Studying at the Department of Translation can be very challenging.

When I decided to study TKK and chose my languages, I thought it would be easy as I had always been an excellent student in English. After getting back my first piece of homework, however, I realized that English was not going to be easy at all. Being a student at this Department requires ambition, motivation and excellent time management skills (which I try to improve as I let things up until the last minute while being in school...) Studying three languages at the same time is very demanding, as you have to study and repeat every language every day in order to not forget anything. Unless you devote enough time to studying, there will soon be someone better than you, and who is going to hire you one day when there are better qualified people? As time passes, the demands get even higher, which means you have to practice even more and invest a lot of time in University in order to pass the exams and reach the next level. Now that the first term nearly passed, many people already signed out as they realized it is much harder than they thought. Another thing challenging many students is the big change between high-school, where the teachers exactely tell you what to do, and university, where it is up to you whether and what you study or not. But I will try all my best to fulfill my dream. So, I am sure you now have an impression of just how challenging studying at the Department of Translation can be.