Our Unconventional University Experience 🎓 | Minerva Real Talk Q&A
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- So... what was Minerva really like? Answering all your juicy questions -- everything from how expensive the degree was, whether or not we regret going to an untraditional institution, love life and how we managed relationships while travelling the world every semester, and of course how the academics were!! I hope this helps if you're looking to join Minerva 🦋 it was honestly the best risk I ever took. I am SO grateful for all the experiences, learning and growth of the last four years.
Timestamps:
00:00 intro to minerva university 🎓
1:06 meet my friends!! what do they study? 📖
6:22 Academics! What is online university like?
10:52 Was the workload too much?
17:49 Does Minerva do arts/creative subjects?
20:35 Finances: Are we all rich? How much does Minerva cost?
27:28 Social Life: How is it having roommates? Being an introvert?
33:23 How is it being Black at Minerva?
37:46 LOVE LIFE: Travel romance? Dating in the community?
43:10 Was it worth it?
49:31 If you want Tunu's support!! 💌
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FAQ:
How old are you? ~ 23
Where are you from? ~ The UK! Near London.
Where do you go to university? ~ Minerva Schools at KGI
One of the best decisions you ever made? ~ Taking a gap year!
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It seems mad to me that Minerva makes out that travelling to different countries is all about cultural immersion, but doesn't even offer language classes.
They do have partnerships with different language schools + there's a great language club! I learned Korean with the Korean students as teachers. It's just optional :)
I think it was important to note that Minerva does not cater well towards people in the hard sciences. There are no labs so you would have to do additional coursework in order to apply for professional school like medicine, pharmacy, etc etc. This seems like it would require more than a couple of classes. Curious to know how students make this work when they could go to a traditional university where all the required courses are covered within 3-4 years.
I'd like to add that there are plenty of small liberal arts schools out there that offer smaller sections of labs for science majors, give you wonderful hands-on undergraduate research opportunities, and can help you prepare for medical school while also giving you the liberal arts "critical thinking" skills that Minerva could give you. Many people also can study abroad for a semester or over the summer specifically for science students. There are a lot of options out there! Don't feel afraid to do your research or ask your study abroad office, even if it is more of a traditional university.
I know minerva wants to be (or is) special in a way, but everything you said in the teaching section is just as true for "traditional" unis. We also have small seminars where we have to be on our toes and engage, but on top of that we also get lectures and laboratory work. I studied in 3 countries over 4 years plus I get the freedom to design my course and schedule. A 3 year bachelors would be no more than 2.000€ IN TOTAL and that's not tuiton fee, everything you pay is just for the compulsorily public transport ticket you can travel the whole county with. At a research-driven uni with long history, 40+ nobel price winners, 200+ study courses and a well-known international prestige. I really don't mean to brag, but I got the impression that what minervans call traditional unis are looked down upon even if they offer at least the same, if not more... I would love to know what you think in comparison if any of you would go on to study in Germany afterwards (or in another country that offers affordable or no tuition and quality at the same time)
Yes, I am a lecturer in a university in Japan. As much as there are lectures where there is perhaps more "passive learning", there are many seminars, tutorials and classes where active learning is required and critical thinking is crucial for any university course. I would be interested in a discussion between educators in Minerva and other universities. I've actually heard that many Minerva lecturers are visiting lecturers from traditional universities, but I haven't looked into that to ascertain if it's true.
Yes, I agree! In Poland we have three types of classes at uni - lectures, conversatoriums and of course labs for science courses. So during some classes you can relax and just listen, during others you have to participate. We also read articles and prepare BEFORE classes. When I did my MAs degree, I had like 1 exam during the whole 2 year course. The rest was group projects, papers and working with external companies. Oh, did I mention that I got to study for free?😄Absolutely zero tuition (long live the Polish education system!). I also got a scolarship during my final year. It was 600 zł (around 150 US dollars), which was enough to pay for my accomodation as well. I finished my degree with savings, not in debt 💁♀
I'm also a student at a huge German university studying economics (VWL, not BWL) and now in my Masters I have small seminars, but in my Bachelors when we had lots of mandatory courses like Intro to Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Statistics I-III and Mathematics we had 800+ people in the courses. Definitely felt like you were just a number among thousands of students in my Bachelor program. Had a lot of courses were I didn't go to a single lecture because the slides were uploaded and nobody notices it, obviously. So it definitely sounds very different than my undergrad experience.
