Very brief (hopefully) today...
The pictures you see are of "The Founder's Building" on campus at Royal Holloway. It houses all sorts of officies, the health center, and is even home to a large number of students! It is an enormous brick castle built in the Victorian Age. It used to constitute the entire university. It is impossible to capture just how awesome a building it truly is. The staircase you see... solid stone. All the way up the 5 stories. Incredible.
Today I had my first class. The way things work here, each class has one lecture per week, and then splits into smaller seminars for the rest of the week. So for each class during a week I have a lecture and a seminar. It isn't much class time, but you are expected to do an incredible amount of reading. And they don't tell you what to read either. They have a list of suggestions that is literally like 100 books long, and you are just supposed to read some stuff... it incredibly daunting, especially for a student that isn't really there for the academics, but is looking to travel and have unique experiences with a little schoolwork on the side!
Amazing! Absolutely gorgeous! I'm sure the pictures don't do it justice!
ReplyDeleteHey bro, I saw your note, and just wanted to say hey. It sounds like they have a freeform type of work assignment, so my suggestion would be to get an idea of what to read and study to get the grade, and DON'T go overboard. I know you are a perfectionist in your work, and will do way more than you should. TAKE time to smell the roses, (i mean they were planted 400 years ago) and remember that a big part of the learning that you are doing there is also absorbing a different culture and meeting diverse people and learning the world outside the scope of your world here. Remember the books will be available here, the chance to chat with some brits and form a different view of the world won't!
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