My title is Sandra. My skilled ardour is human behaviour and provoking & encouraging individuals to make use of all their potential and skills. Therefore, I wish to share my expertise of being an Erasmus scholar, to present you a form push to do it – as a result of belief me, it would change your life in methods you may’t even think about!
I used to be an Erasmus scholar at UoR in 2018/2019, doing my final yr of my undergraduate in psychology. I’m initially from Denmark, however have ended up staying in England, as I’m at the moment learning an MSc in Organisational Psychiatry and Psychology at King’s Faculty London – and truthfully, I’ve no plans of retuning to Denmark, taking a look at what number of alternatives this yr has introduced me!
Arriving in Studying I didn’t know a single individual, however throughout the first 2 days of welcome week I had established a community of scholars from everywhere in the world and all types of various colleges – a community that I spend hours and hours with, and that I’m nonetheless involved with immediately. These individuals have contributed to so many nice recollections and studying alternatives, and every time one among us was struggling, we all the time helped and supported one another. UoR positively facilitated this by means of the good quantity of welcome occasions and societies – it’s only a matter of taking step one of exhibiting up, then the remainder comes naturally. But I need to admit that as a consequence of my ardour of dancing and the period of time I spend dancing, most of my pals outdoors college was within the dance atmosphere in Studying (and that’s completely superb!). So, Studying facilitates friendships each at college and outdoors college!!!
Academically I had the chance the discover extra than simply psychology, as each my house college and UoR accepted me making use of for modules on different colleges, that in several methods supported psychology and the profession path I had deliberate. Therefore, I did modules in psychology, regulation and enterprise – having fun with sharing data between the totally different colleges with my fellow college students and discussing with the good lecturers how all the pieces could possibly be interconnected. Although sounding very totally different, they complement one another very nicely, and I can see how this range of modules has contributed to me in my present MSc. So, don’t be scared to discover new fields and attempt to create your personal training – you would possibly, like me, get a bunch of superior modules that by some means enable you perceive every of them higher!
Clearly, it’s not simply enjoyable and superb – life has its ups and downs, however when college will get nerve-racking there may be superb help. The UK means of doing college may be very totally different from in Denmark, which affected my research as I needed to do my dissertation concurrently all exams at UoR. It was very nerve-racking, however I discovered loads of good help from the Erasmus workplace and the buddies I made in Studying. And though it was powerful, I nonetheless managed to achieve my objective of entering into KCL and on the identical time studying and realising, that “I bought it!” though it’s exhausting. I bought to know my very own power in a very new means, and thru this I developed loads.
Concluding, my time at UoR has contributed to a lot greater than my training. Each socially and personally I’ve benefited a lot from the yr, and I’m a lot extra ready for what life brings now!
