moving to university is one of the
biggest decisions you'll ever make
and getting the feel for a place can be
really difficult especially if you can't
visit in person
so today i wanted to show you around the
university of dundee
a green city campus in the sunniest city
in scotland
dundee absolutely has my heart and it is
my pleasure to show you around so
whether you're moving here soon
or you just want a nosy you're very
welcome to come along
so in this video i want to give you the
full tour i'm going to have a slow walk
around campus and yeah this is probably
going to be really boring if
you don't care about dundee and you're
not moving here so
feel free to click off i have lots of
other videos that you can check out i'm
also going to post
things i wish i knew before i'd gone to
university up here so if you want to
watch that
don't feel bad i will see in the next
video with that i say
grab yourself a drink make yourself
comfortable and
let me show you around so this
is the front of the train station right
down at the waterfront
i wanted to start this video off in the
center of town and then
wander you over through to campus
because this is probably going to be
a lot of people's first impression of
the city
and it's good to get a feel of what the
city's like
so we're just heading towards the
waterfront now
i'm going to spin you around tell you
the landmarks so hopefully you can
grab your bearings and then we will
toddle up onto campus
and finally i will take you out to the
west end and i'm going to show you
all of the university accommodation
options
all of the main buildings on campus that
you're gonna need to know and i thought
we would just have a little chit chat
along the way
just about student life and some tips i
have for private renting for example
so i hope you're sitting comfortably so
it's really hot and sunny today it's
unusually so and campus is going to be
very quiet
because no one is here yet it's august
and
class doesn't start for another month so
it's going to be incredibly quiet
also we are five months into coronavirus
so everyone's being
very cautious so that is the V&A museum
on the left that's what we tempt all the
tourists in
that's the discovery boat on the right
and
behind is the tay river
so that is the river to the south and
pointing over to the north is the law
hill
so these are the kind of two main
landmarks and if you ever get lost
wandering around campus just know that
north is usually uphill and south is
usually downhill
so hopefully that can help you out so to
put this in the context of google maps
we are at the red pin and campus is
highlighted in yellow
so campus is ringed in by roads i've
highlighted in pink and if you go to
google maps you should really quickly be
able to spot where campus is
because it's circled by these roads so
dundee is a small city on the east coast
of scotland
it's an hour north of edinburgh up the
coast
and the weather is pretty good here it's
the sunniest city in scotland
so you can't complain there are two unis
here
Abertay is most famous for video games
and
Dundee is most famous for life sciences
so the student satisfaction here is
pretty good
the lifestyle of being a student in
dundee is nice because everything's so
close it's got a real campus-y feel
and everything's very affordable so i
did my undergrad here in life sciences
and now i'm a postgrad so yes it was
good enough for me to want to stick
around
when i was getting ready to move to
dundee
i was really terrified honestly the
online information was patchy and even
though i'd
been to an open day i still felt like i
didn't know anything i didn't know
anyone who was there so it was really
stressful
and that was NOT factoring in a global
pandemic i can only
imagine the extra anxieties that that is
bringing
and so many people are completely unable
to come and visit for an open day
so any international students you
probably want to fly into edinburgh
it's just the best connected place to
fly into
and you can catch the airport bus that
drops you off right
there at the red sign so you can see
there a bus is driving around
to the right that is heading to the main
bus station
which is about two blocks over in that
direction
so here i'm gonna zoom you all the way
up the hill towards the
center of town so this is us at
debenhams junction
that direction east is into the center
of town
and here over to the west is where
campus is
so this is dundee's high street here
it's called nethergate and then it turns
into being called perth road even though
it's one
long straight road so
perth road has loads of pubs lots of
restaurants
this here red on the left is called Groucho's
it's a secondhand music shop
and it is wonderful i would recommend
there's also bakeries green grocers
butchers post office everything you want
is probably going to be
on perth road now wee mexico there on the
left is
very yummy for mexican food
so this perth road here carries on for
miles
and campus is on the right hand side up
to the north
here is a church on the dca so the dca
is dundee contemporary arts
there is a cinema in here they don't
always show
kind of the normal films that are being
released
