Hi everyone!

My name is Pietro and I’m a third year philosophy student at Lancaster Uni. Throughout the year I will write blog updates, roughly twice a month, to let you have an idea of what it’s like to live and study here at Lancaster.

As far as the academic side is concerned, what I’ll be doing this year primarily is studying a bunch of philosophy modules and writing a dissertation. The PPR Department (Politics, Philosophy and Religion) offers quite a broad range of philosophy modules you can choose from, which allows you to form a solid understanding of all the main sub-areas and branches within philosophy. This term I’m taking Continental Philosophy, Darwinism and Philosophy, and a third module called Philosophy in Progress, about which I will probably tell you something in the next couple of weeks.

On the social side, this year I’ve joined the Hiking Club and the Culture Society. There’s plenty of societies you can get involved with, and every year I’m unsure about which to pick due to the wide choice. However, as I said, I’m currently involved in activities run by the hiking and culture society. The Hiking Club organises trips in the areas surrounding Lancashire; last sunday we we went to the Yorkshire Dales, for example, but most of times it’s likely to be the Lake District. I’ve also joined the Culture Society, in an attempt to begin learning a foreign language. The society runs classes of many different languages, all taught by students, which makes the membership fee incredibly cheap. These are just a couple of the many interesting opportunities you can find here, more of which I will talk about in the following blog posts, so keep updated!