{"id":2261,"date":"2025-07-15T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:25:04","slug":"five-things-i-learnt-from-my-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/2025\/07\/15\/five-things-i-learnt-from-my-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I Learnt from My Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Queen&#8217;s student Andrew Atkinson talks to us through his top five tips for students going on a study exchange. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Andrew Atkinson\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-2-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Look after yourself<\/strong>                                                                              It is paramount that you brace yourself for the emotions you will feel once you\u2019ve left your friends &amp; family behind. It\u2019s one thing to think about it, it\u2019s another to experience. The world is smaller than you think, you\u2019re one text away from those you love and they are not going to forget about you while you\u2019re away.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Be open, experience as much as you can!<\/strong>                                    There ought to be events that are hosted, sports teams you can join, and local events in your town! This is your opportunity to try new things, do not let it pass you by, your study abroad experience will pass in the blink of an eye.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>You deserve to be here!<\/strong>                                                                          It\u2019s possible to get impostor syndrome as an exchange student, but understand your host institution invited you! Continue your established studying habits whilst engrossing yourself in the culture.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"4\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Travel!<\/strong>                                                                                            You\u2019ll want to travel solo or with friends you\u2019ve made, my personal highlight was travelling from North Carolina up to Niagara Falls and seeing the sights along the way.\u202f&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>You\u2019ll miss it dearly.<\/strong>                                                                             I miss my exchange friends, I miss the food. I met my girlfriend studying abroad and she came to Queen\u2019s! We\u2019re currently figuring out how we could all reunite in Europe once this semester is over.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-1-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-1-1-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen&#8217;s student Andrew Atkinson talks to us through his top five tips for students going on a study exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1160,"featured_media":2263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,190,168],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-opportunities","category-go-global-ambassadors","category-study-abroad","tag-global-opportunities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/07\/Andrew-Atkinson-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}