{"id":4608,"date":"2017-09-04T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2017-09-04T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:09:09","slug":"finally-arrived-in-maastricht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/2017\/09\/04\/finally-arrived-in-maastricht\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally arrived in Maastricht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally arrived in Maastricht after months and months of planning in anticipation. After travelling around Europe for 3 weeks living out of a suitcase, it feels relieving being able to unpack my bags in the room I&#8217;ll be staying in for the next 5 months.<\/p>\n<p>After participating in the orientation week here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/\">Maastricht University<\/a> I am both excited and nervous for the first of three university periods to begin! The Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach to learning is very different to what I&#8217;m used to at Flinders University, but when you travel to the other side of the world for 6 months you have to let go of all familiarity!.<\/p>\n<p>I chose to study at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/\">Maastricht University<\/a> for their psychology and neuroscience program which offers some exciting topics that differ from Flinders. I&#8217;ve always wanted to go on a university exchange to somewhere in Europe to experience a new educational system, meet new people, and travel to some incredible places.<\/p>\n<p>After buying a bike to ride to and from university, and eating more Stroopwafels than you could image, I think I&#8217;m slowly delving deeper into the Dutch culture. \u00a0I&#8217;m definitely excited for what the next 5 months will bring.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Madeline Gilder,\u00a0Bachelor of Psychological Sciences<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0student, Semester 2 2017 exchange at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/\">Maastricht University<\/a>, the Netherlands\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finally arrived in Maastricht after months and months of planning in anticipation. After travelling around Europe for 3 weeks living out of a suitcase, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[640,160,170,177,194,314,613,353,361,382,642,638,403,428,641],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-experience-blogs","category-outbound-student-experiences","tag-bachelor-of-psychological-sciences","tag-dutch","tag-europe","tag-excited","tag-flinders-learn-without-borders","tag-maastricht-university","tag-masstricht","tag-neuroscience","tag-new-people","tag-orientation","tag-other-side-of-the-world","tag-pbl","tag-psychology","tag-semester-exchange","tag-suitcase"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/student-exchange-experiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}