they do show some really interesting
films and their film times are a bit
funky
but it is a really lovely place over
here is
one of the clark's bakery places clark's
bakery is probably the most famous
bakery in dundee
they do have another site that's kind of
an industrial estate
that is the 24-hour bakery so that is
where a lot of people go for their
midnight snacks
and along perth road in exactly this
direction there are both seabraes and
westpark accommodation
here oshibori is my favorite restaurant
there's a wee alleyway down to the
left through the gate and oh it's
amazing japanese food
so i'm just gonna head up north here on
to park place
so we're just heading into campus this
building is probably the building you
will matriculate in
it's called boner hall yeah some ponsey
people try and say
bonner hall i don't know i find it quite
charming
so matriculation is really important you
need to turn up with the right paperwork
and you just get handed your student
card
it's nothing too tricky just remember to
bring all the correct paperwork
and freshers you will be given a time
slot
don't be late you're going to be fined
and also remember to
matriculate online every year afterwards
so you just go online fill in your
details tell them where you live and say
i'm definitely back for this year and
you'll be good to go
oh and freshers are going to be given
your student card in a lanyard
the easiest way to spot a fresher
is to look out for the people who are
wearing the lanyards
so you do you but just so you know
most students don't wear the lanyards
for very long
so this building here is the scrymgeour
building
it's for social sciences i've only been
in twice but
i think it is the most beautiful
building on campus i absolutely love it
and straight up this road is the dental
building
so the last kind of row the last
building on the left there
is the dental building
so we're going to head around to the
west
and the building on your left is the
tower building and the building
on your right is carnelly so this is the
home of
life sciences
and if you're ever bored there is a
zoology museum in the basement of this
building that's really worth the nosy
you just go down the stairs to the left
so on your left is the tower building
the room layout is quite sensible it's
not too easy to get lost in there
and there's lots of IT suites in the
basement there's some stairs down to the
left and
the top floor there's a cafe with an
amazing view i think it's like the 11th
floor or something
so around here is the global room it's a
really chilled place they do kind of
cultural events and they often have free
food
the last event i went to in the global
room was a dog walk
it's like a mental health paws for
thought event
and they had paw shaped biscuits it was
all very sweet it's a really friendly
place
here is the old medical school
so they have the life science labs in
this building
they are up many flights of stairs
because everything is double height
it's a really old building
and that's not the main door as much as
it looks it
here is the college shop it's not
usually
gated shut they have sandwiches and
snacks in there so it's a good place to
grab
lunch if you're on this side of campus
so i'm just going to take you on to
smallswind and
then we will walk up north to the
library
so up these steps here is the uni health
services
they do sexual health services and
mental health services
I've avoided ya don't worry
you want to be in the campus tour no
we're not playing pokemon honest
last time i was up here i was a zombie
ah close call
campus is pretty friendly it's not
unusual to have a wee chat to someone
in the street or at the bus stop or
i don't know it's uh yeah it's kind of
normal to have a little chat to
strangers
and uh he said he was a zombie i'm gonna
take it to the library but i'm just
gonna take you on a detour here
he said he was a zombie that was on a
yearly event where they do
a zombie apocalypse it's a charity thing
where a bunch of zombies
wreak havoc around campus for the day so
there are tons of green spaces on campus
just like this one this is one of my
favorite places on campus and it
actually took me until third year to
find it i was just never nosy enough to
take the detour so that's the library
it's really close by and it's lovely for
a little
lunch stop or a little break from the
library so
i'm gonna head up the hill and show you
the library front door
there are tons of bike shelters all over
campus
so healthcare for anyone who's not
familiar
in scotland we have a national health
service the nhs
and everything is free when you access
it so there's no bills handed to you
just register with a gp so we have three
gps that are nearby we have hawkhill
ryehill or nethergate and i think
they're all fine you just if you want an
appointment with your gp
you need to phone eight o'clock in the
morning and keep phoning until
someone picks up for international
students i would check for your specific
country but i think if you're here over
three months you should be good
so this straight ahead is the
engineering buildings
this is the fulton building and
dalhousey is straight ahead i will show
