Be You @ BU Fall 2022 Magazine

Author: Ana Ines dos Santos Lagarto

Ana, Lisbon, Portugal

Program: Bachelor of Science – Psychology Neuroscience with Biology minor

Being an international student comes with a handful of challen- ges and another handful of opportunities. You get to learn more about Canadian culture, and you get to share your own culture with others. I think the most exciting thing about Bishop’s is that everyone is excited to learn about what makes us so di ffe rent from one another, yet those end up being the same reasons of what unites us. My biggest advice to my fellow future international Gaiters: come to Bishop’s with an open heart, let yourself fall in love with this place, learn to fail and ask for help to get back up, but most im- portantly appreciate every day you get to call this place home. Through It Together Get

If I could describe my journey at Bishop’s in two words, I would have to use growth and family . No one’s experience is the same; however, we all go through it together. It does not matter if it is a student or faculty member; we all look out for each other. When I describe Bishop’s to my friends and family back home, they always look confused, as most of it sounds straight from a movie scene. Whether it is because I am neighbours with my best friends, my professors have known me by my fi rst name since the fi rst week of school, or for the simple fact that I feel comfortable enough with the people in the community to ask for help if I need it. Something that seems so second nature to all of us here, I am now recognizing that it isn’t.

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