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I think the real reason to come to Warwick
isn't just what you do academically,

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it's what you can do

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with all your time here.

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And it's the space and the chance to meet people
that are trying to be

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the best at what they can do.

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World class lecturers and practitioners and industries

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who help to stimulate our thinking,

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using real life examples and experience.

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Warwick was really good
because it was just kind of that freedom

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to explore stuff and it was just a great period
of my life where I had freedom

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to try new things in the lab and freedom
to try new things outside the lab as well,

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I saw the Archery club next to the

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the Shooting club in the Sports Fair and thought,
why not?

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Let's give it a go. Did one taster session.

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I thought, yeah, I like this.

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It gives you the chance
to find a really good community that can help you

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not just in your degree, but beyond that.

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I found that societies were everything.

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I started one myself that was rich and diverse
and gave me a place that I could call home

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Overall, it's allowed me to meet lots
of different people and kind of create a network

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that is ever expanding.

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There’s a lot of collaboration at Warwick

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There’s the ability
to talk to other people that are researching both

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similar areas and also different areas
that still have linkages

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to and it can really, helps you
to develop your own research.

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There’s seminars and events

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that you can go to
and just engage in lots of different ways.

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The landscaping and the water bodies.

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And I found that during exam season
that was the best place to study.

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Go by the lakes and you can study there.

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It boosts your internal confidence
and it makes you more confident that yes,

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you are becoming an expert in your field of choice.

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You do have the knowledge,
you should be confident and proud of,

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of stating what your views are and how you think.

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Confidence.

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I think

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coming here I've been able to believe in myself
in ways that I never could have imagined.

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I'd done things that that I never thought
I'd necessarily be doing.

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And I just have this confidence with me
that I carry day to day.

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You get to network with people that will
probably spend their whole lives

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You get to network with people that will
probably spend their whole lives

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loving what you love, essentially.

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And that's really helpful, we don't always have around the outside world.

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Such encouraging facilitators

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and lecturers who saw something in me
that sometimes I didn't see myself.

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And so I came out of Warwick believing
that I can do anything that I set my mind to.

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It just gave me this platform to be able to

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chase a dream I didn't have before I came here.