For many students this summer will be their final time living in Newcastle, a city they’ve called home for the past few years. If you’re walking the stage in July, here’s a few ways to celebrate graduation and make the best of your last few months in the Toon!
- Visit Ouseburn - as we head into warmer days and lighter nights, Ouseburn has plenty to offer for the newly free-of-assignments student. Take a wander down Stepney Lane and pop into the vintage furniture shop before heading to some of the city’s best beer gardens!
- Visit all the university buildings you've spent time in over the past few years. Whilst you might be glad to see the back of the Robbo, it might be strange to live without it!
- Take the metro to Tynemouth - the cliché about Newcastle students flooding to Tynemouth as soon as the weather hits double digits rings true for a reason. The North East coast is a gorgeous place to reminisce on your last few years.
- Visit all your old haunts - have a coffee at the café you’ve written your essays in, go for a walk through your favourite park, have a pint in the Cosy Dove, especially if you were a Castle Leazes sufferer and survivor.
But most of all make sure to soak it all in. Even though Newcastle will always only be a train ride away, make the most of these last few months living with friends you might not have known three years ago. Celebrate your graduation and achievements with all of those who’ve made your time at Newcastle what it was. If you came to Newcastle for the wild nights out, go out on a final hurrah and have as many trebs as you can hack; if you came because you loved the campus, have a walk around the place that helped you make your firm UCAS choice years ago; remember what you came to Newcastle hoping to experience and do it for the last time. Think about all you’ve gained from these past few years and be proud of yourself and your hard work as you cross that stage and become one degree hotter.
