Have you seen our mannequin challenge?

Posted 101 Months Ago

Heriot-Watt Student Union recently took on the latest internet sensation - the mannequin challenge. It's already attracted 7,000+ views on our Facebook page and we reckon we're the first student union in Scotland to complete a full building mannequin challenge! A massive thank you to everybody that came and stood still for us in the Union and a big shout out to the Medieval Society & Drama Society. Thank you to Sheona our VP Community for helping to organise it and our Marketing & Design Co-Ordinator - Arran who filmed and edited it. 

If you've not seen the video yet - check it out below!

Graduations, The Big Ask, Exams and NUS Demos

Posted 101 Months Ago

Week 10 news:
What's been happening this week?

Graduations
First of all, we'd like to say a massive congratulations to everybody who is graduating this week. We wish you every success in the future and hope you enjoy your special day. Our sabbatical officers will be at your graduation ceremonies on behalf of all of us at the Student Union.

The Big Ask
We've have loads of responses (700+) to our Student Union survey - The Big Ask and we're really grateful for all the feedback so far. The survey is still open until next week so please log onto hwunion.com/bigask and take the survey. We know you're all busy with exams and coursework but it'll only take 10 minutes and there are chances to win big prizes (£200 + 15 £20 Amazon vouchers). Your feedback will help to improve Student Union services so the more students we hear from, the better! 

Exams are coming
It's everybody's favourite time of the year as everybody gets their head down for revision.  
Exam timetables are available from https://www.hw.ac.uk/students/studies/examinations/timetables.htm if you've not already seen yours.

Exams can suck we know. If you're feeling stressed or worried about exams then pop into the Union's Advice Hub (Hugh Nisbet building, next to the Shop) and our student advisers will be able to offer help and advice. The Advice Hub will also be producing the famous exam stress packs to help you cope with the big day(s) so look out for those soon. Or if you want to help make them up, they're looking for volunteers!

Study Space
If you're looking for a PC on campus to help you study, did you know that you can use the PC Lab Availability website?  That way you don't need to trek all over campus looking for a free one!

The library can get pretty busy over exam period so be sure to check out the alternative places that you can study. Head to the Information Services website to see all the places that are open for studying in.

NUS/UCU Demonstration against the marketisation of education (London, on Saturday)
There's not long left until your Student Union and Heriot-Watt students alongside the other Edinburgh universities head down to London to take part in the NUS/UCU demonstration. If you want to join us, there's still time - tickets (just 2 left!) are £10 from the SU Reception and cover your seat down to London and back up again. 

Coming up
Take a break from all that studying and join us for:

- Pub Quiz: Every Thursday from 7.30pm in Geordies
- Mannequin Challenge: 21st November at 5pm in Student Union
- Drama Society presents 'Shrek-ish': November 21st to 26th in Zeros from 7.30pm
- Helping to make up the Exam Stress packs for the Hub: 25th November,  From 10am to 4pm
- Heriot-Watt Jazz Band free concert: 25th November, 12.15pm 

University challenge

Posted 102 Months Ago

We're looking to enter a team for University Challenge in 2017! That's right you could be face to face with the legendary (if somewhat scary) Jeremy Paxman. 

Here are some (real University Challenge) questions to get you started:

• Q1: What organ of the body contains approximately one million nephrons?
• Q2: In computing, Ubuntu, Suse and Red Hat are among the distributions of what operating system?
• Q3: What is the 7th letter of the greek alphabet?

A1: Kidney
A2: Linux
A3: ETA [eet-a]

Interested in joining The Watt University Challenge team?

Use our Doodle poll to pick a time for the auditions w/c 14/11
E-mail Natalie Hay at nmh30@hw.ac.uk for more information 

The Big Ask has launched

Posted 102 Months Ago

We've got a Big Ask of you.

Love us or loathe us? Or don't know what we do? Tell us how it is.

The Big Ask is a Student Union survey where you can tell us how it is. What do you think of your Student Union? 

Tell us what we're doing well and what we could improve on. There's a chance to directly change your Student Union and win £200 + 15 Amazon vouchers.

Find out more here 
hwunion.com/bigask