![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image1September1-240x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Before I even knew I was going to study my degree in Turku, I only heard tales of Finland as a land of happy people with the best education system and great healthcare. Everything related to this country seemed perfect and peaceful. Probably what made me choose Finland as the place I’d build a new life for the next two years, was the amount of information on internet, praising every single aspect the country; however, studying a master\u2019s degree in a nearly perfect place with the best education in the world, made me both, happy and anxious. Am I gonna be able to actually finish a degree, when my background is not as good as the one of the place I\u2019m going to?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why this time, and after a challenging, yet rewarding year, I\u2019m gonna tell 3 things that impressed me the most about studying in Finland.<\/p>\n
1. Free Will.<\/p>\n
At the beginning, I wasn\u2019t completely sure of the way I should make the assignments. I was very used to the professor telling what he\/she wanted and giving precise instructions on how to do it, so when my professors in Finland started vaguely asking for things, without any instructions, I was like: but how?
\nI can surely say I had that question stuck in my mind for good part of the first year (two semesters). When I dared to ask, the answer was always the same: It\u2019s up to you. This, of course, changed my goal from \u201cgetting the best grades of my life\u201d to \u201cplease God, I need to pass this course\u201d.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image2September1-300x200.jpg\")
2. Not all the Lectures are mandatory.<\/p>\n
When I was a child, my mom never let me skip school. I went to school every single day of my life, since I turned 3 years old till the time I was 17, Monday to Friday, 8 to 14. When I came to Finland and the professors said \u201cthe lectures are not mandatory\u201d I couldn\u2019t believe it. I learned that some lectures are mandatory in some courses, but in most of them, you don\u2019t have to attend if you don\u2019t want to or if you can\u2019t. Once again, loads and loads of freedom\u2026.. Of course I haven\u2019t missed a single class, but is nice to know that if for some reason you can\u2019t attend a lecture, the world it\u2019s not gonna end. Who would\u2019ve known? The little girl living inside me is still shocked.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image3September1-300x200.jpg\")
3. Flexible deadlines.<\/p>\n
The magic of the Finnish education resides in the fact that students are treated as humans. Professors actually understand that students can get sick, or depressed or a lot of work or they might not been going through a good time in their lives, so they allow you to submit assignments after the due date. This doesn\u2019t happen in every class, but in most of them. It is very useful for international students, because we might not know how difficult the classes are gonna be, so we make a pretty hectic schedule that will make our life very difficult, so the option, instead of dropping the class, is to request a deadline extension. Plus, exams can be taken three times!!<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/tys.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Image4September1-300x200.jpg\")
There are many other aspects I could mention, like the relaxed environment, the multiple libraries we have access to, the amount of researchers working at the universities, and so on. But the past three points are, in my perspective, what makes Finnish education so unique.<\/p>\n
Finland has a very well earned reputation because of the education level, and some days, I still can\u2019t believe how lucky I am to have the opportunity of being here, and for that I\u2019m so grateful.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before I even knew I was going to study my degree in Turku, I only…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"\n