Open Days at the University of Warwick
We'd love to meet you. Find out what Warwick's all about. We will have a huge range of activities to choose from, to give you a deeper insight into student life here.
Accommodation
Get a sense of what it will be like to live on our fabulous campus. Our accommodation trails will guide you to residences which will be open for you to look around from 10:00 a. m. -4:00 p. m. Many of our current students will also be opening their rooms for viewing and happy to share their experiences of living on campus.
Academic Talks
Learn more about our courses by attending department sessions, and speaking to our academics and current students who will contribute to your student experience at the Information Fair from 9:30 a. m. -4:00 p. m. We'd particularly recommend booking onto our"Why Warwick?" session. It is popular so make sure you reserve your place.
Sports and Societies
Visit our Sports and Societies Fair to chat to students from a variety of clubs and societies, who'll talk to you about all the exciting experiences and activities outside of study, and start your thinking about what clubs and societies you might like to join as a student.
Campus Tours
Head over to our campus tour tents, where our friendly student ambassadors will be ready to take you on a guided tour from 9:15 a. m. -4:00 p. m. Visit our central campus sites, including the Warwick Arts Centre to see what you could get involved in.
Click on the boxes below to find out more about our Open Days and find the answers to some of our frequently answered questions. Once you have booked, we will send you more detailed information, to help you prepare for the day.
This weekend, thousands of motorcyclists are riding on the Black Hills for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Fair. For many of them, an 8-year-old's lemonade stand has become a popular stop.
Wyatt started the free lemonade stand last year as a way to raise some money to buy a Lego set. But on the first day, he not only made enough cash to get his toys, but he was able to donate $200 to St. Jude Children's Hospital. "So now, 50 percent goes to college," he explained. "30 percent goes to St. Jude and the rest goes to... last year it was Legos, this year it's a dirt bike."
This year, Wyatt's lemonade stand went viral after someone posted about it on social media. "I'm still trying to figure out exactly what happened," said his mother Robin Dennis. "This just blows my mind."
So far, the post has been shared more than 60,000 times and encouraged hundreds of bikers from all over the U.S. to the Sturgis motorcycle rally. "He loves it," said Robin. "He loves seeing the people. He loves waving to the people. Even if they don't stop, they ride by and honk their horn. He makes many friends and becomes more confident."
Whether he's serving lemonade, posing for pictures, or sitting on a motorcycle, Wyatt has become something of a local celebrity. He's raised enough to donate $4,500 to St. Jude this year and he has no plans to pump the brakes anytime soon.
"As long as he's having fun doing it and it's what he wants to do, we'll be out here every year serving lemonade to everyone who's here," his mother said.
Since the 1920s, a little-known policy called parking minimums has shaped many Americans' life. In major cities, this meant that any type of building needed to reserve a certain number of parking spaces to accommodate anyone who might visit.
But as the country attempts to cut carbon emissions （排放）, we should rethink what transportation and public space look like, especially in cities. Earlier this month, the city of Austin, Texas, became the latest community to undo parking minimums.
"If we want half of all trips to be in something other than a car, then we can't, as a city, in my opinion, demand that every home or business have at least one parking space for each resident or customer," said Zohaib Qadri, the Austin city council member who introduced the measure. Reducing dependency on cars was a huge push for the initiative in Austin. Qadri hopes the measure also will lead to a more sustainable city.
The undoing of this law could pave the way for cities to build denser （密集的）housing, increase public transit options, and reduce their carbon emissions, according to Donald Shoup, an engineer and professor. "It isn't just the housing crisis and climate change; it's a traffic jam; it's local air pollution; it's the high price of everything—except parking," said Shoup.
Climate change and air pollution are particularly costly outcomes, with both estimated to cost the US billions of dollars every year. Parking spots, meanwhile, can run in the tens of thousands of dollars to construct, with one estimate putting that figure at almost $30, 000 per spot.
But undoing parking minimums does not mean that all parking will disappear overnight. It means that any off-street parking built will not need to meet any minimum standard.
"Austin is the same city that it was two weeks ago," said Shoup. "It's going to take quite a while for that city to really get the benefits of their parking space reforms. And so it just removes a roadblock and a barrier to other reforms."
In the days before the Internet, critical thinking was the most important skill of informed citizens. But in the digital age, according to Anastasia Kozyreva, a psychologist at the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, and her colleagues, an even more important skill is critical ignoring.
As the researchers point out, we live in an attention economy where content producers on the Internet compete for our attention. They attract us with a lot of emotional and eye-catching stories while providing little useful information, so they can expose us to profit-generating advertisements. Therefore,we are no longer customers but products, and each link we click is a sale of our time and attention. Toprotect ourselves from this, Kozyreva advocates for learning the skill of critical ignoring, in which readers intentionally control their information environment to reduce exposure to false and low-quality information.
According to Kozyreva, critical ignoring comprises three strategies. The first is to design ourenvironments, which involves the removal of low-quality yet hard-to-resist information from around. Successful dieters need to keep unhealthy food out of their homes. Likewise, we need to set up a digital environment where attention-grabbing items are kept out of sight. As with dieting, if one tries to bank onwillpower not to click eye-catching "news", he'll surely fail. So, it's better to just keep them out of sightto begin with.
