) 
had to repeat the second year.

In my third year, I was visiting a friend in Rutherford that I had met 
through the RPG club, and a friend of hers popped in to borrow some 
lecture notes. The rest, as they say, is history. Carole (née 
Scarborough, R, M, 84-87) and I have been married for 16 deliriously 
happy years.

Having been at two Universities that use the collegiate system, and 
having two brothers who went to a University that didn't, I have to say 
that I think it is the right way for a University of UKC's size or 
larger to go. I'd be hard pressed to coherently explain why, but I think 
it has something to do with dividing the non-academic side of the 
experience down into manageable chunks.


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Ian Gordon (D, M, 83-85)

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