Lately I have been pretty busy with organising my chance to study at the University of Waterloo, Canada, as a QUT exchange student. I feel student exchange is one of the biggest experiences one can partake in throughout their degree. As far as I know, all universities offer the chance to study in almost any country.
While you are over there, there are no additional course fees and all of your subjects are credited towards your home university. The only expenses are that of every day life.
To organise student exchange, a bit of extra effort is required, however if it is something you are interested in, it would be well worth it.
I will be heading to Waterloo next semester in September, as the start of their semester is quite a bit later than the semester starting dates in Australia. I am really looking forward to it but at the same time i feel a bit nervous as i have never lived out of home before, so have rarely had to cook or clean. It will be quite the learning curve.
When I am over there I am looking forward to snowboarding and experiencing the Canadian lifestyle.
Lately I have also become involved with the QUT extreme engineering program. This is a casual employment job in which a small group of us go out to selected schools to run engineering based work shops and try to promote the science, maths and engineering disciplines. So far I have really enjoyed it as it has been fun working with small groups to build things such as bridges and solve problems such as trying to pump water with no electricity (through solar power).
