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South Africa passport · started 2015–2019
Considered leavingI would tell them that they must be prepared for the fact that belonging might be harder than they think, but it must not be a barrier to them performing well academically. It is essential to try to learn the language before enrolling.
Before they found their people
Within the first year
What surprised them
I was surprised by how hard it was to make friends. It felt like I was forcing friendships. The language barrier made it even harder.
Wished they'd known
I wish someone had told me how hard it can be, or will be, to communicate or have a social life rather than the actual academics. I had anticipated that it could be hard.
Choose it again?
No, even though I did well academically, I still felt like I did not belong.
Why they nearly left
I felt like I did not belong, sometimes it was because of the language barrier.
Across every review here, expected to already be local predicts whether someone belonged. Treated as foreign doesn't. Why that is
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