Guest post: The Beauty of Academic Conferences
I met the first person of the conference while in line to check-in at the hotel’s reception. After dropping my things in the room, I had a 30 minute conversation with a girl who had asked me where to find the conference registration table. My assigned roommate and I became close after noticing that our separate beds were shoved together into a king-size mattress (we managed to fix the problem). In less than an hour I’d met three engaging and diverse individuals. Conferences are fantastic. Every international student at UEA should try to attend a conference during their time in Norwich. Whether this is an event in Norwich, London, Europe, or the US, such conferences offer the opportunity to meet tens or hundreds of similarly passionate people in a comfortable and intentional setting. They are also opportunities to expand knowledge or certain areas and find new ideas or research opportunities. The Fulbright Conference in Berlin was a general conference f...