… by Azfarul / from London, UK / MSc Statistics with Data Science / PG (2020-21)
“Are you sure you want to do this?”
In addition to “Sorry, I was on mute!”, this is what I heard most throughout 2020. After a decade of working, leaving behind a fascinating job during global uncertainty to pursue a Masters might have seemed like foolishness. Fast forward more than a year and – after what felt like drowning in hundreds of hours of coursework, endlessly playing and re-playing recorded lectures, dealing with the eerie silence of virtually-conducted examinations, and three intense months of industrially-liaised project work – I still find it difficult to believe how this time flew as it did.
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… by Anvita / from Allahabad, India / MSc Computational Applied Mathematics / PG (2018-19)