BA History and Politics of the Americas, 2018-2021
The responsibility and freedom given to me as a student has left me with much gratitude for the course. I feltÌýsupported enough to be able to turn around in my final year and propose aÌýrather unusual dissertation on the Voyager Golden Record*. I loved writing it and I amÌýgrateful beyond belief to my supervisors Nadia Hilliard and Gareth Davies. It is an immense credit to my peers on the course and the staff of the Institute that a worldwide plague striking halfway through my degree did not stop me feeling nurtured, inspired, and among friends. You only experience being an undergraduate once, andÌýI am so thankful that my experience was as a student at the Institute of the Americas.Ìý
* What the ever so modest Max fails to mention is that his dissertation was awarded the departmental prize to the best undergraduate dissertation in 2021. And also that he was a member of Team ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº in the first round of the 2021 edition of University Challenge!
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