Following on from last week's interview, here our Welfare officer discusses what makes DBS unique, choosing colleges and provides tips for exam times that we offer our students to help them maximise their results.

What makes DBS stand out amongst other colleges, in your opinion?

I think DBS has lots of great things going for it;

-Our location; you can’t get more city centre than us!

-Our staff; the lecturers in DBS are so passionate and enthusiastic about their subjects

-Our Sports and Societies; call me biased but I think that we offer students a great extra-curricular experience with everything from badminton to basketball and psychology to skydiving

What advice do you give to anyone choosing their college this year?

Chose to study something you enjoy; that’s the advice I was given when I was picking my course and I’m glad I followed it! Over the next three or four years you will have a love/hate relationship with your course and ultimately it will be your passion for the subject and the dedication and support from your college that will get you through.

Finally – you deal with students all the time; tips for exam period?

Another piece of advice that I was given before the LC was to avoid doing post-mortems after the exam. Talking about what question you did, or what answer you got won’t change how well you did so why upset/frustrate yourself. Once you put your pen down at the end of the exam be happy that you gave it your best shot and move on to the next one or to enjoying the summer.

Caitriona McGrattan works as part of our student services team who cater exclusively for students needs. One of the department’s main roles is the facilitation of personal and academic development. To learn more about our Student Services department and our undergraduate programmes at DBS, please visit the DBS website