The next is to evaluate the reliability of information, whose purpose is to protect you from false and misleading information. It can be realized by checking the source in the mainstream news agencies which have their reputations for being trustworthy.
The last goes by the phrase "do not feed the trolls." Trolls are actors who internationally spread false and hurtful information online to cause harm. It may be appealing to respond to them to set the facts straight, but trolls just care about annoying others rather than facts. So, it's best not to reward their bad behaviour with our attention.
By sharpening our critical ignoring skills in these ways, we can make the most of the Internet while avoiding falling victim to those who try to control our attention, time, and minds.
The Habits of Recovering Procrastinators(拖延者)
We all procrastinate (拖延) occasionally. Procrastination can be defined as delaying a project, a task or an intended course of action, despite expecting to feel the guilt or shame of the delay. I have developed some habits that will allow you to live in the present, be much more productive and remove the procrastination that no longer serves you.
Manage yourself in Time. Becoming a recovering procrastinator requires developing a much greater sense of time — one hour, one day, one week, one month, one year.
You then gain a better understanding of how to manage your time effectively and make steady progress towards your goals.
Set small goals. They desire to have a half-a-million-dollar year in their first year as a business owner or to make a remarkable leap from a high-school actor to winning an Oscar. Instead, what typically happens is that they fall apart emotionally. Those breakdowns lessen the emotional energy necessary to progress toward their goals.
If you tend to procrastinate, keeping an organized list helps you develop much more focus. By actively committing your tasks to writing, you break free from the aimless spinning and equip yourself to overcome procrastination.
Rank tasks by importance. Develop the habit of organizing your tasks based on their significance. This way you'll prevent yourself from getting overwhelmed and ensure that essential work gets done.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Overcoming procrastination is a journey filled with ups and downs. Remember to be kind and patient with yourself along the way. You've got this, and I believe in you.
A. Document your tasks and thoughts.
B. It's common for procrastinators to aim high.
C. You can establish a daily or weekly timetable.
D. Overcome procrastination with organized focus.
E. Identify the most critical ones and tackle them first.
F. This is breaking down tasks into manageable time frames.
G. You'll encounter roadblocks and experience moments of frustration.
While there isn't anything unique about an 8-year-old longing for a pet dog, the extremes to which Jenna Bates was willing to go make her unique.
"My dad really didn't want a dog, so I knew I had to do something super 1 to earn one," she said. Then Jenna 2 with a deal her father couldn't 3 . She'd 4 sugar of all types for a year, and her parents would reward her strong 5 with a puppy dog.
"Oh, she'll never 6 it." Mr. Bates said. He figured a day of watching her friends eat pizza would end any more 7 about dogs.
After all, Jenna had never even 8 to read a food label before making this deal. 9 her affection for sweets, she started the deal with confidence.
As Jenna read the 10 on the food, she was 11 to learn most chips, ketchup, bread, and crackers had added sugar.
"Then I looked at my 12 meal, and then I looked at my normal lunch. I thought, "What did I do?" she said. "But then, I thought, ‘I can do it for my dog!'" Then that kept 13 over and over.
Actually, she found herself 14 her new living way so completely that she had no plans to give it up.
Dad 15 brought forward his end of the 16 earlier this month. The family 17 for two hours to pick up their 18 member — Lucy, the golden doodle.
Jenna may not be sure how much longer she'll stay away from sugar, 19 she is sure about one thing — being a dog owner is even better than she'd 20 .
The youth version of The Peony Pavilion (《牡丹亭》) successfully entered the stage of the Spring for Chinese Arts at the Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center.
The Peony Pavilion, cultural treasure of the world, was written by China's Ming Dynasty playwright and writer Tang Xianzu, who is compared to William Shakespeare. And Kunqu Opera, (combine) songs performed in the Suzhou dialect, graceful body movements, martial arts and dance, was (origin) born in the region of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. It was listed as one of the representative (work) of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO in 2001.
Kunqu Opera uses a seemingly endless (vary) of gestures to express specific emotions and has distinguished itself by its rhythmic patterns. It also has a major impact all the more recent forms of opera in China, such as Peking Opera.
excites the organizing committee is that The Peony Pavilion (attract) a growing young audience since its first performance in Beijing. Up to now, Beijing Tianqiao Performing Arts Center, aim is to emphasize the inheritance, promotion, development and popularization of traditional Chinese culture and arts, has also held many exhibitions related to traditional drama, and established the Peking Opera inheritance class (popularize) the traditional art to children.
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Nowadays, some famous tourist attractions are crowded of tourists during the holidays, which makes it possible for tourists to enjoy themselves. It reflects the fact what it is difficult to travel to crowded tourist attractions. Therefore, to travel in the holidays made no sense. That is why many people prefer to stay at home rather than to go out. In my opinion, the government should devote its energies to relieve the stress of tourist attractions. Some effective measure can be taken. For example, the number of tourists to famous tourist attractions should limited and citizens should not travel at a same time. Only in this way can tourists enjoy our holidays.
