Student review [#96717] for Communication and Media
at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences

When deciding on where to study, I immediately knew that I would be moving abroad.

And now, having started my first year at NHL Stenden I can say, that I do not regret it! 🙂

Surrounded by other international students, I can assure you, that everyone is sitting in the same boat, new experience after new experience and before you know it, you’ll find yourself in a group of people, finding friends in absolute strangers.

From the intro camp up to the 12 Design Challenges in the beginning, you will learn to work together with the people in your community, how to start from perhaps 0 knowledge on how to use InDesign or Illustrator etc. and despite the struggles work through it.
How to create your very first design project with your partner and to realise by the end of period 1 how much you’ve learned.
And how suddenly you’ve come to build a routine, how you’ve grown accustomed to not only NHL but also Leeuwarden.

Sure it can be overwhelming and often enough you’ll feel as if you’re plunging into cold water, but I have found it to be all worth it.

CMD is for those who want to learn and will put in the effort to achieve so.