{"id":2811,"date":"2021-03-11T14:16:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2022-03-15T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:44:26","slug":"meet-school-of-computing-student-lauren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/03\/11\/meet-school-of-computing-student-lauren\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet School of Computing student Lauren!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We caught up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/undergraduate\/128\/computer-science-with-a-year-in-industry\">BSc (Hons) Computer Science with a Year in Industry<\/a> student Lauren, to find out more about her course and her experience as a student at Kent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What made you decide to study your course at University of Kent?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I chose to study Computer Science at Kent as the Year in Industry program really stood out to me, few universities that I had looked at provided this opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has been your favourite module so far, and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favourite module so far has been the Introduction to Cyber Security module as it covers different ciphers and cryptanalysis methods, as well as a code-breaking assignment which I really enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you recommend new students join a society?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would recommend joining a society to new students. There are so many societies to choose from and they are a great way to meet new people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your favourite thing about living in Canterbury?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favourite thing about living in Canterbury is the city centre, it has many quaint places to eat, drink and shop, and is full of historic buildings which I think makes it a unique place to live<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you recommend to a new first year student studying your course?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join societies and try and meet as many people on your course as you can. Group chats are a good way to meet people before moving to university or to attend the freshers week events like your schools meet and greet sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught up with BSc (Hons) Computer Science with a Year in Industry student Lauren, to find out more about her course and her experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2021\/03\/11\/meet-school-of-computing-student-lauren\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[244608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}