I chose Kent because it's an amazing campus
to come and be at and Canterbury's a really
lovely city.
Also the School of Anthropology is so big
that to me it was really nice to go somewhere
where Anthropology was a really well known
course and subject to be studying.
I really enjoyed that.
Kent has a really great variety of facilities.
The most notable is the new library that's
just been refurbished.
I think it's really good because it's got
a wide variety of different types of work
areas, it's got a social area, a quiet area,
and silent study so it can really cater for
all the work you do.
It's also got a cafe so it's great for having
breaks and just having a bit of relaxation
time with your friends between work.
The support available with academic work,
when you first arrive you are automatically
assigned an academic advisor, who you can
go to and discuss any concerns you have.
Aside from that your lecturers will always
have office hours to go and talk though essay
plans or any readings that you didn't understand.
I really started utilising this in the second
and third years, and I found it really has
aided my work.
Additionally the lecturers are so helpful
so if you can't make office hours they are
really helpful in arranging their own time
for you to come and speak to them.
With Anthropology, the other students on my
course can be very varied.
You can get a lot of international students
who come here to study.
I think it's really beneficial, especially
with Anthropology, we're studying cultures
and societies every day, and getting to see
those mix in seminars and lectures is really
really interesting, and really aids to your
course and really furthers your understanding,
because you can get a real insight from people
directly part of different societies and cultures
to your own.
The learning styles are mainly lectures and
seminars.
Lectures are where you're taught the bulk
material from your professor, and the seminar
is when you discuss more of the readings and
have much more debates about the topics.
However when you do the biological side of
things you will spend your time in labs looking
at bones and casts and getting to grips and a hands on experience of that.
I really like in Canterbury that you can get
the best of both worlds.
It's a city but you also get quite a peaceful
countryside feeling from it, so in the center
of town and the high street it's really busy
and there's always stuff to do but there's
loads of parks you can visit and it's really
nice to relax in.
Also the cathedral is a massive pull to the
area and knowing that you graduate there is
a real selling point for Kent.
Over the summer I was really fortunate to
be offered an internship with Barclays in their
HR department and I found that they were really
interested in my Anthropology background and
the skills that I could bring to it, in terms
of having both the analytical and the humanities side.
They sound really interesting and I'm lucky
enough from that to have been offered a grad scheme
for after I finish University.
I would tell, for future students coming to
Kent, to really just throw yourself in to it.
Don't come in with any pre-conceived ideas
of whether you're going to prefer the biological
or the social side of anthropology because
you'll just naturally find out what you prefer
and that will naturally guide you on your
course.
Also just to really throw yourself in to it
because the more you do the more you get out
of it, and like me you could end up with a
real passion in the subject at the end of it.
