I am Emma. 
I am studying the Research Master's in Leiden. 
For my Master's thesis I investigated the adjective in Dutch-French code switching. 
I choose this Master's because of the variety in courses.
There is so much you can study here at Leiden University.
There is also a lot of expertise in all these areas, so you can decide what you want at any point.
Then you have the opportunity to do that. 
If you decide you like this one little area of Linguistics, there is someone who does it in Leiden.
The variety is not only in the fields expertise of the teachers and researchers,
it is also in the fields of interests of the students.
If you bump into something in your research that you don't know anything about, 
you can just ask a fellow student.
That easier than just writing an email to the professor you have never met.
That could be a bit weird, and you don't know if they have the time for this.
Then you can just ask your fellow students.
That is really nice.
The city of Leiden? That is a good question.
Leiden is very 'cute'.
I think that goes for a lot of Dutch cities.
It is also very compact.
I live 'all the way' at the other end of town from the University,
and that is a 5 minute bicycle ride.
It is still quite a large centre
So you have everything you need between my house and University.
It's nice.
