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My Gateway Experience in Regents Business School London, England

Spring Semester 2007

By Sergio Moreno – Senior at Alliant International University, San Diego, USA

It’s funny. Last night I was having this very conversation with Byron.  I told him that this experience has changed everything about me and has given me a sense of freedom beyond my expectations. I was told by many that gateway study abroad would change everything about my personality and my perspectives of this world. I was will aware of that but nobody told me how much I would come to love it and no one knew I would call England my home. Many will ask me why the sudden change of heart and how could it have happened so quickly. My answer will be ‘it's London!’ There is no doubt that the largest city in Europe presents a number of opportunities and gives you a global perspective of life and what it can create.  From an urban point of view this is a Mecca of culture and people that can greatly alter the world in every sense possible.

Coming to RBS London and living here on campus in Regent's Park is a profound impact on how you live and breathe the diversity of this school and merge of the many cultures and people who come from a variety of backgrounds.  From the very first moment I made contacts with fellow students who had a great deal of history to share and I with then.  My home institution Alliant International University USA prides itself in the diversity of its campus and the up-to-date business programs that give a real and international global view that is unmatched in America.  It’s for that reason that I chose Alliant and it makes prefect sense that RBS London and Alliant have formed a partnership together to share this fabulous Gateway Program together. As both institutions follow the same principles… to shape and develop business leaders who are ready to provide an effective business environment; an environment that revolves around an international and diverse learning process that yields a proactive business world which renders benefits beyond financial objectives.

RBS London is a family and everyone (staff, administrators (even the academic director) and lecturers) knows your name.  The instructors and staffs take time to listen and actively help you in any way, shape or form. The environment that surrounds the school is warm and welcoming from the very start.  My first impression of class is that they are small and interactive.  The instructors are clear and to the point of who they are and how their business experience and developments are going to teach you the real application of business today in the UK, Europe and the world.  The course objectives are clear and concise and deliver an informative and truly interesting subject that gives you the drive to learn and develop productive and proactive work.   

The UK seems to have a few more holidays then America and RBS London awards a longer Spring Break!  This is at first interrupted as fun, fun, fun!  But it gives you the opportunity to travel, see and learn about Europe or spend your time to absorb historical knowledge of London.  An experience beyond words, I personally was able to travel to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice and Barcelona during the two week break.  Thus going to places that I had always read and dreamed about, in the two weeks that I was able to tour Europe I learned that the world truly functions differently.  A two hour plane ride takes you to a different city, region or country with different cultures and way of living.  It then becomes your mission to adjust to the language, people and environment, as your ability to adjust and redirect your objectives will award you a pleasant trip. 

I believe that the culture I was exposed to in RBS London before my trip was a good warm up of what to expect for the rest of Europe.  Which may seem simple at first and unnoticed but you quickly come to appreciate once you set foot in a country where you do not understand a word they speak.  Also the academic challenges that are set in class and the group works that instructors like to practice at first may seem to be a nuisance quickly becomes a way of growing with people and making contacts with people you would have normally not spoke to.  It’s these educational practices that RBS London conducts on a daily bases that creates a interactive network of students who find and develop successful friends, business and social relationships that yield benefits in the future.

I have made the most proactive and life alternating choice in my life coming to RBS London.  As it has given me an inspiration to growth, learn, meet and travel our planet.  This new chain of thought has given me the opportunity to develop new goals and objectives in my educational, personal, social and professional life.  Ending my BA (Hons) here at RBS London has truly made me feel like I have accomplished an academic career with true meaning and success. Thank you RBS London.