The final rush has finished, all assignments have been submitted. I feel a bit nostalgic and reflective….But recently I’ve made friends with dissertation, which keeps me in good shape 🙂
Just want to summarise my 8 month in Leeds Met.
Advantages:
- It was great to meet so many international students with different backgrounds. I really enjoyed the stories about traditions, people, religion, habits. Despite this fact I suppose we get on very well and this experience make us more open-minded, which certainly will help in business life
- The educational system is mostly built on independent studies therefore I learnt many skills like finding some particular information from huge amount of resources, self-discipline, time-management and etc
- My English has improved to the certain extent, but still I have my hands full and it’s too earlier to relax. I really want to speak several languages fluently. I’ve just started to learn French again and again 🙂
- The teacher’s attitude to the student and willing to support us.
- Brilliant organization of a studying process and lot’s of facilities.
My expectation that didn’t exceeded:
- More practical approach and probably some field marketing work
- More lectures or even seminars with marketing specialists
- Sometimes it was hard to choose the group, because we haven’t seen each other before and have no clue about personalities therefore not everyone contribute adequately. But I was lucky, cause almost all my group works were great and useful.
I really want to thank all my teachers and classmates for such an excellent experience. I suppose I will miss this time in future, although it was not easy….
Well said. It’s usual for lecturers to assess students (that’s part of our job), but it’s important too for students to reflect on the learning experience (what went well, what was enjoyable, what was missing etc).
We all had our grades now, are you happy with your? I am stuck with my dissertation but learning goes on and I am learning a lot every day. I am reflecting back with Jon James and will be meeting again soon, will take into consideration you thoughts too, thanks!