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To be honest, if this was a job interview I would now describe a weakness mainly unrelated to my desired field of work and ambitious enough to be turned into a strength. In this very case however I believe it to be important to mention one of the most challenging things of my personal life: Time. Until third grade I was not able, or rather not willing to read the clock and never have seemed to entirely connect to this dimension (uncountable buses have been missed by a whisker since then). Surprisingly this is less of a problem when it comes down to academic work, maybe because in those cases, structures are often pre-given. Now for someone who rather has the distinction of being creative and self- motivated than self- structured, I did pretty …show more content…

Howbeit I earnestly hope to already have shown you, that I do completely concord with them. My way of finding to AUC, actually exemplifies this itself, I knew I would be eager to study outside Germany for two reasons. The first, more obvious one is, that I enjoy living internationally and speaking other languages. Secondly, my wish to study abroad is founded in the fact that I am concerned. Concerned that there might be literally too little space for my personal development in a lecture room filled with 200 students and almost no time for discussions. Due to the considerable reputation of the tutoring system at dutch Universities and no less for the feeling of „Gezelligheid“ that I remember from visiting Amsterdam, I chose to search for undergraduate programs in the Netherlands. In the beginning I sought rather for medicine and psychology but always had the feeling to be missing something if I chose one, so I decided to procure an overview of all english speaking studies. Finally this resulted in me glancing over AUC´s website and immediately being captured by the emphasis on diversity it

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