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It was coming to the end of the year, and I felt that I didn't have very
much involvement with the degree itself. I had friends on certain committees and things,
but I hadn't done anything myself, so I thought, I thought I should give something back almost,
and so as soon as I heard about it, I came along. Very rewarding I think, so I feel like
I've done something good for fellowing students, yeah I feel like I've done something worthwhile
with my time. I wanted to help the university the way that I feel they're helping me with
the degree almost, so I wanted to be able to enrich it and give other students what
I feel that I might have got, but hopefully a bit more from it as well. I think with some
of our module guidelines that we've produced, it's sort of taken it away from very boring
exam worksheet answer the questions, to we're trying to make it more involved, it's more
assessing your understanding than your ability to recite a question that you've heard before.
So I think in that way it would be, I'm sure I would have found the courseworks more enjoyable
and things if they were more structured like that, so I think things like that will just
be better for the students. A lot of what we've produced is going to be very useful
for other universities I think, because originally a lot of what we did, we were sort of muddling
through, but we've come out with what we think is a good output, so other universities can
take what we've done and expand upon that, so the time that we spent muddling through,
they can get more from what we've done, leading on from us. I think it's very important that
it's student lead, conceptually the degree's sort of controlled by the lecturers and staff,
and allowing the students to be involved in it, the students are the ones that want the
most from the degree, the staff almost it's not really their concern as much, of course
it is but not to the same extent that the students want a good degree. So it's sort
of, it makes the degree almost organic in the fact that the students are pushing it
along. I think this project's been brilliant for me personally because I didn't feel there
was much teamwork and things like that during the course, and when it was assessed almost,
I was sort of trying to work and things and I don't know, but because I've done this voluntarily
and everyone else here is voluntarily, and we all want the same thing, it's very, a relaxed
way of doing it and I feel much more confident working in a team now, much more confident
presenting my ideas and things to people, much more likely to walk up to the board and
write something down, so I'm quite pleased.