So you think you know Queens Campus?

Every time a Queen’s student comes into contact with someone from main campus, they are bombarded with questions, rumours and abuse. So let’s clear a few things up.

We didn’t all get C’s. Contrary to popular belief, Queens Campus isn’t where they send all the “main campus rejects”, and we didn’t all get C’s. In fact, the vast majority of us achieved exactly the same grades as any other Durham student. But that doesn’t mean we’re all medics. Although you’d be right to think that QC is the home of the Durham medics – we aren’t an entire campus of doctors. We can study anything from business management to primary ed.

We aren’t all like this, we promise…

Don’t worry Castle, we hate Hatfield too

Rumour has it, the Hatfielders of ’96 decided that QC wasn’t worthy of being a part of Durham, and tried to shut us down.

Obviously that doesn’t go down well with us here at Queen’s, so don’t be alarmed if you hear us chanting violently about Hatfield all the way from the “magical land” of Stockton.

Build a bonfire, build a bonfire…

We have better facilities

John Snow’s famous motto declares it’s a “modern college with traditional values” – and it’s not far off. Despite being lightyears away from Durham, our campus is nicer – and we actually have a proper campus. Besides, if you haven’t had a jacket potato from Waterside, you haven’t lived.

We do actually go out

Shock horror, we go out. Believe it or not, we are just as familiar with Klute, Jimmy A’s, Lloyds and Loveshack as anyone else. Beyond the usual awful clubs you love to hate, we’ve got more nightlife than you. We also have Ku, Empire and Spensleys. No-one’s blowing the trumpet for these clubs, but at least they’re not Klute.

we go out too y’know.

We’re just as cliquey as the next college

The rowers, the medics, the nerds, the gym freaks, and of course rugby. You’re not alone in your cliques. And if you think yours are bad, we have an even smaller campus making our cliques even more dominant. Pray for Queen’s because you get off lightly.

lads lads lads

We hate the X12

In fact, we’ll pay good money to avoid it. If you’ve found a friend with a car, you’ve found a friend for life. It’s our fault we’re very far out – we chose our course which means we chose Stockton.

But we didn’t wake up on application day and think “hey, let’s apply to that part of Durham that isn’t Durham”. Strangely enough, our degrees look exactly the same as yours.

We aren’t Durham Met, we aren’t Poly’s and the majority of us are actually decent people – given the chance.

X12 got us like…

John Snow Rep Team

Stephenson Rep Team

No one’s killing us off. We might be a bit misunderstood and underappreciated, but we are proud of who we are.

And, despite rumours of the VC putting us “under review” – John Snow and Stephenson aren’t going anywhere.

Mon the Stockton…