I first came across Reach when I was
looking for summer schools on the Internet.
When I first arrived, I was very
excited but also very nervous.
During the week I became more confident
and started to know more and more people.
What I think stands out about Reach Cambridge is
just the overall community here,
all the people who work for Reach Cambridge
but also the students [themselves].
SoI think if I was going to sum up Reach Cambridge
it would be a combination of a really
academically challenging and inspiring
program, mixed with some really fun
activities, with an incredibly beautiful
and inspiring city with such an academic history.
I would like to study medicine
or something scientific,
so when I saw the program, it was really interesting.
I saw that there were some lectures and then
some also practicals like
dissection or experiments.
It's good because you get to learn a lot
and you get out of your comfort zone.
They give you an insight into the [university] major and the career
rather than just the subject,
so when you get that sort of insight
it makes your path more clear.
It's kind of like you're exploring in your world
and everyone wants to take a part of that with them back home.
A lot of students that I have spoken to at the end of the programs have always said that
they love the amount of independence they get, in addition to the supervision.
Essentially what we're trying to do is enrich them
by allowing them not only to learn in an
undergraduate manner
or to live the way that other students live,
but to manage
their own time.
When my students leave my classroom, what I hope they take away with them
is a sense of confidence: confidence in their
cultural skills, confidence in their
critical skills, confidence in their
creative skills.
I see these students transformed
over the course of the fortnight
To see the confidence with which
they begin to contemplate
possible options in their future
is remarkable.
