I knew I wanted to do something like an IT course mixed with something creative.
I was quite intrigued by the how young the School was
but the high regard it had in the industry.
I was really attracted to study at Kent by the amazing quality of the lecturers
and their passion for their fields.
It was recommended to me by an architect who I did work experience for.
I was looking into rankings and it was one of the top six
and it is close to London where all the galleries are
and I think that's important as well.
I went down in the summer and the campus was really
beautiful and Canterbury's quite a lovely city.
I love the campus, it's just so green and you can see the views of Canterbury and everything.
Medway's a great hub for art at the moment.
It's really interesting, especially Rochester
and Chatham as well, where there are cultural events and festivals going on.
I decided to study Drama and English because
I just really loved those subjects when I was at school.
My course enabled me to look at and study texts
and think about the meaning behind them and the impact that it had on Society.
You're learning how to draw,
and you're learning the language of architecture. We had to sculpt things
and do self-portraits, so pushing out
the arty side to really train your hand.
We had a variety of design modules and history modules within the first year.
We learnt about engineering and construction.
You know you can't learn artistic things purely off a book. You can read it, you can understand it,
but it's all about
how you experience it. Like how when you sketch something,
you don't just sketch what you see,
but you sketch what you experience of the building.
The degree covers everything from events management to design and production. It covers
all aspects including lighting tech and running, down to
Gantt charts and health and safety, and everything you could possibly think of.
'Multimedia Tech and Design' really covered a wide array of digital
technical skills, from film photography,
coding and art. So is it was a good way to get a taster all these different kinds of techniques.
I chose to study 'History and Philosophy of Art' because
it was a course that encompasses everything that I wanted to learn
at the time. It's not all completely academic, you can get completely stuck in
and that's what I really enjoyed.
It was broad course and there are so many things that I could learn from it.
We learnt about programming, website design, photography, film editing,
you know, post production production and it appealed to me a lot.
For me, I'm more of a technical person and it really pulled my creative side out.
Compared to other universities
that have a smaller spaces, the University of Kent has a lot of spaces to work in,
and because that we're not in that big groups, we can have
more of the facilities for us as well.
If you're the kind of creative person and you think 'where's my painting skills going to get me? I'm just not going to make any money being an artist'
there is so much more that needs to be designed than just pictures on a wall.
It's technically-based, it's socially-based,
it's science-based if you want to experience that. It's up to you actually, I think.
We get the opportunity to learn about the outside world through visiting artists.
Immediately the students are being introduced
in quite a sort of formal/informal way to
potential employers.
Studying at Kent was great. It was such a fantastic atmosphere and place to be.
I met loads of open-minded people.
There's a feeling that you get out about a place and it has it here.
It's like a sense of community like everyone's going to get on.
If you need any help, you can turn to person next to you and have a chat,
so I've made some great friends out of Kent.
There's a tutor in every medium there to help.
They come in everyday, in the workshops, in the studios. They are everywhere,
and they talk to us, every time you want them or maybe a tutorial, they are there.
Really relaxed, approachable - I could go when I needed some advice or some help
or just a general chat about what's going on
at Kent Uni and with my course.
And in fact, one of the lecturers I still keep in regular contact with.
I've been working for the Canterbury Festival
and since then, I have joined the Urban Soul Orchestra where I am currently
and here I work as an Events & Marketing Assistant.
I work on a wide range of West End productions from plays to musicals.
I both design the websites and then I do the front-end build.
I did a lot of modelling for a film,
so realistic stuff and now the type of agency I'm at is more online broadcast.
I'm currently now the Vice President for Welfare of the
National Union of Students.
So, it's an elected post, here to represent the
seven million students in further and higher education.
I'm now a Part 1 Architectural Assistant at Farrells.
I currently work at Eldridge London Architects, who mainly specialise in high-end residential.
I am now a Digital Compositor at Framestore,
I work on actually big blockbuster films. You get your footage,
different, different footage from different places, you get your CG,
you add them altogether and you're like, yeah I made that!
I do route that back to Kent, you know
because they gave me the taste of what I could achieve.
I couldn't have really started off in a better way!