Also, while I am all for "free education" because costs should not be something that keeps people from pursuing higher education, studying for free is obviously reflected in taxes afterwards.
@sunnyk12398 yeah but you chose the huge German University. There is smaller ones and we also have the Fachhochschulen where there are much smaller class sizes and more group sizes. It all depends on what you want and why you decide
I just want to express my gratitude to Germany for the possibility to study for free and really get a high class uni experience
What you described about the minerva software of online classes sounds exactly like my online classes in my uni during the pandemic in EVERy lecture we got activities to participate in and had to come back from break out rooms and were questioned and had to speak about the topics. How do you all know what online learning in traditional unis are like if you have only studied university degree at minerva?? in my uni during the pandemic we got lots of pre learning and readings for online classes and they were also very engaging, we were called on randomly to answer questions. I don't think you can compare minerva learning model to traditional unis and say minerva is better if you have not studied at traditional unis
exactly this, i’m baffled at how jade can criticise “traditional” universities when she has no actual experience of them. every single university in the UK would prescribe pre-readings, hold seminars or tutorials, and expect students to critically engage to a high level, likely even more so than minerva does. it’s disheartening and a bit patronising to hear that minervians think they’re so special just because they have an online platform which basically just sounds like the equivalent of canvas, blackboard, or (god forbid) microsoft teams.
@@tarae6587yeah I think that’s weird too. I study at the university of Vienna. I study two hard sciences and philosophy and in all three BA programmes I have seminars, tutorials, excursions and other forms of small group classes. Also something you have to consider is how big the Program is that you want to do. In my case I do the biggest one (biology) and the smallest one (earth science) and both give the students the opportunity to study in small groups. The only difference is that the obligatory courses are obviously much bigger but again if I would do it in a different university I would have a smaller group in those as well. Bc that’s exactly what’s happening in my Earth Science Program
@@localabsurdist6661 omg hi !! i have basically found 0 students that plan on taking earth sciences in general 😭 i know every uni obviously doesn't have the same course but they must have the fundamentals (or at least i hope-). how has your experience with earth sciences been at vienna??
gonna be honest minerva kind of sounds like my worst nightmare but im really glad you guys all had such a great experience! it's really cool that there are such a wide range of universities out there that can really fit so many different peoples' needs!
This makes me really grateful for my UK Uni experience. Paid loads less than this and still only paying a fraction of my fees back on a monthly basis, had my own bedroom, real lectures, tutors and seminars, actual libraries and resources.
Traveled loads through uni as well - had a £500 bursary to work in a Asian school that was partnered with my Uni. Also went to the Alps
What is Minerva offering that UK unis aren't?
the opportunity to live in seven different countries. it’s not saying you can’t live abroad if you’re in the uk but let’s be fair, you’re not going to live in seven different countries if you’re at a uk uni or even live abroad at all
I don't mean to hate minerva or anything, I think it's good for people who are interested in social sciences and stuff. Im at a traditional university in the Czech Republic, where we have university FOR FREE. I feel like Minerva is expensive but teaches you basically nothing except critical thinking, which you can learn in a traditional uni as well, especially if you are in a science field. It feels like it's full of fancy words, but not full of the real knowledge.
It would be interesting to me to know, how much and what did you learn in the neuroscience that you had :)
Nothing is free.
