{"id":5069,"date":"2017-12-29T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2017-12-05T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T02:30:11","slug":"what-to-expect-in-trento-small-town-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2017\/12\/29\/what-to-expect-in-trento-small-town-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect in Trento, small-town Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua C<br \/>\nBachelor of Engineering<br \/>\nUniversity of Trento, Italy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">My exchange program was placed and set in the northern part of Italy, Trento, a small city town that is located in the gulf between two mountains. Initially I had chosen this partner university by its impressive range of subjects that it offered in the field that interested me, biomedical engineering. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">At this point I had no idea how things functioned overseas in a different culture and found myself in a new position of having to adjust myself. First arriving to meet my professors and colleagues I was nervous being relatively young and with the most minimal experience in comparison to those within the laboratory. This led me to the feeling as if I was inadequate to be there among everyone else as, I believed, the skill gap was too big for me. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">However the hospitality, warmness and kindness of those within the laboratory aided me into being confident and strengthen myself immensely with how the exchange would progress. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5070\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/files\/2017\/12\/Pic-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5070\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/files\/2017\/12\/Pic-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main square \u2018duomo\u2019 in which the statue of Poseidon with the trident stands on top of a well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trento in itself, is a very small town located 100km above Verona (between Venice and Milan) and still holds dear the architecture, customs and style of a town well aged. The noticeable different between QUT and the University of Trento was the campus, unlike QUT where faculties have their respective buildings (P Block \u2013 Engineers, D Block \u2013 Design, etc) Trento had the faculties located around the town, with the major campus being in the city centre and the others in the surrounding suburbs.\u00a0The University of Trento is a very beautiful and well-functioning university. The facilities that are offered are extremely well thought out and also aesthetically pleasing bringing a lighter to mood to things.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Default\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt\">In addition to this, there were cafeterias. This was something totally foreign to me but as I visited it daily, I found myself enjoying it and soon enough become accustomed to it. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua C Bachelor of Engineering University of Trento, Italy &nbsp; My exchange program was placed and set in the northern part of Italy, Trento, a small city town that is located in the gulf between two mountains. 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