you that later
and now here is the main library
entrance so you basically go in you scan
your student card
and then you head on in so there is a
ground floor a first floor and a second
floor and the library's split off into
quiet sections
group study sections and it's all really
clearly labeled
about how loud you can be um and over
here
is my favorite part of campus it is the
free shop
so if you guys saw my what i love and
what i hate about university of dundee
you will have seen that little window
and that is exactly where it is
i think you just head in the door on the
right i've never been when it's been in
this building
there was a building that they
demolished um they used to be in so i've
not been in the new location but i have
used it before
here is the chaplaincy they have a lot
of really cool events a lot of free
events a lot of soups
so if you want to grab yourself some
free food then head in there actually
there's a lot of free food events on
campus
the global room and the chaplaincy seem
to be the two
biggest providers
just having a little creep on some
people playing volleyball here
so this is coming on to campus green
they do lots of events here i've been to
an alpaca
petting zoo huge trampolines come out an
inflatable assault course
outdoor movie theater it's pretty
fantastic
if they're doing anything fun it's
probably here so
the reds door on your left is the
enquiry center
if you need to know where something is
need paperwork or help with anything
like losing your student card
they are the people for you and just
past that
is the student union entrance and
straight ahead
is well the barrier is down just now but
it's usually the main campus shop just
to the right
is belmont accommodation so everything
is
really really close by i am so sorry
that i can't take you inside the union
right now it's closed for summer and
also
coronavirus so i'm gonna do my best to
describe it to you
so as you enter these main doors you've
got a reception on
your left then you're met with stairs to
go upward to go down
if you go down you're at the very bottom
this is level one
there is a nightclub called mono it's
pretty classic nightclub and then in the
daytime they turn it into a cafe
if you were to go up the stairs from
reception then you get
to the third floor this has liar bar in
it it's kind of a classic sports bar
they have lots of tvs
lots of leather sofas and a gorgeous
view out
over the river tay which i will show you
around the back of the union
if you go up one more floor then you get
to the kind of pool table area there is
a cocktail bar that turns into a karaoke
bar sometimes
and there's some fast food there's also
a place called the hive which is like a
student help center in there
and then if you go up to the very top
the fifth floor there is an alternative
nightclub so they do pop mixes or
rock mixes they just do the different
event of the night
so there's five floors to the union they
all have
some sort of pub or club and hopefully
at some point in the future
nightclubs will be able to safely reopen
again i don't see it being anytime soon
though
this is all the halls on campus by the
way belmont is on the left belmont tower
up top and heathfield straight ahead
i do not see any sort of large group
gatherings happening this year
but there are a lot of yearly events
that happen
so obviously there's usually freshers
week in september
there is refreshers week that happens in
january when everyone comes back from
their holidays there is a st patrick's
day that happens i think that's 17th of
march
oh and there's a car park wave i will
tell you about that when we are over
heathfield
there is a lot going on and i don't
really know how things are going to work
with covid i don't really have any more
information i did try and look up
freshers week and
there isn't that much out there so
hopefully you will still be able to get
a wonderful undergrad or post grad
experience
so there's a cash machine back there it
should be free to take
cash out in scotland and any bank will
let you take out from any cash machine
if you're looking to open a bank account
i personally go with bank of scotland
i quite like them if you're an
international student you might want to
think about santander just because they
are more international and the tennis
courts are on the left if you live in
these belmont flats you will know
the sound of the tennis courts this is
belmont flats number 37
on the very very left at the bottom all
the way up to flat number 60 belmont on
the top
right and depending on which bedroom
number you are you can either look
south or you can look north
i lived in belmont in my first year and
i loved it i thought it was the perfect
choice i could basically go to the union
for a night out i didn't always take my
phone like i
felt safe enough to just leave my phone
at home
um and a few times i did run from
the union to my flat in like a minute it
was super quick to get home
it felt really really safe it was so
cool
so here is the belmont courtyard
flat number one is kind of straight
ahead on the bottom
and then we whisk all the way around
anti-clockwise up to flat number 60.