@@Yesica1993 Our Uni is completely free :)
@@aleksandra9534I think he is implying taxes pay for the free university. I’m a way ‘free’ university isn’t necessarily cheaper than non free university, since taking out a loan and paying it slowly after your degree practically works out as a graduates tax
I really love the Minerva concept but it's wild to me at what cost it comes. In Germany we have a handful of online unis that are private unis, so you have to pay for them yourself or with a loan. A bachelor of arts at one of these unis is around 12-15k for the entire 3-4 years it takes, not per semester or year. For me it makes more sense if I had the financial means for Minerva to just go to a German online uni and use the other money to simply travel to the other places and study there in different university cities/districts. I totally see how it makes sense for people from certain regions to jump on the opportunity of Minerva because of the job security they will most likely have right after, there is bigger payoff from that point of view. Also like the girl from the US says, for an American this uni can be cheaper than anything close to Ivy League and has more experience attached to it than a community college.
yes I agree... Minerva appealed to me but then I remembered I can just do uni and then travel on my own for way cheaper lol
I think there's a lot more similarities with "traditional" unis as you all think. I went to a UK university and I had weekly seminars where I had to read material beforehand and talk about it during the seminar. I also had weekly graded classes in practical journalism that involved me going out in the city and producing a news package on a current story (could be interviewing someone and writing it up or producing a whole TV news package). We also had to spend our free time doing work experience in our field on top of all the university work. It sometimes comes across like you look down on other unis, when so many of them aren't too dissimilar from your one.
Can you please tell me the name of your university?
This sounds amazing!! 🤩 I'm so glad you had such an incredible experience. I'm not against traditional uni at all and everyone's experiences will be very different, especially based on their degree subject :)
Same in Sweden!
Very happy to get such an honest insight from different voices! I personally don't agree with Minerva but I'm happy those who are considering it get more perspective with this video and can make a more informed decision that works for them 😊
🇨🇦 I really enjoyed your videos from your uni experience! As a full-time worker and full-time online student, I appreciate seeing how you’ve grown as a person through your experiences. I am currently reading your book a second time as it helps me to focus on my study techniques and as a good way to chill at the end of the day. I constantly go go go and forget that I too need a break. Congratulations on graduating 🎉 🎓 and I hope your future is just as bright as you are ✨
🇪🇹Ah Jade! She just never disappoints! I don’t really like to comment much but the smile on my face when I see you on my feed is my casual magic of the day ✨so thank you
I'm really sad to hear that Tunu suffered racism in Argentina. I hope you have a better experience if you ever come back. We are country built by immigrants and open to everyone. We have a huge amount of people from Senegal, and from almost every other country in LATAM.
🇯🇵🇺🇸🇭🇰I appreciated how mindful, caring and well spoken everyone was here. As a person who dropped out of college and now has hopped around different situations for a while, I understand how important and challenging finding such community is meaningful. Thanks for such an inspiring video!
🇺🇸 Thanks for sharing this video! I appreciated hearing from each person about their experience/journey. Being African American it was healing to hear other people of color share how specifically the U.S. focus on race is different then their countries, and that race isn’t the primary category of minority, and that being hear they saw themselves differently because of the different social construct.
As a viewer, Jade you have done a wonderful job over the last four years documenting your experience and showcasing various academic and social activities.
Questions for future Q&A (I don’t have other forms of social media): 1. does Minerva has a community service requirement/opportunities?
2. Hoe does Minerva address mental health and wellness (especially which people from cultures that don’t know about or recognize mental health/illness)?
3. Who or what is your university named after and why)?
4. I wand to know what each person planned to do after graduation?
In the meantime, I am going to go see if I can find the answers to the above questions.
I'm surprised mental health support was not touched upon in this video since Jade mentioned it in the beginning. If I remember correctly, she stated in another video that the mental health support is not great.
I suspect that these five students would have been sufficiently motivated to have flourished in any university environment. My understanding is that Minerva being a virtual university draws academics from other traditional universities to give lectures and undertake assessments. Remote learning can be effective but, on balance, I think it should be punctuated with some face-to-face classes where students can interact more closely with academic staff if they wish. I am not opposed to the Minerva model as such; it may suit some students. What would get me down (and Jade has mentioned this previously) is the effort involved in constant travelling from city to city after each semester. It suited me to stay in one place and enjoy short travel experiences between semesters.
That first statement, I think, is so true and important to hear for people who think that Minerva is what they were missing in their lives. It's not Minerva, it's these people who are great.
