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Personal Reflection on My Experience at the University of Aberdeen (2024–2025) My time at the University of Aberdeen, in the Artificial Intelligence Department, began with great optimism. I was eager to immerse myself in advanced topics such as machine learning, data science, and intelligent systems, and to learn from experienced lecturers and researchers. The environment initially felt welcoming and intellectually stimulating. However, my experience changed after a difficult interaction with one of my lecturers, who also served as the course coordinator for Machine Learning. I approached him respectfully to discuss a grading issue I had identified in one of my assessments. After review, he acknowledged the marking mistake. Although I appreciated his honesty in admitting the error, this incident unexpectedly affected the atmosphere around me. Over time, I began to feel a noticeable shift in how some people treated me. Certain lecturers and fellow students appeared distant, and a few even avoided interacting with me. On several occasions, I was excluded from group projects because some classmates declined to have me join their teams. This created a deep sense of isolation and disappointment, and I often found myself suffering in silence throughout my academic journey. Despite these challenges, I made a determined effort to remain focused on my studies and uphold my commitment to learning. I continued to engage with coursework, contribute meaningfully wherever possible, and seek knowledge beyond the classroom. Through this experience, I learned to rely on my inner strength, discipline, and integrity. Looking back, this period taught me profound lessons about resilience, fairness, and self-belief. It showed me that adversity, while painful, can also be transformative. I now carry forward not just the technical skills I gained, but also a deeper sense of empathy and the courage to stand up for what is right, even when it is difficult.

The facilities are great like the cafes, the gym, the libraries! The creative campus is close to the city which is great. The fact the gym is so accessible is amazing too. It could be improved by the buses timetable changing a little bit. Maybe more frequently if possible? Or the times changing so we get to the other campus at a different time. For example to go to my 2pm lesson I have to get the bus at 12:45 to get there at 1:10 and have a long wait. Maybe the bus could leave on the hour?

Easily to access from my home via bus since it is not far from the bus stop. Facilities are good and student support is better than in many universities. Improvements can be made by introducing an assessment withdrawal period, for example I accidentally hit to submit my assessment early on blackboard before I answered any questions. A good way to introduce this would be introducing a period to withdraw of maybe 1 or 2 minutes before it is officially submitted. This would be a small enough window to prevent students cheating and would help prevent accidental submissions.

The support provide by lecturers is really beneficial and really in depth as well as being provided on a one to one basis. The small cohort mean class sizes are small so you gain more hands on practise and have more turns practising different skills. It also means that more support is able to be provided by tutors a that all tutors know who you are and what your skillls are. It’s a nice small city with the famous based a 10 minute walk from the city centre so everything is really close and accessible. The students also have access and availability to all equipment available in the labs to help them develop there skills and use to complete relavant assignments and projects.

Sometimes the stuff is not very helpful and looks like they don’t care. Especially at the beginning of the year when they hire students or new people to work, but they are not trained properly, so when you need help they have no idea what to answer. Sometimes they are just chatting between them ignoring you. Especially few times when I stayed long time in the queue for Nest and different departments for enrolment , students who had friends working for student union were skipping the queue