{"id":7066,"date":"2019-06-25T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/qut-exchange-students\/?p=7066"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T03:39:59","slug":"made-friends-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/gone-global\/2019\/06\/25\/made-friends-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends for life at SUNY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heidi – State University of New York, USA<\/h3>\n

Semester 2, 2016
\nBachelor of Education (Secondary)<\/h4>\n

University<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I loved studying at SUNY. It was such a different experience to anything that I had been used to previously. It was awesome to be living on a campus where it was snowing almost every day, so much so that we sometimes had snow days where the university would be cancelled for the day and we would then go out sledding behind our dorms.<\/p>\n

The university as a whole was all quite expensive but worth it. The meal plan was compulsory (and super expensive!!) but I\u2019m glad I had it as it made everything a lot easier. It was a lot of fun having an ice skating rink on campus as we did that quite a bit as well as watched a lot of ice hockey matches which I loved. I joined a lot of sporting groups and I also did a lot of on-campus activities which kept me busy. They were a lot of fun! Academics wise- it was quite easy compared to QUT. It surprised me how much easier it was than what I was used to but it was good as I was able to get pretty good marks without placing much stress on myself.<\/p>\n