🇬🇧 Such a wonderful experience for you all. You'll never forget it. Good luck to you all on your chosen paths x
Hi Jade! Thank you so much for sharing these experiences and information. 😊
🇳🇱🇪🇸🏴 my complicated country flags collection! I really resonate with what you all said about identity and the people around you shaping the way you view yourself. Having lived in different countries and always being surrounded by international communities is so special and eye opening. I hope I can find a new inspiring community when I move to London in September🇬🇧
🇨🇭 I'll finish my Master's degree at ETH (electrical eng.) in about a year. I'll be kind of glad that it's over tbh, because it was pretty stressful all the time.
While you had an emphasis on analytical thinking and problem solving at Minerva, we have a technical education, but the companies still want us for our analytical skills and endurance mostly, that we get as a "side effect" of studying difficult subjects. It's nice that you can do internships during summer, we sadly only have 1-4 weeks of a break after our exams until the new semester starts.
For me it would be too stressful to change countries every 4-6 months and to have to acclimate to a new environment every time.
🇰🇪 thank you for this video Jade! I loooovvved hearing from two east africans and from people from all over the world. you have all given more to think about when choosing a school
awhh you're SO welcome!! 💌
omg the more i watch the more i think i would hate it 😭 even though i love travel
nothing but love though you are a massive inspiration Jade!
🇦🇺 Loved this video and the insight it gave into the university, very interesting. Congrats on graduating!!! This has given me so much motivation heading into my second semester of Uni. Love u jade ❤️ 🐨
🇬🇧Finished university now but still interested in how Minerva works!!! Really appreciate the transparency and pros and cons in this video
Minervians feel they are financially disadvantaged however, to the world they are extremely pampered. They do not need to show up at a garage and work on cars day after day.
🇫🇷 watching you from France ❤ So impressed by your personnal growth throughout the years ! I loved watching you all the Way trough your learning and graduating life ! Thank you so much Jade (and all your Minerva friends !)
Gahhh merci beaucoup friend!!
Hi jade ! I'm back 🎉🎉. I'm here to tell you about the results of the examination that i took 2 weeks ago. I got 9,2/10 in English, 7,6/10 in Maths and about 8/10 in Literature. I'm a bit disappointed but yeah anyway, i tried really hard so I didn't feel regretted. Thanks for besiding me and being my motivation throughout a school year. And now it's time for summer vacation 🎉🎉🎉. Big love from Vietnam ❤❤❤
Don't be disappointed, these are good grades and you passed congrats ! :D
🇮🇹 loved this video (like all the others). hearing different perspectives on this uni has been very interesting 💛
Omg yay I’m early!! Can’t wait to watch! Hope you’re doing well Jade! I’ve followed you for so long and watching you grow up has been beautiful.
this was such an amzing video!!! I really liked hearing all your experiences!🇧🇪
loved to hear all of the perspectives 🫶🏼
🇨🇴 loved hearing all of you, best wishes in the rest of your paths and congratulations on graduating 🎉🎉🎉.
Nice to see a Kenyan here.
I'm Kenyan and I have always loved your videos , Jade
Fascinating! I enjoyed the honest, thoughtful and intelligent responses and discussion.
🇬🇧 this was so informative and interesting to hear different people's opinions based on background, country, nationality etc. Just really informative for someone who went to a standard UK uni and had a fairly average UK uni experience just to learn more about other uni's and a snippet of what you experienced Jade. Thank you x
awhh thank you so much!! i'm glad you found it interesting. I hope you still got a lot out of your uni experience 🦋
🇨🇭Thank you so much for this video! Since I'll soon be starting my final year of high school, I'm thinking a lot about what I want to do after and where to go to university. Minerva seems like a really great school and your video answered some of my questions about it. I'm honestly a bit worried that the stress might be a bit too much for me, but other than that it sounds amazing. I'd love to study abroad and experience living in different cities. I also love international communities. I did an exchange year in France, which I absolutely loved. One of the best parts about it were the other exchange students. The bond we had was just amazing, I’ve never made friends so easily. It’s incredible how everyone gets so close so fast and sticks together just because we were all in the same situation and we were the only ones who could truly relate to each other’s problems. From what I’ve heard in this video, this is kind of what the experience with the other students at Minerva must feel like. I love meeting people from other countries and I think learning about other people’s perspectives is so valuable. That’s one of the main reasons why I’d love to go to Minerva. Anyways, I still have some time and I’ll see how things will turn out. Congrats to all of you, and really thank you Jade for all your videos, it’s really cool to have this insight to all of your experiences in the past four years.
