Cambridge Summer Project – Experience knowledge, Experience life, Light up your Dream!

1st August 2019

In the past week, our students again had very different experiences including joining a volunteer day in collaboration with the Cambridge City Council to raise recycling awareness, and took part in the etiquette workshop instructed by British Etiquette expert and horse riding workshop taught by experienced coaches. Apart from this, students also had the opportunities to attend local summer schools in Cambridge and learnt 3D laser printing skills at Eagle Lab laboratory in Cambridge.

The benefits of joining a summer Programme are countless, and if you are planning to pursue your university degree aboard in the coming years, you might find the below quite true:

1) Develop your personal skills

Firstly, if you take part in the study abroad summer programme, your leadership, creative thinking and critical thinking skills will improve as well as your self-confidence. In addition, you will be granted the opportunity to develop your communication and English skills as you will talk to other students who might not speak your first language. These skills will certainly give you enormous advantages over other candidates when applying for university studies.

2) Come across with different cultures and make friends

As you will meet students from around the world with different cultural backgrounds, you might be able to experience new customs, gain more insights about the traditions and values that they cherish in their cultures. Most importantly, even though these traditions and values might be strange or unfamiliar to you, joining the study abroad programme will provide you with the perfect environment to learn to accept the differences between cultures and respect and learn from each other. You will also have the chance to create an international network. The unforgettable and joyful moments with other students are the main reason why the bonds between you and those students are unbreakable. You might become lifelong friends even after the programme has finished.

3) Live independently

You will gain confidence in your ability to live independently. During the programme, you will be trained to become self-motivated as you are responsible for everything of yourself, including arriving to class on time, completing your homework, preparing for classes, and other non-academic activities, and hence, your ability of self-control will improve significantly. Furthermore, by experiencing an independent life, you may encounter issues that you have never met before, so you will need to solve real-life problems and expand beyond your comfort zone.

4) Explore yourself

Last but not least, joining the study abroad summer programme gives you the opportunity to explore yourself. By leaving the environment that you are familiar with, you might feel uncomfortable at first, and it is normal and understandable. However, once you get over the negative emotions, you will soon find out that breaking out of your comfort zone helps you enrich your experiences and discover your own strengths and weaknesses. You will start to value and develop a much better sense of who are truly are as an independent person. Subsequently, you develop your self-esteem, which is crucial as it helps you build positive relationships, set and achieve goals and gain fulfillment in life.

Our Cambridge Summer Project is ending soon, however what we would hope our students to take home with, is a life-long inspiring learning experience.

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