{"id":6869,"date":"2019-06-24T16:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T23:01:20","slug":"get-the-real-experience-at-shu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2019\/06\/24\/get-the-real-experience-at-shu\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the real English experience at Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jake &#8211; Sheffield Hallam University, England<\/h3>\n<h4>Semester 1, 2017<br \/>\nBachelor of Justice<\/h4>\n<p>So, if you asked anyone from Australia to pinpoint exactly where Sheffield is in the United Kingdom, you\u2019d be pretty far stretched to find someone who actually could. Well, I want to put Sheffield on the map.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, I spent my time studying abroad in the most underrated town and university in the UK. Okay, so maybe I\u2019m a little biased because my girlfriend lives there, but hear me out. Sheffield Hallam University, or SHU as it\u2019s fondly known as, is amazing, not because it\u2019s old or in the top 10 unis in the world, but because it\u2019s real. SHU is the kind of uni actual English people go to, not just exchange students. It\u2019s the real Northern England. I mean come on guys, we go to the \u2018Uni of the real world\u2019 and this place is authentic.<\/p>\n<p>I love the fact that I never heard another Australian accent once, in fact for the whole year I was at SHU I don\u2019t think there was another Aussie there. Sheffield is also extraordinary, it\u2019s a town specifically built for uni students; there are heaps of bars, and everywhere you go has student discounts.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of students helps reiterate the fact that Sheffield is one of the safest cities in the UK, and it\u2019s cheap compared to most major cities. Sure it\u2019s not London or Manchester, but hop on a train and you can go anywhere soon enough. I still travelled all of Europe from Sheffield as well (and yes I found a little bit of time to study).<\/p>\n<p>SHU is great for another reason too, they have more students coming out the whazoo to come to QUT, so I got to apply late to go, and study abroad at QUT doesn\u2019t usually allow you to stay for two semesters at one UK uni but hey, at SHU you can. Not to mention the staff from SHU helped me out tremendously and I almost received a round of applause for helping a SHU student be able to see the sun in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/files\/2019\/06\/Jake-Threlfall-Sheffield-Hallam-University-Photo-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8623\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/files\/2019\/06\/Jake-Threlfall-Sheffield-Hallam-University-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/files\/2019\/06\/Jake-Threlfall-Sheffield-Hallam-University-Photo-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/files\/2019\/06\/Jake-Threlfall-Sheffield-Hallam-University-Photo-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still picking my brain as to why no one wants to go to Sheffield Hallam, it\u2019s awesome and I\u2019ve come back to Australia wishing I was there instead of trying to understand the northern accent (don\u2019t try to, just nod and say yes) and eating greasy cheesy chips from a shop with questionable hygiene.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Study abroad for me wasn\u2019t about the class and sophistication Cambridge university, it was about having an authentic and real experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want to pretend you\u2019re a real English student, attend a three-letter uni, meet genuine people, go to Sheffield Hallam.<\/p>\n<h4>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/qutvirtual4.qut.edu.au\/group\/student\/student-life\/student-exchange\/choose-your-destination\/sheffield-hallam-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sheffield Hallam University<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake &#8211; Sheffield Hallam University, England Semester 1, 2017 Bachelor of Justice So, if you asked anyone from Australia to pinpoint exactly where Sheffield is in the United Kingdom, you\u2019d be pretty far stretched to find someone who actually could. 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Over the past year, I spent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1513,"featured_media":8624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6004,5280,6155,450,411],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-choosing-a-university","8":"category-england","9":"category-first-impression","10":"category-student-life","11":"category-study-2"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Get the real English experience at Sheffield - QUT Gone Global<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2019\/06\/24\/get-the-real-experience-at-shu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Get the real English experience at Sheffield - QUT Gone Global\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jake &#8211; Sheffield Hallam University, England Semester 1, 2017 Bachelor of Justice So, if you asked anyone from Australia to pinpoint exactly where Sheffield is in the United Kingdom, you\u2019d be pretty far stretched to find someone who actually could. 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