I just realised that I used the word "love" way to many times here haha, but I guess I was just so passionate about it.
Good lock with finals and your decision! But don't stress over minerva too much, you could also get the aforementioned qualities at other universities - so you'll be fine :)
🇦🇹 such a cool video with amazing people! you did such a great job showcasing all the different struggles & insights:)
This video was incredible interesting. I startet watching your videos in 2019 and you probably changed my life for the better.
After my Gapyear (I also did Interrailing & went to Australia) I will start studying abroad next month and am incredible excited.
I am going to reread your book & rewatch some videos, since they always make me feel inspired to grow as a person.
🇷🇼🇧🇮~Jade!!! I loved the video, and while I’m also graduating from my undergrad, I just lobed seeing how you’ve made a loving community that’s international and incredibly open-minded!! You’re going places sis❤️!!
🇹🇿 truly loved this video, it's so good to hear the different perspectivess
FIRST! love your positivity Jade
Very interesting to hear such different perspectives and voices on Minerva. The biggest appeal for Minerva from a outsider seems to be the personal development/cultural immersion you get when living in many different countries and the social sciences. However, I think there are more similarities between traditional universities (atleast in the Netherlands) than you think. Class structure for social sciences/humanities seems to be the same, just not taking place online. Critical thinking skills is incredibly important to learn at a university, but you can get that at a traditional university with a less extreme workload.
What I am curious about is the mental health support/general support from the university. I discovered I have ADHD during my masters and thus needed extra support to get back on my feet and be able to complete my degree, covid also made in harder and professors and study coordinators at my uni really tried to be flexible and offer support where able.
not relevant to the video but i thought i’d pop up and say that i’m in the same boat re ADHD. I got diagnosed during the first year of my MA and my reasonable support adjustments are still currently being set up. It’s quite tricky and i would have thought that there’d be more ADHD-friendly protocols put in place (rather than making students with ADHD fill out loads and loads of paperwork, which imo isn’t the best idea). I’m glad that your uni was supportive!!
🇬🇷 I really liked that you brought your friends to really give us a circular perspective of Minerva experience😊
Jade just making QUALITY content here! Congrats girl 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
omg stop you're tooooo lovely thank you!!
super useful info jade, thankkksss!!
Just wanna put this here in responds to the part about the arts/humanties focus.
For anyone under this video or in the future who is interested in the creative field but doesnt nessarily want to make creating the art themselves their job, and also isnt interested in only 1 art (for example music, lit) i'd definitely recommend checking out IBACS at Erasmus University in the Netherlands. We get academic knowledge on how to be the person pulling the strings in the creative sector basically. Our papers we have to read go from general to music to visual art to film etc. We have so many courses haha philsophical ones about what art really is, art history, cultural policy, economics of art, marketing. So much. So if you love the creative field as a whole definitely check it out cus personally i never even knew a course that broad existed too.
Oh my goodness I’m the first viewer aha 😂 such a beautiful, uplifting bunch of people! thank you so much Jade for always spreading your light and joy with us, keep being you! 🤍
That’s just a TH-cam bug
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🇵🇹 Loved this video, I love hearing about other people’s experiences in university because then I don’t feel so alone in my own unique experience 🥰
Can you please share about your experience? Would be glad to listen to your story.. ❤
🇦🇺 amazing video as always jade ❤
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This video is so useful! I'm starting to think about what unis I want to apply to and this definitely gave me a better insight of Minerva, so thank you!
loved this video jade! 🏴🤍
🇨🇴 this video is just amazing and thx for sharing your experiences in your really crazy uni
omgg hiiiiiiii i love ur vids i've watched u for years
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Its quite interesting hearing about academics and other peoples experiences in acedamics from around the world. Congratulation, Jade, for finishing your acedamics. I'm actually starting my secondary school this year, and i've been watching Jade's videos since high-school. I've learned many things, about different stuffs wheter is about school or life, thanks to Jade ❤!!
