Working at Sheffield

Yesterday was my first day for my internship at Sheffield University. I will be working in the International Office which handles all of the recruiting and management of International students enrolled full time at Sheffield University. This excludes all EU students as they have all the same rights and fees as UK students due to ERASMUS.

My specific project will be interviewing current American graduate students to try to understand why they came to choose Sheffield University, and how they can better market to the American students. There are only about 35 total American students enrolled (this is not including those studying abroad for just a period of time.) Of those 35 enrolled about 26 are graduate taught students (equivalent to our masters.) Those will be the students that I will try to interview.

I should get the list of names to email today, and hopefully set up meetings for the next two weeks. At the end of the meetings I will have to write up a report and do a brief presentation to the other departments hosting interns from Clemson.

Being back in a city is such a nice change from Clemson, though I do miss the sunny weather.

This weekend we are heading to London. We will be staying with Amy, who we met last weekend and dates the son of the other home stay family. So we will have a place to stay and a guide to help us get around. Should be a fun time!