It was the beginning of March 2020, and everything was going swimmingly. I was halfway through an intellectually stimulating and demanding master’s degree at the University of Warwick. The academic experience had turned out to be all I had hoped for. The modules explored fast-moving phenomena like business model innovation, big data, analytics and change management. The weeks were intense, and the daily simulators stretched my mind to the limit but I absolutely loved it.
As for the social side of student life at Warwick’s big and beautiful campus, there was never a dull moment. My days were packed with trips across the UK’s most iconic cities: Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and many more.
Seven-a-side football games with friends and classmates were a weekly fixture in my schedule and sometimes I would try something different and treat myself to a contemporary dance show or mini-orchestra performance at the Warwick Arts Centre on campus. These special events and experiences were all sandwiched in between long hours spent in the Postgraduate Cluster at the Warwick library