Jonathan Weightman

Jonathan Weightman, from North Yorkshire, began a BSc Mathematics degree in 2009.

Why did you choose to study at Dundee?

I chose to study at Dundee because i looked for a university with a great campus where it would be easy to meet people and make friends, with plenty of things going on, as well as having a very reputable mathematics department along with physics and engineering.

What is the best thing about your course and why?

The best thing about studying mathematics is that it keeps your options open and enables you to progress into careers in all kinds of fields whether they be science/research based or financial positions. The way the maths degree programme works enables you to study not just pure mathematics but to study modules from other schools such as physics, biology or economics.

What has been your best learning experience to date and why?

For me there isn't any particular one learning experience that has been better than any others. What I find best about the mathematics degree programme is that each week you have workshops. In these you are given the questions to do in class on the material that has just been or is being covered with the help of the lecturer or postgraduate students if needed. This gives you a chance to try the kind of questions that you could be asked in the future for an exam. If you are having any problems with any of the course material it is your chance for it to be explained.

What has been your best university experience to date and why?

Freshers' week was great because living in university accomodation you are all strangers to each other so you immediately start bonding and making new friends as you are all in the same boat and either living together or are on the same course.

Another great experience was in Refreshers' week which is the week in January before the first teaching week of the second semester. One night that week the Students' Union was hosting a headphone disco in their own nightclub 'Mono'. This was fantastic because we met up after a great Christmas and New Year, knowing we wouldn't be returning to exams like most other universities and had a great time having a drink and a catch up before heading to the Union and dancing the night away in silence!

What sports activities or clubs/societies are you involved with?

I am currently a member of DUSAC, which is the Dundee University Sub-Aqua Club. I have been into scuba diving for a number of years and so it is great to meet, chat and socialise with other students or members of the university who share this interest. As well as improving your diving qualification in the classroom, going for drinks and food at our sponsored bar afterwards, regular diving trips are planned around Scotland and even abroad! The club is sent lots of other offers on equipment or diving trips that aren't exclusive for the university club but all Scottish university clubs for example.