I feel like Reading offered a lot of
things that other courses in archaeology
didn't. Obviously as you are going through
you apply to lots of different
universities and then I found with
Reading just a great sense of
community, so it's quite different from
was expecting. I didn't really realise
how close-knit archaeology is as a
department all the staff and the students
are genuinely interested in me as an
individual. I felt like they wanted to meet
me personally.  I think the best thing about studying on the
course is the lecturers. Being quite a
small Department it means that we get to
know our students really very well.
They're really inspiring. They're passionate about their
subject area and it makes you become
passionate about it too. I'm doing joint
honours with Ancient History and that
allows me to do two different things I
love. I came into archaeology because I
was very interested in history and very
interested in medicine and when I
started doing my undergraduate degree I
realised that i could combine both by
looking at human bones. I'm a dirt
archaeologist that's what I like and
that's why I came to this university;
to teach students how to dig
essentially but what I also really love
is the camaraderie. It's managing a
large team and the field school is over
100 people but it's working with
people's different abilities and skills.
What I wanted was a degree where I
could combine practical with theory
and this degree really does that. I'm really excited to start my dissertation, I'm
going to be detecting hormones in archaeological bone, which is going to be
really exciting; it's not been done
before. The nice thing about having acquired
that very wide range of skills
while you're doing your degree
is that you can sell a particular element of
those skills to the employer depending
on what they're after. I think I'll leave
with a great insight in how to be a
great archeologist and hopefully pursue
my passion of archaeology.
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