Dear Crossways students and alumni,
I'm so sorry but there was a confusion regarding the deadline for registration. I meant, Monday 13 October. Since there was this confusion, I thought it was a good idea to extend the deadline until Wednesday 15 October to give you a couple more days to think. (ALUMNI are more than welcome!) Unfortunately it has to be that soon otherwise there might not be available places at the hostel.***So, just to make it clear, on Thursday 17 October we will be making reservations at the only hostel in St Andrews for the ones registered, which means that if you don't register there might not be a place for you.***
RESEARCH SPEECH - Regarding the short speech about the topics we are studying, it is an informal talk where you explain what you have been doing. If you are a first-year student, you can talk about a subject that interests you or the main field of your BA. The length of your talk is completely up to you, anything from 10 minutes is fine. The aim is to let everyone know what you're doing, your interests etc -- this may interest others and perhaps even help you create a study network.
Some pointed out they might not feel comfortable talking in front of professors. I guess it's a valid point, so we can make it only for ourselves, since the idea is to make our colleagues acquainted with our work. The original idea of having professors was due to the fact that they might be able to help giving (new) directions to our projects.
SEMINARS - The topic of the seminars are not yet defined because... They depend on you! :) As soon as I have all registration forms completed I will let you know the seminar topics and who are presenting them. Just to clarify that anything related to the Crossways/Mundus experience is welcome, not only academic subjects. So, if you're keen on talking about a specific city, that's cool. One can have a 10-minute talk about visas for Portugal (my current nightmare), for example. In summary, anything that you'd like to share with your colleagues or think they would be interested in.
CROSSWAYS ISSUES - Delphine gave a very good suggestion, that we could organise meetings about the Crossways issues among the students who are in each city prior to the general meeting. It's really a great idea, but unfortunately it's (humanly) impossible for me to organise them all. So I'd like to know if anyone self-nominates to be each city's representative to i) organise the meetings and ii) bring the topics discussed (issues raised and possible solutions) to the general meeting. It would be really good because, as Delphine said, it would enable those who are not coming to have a saying too. So I'll be looking forward to hearing from each university's representative!
Sorry for the long email. Thanks if you got this far.
Please please please get involved -- let's make this a very cool, fun, instructive experience for us all!
Yours,
Roberta
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