The Poshest Things I've Seen at Durham Uni! 

I'm an exchange student in Durham right now and I am so surprised how stuck up some students are! Got called a poor (as in broke) American (I'm Canadian too) in a lecture because I didn't have a laptop in my lecture (because it was at home charging because I forgot to charge it the night before)

I used to know someone at uni who went to stay with his relatives in their family estate on some weekends. There were stories of pheasant shooting, horse riding, and lots of traditional dancing. Their staff were posher than me.

The best thing I heard In freshers was “I went to the same grammar school as Prince George and my cousin is in the year above him and apparently he goes around telling kids his grandma is going to behead them.” And when we had to go house hunting people said “ well ring your parents tomorrow and ask them for a budget” .... excuse me Im fully funded by SLC 😂😂. Once at a formal a boy boasted how “ he spoke the queen’s English and I don’t because I speak dialect and it’s not correct “ .... I’m from Durham btw (I’m a local ) and so I told him to “stop being such a snob, this is my home turf and I’ll speak now I like , you are actually the one not speaking correctly in my area so shut up “ 😂😂. Got some strange looks at the dining table but hey ho . I was lucky with my corridor the majority are working class and the ones who aren’t are very generous with paying for things when others can’t afford them (like one of my friends was literally going to help us with rent at one point so we could secure a nice house which I had to turn down as I felt awful but he is the sweetest soul I’ve ever met) and the wealthy people are so left wing that I can have a decent conversation with them . Overall they widened my horizons and we have holidays etc planned and I widened theirs by telling them my working class experiences. So overall found it positive . But some days I got really down about it but that’s something you have to deal with and laugh about in the Future 😂. Loved this vid btw and plz analyse the Durfess posts ive seen some rank ones on there 😂xx

I’ve joined some groupchats for undergrads starting this year and oh my god it’s insane. The blatant classism is disgusting. I’ve already firmed Durham but it’s made me nervous asf.

hey I'm thinking of applying to Durham, but I was just wondering what the food was like for catered colleges? thanks xx

Stumbled upon this my accident. My eldest considering Durham as we live here & her Dad read his 1st degree there. I would strongly recommend you visit Beamish Museum when it is able to reopen. (Including the Masonic Hall). To me University was about gaining independence not having cleaners & cooks! Some of your posh peers are clearly not independent. My children (secondary age) too frequently have to show students how to use the self-scan in Tescos: too posh to shop???? Enjoy your time in this beautiful city.

I am an Indian Student and received an offer for Law, September 2021 intake, would you say that it is inclusive for students like us, frankly speaking I would consider myself to be privileged financially but that something that has been pretty insignificant for almost all of my life, be able to fit in considering a different nationality and what not?

I'll have a look at Debenhams for dresses now! I borrowed my prom dress from someone at my church so I've not even got that option to fall back on :) Please could you do a video on dress codes or what to wear to x occasion because I find that quite a daunting prospect as I have zero experience of anything like that?

Hi Megan, A word of advice - these creatures that garner the 'posh' appendage. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the largely anachronistic former delineations of 'class' that have now all but dissolved into the vulgar and ultimately crass display of wealth that you speak of. I come from an old 'family estate' background originally and my grandfather would never consider driving the Bentley around the village to display any wealth - this would have been seen, quite rightly, as vulgar and simply 'wrong'. Everyday life was conducted in good serviceable clothing and a good little car (old seventies mini clubman - a humble car that served it's purpose. The Bentley would be used when occasion demanded). Real class does not need to shout about itself. The people you have encountered are the naive and spoiled offspring of what we would call 'new money' and even if some have a pretence to anything else; that world has been eroded to the point where it apes the vulgar USA with it's bling, flash and 'willy waving' weak ego antics (academically 'the ability to display the signifier of the phallus' - look it up!) replacing, charm, manners, wit, good taste, intelligence and of course education. On this last point - this is why you are at Uni - do not waste time in thrall or obsequiousness to these foppish twerps. Your humble values seem far more convincing of 'class' than what you report from the over monied 'oiks' you are advertising. You will find that - scratch the veneer and these people are extremely insecure and unfulfilled in life. Go ahead and seek out the Real people (poor, rich or in-between) who are are always there, aloof and impervious to the noisy but ultimately vacuous nonsense that surrounds them. These may become your friends for life. The other sort do not really have friends, they have been bought up in sociopathic institutions that make such a thing difficult for them. They will waste your time. Good luck.

I just got a conditional offer from Durham for law and it waa actually my fav choice. Now I'm scared... Tell me, how do they treat pocs or international students?

We are definitely not triple figures.

This is so interesting!!

your brows are amazing girl!!

I wish I was laughing of the posh at uni, or doing anything, I really wish I could :( (I'm not from Durham, but I hope someday I'll attend there)

Do you have any advice surrounding making friends with people who have similar values to you at uni, especially with regards to avoiding people who are snobby or stuck up? Do you think its possible to avoid those people or are you always going to have to deal with them? I have applied to study at Durham because it looks like a beautiful area but im not sure if it would suit me as politics has gotten in the way of some of my friendships in the past due to silly stuff like racism.

I'm planning on applying for a postgrad course at Durham but considering that I come from a working class family in India..... I'm pretty scared about actually going ahead with it..

Ahha I’m from Chester le street quite close to durham and i often go to durham it’s equally as rough in certain areas 😂😂

i am pretty middle class and go to a private school albeit not a well known or prestigious one, just a regular one and i feel a strong disconnect with these kind of people too . idk if its cus im from north london while they likely grew up on a country estate somewhere . one thing i dont want people to believe is that all private school students behave like this cus i promise a lot of us are nothing like this🤣

Ahaha this is funny its going to be so weird meeting people from completely different backgrounds! I am moving into Durham tomorrow ahh so excited! My Dad was the first from my family to go to uni he went to Exeter and said there were so many posh people there it was like unreal and he didn't fit in much as a working class guy from the North West... Butttt I hope I will fit in at Durham tho as its a bit nearer to home :)

Would you still recommend studying at Durham? I will be applying this year and am from a working class background, I also will receive a contextual offer. I’m worried I won’t fit in if I end up choosing to go here.

More than once ive heard the phrase "where do you winter?" What the fuck?

I can relate to this being at Durham too. And I'm from Middlesbrough so the amount of poshness knocked me back too 🤣 actually made it a bit hard for me to make new friends n all cos I just couldn't stand the privilege that came from a lot of students hahaha

I wish they would get rid of the uni it gives durham posh reputation even tho the county’s a dump and without the uni so would the city

I have an offer from Durham and this video has _really_ made me reconsider taking it hahaha

The way you talk is so cute.

The colleges at Durham University are mostly very nice, but some of the academic buildings are very ugly and look tired!

My mother works at Durham Uni 🤪💅🏻........

firstly i love your vids sooooo much so thank you for making them. secondly i was pretty shocked when u said freemasons society. can you tell me a bit more about that?😂😂 in my mind i always thought freemasons were satanists bloody hell😂

Average pocket money per week... at a uni? Even that as a concept is posh! Most working class students only have the money they've earned and/or saved themselves.

I am from near durham and go to secondary school in durham and nobody has a posh accent. The rest of durham is working class and nothing like what you were describing in the video.Just in case people think that durham is posh which it certainly is not.

I never they let working class background people in Durham. How the hell you got in?

How do you deal with all that “working class people took my place” talk? That would make me feel really sad or at least annoyed 😭😭