OMG, is it high school or secondary school??? im so confusing rn! I just remember what my Norwagian teacher called it, ''the secondary school'', BUT when i go to google/google translater to check it out fron norwagian to english lang., it becomes high school, BUT i already finished high school!
Is it high school, u guys call it in english?
Secondary school is what it’s called in British English, high school is what it’s called in America!
Jade you are such a beautiful human - and so are your friends
🇮🇷💚 it was amazing so proud of you all.
Loved it! 🇩🇪
Oh wow, I have been watching ur videos for a long time since 13 and now I am at the end of year 12. it's been amazing to hear and we ur journey.
Thanks so much for sharing
Love and appreciate you so much
Love your content so much
thank you for this real inside
as an Indian i rly wish to see more of Aniket perspective and experiences throughout the Minerva years
Why did you not let the Indian guy speak for the finance section ! I really wanted to know how expensive it was going to be for an Indian student
He said he's from a middle class family. He might not feel that his experience is much different
Jade, can you please bring or arrange a video with a student who did bba in minerva. And tell us about their opinion such as how was classes for them, the assignment, the internship option and what kind of activities were there that they could do in whichever city they visited. And how did roaming around almost 7 countries helped them with their education.. please can you answer!!
Aah Aniket reminded me of my IIT-JEE prep, the worst 2 years goddd. Sheesh, how is my masters year much more relaxed than my highschool, with crazy after school coaching classes and all.
great video . All of you are inspiring people
How does the internship scheme work? Do you have to apply for internships or do they offer them to you automatically?
🇩🇪 loved this video!!
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let's go Arg!! I knew BsAs would be someone's fav city🥳🥳
🇨🇿 💛✨Hey! Thank you for this video, it's really valuable to learn more information about Minerva from the students that experienced it. I enjoyed listening to all your different perspectives, you all seem like such incredible and thoughtful people! But yeah, overall having considered everything, I don't think it would suit me personally, but I'll be happy to be inspired by your open-mindedness, love for learning, community and kindness
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@@incrediblefelis aww děkuju!!:)) 🥹🥹
🇪🇷 eritrea this video was amazing soo happy for you
🇩🇪(: Minerva really caught my interest since I started watching your videos back in 2020 (arrival in Seoul). I believe that the experience of personal / educational / international … growth is something everybody could benefit from for life. Thank you for sharing your insights, I appreciate it!
But as a German with access to free high quality universities you can have the international experience for so much less money. Just add one or two Erasmus semesters or look for volunteer programs. They are only cheap compared to the extreme US price tags.
Jep, alles andere ergibt wirklich nur Sinn wenn man reich af ist, aber dann kann man auch direkt das gleiche an einer echten Elite-Uni machen
It would be interesting to know more about the loans that are available and when these need to be paid back. With student finance england, you pay back a certain amount a month once you start earning above a certain threshold (and if you never get a job that pays above the threshold you dont pay it back), however im not sure how it works in Minerva / US universities?
I’ve just finished university (Uni of Leeds in the UK) and this was so interesting to watch. With Covid, among other things, my university experience was unexpected. In all honesty, the work experience i undertook (and was able to undertake because I was at university e.g. online jobs in my faculty and year in industry) was so much more valuable; the academic side was a bit useless to be honest, which is a shame.
I’m lucky to have made amazing friends during my year in industry, away from university, who are so intelligent and inspiring, and who I can have such amazing conversations with. I truly understand what you mean when you guys talk about how valuable interesting conversations are. I’ve also changed so much over the past 4 years. I think the life experience, travel experience, community, and active learning, that Minerva offers, would truly make for an amazing university experience. I believe that ‘traditional’ universities really need to change their approach.
Amazing!! 🇧🇷
🇵🇹 just finished my first year in biomedical engenering 😊
🇵🇰 Yay! I got to the end of the video! Though I did download it 😬... Any video from "UnJaded Jade" is just irresistible 🤩! Love your content, Jade 🍀! Sending the best of luck and happiness to your friends and fellow graduates!
wow! thank you!
I would be grateful if you could share your thoughts on why Berlin is your favorite city🥺
Never been this early ever! Can't wait to hear from everyone!!
