text: Many moons ago in my last year at school I decided to go to Herriot Watts Open Day I guess this was for two reasonsnn The first being that they have a really good language department that offers a degree in translation and interpreting and they pride themselves in being the only University in the UK to offer this degreen Perhaps the most important reason I probably just wanted a day off schoolnnTo get to the Edinburgh Campus you need to take a bus from the centre of Edinburgh which takes minutes The campus is in the middle of nowhere and to get a taxi after a night out it takes around minutes and costs about ua As there is no rail link the choice is pretty limited so a night out would never be cheap or straightforward but I guess if you are sharing the taxi fare with a few other people it is not so badnnWhen I went to the Open Day I went with a couple of friends from my school who both eventually decided to go to Herriot Watt while I decided to go to Glasgow Uni Funnily enough they have both since left Herriot and reapplied for different Unis both having a negative experience with their courses and the social side of life in a Uni that is pretty isolatednnHad I gone to Herriot Watt I would have had a completely different experience of Uni life I would have moved out and experienced the whole University package of living in halls writing my initials on eggs marking the milk with a marker pen so I could tell if someone else had drank out of it and of course fighting over who is block of mouldy cheese was stinking out the fridge Okay so maybe I do not miss that aspect of university life but I do regret not getting more involved with the social side of uni having not lived in halls and as a result am probably the least studenty student ever