Continued from my last post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I have six exams all together in my three courses and the longest of them is 2500 words. I spoke to some of the British students and they told me that this is the longest paper they have ever had to write \u2013 I\u2019m doing all second year courses. <\/p>\n
Some girls from my child language class even tried to have the deadline moved, because \u201cthree weeks aren\u2019t enough to write 2500 words\u201d \u2026 I was shocked when they first started pushing the teacher to move the deadline. However, they tried at three different occasions to get him to move the deadline. I\u2019ve never experienced a bigger lack of respect for a teacher than this! <\/p>\n
My exam in Short Story Workshop is also very different from anything I\u2019ve ever experienced. We have to write a short story about anything we want. There\u2019s no instructions at all, just that we have to write 2000 words, any genre and any theme we want. <\/p>\n
Furthermore, the teachers give us feedback through the entire process. One of my teachers sits down with us, reads our entire story and gives us feedback on it. This is BEFORE we hand it in as out final exam in this class. It seems very strange to me that they are allowed to read our exam paper and correct it before the deadline. <\/p>\n
I have spoken to people and heard from my friends about other people\u2019s experience of Coventry University. People from other universities in Sweden, from Korea, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain, and everybody has the same experience as me. My Korean flat mate said \u201cI haven\u2019t learned anything\u201d about my Shakespeare class. My flatmate from the Netherlands has started to view the entire stay in Coventry as \u201ca long vacation\u201d and spends a lot of time going on trips. <\/p>\n
Other people are, like me, just waiting to go home, simply because there\u2019s nothing to do here. There\u2019s not a lot of school work, the town in pretty boring, and there\u2019s not endless money to spend on traveling. <\/p>\n
When I first got accepted into Coventry the choices I had when it came to accommodation was VERY limited, I could only choose between two places \u2013 Singer Hall and Priory Hall. One catered and one self-catered, however, both without en suite. <\/p>\n
I chose Singer Hall, because it wasn\u2019t catered and I wanted to be able to make my own food and not feel bad if I went out for dinner sometimes (on a side note it should be mentioned that catered only includes breakfast and dinner Monday-Friday). <\/p>\n
Singer Hall is placed just outside the city center, but everything is still only 10-15 minutes away. I\u2019ve really enjoyed living at Singer Hall up until a few weeks ago. Most of all it just looks like a residential area on the outside, it doesn\u2019t scream student accommodation which is really nice! We have a cleaning lady coming 2-3 times a week sorting out the shared areas and most of the time it has been pretty quiet. <\/p>\n
However, a few weeks ago the people living above me started making crazy amounts of noise from around ten at night until somewhere between one and three in the morning. I have several times called security, as it ONLY happens on school nights never in the weekends and it has resulted in me missing several lessons, simply because I don\u2019t sleep. <\/p>\n
Security does absolutely nothing. If they can\u2019t hear anything when they open the front door to the flat upstairs they just leave again. I\u2019ve spoken to the reception about it, still nothing happens. It has now been going on for basically every night in around a month and no one does anything. It is driving me and the other girls in my flat insane! <\/p>\n
Another bad thing about Singer Hall, is the fact that they switch off the heat several hours during the day, it\u2019s starting to get warmer outside so it\u2019s alright now, but back when I first came here I spent the evenings wrapped up in my quilt because it was absolutely freezing. It is printed in our welcome papers that they switch off the heat, so there doesn\u2019t seem to be much that can be done about it. Nevertheless, It gets really, really cold at times, so if you\u2019re coming to Coventry in the Fall term bring some gooood jumpers! <\/p>\n
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Continued from my last post \ud83d\ude42 I have six exams all together in my three courses and the longest of them is 2500 words. I spoke to some of the British students and they told me that this is the … Continue reading