The reason I chose
UCL and the Department of Anthropology
was because no other university in the UK offers a course which is as
innovative
um of different fields.
What attracted me
to study here is actually the fact that UCL
has very good interdisciplinary so the
access and infrastructure
so you can actually sit into the
classes of geography or urban studies
and actually broaden your thinking and
it's perfect for a lot of people who
are curious about different aspects of
society as well.
The lectures here are basically the people
you're reading about, they're the most cited
people in all of the articles you're reading so you have first-hand
experience with people that are really just
the top notch in terms of what you're
studying.
You get a lot of and anthropologists from around the country
who are leaders in their field who do come and
give very good
talks and in those talks there is a good level of interaction and dialogue between who are
leaders in the field and yourself.
It's not a only about what they talk
about in class but
also what they provide us is
material and readings
that can enable us to go much more
further than what we learn in class.
The best
thing about the course
I think is the oppenss of the faculty
to letting me develop my own
ideas and sort of to learn through the process
so doesn't seem that there's one expected
outcome of the course, it seems like
everybody's really encouraged to develop
their own thoughts and their own approach
to the subject matter.
What initially attracted me to studying at UCL
was the 
positive things that I knew about the
department as a whole
and the location in London. London being one of
the largest metropolises in Europe
really attracted me.
I wanted to study in London so then it
was all about choosing which university
I wanted to go to
so UCL definitely has a name
as a global university
so in question of diversity of programmes,
it was the best choice.
UCL has a great location, being in
the middle of London, it is really accessible,
it's easy to get to
and everything you need is actually here
and everything you want to do afterwards is also here.
Being in London, particularly being in Bloomsbury, you have access to so many
different libraries in so many different
academic institutions, so
in addition to taking advantage of
everything that's on offer at UCL
in terms of the library resources, in terms
of lectures and seminars,
you can also go to other universities in
London and take advantage of those
resources as well.
I think studying in London is really just an opportunity -- your school isn't
just UCL --  it ends up being the entire
city.
UCL has a really big, diverse,
social feel to it
when you meet people that you want to meet
and you do meet a lot of people,
they tend to be friends for a long time.
We have very frequent sort of meetings, informal gatherings
and seminar sessions and discussions
that brings students from different
backgrounds together
and it's just the sort of energy that's very conducive
and very exciting as well.
It's ok to be nerdy
and you're with fellow nerdy people who
just love it
so you know it branches out into your social
life that you all just sit around
discussing everything and the fact that
you've got a social anthropologist
and that paleolithic paleoanthropologists
and
archaeologists all around I just, I just
love that.
