In the last episode we caught up with
everyone and they told us all about what
they've learned the past year on a
special two-part conclusion to this
week's the New Class.
Coming from high school people say oh it's
going to be this terrible time, but you
don't really know what you're capable of
until you're really challenged so that's
something I learned that I was actually
capable of a lot more than I ever
thought. I find that, especially for
science students a lot of the courses that your
taking in first-year are very general, like
introductory to physics, introductory to
chemistry and all that. But it's really
getting your mind around sticking
through the first year because it's, your
not doing what you want to do and it's
just it's really hard to go through
another year of the four years that you
spent doing general courses. That, once
you, it's kind of just seeing that light
at the end of the tunnel that I'm
majoring in something that I'm
passionate about it. It's just getting through
those general courses can be really
tough but I'm sure it's worth it. I went
to high school here in Newfoundland and
like the university is pretty much like
set up so it's like most people from Newfoundland
come here. So like I don't know, I just felt
like it was very much like very smooth
for me to come here. Like obviously I
don't think high school prepares you for
what university is, but I think
coming from Newfoundland has probably the smoothest it
could be. I didn't have to write the MPT I
just came in and I had it all figured
out. So I guess that's an interesting
point though from Andreas is students who
are from Newfoundland right. I mean are
you happy that you came to MUN are you
kind of wishing that maybe you travelled outside
the province. Yeah, MUN is pretty
good. It's not too far away from home, you
don't spend much time at home but we got
to go home over Christmas and some of
my friends from other countries had to stay
in over Christmas which wouldn't be that good.
It will be nice to go a new country or a new
province and meet new people there but
there are a lot of people from different
provinces here there are people from different countries here,
so you still do get that diversity that
from where I am from you'd never get. So it still
was a new experience me even though I'm
only two hours from home. Having lived in
residence now for your first year would
you encourage students to live in
residence? Oh a hundred percent, especially
if you're not from St. John's where you
don't have
friends that are from your high school
or don't know anybody. I strongly
encourage living in residence because I
made so many friends that I would never
have made if I wasn't forced into a
community where I had to act or, it was
a possible not to make friends you know.
Like you know, if anything your roommate
and then have people to start talking to
you and if you leave your door open
people come in and its really great
right. And it really gets you into the
community vibe of Memorial that I
probably wouldn't have had if I stayed
off campus. Having seen like other
campuses through like me or my
wife like I don't think there's any
other universities that have such as
like close-knit community, so that was
definitely very interesting to see in
the experience of Memorial. MUN is
really an international community. Here
wait, nine of us. We have three from foreign countries
Vietnam, India, China. But I find,
I have something to tell all the
international students that rather than
find, rather than focus on the
differences between us, between people from
different country we should more focus
on the common things that were share.
And when you focus on this you can live
like you happier you forgot about
strange things here. Like technically,
literally for me China and Canada is
really difference. That from another
perspective I found I could settle
down quite well, adapt myself to the
terrible weather. That's part one be sure
to check out the conclusion of the New
Class on part two.
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