What's the experience of studying at Southampton University?
When I was an undergraduate, I went to Nan 'an for a semester. It was the first foreign school I stayed in for a long time (excluding Hong Kong), and I really liked this school. However, I am not the strongest science and engineering major in Nan 'an. As a liberal arts student, I can only watch the excitement.
In my personal impression, the best major in Nan 'an is actually aerospace, and CS and EE are the second (although they are also very strong), but there are not many people studying abroad in this major, and the procedures are more troublesome. You have to apply for ATAS to study smoothly, and you are more or less a "control major", so your reputation is not so loud; However, in the industry, Nan 'an's mechanical engineering and aerospace are recognized as relatively strong. At that time, I used to find a lot of information for my father through Nan 'an's network, so that his old man still occasionally said that he would go to Nan 'an to study for a degree after retirement ... Nan 'an is adrian newey's alma mater! Newey is an aerospace major in Nan 'an! The best designer is definitely not nonsense!
In addition, another advantage of Nan 'an is oceanography. After all, Nan 'an is located in a famous port in the south of England and the starting point of the Titanic. It has a geographical advantage and is naturally better than inland schools. Because of some coincidences, I have been to ocean centre, a country in Nan 'an, and I feel really unconscious. ...
Southampton was bombed in World War II, so many buildings north of the west pier in the main city are new, including the university itself. Basically, Southampton is located in the beautiful Southampton University. The school building is very new and modern, so it has no sense of history. However, Nan 'an itself is not a school with a sense of history, but also a science and engineering school, so the new campus has no sense of disobedience at all.
Science and engineering departments are generally in the high field; ; At that time, I went to modern languages, belonging to the humanities department, and the philosophy history department was in the Avenue campus. These are the two main campuses in Nan 'an, and oceanography is the oceanographic center mainly near the port. In the process of communication, most of our courses are completed in Avenue, but English classes for non-English-speaking students are held in the classroom next to Heidfeld Small Theater. In contrast, the highlands are bigger and more fully equipped. The library has an area where you can discuss freely, and you can also bring a certain range of food (but I don't know if it's ok now), which is very suitable for staying there all day. Avenue is more exquisite. There are many magazines in other European languages in the Modern Language Library.
If I had taught it, it was an undergraduate course of modern language, and the teaching content was somewhat different from the linguistics major I had seen before and after. Modern language majors in Nan 'an attach great importance to field investigation. Even if they mainly study languages, they will teach sociolinguistics and ethnology and provide relevant practical opportunities. If you are an undergraduate, you will arrange a one-year exchange in the mother-tongue country in the third year to further learn the language and "observe the behavior of the mother-tongue". I still remember that the final assignment of ethnology is to write an "anthropological observation report" by myself, and it is necessary to use discourse analysis to observe the relationship between environment and language. Of course, I was encouraged by our teacher to write about the identity of female car fans, which is another story. ...
To tell the truth, the reading volume of modern Chinese is still quite large. Although the teacher is very detailed, he will still leave a series of reading materials for you to read at home and then analyze them in the discussion class. We went to communicate at that time, and everyone thought it was enough to have fun, so we often couldn't finish reading it ... but the local undergraduates in Nan 'an still paid great attention to their grades. They used to chat with other undergraduate students in the class, and they said, "It's good that you wander around like this every day, and we still have to think about getting a 70% test"; The course is not water, and 70 points is still a bit difficult.
Except for the secretary who was in charge of receiving exchange students in the department at that time, the whole department was very friendly, and so were the teachers. If you have any questions, you can send them an email directly. If you are not very busy, you will basically be responsive. What impressed me the most was that I once ate under the cherry tree in the atrium of the avenue. I left my mobile phone in the yard and was picked up and sent to the General Affairs Office. At that time, I sent a text message to my old mobile phone with the mentality of giving it a try. As a result, the staff of the general office actually replied to me-my mobile phone is a Chinese system, and she guessed how to send me a text message. ...
Most non-local residents of Southampton are students. The school has arranged dormitories, but the number is limited and the location is relatively concentrated. I live in Glenair, which is close to Heidfeld, but far from the main road and the city. There are basically school buses from each dormitory to the campus and downtown. Students who live in dormitories can take it for free after registering with the school with their student ID cards, and students who rent their own houses and ordinary citizens can also take it, but they need to pay the fare separately. The departure interval of each line is different. U 1A runs almost every ten minutes, and it is still a double-decker car. But the single-decker U2 I want to take often comes every half hour. There are too many students in peak hours, and they often can't squeeze in, which always makes people feel the urge to "go back" ...
Nan 'an has convenient daily life; At least compared with the place where I am now, there are ASDA, IKEA, international food and a relatively large Asian supermarket, which is very suitable for international students in China. On weekends, if the weather is fine, you can go for a walk in Southampton Square, feed ducks, feed birds, watch people walk dogs and so on. There are not so many tourists (yes, I think I have been bored to death by tourists here for half a year), and my life is relatively self-sufficient; If you want to travel far, you can go to the Isle of Wight by boat. A classmate who went to communicate with us watched several games, although I thought Nan 'an team played weakly. ...
There are two universities in many medium-sized cities in Britain. One is well-known and research-oriented, and the other is more professional for local students. For example, except for Anglia Ruskin in our school, Southampton in oxford brookes university is no exception. In addition to Thornton (the general name of Southampton), there is another university, Southampton Sollente University (commonly known as the Solent Strait). The former is a prestigious school and the latter is a local university. Undergraduates in Nan 'an take pleasure in teasing and spoofing their classmates in the Solent Strait. I was looking at the homepage of meme of Southampton University on fb, and basically seven out of ten were talking about the Solent Strait. ...