After having the opportunity to experience working abroad for two months, upon returning back to school in November, I had to make up for the lost lectures during that time. With this I also came back to find a number of assignments which I had yet to start working on and submit.
As always I find myself comparing MCAST's system to that of the University and with that said, I strongly believe that when a student is accepted for erasmus the subject being missed during that period should be compensated for. I managed to finish every assignment on time expect for one in particular which involved group work. Since everyone had already been set up in groups, I had to do work which should have been divided by three by myself and to be honest I did not mind this since an extension was granted. Part of the assignment included listening to presentations by other groups and compare and contrast these presentations. Of course I had missed the presentations since I was still on the program. I then had to set up a meeting with the lecturer for her to explain what was expected in the task and what subject I were to conduct the research on. Unfortunately this meeting never happened until only few weeks ago, months after I returned from the Erasmus program since we could not find a sloth were both of us were available to meet. As we are approaching the last weeks of the second semester, assignments from the first semester were the last thing on my mind, however I had to complete them. I was also offered to meet the lecturer to check my work before submitting but I did not want to keep hanging on to it any longer so as soon as I finished I uploaded it to get it over and done with. I still believe that MCAST should arrange the erasmus-assignment issue as I ended up having double the work when coming back. Erasmus is not a holiday as many may think but a two month internship with a company , working full-time hours everyday. Coming back and having to catch up with two months of work is the last thing on your mind. There should be some sort of compensation or maybe some work should be reduced (such as group work) depending on the given task.
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