SAMUDRAKI

    Samudraki's Saturdays This is the first post of the 6-part interview series. I'll be interviewing 6 students about their university experiences as an international student in The Netherlands. I will share the stories anonymously to maintain the privacy of the students as well as not getting sued by their universities. In today's interview I am going to start with sharing my own story of taking a gap year after graduating from my bachelors degree program. Ruined plans thanks to a global pandemic and an unexpected enrolment into a masters degree program due to no jobs, this is quite the gap year story. Read to find out more! Q. What did you study at university? A. I just recently graduated in August 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering. It was a 3-year degree program but I took an extra year due to back log and did my bachelor research project (Thesis) online thanks to Covid-19! I was really looking forward to working on experiments to make a perfume