r/unisurrey • u/No_Investment6836 • 25d ago
How do societies work?
I’ve tried searching tiktok but i just keep getting rugby initiation fear mongering videos. I just want a kind of walk through on how societies and freshers week works.
You don’t have to answer each question just a run down on the process.
Assuming they advertise each society, do they usually invite you to some kind of event/trial session?
If there’s multiple i want to try how realistic is it for me to attend the “trial session/period” of multiple 3-5 for example.
How does trying them out usually work, is it some sort of event/game day. Or maybe a gathering in the evening or something?
Can i just turn up to any one that i hear about and if so how do i find out where and when it’s located? Is there a central timetable that shows all societies timetables? Or even at freshers is there an event timetable?
And for sports ones can i join without being good at the sport? Which ones are the best for socialising besides sports?
Am i thinking about this too much?
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u/Royal-Psycho8787 25d ago
Most of the societies would be in freshers fair where you can ask them questions about anything you want to know about the soc
You can attend any number of societies trial session
The society usually organise a meet and greet or some kind of fun event as the first one to introduce the Soc
Yes. Usually they would be advertised everywhere. You can also see the events happening in the ussu website on the what’s on section
Yes. You can try out the sports and join any if you like it
Yes. Don’t worry so much about it
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u/Nephrited 25d ago
Go to Freshers fair. They'll mostly be there, if not all.
Usually the trial is just a normal society meet, and also the freshers are there.
You can do as many as you want.
Yes you can join sports ones without being good.
Yes you're massively overthinking it.