👹👹 FETCH ME THEIR SOULS 👹👹 | Newsletter T3W3

We did it guys! Exams are done! 🎉 wait- wdym those were just the april ones 0_0 😭📚

Welp, congrats to all first and second years for surviving the first wave of T3's exams 🫡. To everyone approaching the next wave: may the DCS exam mystery box grant you a pen that doesn’t run out 🖊️, a neighbour that doesn't copy you 👀, and at least one question you actually revised for 🙏.

The good news is: if you're looking to blow off some steam this week, BOY do we have the event line up for you!

I'm talking: PUB DINNER 🍟, a rare CIRCLE 🍻, CHARITY NERDINESS 🧠, RUNNING??? 🏃, GAMING 🎮 and FELINES ???????? 🐈🐈‍⬛🐾

💜 Welfare Notice

UWCS has three Welfare Officers: Willow (Discord: moshimoo), Kevin (Discord: yummycatfood), and Erica (Discord: heldesar). They can also be reached via their email inbox at welfare@uwcs.co.uk.

You can speak to them at any time via Discord, email, and in person, for advice, signposting, and support. This can be for navigating the uni's support services, disclosing inappropriate or concerning behaviour at one of our events, and much more.

Any discussions you have with them will be treated sensitively. They will not share details more widely without your permission, except where they believe there is a serious risk of harm, a safeguarding concern, or another situation where they are required to escalate.

🍻 Pub Dinner 🍻

🕖 Mon 11th May 7pm - 9pm 📍 Dirty Duck

The weekly potato pilgrimage 🍟🙏

Yay! Everyone's least favourite part of the week (the weekend of course) has finally come to an end! Let's celebrate it by going to the pub on Monday!!

This week, join us at the Dirty Duck for... pub stuff.

🌼 Wildcards & Chill (Picnic) 🌼

🕒 Wed 13th May 3pm - 5pm 📍 Windmill Hill

Those daffodils aren't going to frolic themselves! 🌼💃

EXAMS ARE OVER WE'RE FREE‼️ for the first ones at least...... but we can still celebrate!!

Join us for a picnic at Windmill Hill (in between Sports Hub and Cryfield)! We'll provide some picnic food and drinks, as well as some games to entertain you :)

Most importantly - FREE SNACK AND DRINKS‼️‼️ these will be provided from Co-op courtesy of DCS 🙏

🍻👕 Fusion Circle - Shit Shirts 2🍻👕

🕖 Wed 13th May 7pm - 10pm 📍 Fusion Bar (Rootes 1st Floor)

Dress to distress 😈

🚨 Emergency!!! It's a circle!!! 🚨

IT'S TIME... under the new reign of UWCS socials... for the first circle of Term 3. And since we're in Fusion, you WON'T need a POP ticket!!

Join us in Fusion for THE circle, with the theme

Shit Shirts

"What does that mean?"

• Those who don't know

Shit Shirts means... bring the worst shirt you can find, whether you already own it 🤨 or you buy it on aliexpress for like £2.

An amazing example:

Be there... or be square...

But seriously, just be there...

🧠💸 BONCS: Big Ol Nerdy Charity Symposium 💸🧠

🕙 Fri 15th May 10am - 5pm 📍 Oculus

Curing cancer with.. slideshows!! (and proper science!)

BONCS is our NEW flagship charity event (move over WASD), where lecturers, PhD students and external speakers will be giving interesting talks on computational cancer research. This is REAL work with REAL impact! Expect talks on modelling, imaging and machine learning. If any of those sound interesting to you, you're gonna LOVE this!

What's on:

• Engaging talks from researchers all across the uni (and even from Oxford 😲)
• Lightning talks from students (short, chaotic talks on everything from computer architecture to trains to [REDACTED])

And the best part, there's FOOD included with your ticket!! So not only will you be supporting charity, you'll also get a lunch out of it! And if you don't want food, you can still show up without paying for a ticket too!!

The important bit

All ticket proceeds and donations go to Cancer Research UK!!!!

You can get your tickets here!!!!

Come for the talks, stay for the food. I hope to see you all there!

🏃‍♂️ Run Club 🏃‍♀️

🕔 Fri 15th May 5pm - 6pm 📍 Outside DCS

Don't forget your antihistamines! 🤧

Weekly runs, open to all members and friends of UWCS. An average week might look like a 5k around campus on a pre-planned route, but be ready for impromptu shenanigans as we are always looking for new ways to surprise and delight our attendees. FOR ALL ABILITY LEVELS. Whether this is your first or five hundredth time running, please show up, we're really nice! Strava - UWCS Run Club

• Meet outside DCS at 17:00. Won't leave right away.
• Exec responsible are Zach (doggy_w00f) and Alfie (brentfordarmy2398)

🎮🌙 Friday Night Gaming 🎮🌙

🕖 Fri 15th May 7pm - Sat 16th May 1am 📍 CS0.03

A perfect way to reward yourself after touching grass...

Friday Nights. Gaming. FNG. That's all we've known. PCs, consoles, VR, snacks and drinks. The pinnacle. The untoppable and unstoppable force. Sometimes you must choose between the last U1 and continuing Never Gonna Give You Up on Clone Hero. Your home for some beats? Aye, a worthy sacrifice.

Join us in DCS every Friday from 7pm, until we close our doors at 1am due to exam season.

The Gaming Coordinators this year are: Raven, Laina, Luna, Santiago and Maddie - if you need help or just wanna yap, come find us :)

We have our DCS account login - any game (including via Steam!) that you can get running, you can play. We also have several consoles, including Xboxes, PS4, Switch 1 & 2, Wii, along with our PCs which I call Nuke Machine and Microwave, which you can use our Valve Index on, play Clone Hero, and more! We also have board games for anybody wanting a less tech-based way to enjoy games :)

Important: FNG is a sober event, please don't bring alcohol in, or you will be asked to leave. Also Important: Make sure to tidy up after yourself before leaving, the department does a great kindness in letting us run this event, preferably we stay on their good side!

Hope to see you there :3 (Note: you don't have to be a DCS student to come along!)

🐈☕ Wildcards Cat Cafe 🐈☕

🕛 Sat 16th May 12pm - 2pm 📍 A Slice of Purrfection, Solihull

pspspspspspspspsps 🐈‍⬛

We're going to have a Cat Cafe trip for Wildcards on the 16th of May, 12-2pm to A Slice of Purrfection in Solihull! It's free to attend, but any food/drinks are not included. We'll be taking the 87 from University Interchange at 10:40am, or you can join us there :) (Transport costs are not included!!)

For more info and to sign up, please use this (first-come, first-served!): https://forms.gle/YF2CTThwtuQ88NpeA

📚🧮 CS146 Revision Lecture 📚🧮

🕓 Sat 16th May 4pm - 6pm 📍 MS.05

Revision is no discrete matter

The spectre of CS146 - Intro To Discrete Mathematics looms ever closer. Join us for a revision session where topics ranging from proofs, recurrence relations, sets, asymptotics, and perhaps even more recurrence relations will be recapped and perhaps even learnt.

now if you'll excuse me, im off to get a back massage from a cypriot man.

-- odin