so the building ahead is where you've
got your little laundry
there's just a bunch of washing machines
and dryers
i personally never use the dryers they
always seemed a little bit minky to me
up here is belmont tower
also um be warned if you live in halls
the fire alarm will go off all the time
if you make any smoke like
aerosol can deodorant too much steam if
you're straining your hair
i don't know the fire alarms just go off
all the time and
two big fire engines will come into the
courtyard and you will all be standing
out in the cold and yeah
it's no fun there is also a bunch of
cages they've got the bins in them so
you can all fight about who didn't take
the bins out
good times obviously i don't have a key
to actually show you inside because
i don't live here but there is a secure
entry
and in my year that building was where
all the nursing students were put
together
generally got to know everyone in my
building by face at least
um honestly nowhere on campus is more
than like a 10 minute walk away so i
personally didn't bother with a bike
it's probably further to find a place to
put your bike than it is to just walk
door-to-door
so here's the ise she's not looking in
her
best uh missing her e that does usually
say ise
i don't know what's going on yeah
everything has been closed
for coronavirus at this moment for
oh four or five months so no one's been
in the gym in four or five months
so she's looking a little bit dusty on
the outside but
the gym is lovely it's pretty big there
is
loads of clubs so if you kind of come in
this revolving door
there is a reception area all the way
along on the left
there's a few gym halls around to the
left you can go up the stairs to
squash courts a dance studio and on the
right hand side
this whole area over here is a huge
two level gym so there's weights on the
ground floor
there's running machines and then you go
up and there's loads of cycles and
rowers
so the gym is pretty big oh there's also
a huge like
sports hall that they do a bunch of
exams into i
don't play much sport so i've never been
in the sports hall but
it's very big so over here
is heathfield and
heathfield and belmont they all have the
same layout so if you've seen in
one of them you know the dimensions and
the layout and stuff with the flats
they're all identical and over here is
where you collect your keys for
all of the halls this little office in
here is where you get your keys
so i'm just gonna have a little wander
around heathfield
so the whole of campus is
not anywhere that people would drive
through so there are some cars but
generally no one's driving fast it's
very much got the feel of being a little
campus
bubble
oh i should introduce you to the
seagulls
so dundee has a lot of seagulls
they are ravenous they will attack you
for food
and i actually mean attack you do not
feed the seagulls
i had a friend who came out of greg's
the bakers
holding a sausage roll a seagull swooped
him and
tore the sausage roll out of his hands
and cut his finger
i think this heathfield building is for
the post-grads and
there's a lot of post-grad teachers that
seem to live in there
i don't know there's nowhere in belmont
or heathfield that's really really quiet
so if you're from the countryside
that's going to be fun adapting i took a
long time to adapt and it was really
really fun it was totally worth living
in belmont and heath... well
belmont for the year even though it was
really loud but there is
constantly parties in the courtyard
people smoking
people being loud and you've got the
road noise of being on the north side of
heathfield and you've got the tennis
noise being on the south side of belmont
so
eh i don't know i think it's a bit of a
gamble into which flat you actually get
placed i know some years it's a bit of a
scramble but they generally do try to
house people who know each other and
request it together
i didn't know a few people who did that
in my first year
royal mail delivery cart so the royal
mail do deliver to your actual door
which is cool if you have any parcels
they're too big or they can't deliver to
you they put them in that office that's
on just around to the right there
that you collect your keys from and
straight ahead
is the union that we were looking down
to
so i'm going to take you east heading
towards town again
and let's head towards dalhousie which
is one of the main
teaching buildings as well so dalhousie
is
the most difficult building to get
around and
if i was to go back and give a little
emma starting uni some advice it would
be
the code for how to actually get around
dalhousie loads of people have lectures
here and
absolutely no one knows how to read the
system so
if you've made it this far in the video
you have earned this
there is a system of three parts to
navigating your way around dalhousie
you'll get code that's like 1G03
the one means it's block one which is on
the right
don't ask me why g means ground floor 03
is room three it goes g for ground floor
f for first floor and s for second floor
and then it's your room number
another warning buildings one and
buildings two
