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A student's perspective.
Alexander
Krum
Alexander Krum completed the University
English Entry Course at UNSW Institute
of Languages in 2015 and went on to
complete a Masters of Information
Technology at UNSW Sydney.
My name is Alexander Krum and I came to
Sydney from Germany. I wanted to fulfil my dream
of getting a Masters of IT at one of the best
universities worldwide. The Institute of Languages
has played a major role in this life-changing goal.
The more you study at UNSW, the more you
realise how smartly the programs at the Institute of
Languages are designed. I’ve used the skills that
I learned at the Institute of Languages many times.
The teachers at the Institute gave me this know-
how, and I would like to thank them very much for this.
The reason why I’m here is that I believed in
myself many years ago. I was a young technician
at a company which built equipment for the
printing industry. Once, I said to my supervisor
that I thought that the job could be done better
or more efficiently and he replied that he paid me
for working, not for thinking. So I quit that job and
decided to study because I wanted to be paid
for thinking.
A few years later I graduated from my Bachelor
degree as the best student at the faculty and got
offered a scholarship. So I decided to take the next
challenge, I wanted to prove to myself how far I can
go. I decided to study at UNSW, it’s a new country,
a new language, and everything is new and far
away from Europe. But my IELTS score was too low
so I couldn’t enrol at UNSW. I thought the dream
was over. Thankfully there was the Institute of
Languages for international students. I graduated
last semester with a Masters of IT and had the
most exciting graduation ceremony of my life.
The teachers of the Institute of Languages were
a part of this journey. Thank you to the teachers
for the great job you did and continue to do.
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“Thankfully there was the
Institute of Languages for
international students.
I graduated last semester
with a Masters of IT and had
the most exciting graduation
ceremony of my life.”