Hi everyone! My name is Alex Lovelady. I am a postgraduate student at the University of Surrey studying International Events Management MSc. I am from St. Petersburg, Florida and am currently living on-campus at Surrey. After I had finished my undergraduate, I never planned on getting my master’s degree. I wanted to travel to different […]
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Hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and New Years! Welcome to 2020 and always a good time to make changes or begin a new adventure. At this point last year I was going through the process of choosing a university after deciding to go back for my masters. It is one year later and I […]
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At the end of the last week I began to start receiving my grades back from my first assignments. One thing I did not think to look into before studying in the UK was how different the grading systems are so I decided that would be the topic I focus on this week. To say […]
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What are the differences between the United Kingdom and the United States? Well… A lot as you have probably guessed. But at the same time, it’s mostly the same. After all, we do share the same language as well as a lot of the same values. No American who I’ve met in the UK has […]
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Where do you get food on campus? An important factor and although I did do some research ahead of time before arriving it was nothing like I expected. With my undergrad in the US I had a meal plan and it was a lot of fast food on my campus or a cafeteria. I would […]
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After the first year where you’ve been acclimated to English culture, and made a few friends along the way, you’ll probably want to live off-campus with the friends you’ve just made. Sure you could live on campus again in the lovely rooms the uni provides, but most likely you’ll want to live somewhere else with […]
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