are not connected throughout so if you
have
like a 1S03 you can't go up to the
second floor
in building 2 yep i'm glad we all got
that
i'm gonna move on
so i'm gonna carry on walking you east
into
town again so if you need your groceries
um i think little is probably the first
port of call so i will walk you down too
Lidl
if anyone is in quarantine i would do a
food delivery oh here's parlor cafe this
is
my favorite spot for lunch it's really
small but they do tons of takeaways
this is all like veggie all vegan really
really tasty food
they do kind of salad boxes like paninis
and
salad boxes it's amazing food in there
so yeah oh gallery 48 is also good for
food
they do tapasy stuff you can tell i'm a
foodie right
so if anyone's stuck in quarantine i
personally would do
a grocery shopping from asda i have an
asda account
and they do have a minimum spend of i
think
~£35 um
you could try and buddy up with a
flatmate and get a group order
you choose a delivery slot time
and if you plan it right you can only
pay £1 for your delivery
and then they will take it straight to
your door here is west house
on the corner that is a lovely lunch
spot they can be quite quick as well
if you're running on a tight schedule
just have an hour for lunch
and here is little this is where i would
recommend
is the cheapest student shop so you have
to kind of go straight down and cross
at the crossing and there is
the best shop here is the
fanciest hotel if your parents want to
come and visit
and here is tesco so
tesco is a small convenient shop
but it's really expensive i i've fallen
into the trap of thinking it's closer
and it's easier but it's
quite expensive so i'm just going to
take you up in a loop and show you the
private halls options
so on your right here you've got the hub
this has a really similar feel to
belmont and heathfield there's a
courtyard to it
um yeah it's quite first-yeary
and then there is campus slightly
further up
you need to know who you're going to
stay with if you want to go into campus
and they usually get
filled up about halfway through the year
so campus has more of a second year feel
to it
but these are both really studenty
options
and the dundee mosque is down this road
to the right the building is
gorgeous and it's always absolutely
packed so
if you're muslim that would be the place
to go
just down there oh and that red and blue
building up there
is the Abertay halls it's called parker
house i think
it's got big iq written on it and
that is where a lot of the abertay
students live there is an underpass
near there i would say be careful when
you're walking in that underpass to be
perfectly honest
and that is duke's corner that is a
nice pub and here's molly malone's this
is also a nice pub they do really good
live music um yeah i don't want to scare
you about the underpass however
be very careful because i did have a
friend who was
kind of chased through there and
i just happened to be driving past after
and oh she was really spooked
so be careful
so if anyone hasn't managed to get into
halls and
is a first year panicking that they
don't have anyone to live with
this could be an option for you so this
is
the hub the main door is just down the
street and
on the left and they do student
accommodation
it's shared kitchens and ensuites
pretty standard there's a courtyard in
there as well so
you get quite a similar vibe to
belmont and heathfield it's just that
few minutes
out of campus i think it's cheaper
it has a very very studenty vibe it's
mostly first
and second years that live in the hub
and
all of this front here that's the kind
of white and brick
is the hub all the way along they've got
lots and lots of flats
and they do randomly assign some people
they do house people who know each other
together as well
their little laundrettes underneath
quite a similar setup
the only thing that's different is i
don't think they deliver the mail to
your flat
they just have pigeon holes at the front
for you to collect with your own
keys and today is a really unusually
warm day
it's not usually this hot in dundee it's
22 degrees
i should warn any international students
it is very
cold in winter so definitely get
yourself a nice big jacket
also for any international students
jaywalking isn't a thing
um it's generally cross the road
wherever you
can and uh don't get hit also if
anyone's bringing a car
to uni i will give a little bit more
information later on about where the
best places to park are because i took
my car to uni in the first year
so if anyone is into climbing here
is a climbing wall this is called
avertical world
it is a climbing wall that's built in a
church
quite fancy
so this building straight ahead of us is
the back of dalhousie
so we're just kind of coming around in a
loop again and i'll go back onto campus
the buildings you can see in red there
are the very back of heathfield
up in that direction there are a lot of
houses
semi-detached houses with gardens and
driveways a lot of the second third
fourth year students live in there
if you're all the way up that road you
do join onto perth road and head
