{"id":942,"date":"2020-10-08T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/blog-bachelor\/?p=942"},"modified":"2025-05-29T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T05:02:50","slug":"three-freshmen-in-paris-a-year-as-a-bachelor-in-management-bsc-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/escp.eu\/blog-bachelor\/three-freshmen-in-paris-a-year-as-a-bachelor-in-management-bsc-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Freshmen in Paris. A Year as a Bachelor in Management (BSc) Student"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Laurana Thery, Class of 2022<\/em><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an academic year comes to an end, and another one starts, it is time to look back and reflect<\/strong> on how much it has brought to us. Just before the summer break, three B1 students<\/strong> decided to share their thoughts on their first year at the ESCP Paris Campus. Follow us on this journey through the experience of the Bachelor in Management (BSc)<\/a> and discover what it looks like to study surrounded by international students<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Junmei Zhu. The year of first-time experiences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For Junmei Zhu<\/strong>, from Shanghai, the first year at ESCP can be summarised as the year of first-time experiences. Her biggest challenge has been to reach a foreign country and live alone for the first time. She had to quickly adapt to her new environment, both in her daily and student life. She also had the chance to learn the hard way that employees in many offices in Paris speak just a basic level of English. For this reason, communication with locals was the second most challenging stumbling block to overcome. However, the encountered difficulties produced a positive side-effect, since Junmei became more independent and learned some French too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being insecure about her English level, Junmei was at first a little scared by the prospect of studying in an entirely English programme<\/strong> and interacting with foreign students. Nonetheless, she successfully passed the ESCP’s English proficiency assessment and also found in her classmates<\/strong> the right support to overcome her shyness in daily use of the language. \u00ab\u00a0I am also so thankful to the professors, who were available at all times and were very pleased to answer my questions. Since I come from a culture where the students have to answer their own questions, it was quite a nice surprise to see this much involvement and help from their side,\u00a0\u00bb<\/em>\u00a0Junmei said.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Junmei Zhu, China<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

While studying with multi-cultural students<\/strong>, Junmei went through a lot of cultural shocks, especially about habits and lifestyle differences. \u00ab\u00a0Given that the students are very open-minded, they immediately accepted and respected our differences and took that opportunity to learn more about each other,\u00a0\u00bb<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n