My Typical Day as a University of Chester Business Student
Business student, Halle, talks to us about her typical day at Chester Business School and preparing for her future.
Hi. My name is Halle and I am a second-year student studying International Business Management with a year abroad. As a student at Chester Business School, my day usually starts at 7.30am when I get ready for the day and pack my bag, hoping that I remembered to charge my laptop.
I then start my walk to the business school, which is located on the Queens Park campus. It is a 26-minute walk from where I live, which I find helps me to start my day and wake me up so that I am ready for lectures when I arrive.
The first thing I do when I arrive at the business school is get a hot drink from either the Starbucks or the hot drink machine, especially on the colder days.
After this, I attend my lectures where I’ll take notes, learn about my assignment or have class/group discussions about different areas that affect business.
During the break between lectures, I will sit and talk to friends or get a snack from one of the vending machines that are on the campus.
If I have an afternoon class, I will go and get food at the eating area at Churchill House.
Once all my classes are done for the day, I walk back through town and go home. I then get ready to go to the gym with my friends, where we spend most of our time talking to other people and the workers instead of doing exercise.
After the gym, me and some of my housemates make food together and rate our plates. We then sit together and watch TV for the rest of the night until we decide to go to sleep – after we have done our dishes and cleaned the kitchen.
Preparing for My Future
There are many ways that being a student at Chester Business School is helping me prepare for my future. On one of my course modules during my first year here, I developed the skills to write a graduate level CV. This will be helpful when I leave University. I will have to make sure that I update it but my CV writing skills could potentially give me an advantage over other people applying for the same job as me when I graduate.
Meetings with my personal academic tutor (PAT) allow me to ask questions about the course and anything else related to business, for example, I attended a PAT meeting because I had some questions about a work event that I was attending. Talking about the event with my PAT was useful and really helped me to feel confident about it.
As Chester Business School invites different businesses to come in and talk about the roles they are trying to fill, I get to learn about areas of business I do and don't want to go into, as well as make use of the networking opportunities.
During my second year, I have to do a work placement and this is something the business school will help me to secure. This is important for my future as it will enable me to get experience in an area of business that I'm interested in.