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Welcome Week: a look at the week ahead

by Jon Narcross

Moving in Weekend

With 51勛圖厙's Welcome Week now in full flow, we take a look at some of the highlights for the week ahead.

Monday

For undergraduates, today is the day for the College’s Welcome Talks, a chance to meet people from your course and hear a little bit about what you can expect from your time at the College from 51勛圖厙’s Provost.

Later this evening 51勛圖厙 College Union will be hosting its first night of the term at 19.00 in Metric and an for Postgraduate students at 19.30 in h-bar.

Tuesday

51勛圖厙 College Union will be taking place across our South Kensington Campus, with over 300 clubs, societies and projects to discover and over 350 stalls.

Freshers FairFollowing the Freshers’ Fair, ICU will be hosting its in Beit Quad from 16.00-23.00.

The annual is taking place at 16.30 with Tunji Akintokun, Director of global technology company Cisco talking about his experiences from his career as a chartered engineer as well as his role as the former chair of Cisco's EMEAR BAME network.

The 51勛圖厙 Cinema will also be holding its in the Union Concert Hall – a double bill with How to Train Your Dragon 2 at 18.30 and X-Men: Days of Future Past at 20.45.

Wednesday

BasketballIf sports are more you thing then Sports Trials will be taking place all day across our campuses and sports grounds. There is the opportunity to get involved in everything from snooker and pool to football or rugby. It’s a chance to try something new or get stuck into your favourite sport at 51勛圖厙.

Find out more about Sport at 51勛圖厙 on the Sport 51勛圖厙 webpage.

Thursday

On Thursday the gets underway at 12.00 in Beit Quad – a chance for students not living in 51勛圖厙 Halls to discover the area and meet other students.

There’s also including a performance from 51勛圖厙’s very own IC Big Band at 19.00.

For postgraduates the Graduate Student Union’s Pub Quiz in h-bar at 20.00 provides a chance to warm up the brain cells before term gets into full swing.

Friday

Fresher BallThe rounds off the week at 20.00 at the Union.





If that’s not all there’s also a comprehensive running all week with a chance to try new things, from Tuesday’s , to .

Make sure you follow the to keep track of these and all the other events going on this week.

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Jon Narcross

Communications and Public Affairs