{"id":11212,"date":"2025-06-03T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:40:46","slug":"the-best-tips-for-exchange-especially-for-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2025\/06\/03\/the-best-tips-for-exchange-especially-for-leeds\/","title":{"rendered":"The BEST tips for exchange, especially for LEEDS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: -0.01em\">Poppy \u2013 University of Leeds<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4>Semester 2, 2024<\/h4>\n<h4 id=\"Course-UD01-1-1\" class=\"no_trailing_linespacing\">Bachelor of Business \/ Bachelor of Communication<\/h4>\n<p>Okay, firstly, do exchange. It\u2019s one of the best things that QUT offers. It is so incredible for personal growth and opens your eyes to the world. I went to the University of Leeds and had such a fun time. I made fantastic friendships; I gained so much more independence and also developed my confidence. I really learnt to like myself.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I can\u2019t really tell you too much more that you don\u2019t already know but I do have some spitfire advice to offer, so here we go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019re going to Leeds (you should), then stay in Montague Burton \u2013 its pretty much on campus, it\u2019s a really reasonable price, it has such a community vibe and is so good for making friends AND has a washer and dryer for FREE!!!!!<\/li>\n<li>Join a society \u2013 great way to make friends and a fun way to get involved in university life<\/li>\n<li>Make the most of your weekends \u2013 travel and see either the rest of the country or neighbouring places (especially in Europe) and party\/enjoy your location during the week so you can get the best of both worlds.<\/li>\n<li>Cook food. It\u2019s so much cheaper (SO much cheaper) and eating out isn\u2019t really worth it<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re going in winter and somewhere that snows, bring shoes with good grip(!)<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t overpack, seriously you honestly end up wearing the same outfits really frequently anyway. Plus, the thrift-shopping is really good.<\/li>\n<li>A classic: say YES to all the opportunities you can BUT there\u2019s no shame in saying no or staying in if you\u2019re tired or not 100%, you need to live sustainably after all.<\/li>\n<li>You really have to just keep putting yourself out there with friends. Become a \u201cpop-in\u201d person. You have to keep making plans and being the one to text first. And, yes, it can be frustrating and exhausting but you WILL find your good friends. It just takes a little time.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re going in Sem 2, spend Christmas with your friends.<\/li>\n<li>SUNDAY ROASTS ARE A SCAM! So expensive. Just make it yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final words: while exchange is the best time ever, you\u2019re still living a life. You still have all your emotions and sometimes exchange can be lonely, and you can get FOMO from home, and you can get sick and blah blah blah \u2013 don\u2019t be ignorant like me and think that this won\u2019t happen to you. BUT, its also such a fantasy land in the sense, you don\u2019t have so many responsibilities like you do at home. Just uni and hanging out with friends. Everything else is choose-your-own-adventure and it is just so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more on how you can apply:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qutvirtual4.qut.edu.au\/group\/student\/student-life\/student-exchange\/how-to-apply\/check-your-eligibility\">Student Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poppy \u2013 University of Leeds Semester 2, 2024 Bachelor of Business \/ Bachelor of Communication Okay, firstly, do exchange. It\u2019s one of the best things that QUT offers. It is so incredible for personal growth and opens your eyes to the world. I went to the University of Leeds and had such a fun time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":11213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6004,6155,7865,226],"tags":[5296,11981,213,29049,12042,450,12038,11975,5348],"class_list":{"0":"post-11212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-choosing-a-university","8":"category-first-impression","9":"category-tips-for-surviving-uni","10":"category-travel","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-friends","14":"tag-general-tips","15":"tag-qut-student-exchange","16":"tag-student-life","17":"tag-tips-for-exchange","18":"tag-travel","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The BEST tips for exchange, especially for LEEDS! 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