out west parkway i will take you out
there
afterwards there are lots of taxis in
the city these should all have taxi
plates on them we don't do any uber here
if you're wanting a taxi ride it's
usually quite cheap say from the train
station to campus is probably five
pounds
if that um and the uni also has a nice
scheme that
if you show your student card to the
taxis in dundee and you can't pay you'll
be able to pay them back
if that's still running so i usually
phone dundee city taxis
no they're not paying me but i always
have a good experience with them
and they do give you a text with a
location and your taxi reg
which i quite enjoy
dundee also has a huge number of
electric vehicles i think
like half of the taxi fleets that you
will see are electric vehicles and
there's charging points
everywhere this is my least favorite
part of campus
be very careful so yeah you can see this
is the bit that's really hard to cross
that i wanted the lollipop person on
because it's a nightmare there's big
hedgerows can you imagine hundreds of
students trying to get to campus
it is hell it was built for cars not for
students
so this is where we came from that's
heathfield on the right there and
this is the army base so
when i first moved into halls i had a
bunch of
people from kind of the reserve army
helping me carry my stuff
up which was amazing
another lovely green space so there used
to be a building here that was
demolished i think had asbestos problems
on the right hand side
and um now they just left it green so i
think that's kind of
a nice thing for the uni i was expecting
them to throw up some other building but
they just made it grass which i think is
lovely here is the civil engineering
they do a lot
of engineering labs in there
so these assistants things
are scattered all around uni
i've never pressed one they kind of got
put in when i was in third or fourth
year luckily i've never needed to use
one but
apparently they do call campus security
so
that is very handy i as i say i used to
go to the union all the time without my
phone because i just left so close
so that's kind of handy if you are
without a phone and you do need
assistance you can get it
and this is us just scooping in again to
the library
and the chaplaincy there yeah i just
wanted to kind of really orientate you
in this video because there's nothing
worse than
watching the kind of glossy official
welcome videos and you don't really know
where anything is they just
either drone from one place to the next
or i just jump
and it doesn't really help you get
around
so if you've if you've still been
watching this video i don't quite know
why but
i'm gonna give you two very high quality
pieces of information
especially if you're stuck in quarantine
you might need this there is a website
that you have access to
called bob international it's kind of
the walmart
netflix you will have access to
everything that's ever played on tv
in the uk so they have all of the
episodes of everything
it's quite good you can't watch live tv
on it
but you can request a program to be like
downloaded quickly and you can get it
within maybe an hour of it being live on
tv so
i would recommend that the second thing
is in my first year i very naively
purchased microsoft office for students
don't do that you can get it free
so just have a research for it and
you'll be able to download microsoft
all of the packages onto your devices if
you need any help
then you can email help for number four
you that's the IT help email if you need
any assistance but i think it's got much
easier since i was in first year
so this is the back of the library and
i'm just going to walk you through to
pop out at the back of the union
so if anyone's thinking of getting a job
student jobs are pretty common i'd say
about half of my friends at undergrad
had a job and it is less common at post
grad but it is still do-able
so i had a job throughout my undergrad
in first and second year i worked
16 hours a week at a supermarket
here is just the back of the union
and later on in my undergrad i then
shifted to summer jobs in science
research
and i knew people who worked in retail
hospitality so if you're
looking for a job i'd probably start in
the overgate shopping center and along
perth road
would be the easiest i can think of
um there are two types of contracts set
hours or
zero hours ah this is the view
i'm gonna take you up on here two
seconds
so lovely so that is the tay river
that is to the south and just over the
water about half an hour bus right away
is saint andrews
so it's pretty close at the bottom of
this
road on the left there's the career
service
and these buildings apparently used to
be halls
they're mostly just offices now there's
not very much teaching
here but uh yeah imagine living halls in
there i think we got an upgrade
if you're upstairs in liar
bar which is like the one floor up you
get this view
saying having your beer and oh i just
love it
so you can go in that door to the back
of the union
and i'm just gonna walk you through to a
really nice
green space so this area here does get