9 hours per week? I used to have at least 6 hours of math classes back to back every single morning
Obviously they are all students who are invested in their studies and would have done great in any number of programs.
What rubs me the wrong way as someone who works in academia is the attempt to sell this model as better, while all it does is offer not much different from most universities. Even the travel aspect of it, while great, is not something I would endorse. I chose to do my undergrad degree in Europe because American education is expensive and my (then) dream university didn't offer a full ride based on my situation. I did my degree in Berlin and was able to also spend a semester in Paris and one in Edinburgh. I spent two summers doing internships related to the fields I was interested in, one in Amsterdam and one in Barcelona. All of these choices were made by me and partially organized by me.
I later chose to do an MA in Munich before going back to New York for a PhD, which was funded. During my PhD, I was able to work with a lab that I did student assistant work with during my undergrad as well as spend a semester working at a lab in Japan that we regularly collaborated with. Again, these were choices made by me and my supervisors, which is more valuable for personal and professional development than being sent to different countries by a predefined program.
Additionally, the fact that there was a deliberate choice in where I was and who I talked to and worked with, this has created a coherence in my research life that I would not have. I ended up in academia despite not having planned to do so (hence my internships to test possibilities outside of academia) mainly because I got to work with the same professors and grad students for a longer period of time. This gives you a way of first learning and then deepening the knowledge, getting to know the people who do the work and supplement that with some student assistant work. That is something I don't see happening in a program like Minerva.
All of this is not to be negative about Minerva but to give input to people who are considering this. I was able to study for a small fraction of the cost (essentially just working student jobs to pay for rent and food) and create my own path/find out what I truly find interesting.
Thank you ❤
heyyy jade, i just wanted to know what are the educational qualifications needed to get into minerva, what do i need to have to get in?
they have an application which you can find more about on their website. educational qualification wise, i think high school is enough. minerva has no essays but has a test
🇨🇳love it! The community Minerva forms is exactly the kind of community I want to immerse myself in
👋🏻 from 🇩🇰 this video was so informative good job
i’m a minerva student and couldn’t help but notice your comment - if you’re at all interested in Minerva, I know two danish people personally who are attending, en af dem er min kæreste :)
I am from India and preparing for an engineering entrance exam(JEE) .... Your videos make my day much better ❤❤❤❤
Good luck!
Where is your t shirt from please?🌻
is it possible to study a science subject like conservation zoology/wildlife biology that requires lots of practical work??
Why would you even want to do that. Choose a traditional university that has a great zoology institute. Depending on where you live maybe abroad. It is way better to have an actual university bc you need to do field work and lab work and that’s much better at a traditional university
Coming from a student who’s doing a biology program where zoology is one of the specialization options
🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺 such a great video!!!
🇩🇪 starting uni in October, still deciding where to go tho
🇩🇪Berlin loves u back
🇪🇸🇦🇷🇧🇪 Very nice video and useful for anyone figuring out what they wanna do
🇮🇳Aniket representing the Indian highschool-entrances trauma makes me feel seen 👀
Also Gabriel looks like a snacccc
🇬🇧loved the vid
🇵🇱 Great video!
Interesting insights
🇦🇹 very nice video!
I wanted to hear from the compsci guy more about classes and internships
'Unconventional', 'different' isn't necessarily always good.
Minerva reps actually came to my school in Ghana to advertise sort of, during our college admissions period, don't think any girl from my batch went there though.... They were really nice
This is so cool!! 🤩
🏴 I'm going to be starting traditional uni in September as a mature student (21) and I was wondering if there are mature students at minerva and how they navigate the minerva experience? Is the uni even open to accepting mature students?
don't go here brev
yes, there are. I can't tell you about their experience but there are students from 17 to 23 starting as a freshmen.
Omg there's a term for that? 21 is so young! Here in Germany that's like the median, people even start at 25+... so to anyone feeling like the odd one out, come here and feel accepted :)
Hi, Gabriel here. I started Minerva at 21. Age didn’t impact my experience as much as I expected. There were a handful of people that also started at that age. But overall made incredible friends of different age brackets. Lots of thoughtful people that were quite younger than me.