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- I'm Sam Clark with Crimson Education
and we're here at University College London or UCL
to ask some big questions
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in front of this big building.
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All right, what is the best thing about UCL?
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- Okay, the location, it's in London.
And because of that, it's so diverse.
We're talking about students, teachers,
just even going out to walking out onto the street,
you can meet all sorts of people, it's great.
And the education is great as well.
- It is really nice.
You have access to everything other than studying
which is kind of a relief from stress, I guess.
- Best thing about UCL is the architecture.
That building is absolutely beautiful!
- It's really nice, yeah.
- You can come here and eat your lunch, dinner at night.
- On the stoops?
- It's pretty cool.
- What is the best thing about UCL?
- It's in London.
- That's a good answer.
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What's the worst thing about UCL?
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- It's in London.
- Fair enough.
- It's quite big.
I do get lost.
- There's a lot of lectures.
We have 30 contact hours a week so it's quite a lot.
- I think it's the library
because you have to go to several libraries
to gather readings,
and especially I have a literature base
and I'm doing sociology at the moment.
You need a lot of books, the hard copies,
and they have to go around, like send the house domain,
science library, IOE, yeah!
Yeah.
I think you have to have a some kind of thing
like assemble everything in one place and get it at one go.
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- And what do you tend to do on weekends here?
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- There's so many options you could do.
I personally like to cook
me and my flatmates a Sunday roast.
- Well, usually because going out is quite expensive,
on weekends I just study.
The main social aspects of the week
happen during Monday through Friday.
So weekends are usually just resting
and doing work that you haven't done during the week.
- I'm involved in quite a lot of sports.
With the Law Society, I do rugby and football.
- Last weekend, I went to Rome.
- Oh, that's really good.
- Yep, so get away if I don't have study to do.
- I love to hang out with my flatmates.
They are amazing.
Last night, we went to go for some reggaeton dancing
because we all like Latin American music.
So yeah.
I mean, London has tons to offer.
You can get whatever you look for.
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- What do you write your application essays about?
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- So I'm doing a course on cancer.
I wrote about it
being a doctor in Australia working on cancer
and the research opportunities at UCL.
- The gender differences
with respect to entrepreneurial tendencies,
so how do men and women or guys and girls differ
in personality, motivation when it comes
to founding their own businesses.
- My path towards coming to realizing
that computer science is for me,
and I wrote mainly about some past achievement
in the computer science Olympiad.
I don't say it's the best essay
but this is how I was thinking at that time.
- You are aware of it.
- Yes, that's true.
- Anything to add?
- I'm really hungry so I'm gonna get lunch.
- Okay yeah, no.
Go get food!
- Hello, mom.
- Hey mom!
- You're our last interview of the day, so anything to add?
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