used for the back of the nightclub is
usually the smoking area and they do
some food there in the daytime too
sometimes barbecues and stuff but this
is geddess quadrangle
it's gorgeous a lot of people come here
for graduation photos and the gardeners
do
a truly wonderful job
and there's some people enjoying it
yeah so if you're looking for a job
there's either zero hours contracts
or set hours contracts and i preferred
to have a contract of 16 hours that was
just slightly more stable for me
it meant i didn't have to worry about
what my timetable was and booking shifts
and
i don't know it seemed the people who i
knew had zero hours contracts
seemed to have more stress about when
they were working so
i didn't want to go through that but
anyway you do what you think is best
and make sure you're being paid properly
there
are minimum wages
i've put the 2020 spreadsheet up
so you can figure out how much is the
minimum wage for you
and it's illegal to pay you less than
that
so uh don't work for anyone who's not
treating you
well
so here we're coming back down onto
perth road
and here's the tay just peeking behind
i don't know who decided to plant palm
trees here
but uh that was a wonderful decision
because
they make me smile
so perth road in this direction
takes us to seabraes halls
and to west park and there are buses
all along here if you get the bus from
the side that we're crossing to that
heads you out to nine wells
it just says ninewells on the front and
there are
two bus companies that can take you
there
and that is where we came from that's
the back of the union up there
so dundee is really famous for its
video games industry and here are the
wee lemmings
they're super cute
and if you want a really big supermarket
there is a big tesco that is down this
flight of stairs and over the bridge so
it crosses over the railway
line and you can walk down there
this tesco isn't as expensive as the wee
one that i told you
to kind of avoid um
there it is
oh it's so beautiful you can get a
really good view over the water from the
top
of the law hill that is quite a
tradition in itself
to walk up the law in the summer
when the sun rises at like four in the
morning
you gotta drunkenly walk up the law i
think it's like a graduation ball thing
as well
yeah it's definitely tradition so i am
just about to
jump in the car from exactly this point
and i'll take you over to sea breeze and
west park
so this road is called roseangle i'm so
sorry i just chucked my camera on my
dashboard because
i didn't know what else to do i was just
out filming on my own
so apologies for the reflection and
uh i probably should have cleaned my
windscreen my bad
oh there's also a lot of students who
live down this way at the end of this
road there is a gorgeous park
called Magdalene green that is where
everyone goes on a sunny day
so this is seabreeze
oh this is a terrible shot i'm sorry so
there's wee set of stairs on the right
there if anyone is into that section
seabreeze has a reputation for having
slightly more
flat parties than belmont or heathfield
just because it's that tiny bit further
out so people uh
pre-drink a little bit more than head to
the union on the left
there is the newer seabreeze and i think
they do the post-grad
places in there and on the right there
is the older seabreeze
and i think that straight ahead is where
you would collect your keys
so sea brays also have a common room um
which they don't have
in the others so that's really nice and
it tends to be the most
social of all the halls
one thing i noticed when i was in
seabreeze was the bathrooms are kind of
horrible
so they're really small they don't have
like a shower
tray so you tend to just get shower
water
all over the floor even though it is
slanted i was not a fan
and the walls in the old place are
quite prison breeze blocky but um
the new seabraes over on the right
hand side there are completely the same
as belmont and
heathfield it's just the seabraes on
the left they're slightly
older and seabraes is a really good
place to stay
if you have a car you can pay for a
permit to keep your car there
and generally this part of town is oh
dear me my camera is
going awol i should not have just
chucked my camera on the dashboard but
uh
i didn't have anyone to film with so
down on the left there is magdalen green a
lovely park that is great for barbecues
and just having a chill time outside
if you need to socially distance meet
anyone i guess magdalen green is a
lovely place to do that
all up here is free parking and kind of
down the road back the way along rose
angle is a really good place
to park your car that's where i parked
my car in first year
when i lived in belmont and along perth
road i will
show you the free parking area it's
quite
short this is one of the buses that i
think would be going to ninewells
so some of the buses you need to watch
out and give them exact change
um that bus there i think was the 73
that's a pretty nice one that goes to
ninewells you can get on
and they usually have a conductor and
they give you a student discount so
that is one of the nice ones so this
