{"id":1052,"date":"2014-06-25T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T09:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T09:28:29","slug":"june-2014-open-day-what-you-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"June 2014 Open Day &#8211; what you said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thanks to all who came to our Open Day on 21 June 2014. It was great to talk to so many passionate potential students and their families.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what visitors to our Open Day stand told us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Very friendly and professional! I hope I can make it into here!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The campus looks very nice &#8211; there is a friendly atmosphere.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>There is a lot of information given to students without asking and the teachers are very helpful and approachable.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Very impressed with the lecture halls and the the way I was introduced to the course I intend doing&#8217;.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I haven&#8217;t had the chance to look around yet but so far it is a very positive atmosphere and very nice staff.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The college is very welcoming.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Good lecturers.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I especially enjoyed the lectures within the computing department. They were very informative and helped me to narrow down my choice of which computing course was best for me.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>It&#8217;s been a nice place to visit so far. All the staff seem inviting and easy to talk to.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The location in London and the small, campus style of university &#8211; it seems very friendly and a good place to learn, work and have fun.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I spoke with a Goldsmiths representative who visited my school twice and was interested from those conversations. My school&#8217;s careers department also referred me to Goldsmiths. I love <em> the size of the university<\/em> and the fact that it is in London.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>With its very appealing music computing course (music and computing are two of my key interests) I feel as if Goldsmiths is definitely a great option as opposed to other unis. I also think its proximity to London is very welcoming, along with the friendly impressions I have from coming here today.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you missed our Director of Studies&#8217; introduction talk to Computing at Goldsmiths, read the PDF notes vision of Computing education at Goldsmiths: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ApplicantTalk2013.pdf\">rigour, independence, creativity and relevance<\/a><\/strong>. And do have a look at his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2672031\/videos\">169 films on Vimeo<\/a><\/strong>, including the<em> Introduction to Programming<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/98770114\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to all who came to our Open Day on 21 June 2014. It was great to talk to so many passionate potential students and their families. Here&#8217;s what visitors to our Open Day stand told us: Very friendly and professional! I hope I can make it into here! The campus looks very nice &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">June 2014 Open Day &#8211; what you said<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}