My first year at university has almost passed…

Hey guys! This will be my last post for this semester. I know, you hear this almost every day, but isn’t time passing too fast? When I was younger I swore to myself that I would never sound like my grandmother and only a few years later, I already do J

Honestly, I didn’t know anything of what I would get myself into. I didn’t have the slightest idea of what the study I’d chosen would be like. I didn’t even know where the right rooms were. Nothing.
Everything was so strange at the beginning.

Although I thought I would need months to get into my new rhythm of life, in the end I got used to it surprisingly fast. I think this is because of the way the students at particularly my faculty are. As we are studying translation, we are in touch with very different people, from different cultural background. But we have one thing in common, namely being open-minded and tolerant towards others. Moreover, the cooperation between students and teachers is the complete opposite of what I remember from school. In school, I often had the feeling that the teachers were not really enthusiastic about being able to teach something new to students. Unfortunately, there was neither encouragement, nor enthusiasm in class many times. At university, teacher and students work together and I have the feeling of learning something that really makes sense and I can take advantage of.

In only 9 months, I have the feeling of having taken huge steps. I’ve learned so many interesting things that I will never forget. We’ve covered such a great variety of topics and each of them called my attention, no matter if it was about history or cultural stuff. There were uncountable aha moments in comparison to school that I’ve even enjoyed studying for my exams ;-) This makes studying in my faculty something very fulfilling. By the time, it has also got easier to cope with a great amount of stuff to study, for example vocab. Although I’ve had my ups and downs, I would say that I am a motivated student.

I’m really glad of having chosen this study. Although they’ve said that next year is going to be very hard, I’m eager to take more challenges in the upcoming semesters in order to keep studying what I’m passionate about and to continue expanding my horizon.