The semester creeped up on all of us faster than we had imagined. My spring term at Roehampton has officially come to an end in regard to in-person classes. Today I had my final presentation for one of my modules and now the only thing left to complete are two reports due by April 23rd. The business professors that I’ve had here have all been extremely helpful and were all very qualified for the topics they were teaching. There really is nothing I can complain about other than having to wait three months to know my final grades. The UK system goes to a long examination grading process to ensure that all marks are given fairly amongst all students. Despite this, I think my academic experience at Roehampton has been remarkable.
Before flying to London, I remember Allison, our study abroad advisor from UH, telling our group to bring small gifts for any professors or friends we’d get to know. I’m really glad I took this advice into consideration. This week I gave two of my professors tea packages from home and they were both really happy to have received something. As for the friends I’ve made, I have small boxes of Hawaiian Host chocolates to give, but procrastinating on handing them out is my way of stalling on having to say goodbye. Even though my semester is technically over, I won’t be heading home until mid-May. I’m going to be traveling with some of my friends for the month of April and then with my family in May. I’m trying my best to enjoy and take advantage of every moment I have here in Europe, after all it had always been one of my dreams to visit so now that I’m here, I can’t let the opportunity go to waste!
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Roehampton in the Snow!On the last days of February going into March I woke to the beautiful image of snow falling outside my window. This is one of my first experiences with snow (my first being at Disneyland Paris earlier last month) and temperatures below freezing. Regardless of the cold, I was so happy to be experiencing the snow and could not get over how beautiful everything looked.
The Beast from the East was the phrase used to describe winds from Russia that caused major snowfall across the UK during that week. The snow storm we got here at Roehampton wasn't as extreme compared to the conditions further north, but we still felt the chaos of London in such weather (transportation was a nightmare!). Here are some the pictures I took on my walk around campus on the last day of snowfall (03.02.18): This past Wednesday me and a couple of my friends from my marketing class heading to Olympia West for the annual Marketing Week Live event in London. This was introduced and recommended to me by my marketing professor, Caroline Walsh. She mentioned that this would be a great opportunity for those of us wanting to go into the field so that we could experience and learn a little bit about the career. I went to the event on its last day and arrived at the conference a bit later in the day because I had class in the morning. Regardless of this time constraint I was still able to make it to a few of the last workshops. The first one I attended to was called "You're Dumber Than You Think You Are," the next, "Connecting Audience Understanding to Brand Outcomes," and the closing workshop was, "Marketing: The Sh*t That Matters and The Sh*t That Doesn't." All of which were very interesting to sit through. Here are a few pictures from the event:
*I registered for the event as an influencer, as instructed by my professor, in order to get free access into the conference. This is because MW Live charges students for entry.* It’s finally March and that means I have about one full month left of classes because my semester ends on the 30th. I have definitely started to feel the pressure of all these assessments being due soon. However, it has really helped to attend the lectures and seminars. I’ve read previous blog posts from students who have studied abroad at Roehampton and the one thing they all mentioned was to keep up with the readings. They were absolutely right. Here’s a bit of an update on my Roehampton courses:
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AuthorHi, I'm Erica. Please join me as I spend my spring semester in London! Archives
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