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My name is Edward Laarman and I’m from France and I’ve done an MSc in Contemporary Russian
and East European Studies.
I saw the opportunities for Erasmus and I was interested in this and the UK is of course
is one of the most attractive countries for Erasmus and the only agreement they had was
with the Birmingham so I applied and I got in and so I finished my economics degree there,
here in Birmingham and afterwards I was looking for opportunities to do a post grad degree
and this is how I came across this Russian department and what was interesting was that
they were teaching me already in third year in economics and so I just kept on studying
the economics of Eastern Europe and Russia and so it was just a great thing.
Well as a Frenchman I’ve really enjoyed the way societies are organised talking it
is not even part of studies but it's part of university life and I’ve really been
able to make many friends through there and that was probably one of the most interesting
things here.
I've already got a job so everything's lined up, no worries to have and, well maybe I wish
I would have been able to stay in England the opportunities have been such that I’ve
gone back to France and I’m quite happy there.
Well I’d say that studying is really interesting but it's very costly and you should really
take it seriously so maybe take a subject that's really for you and that you're really
in to and don't try to study for the sake of studying because it's really not worth
it. You can get some work experience otherwise and if it's really important to do this than
not to mess around at university.