Yolanda Maldonado Aguayo BSc Audiology

Hi, I'm Yolanda Maldonado Aguayo and I studied BSc Audiology within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton.

What I have brought back to my country is a mind full of ideas, some of them related to audiology, others to music, others just about every day life wisdom, and a heart full of the warmth of British people. I wish that I am capable now of sharing all of these gifts and use them in my life and my profession.

My experience as an international student at the ISVR excelled in everyway my expectations. Basically this exchange started as an idea and quickly became true thanks to the international office and especially to the ISVR admission tutor and all the work behind his emails which made possible details from Visa to accommodation and economic issues.

At the beginning I felt homesick, but I knew it was normal and it was easier to pull through it with the advice and support of my tutors and great flatmates in halls. I never felt alone and I always found some words of wisdom from the people I met and saw everyday.

The BSc Audiology course is very specific in knowledge and also very practical, encouraging students to be curious and critical from the first year, taking into account that in clinic students will face real patients and their quality of life will depend on the decisions they make. It is important to notice all the work there is behind the learning process: excellent lecturers, appropriate material and infrastructure provide students the best environment to acquire knowledge in Audiology. It is also important to notice that a personalized tutoring system which at the same time is very independent is an ideal complement to all this advantages.

Last, but not less important I would like to highlight the thing that I appreciate the most as a foreigner student; the high human quality I founded in most of my classmates (of first, second and fourth year) and all of my teachers and tutors of the ISVR, who selflessly supported me in academic and non-academic matters through out my learning process abroad at the UK as an overall all-rounded experience and made me feel welcome and supported at all times.