Summertime... And the living is easy. Or not as the case may be.

Yes, because whilst you might think that the summer in Student Activities is a period where we get to put our feet up for a bit, you'd be wrong. Ok, so there aren't as many people walking through our doors or up to reception asking us for our help. But that doesn't mean we aren't busy. In fact this is shaping up to be one of our busiest summers in a while.

We've almost got last year completely wrapped up and without stopping we're putting the finishing touches to Introweek. We've got some cool ideas this year to make campus have more of a festival feel than ever before. We've looked at the tent outside and come up with some ways to make that more exciting - I'm really looking forward to seeing groups using it throughout the week.

Not only is that planning going on, but we've got our regular changes in staffing going on. Geoff and Wendy are currently recruiting new people to add to our crack team of activities operatives. And Helen Mackay has this week joined us full time to look after the Performing and Media groups and run the Give it a Go programme.

On top of that, there is some building work going to be happening up in the ARC which is very exciting for us as we're finally managing to give our groups a bit more space and help them grow. We'll be putting pictures up on here as the work develops so keep checking back for more details!

We are going to be getting in touch with groups over the next few weeks to talk about our plans and then hopefully we can let everyone know here exactly what we are going to be doing over the Intro period and make sure that you are as excited as I am.