piece of road here does have free
parking i'll let you know when it ends
and that building on the right coming up
the glass front
is the front of djcad so that's the art
school
that has a very good reputation
so you can actually take your car to
dundee
but honestly unless you like regularly
go home
everything within dundee is walkable
and daylight hours in scotland
are interesting so if you're coming to
scotland from anywhere closer to the
equator
you are going to be in for a wild ride
so it's incredibly
sunny in summer the sun hardly ever sets
in mid-summer it's dark for less than
six hours
and it's wonderful fast forward to
winter
and it's dark all the time so there's
about six hours of light in winter
from 9 00 a.m to 3 p.m oh
definitely buy a sunrise alarm
most dundee uni students who live in
private rents will be within walking
distance to campus
all along this road perth road each lane
is
very student-y and i've made a terrible
map of the high density student areas
for dundee uni and it's in pink on the
right hand side here
this is the community fridge so in here
there is a little porta cabin that's got
fridges freezers
it's pretty wonderful and you can get
free food they
let anyone come and pick up free food
whether you financially need it or not
it's where all of the
shops put their excess food in tartan
cafe is one of my favorites
so we'll just jump back i'm also going
to link the community fridge facebook
page
and all along perth road here you've got
lots of boutiques
art shops and a music shop
so the little green larger is just on
the left there
it's a zero waste shop
and there's the boots pharmacy on the
left prescriptions are free to pick up
in scotland
and then fraser's fruit and veg on the
left on the corner is also wonderful
oh pakamara that light green on the left
was lovely for brunch
so here is just the little junction
that um when we were crossing over from
the climbing wall
over to the back of dalhousie and i
pointed up the hill
that's the road that comes out on the
right where that caravan is
over to the right and if you're looking
to
privately rent anywhere it's completely
okay for first years to go into private
rent
um or i think most postgrads would
probably go straight into a private rent
it is quite affordable so when i was
renting a two bedroom
in 2019 it was 590 pounds
per month and then add on 20 pounds
for wi-fi and about 40 pounds for
energy and gas um i think it was on
honestly very very affordable i've heard
of crazy rent prices especially coming
from edinburgh
so dundee is very affordable i guess a
one bedroom you'd probably want to be
paying about
450 a two bedroom maybe 550
600 and then the more people you share
with
the cheaper it would be if you're
looking for
a place all along perth road and to the
left
down the hill there's tons of lanes and
they tend to be full of students
all of these houses you see on the left
and on the right will be
full of students as well so this is
really the
the student area of town um you can also
live in the center of town it just tends
to be older builds
so i find them colder and i'm not as big
a fan
when i'm looking for a flat i will make
sure that it's got double glazing and
gas central heating
and personally i just don't like to live
on the ground floor for security
also i would recommend that you avoid
rockford property and
grant property i have had friends who've
had problems with them
keeping deposits and advertising looking
nicer than it really is but yeah know
your rights renting in scotland is
pretty good you just
everyone's on a one month rolling
contract unless you sign something
you know particularly different so all
you need to do is
give one month's notice and leave and
always sort your wifi in advance of
moving in because they usually have a
wait time
just an fyi so this is
just coming into west park now west park
on the inside is completely the same as
belmont and heathfield and it tends to
be really popular with medical students
because it's that bit closer to ninewells
i have to say westpark probably has the reputation of being the fanciest of all the halls
and thats because its beside westpark villas
Straight ahead this is westpark
The lower numbers of flats start
on the right hand side and the villas
are up to the left and the place where
you collect your keys is also to up to the
left
west park is another great place to keep
your car if you have one there's more
parking
through the gap in those buildings and
round up the back um
tends to be much quieter that
is the end of the line so
that is my campus tour i hope that was
useful
there is no amount of google maps
dropping yourself in and having a nosey
that
really give you the feel for the place
like it's just so difficult
and especially with this being a
coronavirus year i know a lot of people
will not be able to come and actually
see the place so if you have any
specific questions
absolutely feel free to leave them in
the comments feel free to stick around
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tupperware and
i will see you in the next video bye
