• Question: Why (why not) do you think one should go to the university that you went to? What is the best part or topic from your course?

    Asked by Nisha Nivi to Abbie, Melanie, Paul, Stu, Tom on 9 Mar 2016.
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      Abbie Hutty answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I really loved my time at the University of Surrey- it was definitely the right choice for me! I loved the city, loved the pretty campus University, loved the fact that it was a really highly respected engineering course, that they had great robotics and space research going on, which were two areas I was most excited about. The social life was great, sports facilities and clubs were great – no regrets at all!

      Oh and the best topic from my course – Space systems Engineering. It was an optional module in my final year, but because I knew that was what I wanted to do, I loved it- I knew it would all be directly applicable and useful to my final job, so I really made sure I took everything in and learned it inside out.

      I think most people love their time at Uni though- it’s just a great time in your life full of loads of different experiences and opportunities that are unlike any other time in your life. People stress out about choosing the right University, and what course to do, etc. etc. And yes it is a hugely difficult decision, but actually I think most people would enjoy their time no matter where they went, so it’s just about picking something that feels good and right for you, and then going and embracing all the experiences and opportunities it throws at you!

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      Stuart Inglis answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I went to the University of Strathclyde as it has a (well justified ;)) good reputation for engineering and does give students the flexibility to really tailor their course to their interests. The city of Glasgow is also great fun, many a good time was had there!

      I really enjoyed the practical aspects of the course which varied from welding, to stripping apart a car and putting it back together to your individual and team projects (with which I experimented with a hydrogen fuel cell and swarm robotics respectively)

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      Paul Webb answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      That the Royal “one” lol

      I never when so I can’t say, I intend to use open university to a achive a bsc ( Hons ) next year after my management course

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      Melanie Zimmer answered on 15 Mar 2016:

      We have different types of universities and I can only judge on the ones I went to. After I finished school, I went to the University of Stuttgart, a “normal university”, for a year to study maths. I personally didn’t like it at all – it was too theoretical for me (we did calculations in the n-dimensional space) and I never got to know the practical aspect of the things we learned. Plus, we were about 300 people in some of the lectures, which I found really impersonal. So after one year I changed to the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart. I again did maths and we had professors who had practical experience themselves, which they brought into their lectures. We were not more than 50 people in our lectures and we had a more personal with our lecturers – they would know our names and just chat to us about every day things. Even now when I’m back in Stuttgart I like to just pass by and to say hello. 🙂

      The University of Applied Sciences is in the centre of Stuttgart as it is not that big (not even 5000 students one year ago).

      I really enjoyed linear algebra and programming – programming that much so that I studied software technology in my Master’s. 🙂

      My Bachelor’s progarmme is taught in German, but my Master’s programme was taught in English. It is an international programme, so we also had people from India, Egypt, Palestine, Nepal, and some more studying with us. 🙂

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