My first year as a Sheffield Uni
fresher as almost come to an end, with only three weeks left to spend in this
great city and 8 amazing months behind me, I’m already starting to feel a bit
nostalgic. So many things have happened and I’m taking back home some very
beautiful memories.
Since Intro Week in late
September I immediately started to pin some of those memories on the pinboard
in my room, so that now every time I raise my eyes from studying at my desk or
working on my laptop they are right there in front of me, a constant reminder
of all the things that I experienced since coming here to Uni. I thought that it would have
been nice to share with you some of these memories of mine:
My Intro Week 2014 this
was one of the first items that I got when I first arrived in Sheffield. Intro
Week were seven of the most interesting and fun days I ever had in my life,
everybody was obviously excited about Uni and meeting and get to know people
was very easy. Taking part to Intro Week is the best way to start your new life
in Sheffield. The wristbands were handed over by students helping the Student
Union and entitled me many discounts and activities such as watching a film at
the SU’s cinema!
The Penguins: these two
drawings were made by myself and by my fellow Bioengineer and IEA Saylee
Jangam, showing that engineers have quite a good deal of creativity. These
drawings are actually significant for me because they were sketched quite early
in the year, probably during the second or third week, when I and Saylee were
just starting to get to know each other. They remind me of all the incredible
people I found here in Sheffield and of the strong bond that you can form with
your course mates.
SU’s events tickets (Nights out): during my months at Sheffield I
took part in quite a few nights out organised by our great Student Union or by
students’ societies like the Bioeng Soc or MedSoc, among the best one were
probably the Freak Festival on Halloweens - who doesn’t enjoy a bit spooky
dressing up?! – and the Pop Tarts, the Saturday Non-Stop Retro Pop night where
you can dance with your friends to the best tunes of the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The circuit: I made
this tiny circuit with resistors and LEDs during the first Electronic and
Electric Circuits lab I had this year, it was a very nice way to start to
familiarise with the equipment that we would have continued to use during the
first and second semester. Every time I look at it, I remember how much I
learnt in one year not only of Electronics but also in all my other modules,
and I feel one step closer to become an engineer.
Cultural Events Tickets:
apart from nights out, the SU has so much more to offer. An example are the
events organised by the International Student Committee (ISC), like the
International Cultural Evening, where I could see a people from all around the
world display their typical way of dancing in the wonderful frame of the
Sheffield City Hall, or like the World Food Festival that took place in early
in May, where I could try foods from every single corner of the globe, from
Malaysia to Nigeria. Another great thing about Sheffield is its music scene,
which is one of the best ones in the UK, therefore it’s no wonder at all that I
could see quite a few gigs performed by the like of indie bands Django Django
and Mystery Jets, or by more famous Placebo (I got to meet the band as well, that’s
why the ticket is signed, and the pick was the bassist’s one!) and Johnny Marr
of The Smiths. All in all it has been a very good year here in Sheffield from
the cultural point of view, but I bet that next year I can do better and take
part in more events and concerts!
My birthday card and the picture:
again talking about friends, because friendship is going to be a main
thing here at Sheffield. That is the very artistic birthday card that I
received for my 20th from Saylee, Sindhoori, another Bioengineering
course mate, and Janani, one of my flatmates. This was my first birthday ever
away from home but it was a really good one, made special but the people around
me. The picture is me with my best friends from home, it’s been on my pinboard
since day one at Uni and it’s nice to have it there, because I know that even
though I’m leaving in another country true friends are always going to be there
true friends even if you can’t see them every day. I included this picture in
this blog article because I think that going abroad to study one might be
scared to lose contact with people from home, but I believe that real
friendship can overcome any distance – especially if you manage to Skype from
time to time, then it can be as if you never left.
Next year’s modules:
last but not least, the subjects I will take next year. In fact in
Bioengineering at the end of Year 1 we have to choose what specialisation we
want to take among Medical Devices and Systems, Biomedical Engineering and Biomanufacturing
& Tissue Engineering. My choice was Biomedical Engineering, and even though
it’s been quite hard to pick one in the end I think I found the best fit for
me. Biomedical Engineering offers a mix between more typically engineering
based modules such as the ones from the ACSE or the Electronic Engineering
Departments and the more biological focused ones from the Material Science
Department.
This is the last picture from my
pinboard and I can fairly say that I can’t wait to start my second year at
Sheffield Uni, and fill another pinboard with really good memories to keep!
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ReplyDeleteYou know, the best memories are always from school/collage... This is something what makes us who we are. I always go back to memories from school. and my very first job i had. Right after i finished school i got a job in electronic engineering company - vocean - there was a pic of me sitting among many electronic stuff :) good luck my friend!
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