Posts by Anouk Slockers

Anouk Slockers – University of Florida: Post 2 – Classes and Thanksgiving

Posted on 2015/12/04 by
Hi everyone,
It’s been a while already since my last post but time flies when your having fun! In my last post I said I would tell a little bit more about the courses I am taking, so lets start with that.
I am taking mostly civil engineering classes to complete my minor. I wanted to do this because I am thinking about going into project management after my bachelor in System Engineering Policy and Management. Me taking these courses here has definitely given me a clearer view on what to expect of project management. The classes I am taking are: Civil Engineering Practice, Drawing and Visualization (using AutoCad), Public Works Management, Heavy Equipment Operation and Cities of the World.
They are all really interesting and the fact that every teacher has a very different way of teaching makes it really interesting. I would not say the courses are hard but you do have to put in the effort in order to get a good grade. Often a part of your grade is even based upon your attendance. Until now I have A’s in almost all my classes and with the semester almost being over I hope I can keep it that way!
Previous week it was Thanksgiving, which meant that we didn’t have classes from Wednesday until the weekend. Luckily all my Tuesday classes were canceled too and since I always have off on Monday’s this meant a whole week of vacation! Both my roommates had invited me to there homes for Thanksgiving diner with their families but this was also the perfect opportunity for me and some friends to do a road trip within Florida. So we decided to go on the trip. We went to see Fort Myers Beach, Everglades, Key Largo and Miami. Definitely word visiting all those places but on Saturday we had to make sure to be back in Gainesville for the last home game of the season, unfortunately we lost but it was great to see a football game one last time!
Anouk
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Anouk Slockers, University of Florida, post 1 – Being a florida gator

Posted on 2015/10/05 by

Hi everyone,

My name is Anouk and I was given the opportunity to go abroad to the U.S. with the Global E3 program. After all the paperwork and arranging, which is a lot of work but definitely worth it, I got excepted to the University of Florida located in Gainesville. Now it’s the end of september and I have been here for around 6 weeks already, I’ll share my experiences so far with you in this post!

First of all being a student at UF (university of florida) is a really special thing, over here the school spirit is one of the most important things. Every students is a gator, gators referring to alligators which is also the school mascots. It’s not unusual to see people walking around totally dressed in orange and blue which are the school colors. All of this is definitely combined during football games in the swamp, a stadium which can hold over 90 000 people! To experience everything, me and some other exchange students bought season tickets, which means we will go to all 7 home games this fall. The Gators (football players) have been doing great so far with 4 wins out of 4 games, I can’t wait to see what happens this Saturday!

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Next to this amazing experience a lot of stuff has happened in the past few weeks! I had been to the United States before so I knew something about some crazy habits most Americans have such as: taking the car everywhere (even from 1 part of the parking lot to the other part), setting the air conditioning to freezing mode while the weather is so nice outside and almost never cooking a home cooked meal.

One of the most amazing things is the amount of new people I have met from all over the world. Also all American students are really interested when you tell that you are from The Netherlands, even tough some of them don’t even know where that is exactly…

I would love to tell more but I have 2 exams this Thursday so I should continue studying now… (big difference with Delft: not only final exams but lots of homework and test during the semester) I will try to post a new post in about 2 weeks to tell you more about all my experiences, go Gators!

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Anouk

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