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hey guys welcome back to my channel today we're going to be going over what a masters is actually like

and my experience of it so far

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So I'm going to start off with the course

and what the master's course actually sort of entails and what the step up is kind of like from undergrad.

Little disclaimer that obviously this is based off my own personal experience

and obviously this might be different for different universities and different undergrads going to different postgrad degrees.

So in general I found the step up quite considerable.

I think it's probably I'd compare it to the step up

from first to second year I think that's a pretty big step to be honest I thought

that was a big step in my undergrad

and I'd describe this as very similar

because it's just sort of like a different way of working it's a different level of expectation

that I don't necessarily think we're always prepped for

but it is definitely a big step up I found

that the course is more academic they use more complex theories

which obviously is expected and however like some of these things

that we're doing is like very very complicated

and um I do find like I have to spend quite

a bit more time than I did in my undergrad to understand things it's obviously more academically based

and I think they're almost like trying to prep us to maybe do a PhD

so we do have like quite a lot of intense things about like how to do dissertation

and um how to like conduct market research

which I think is helpful however I really am not doing the whole dissertation route side things

so I'm actually managing to cop out of it by doing a study abroad for three months instead

which I'm really really excited to do

because I get to go to the screen here but yeah

if you're doing a dissertation this is actually quite helpful just I don't feel like I massively need it

and I do find it a little bit boring but it's okay.

In terms of the workload now let me tell you it feels like there is

so much more work

and I don't think as I say it's like kind of

more complex um the material like sort of harder to understand

and as I said I do spend a bit more time

like trying to get to grips with like what is actually sort of happening

but there's also like so much more work set

and I'm trying to work out whether that's because it's a masters

or whether it's because my uni is doing hybrid learning

so I'm just going to run through a structure of sort

of like for one module what I would be expected to do

so we have this thing called on demand

which is sort of like prep material for the theme of the week

and normally we'd have two to three videos on this each

half an hour we'd have to go through those write our notes from them

and then we've got two activities

that we need to do after this often involves like academic reading

or reading certain articles or case studies or things like that and then answering some questions on them.

After this I would then go to a lecture.

This lecture is normally in person which is really really great.

It often is between one to two hours.

Again different sort of material so it's not the same slides but it's along the same sort of theme for the week.

Again this is really helpful but

if I miss a lecture then it's kind of a pain to catch up

because they don't always puts the lecture slides up

which is slightly annoying then we'll end up having a seminar

online this is normally on zoom i do find like the zoom seminars just a bit weird

because i feel like people just don't engage as much

and it's not as great to be perfectly honest i definitely prefer in-person things

and i think this is very much shown through the fact

that when i go to my tutorials there is

so much more engagement people are so much more with it

and everyone's actually trying to contribute

so yeah as i say i don't love the online stuff i don't think it's the most helpful

because I don't feel as engaged

but the tutorials as they say are very very helpful you get one-to-ones with your lecturer

and they can like really help you understand like certain things very very helpful for answering certain questions

so I do find that very very helpful.

In terms of the assignments I would say they're very similar

to my undergrad I think a lot of like the reports

and things that i have to do i did business as my undergrad

and i'm doing digital marketing as my postgrad

so i feel like the assignments are very similar they're kind

of report based there's group works there's individual work um

and i would say that it's structured in almost a very similar very similar way

but there is just a lot more of them i think I've got seven assignments due in January

or something it's just gonna be ridiculous I'm literally just gonna be working all throughout Christmas

which is a bit of a bummer

because I have no exams I think I'm gonna end up

having two weeks off after um including my reading week

and then semester two will start

so what is being a master's student actually like um I've actually found it really nice

because I've made a lot of new friends I did actually

even though I did my undergrad here at Surrey I went on to my master's course

and I didn't know anyone because for some reason nobody went

and did a master's for some reason nobody's decided to go on to the course

that I'm doing and so I had to make new friends

and that was really nice because I've got a lot of new friends from different universities

which was really really nice they've all come from very different places

and we've all just come to one in Surrey

and I really really love that everyone's so friendly I find

that there's a lot of potentially older people on the course

there's a lot of people who are maybe sponsored by their company to come

which is very interesting I think

that the level of engagement is definitely a lot higher I

think the level of intelligence is a lot higher there's a lot of people willing to contribute

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and engage with the lecture which I actually found so helpful

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and so refreshing because my undergrad I feel like people just sort of sat there

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and slept so it's really nice to actually feel like people are really interested in the subject

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and it makes you more interested in the subject

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and want to get involved I'd say my course is very international as well which is really amazing.

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You get people from like all over the globe.

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It's so cool.

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I was in group works with people from like China.

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There's a lot of, there's a high percentage of people from India.

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I've got a really lovely friend from Cyprus.

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So there's just a whole range of different people that you meet

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and I love meeting people from different countries and different cultures

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so I think that that's again a really exciting experience on the side of the Masters.

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I'd say the only downside to doing the Masters is the fact that I am just going out so much less, I have so much less time to be social and go out,

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I try to limit myself so that I only go out on Wednesday night

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which is the sports night because obviously I'm a sporty person so I prefer to do that.

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Wednesdays are also the main night at Surrey so it's really nice to go out and see like everyone that I know, have a bit of a break from work and then just immediately get back to it.

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My problem that I think I've found with being a master student is I am growing older

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and my tolerance is just not what it was used to be

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so I find on a Thursday I'm just completely wiped out, I am hungover, I am dead for the entire day.

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Luckily all my lectures are online that day but it does mean

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that I feel like I'm just really unproductive on a Thursday.

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So I really, really try to cut down on my drinking and not drink too much, not get so hammered every single time.

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And then, yeah, as I say, try and limit myself to once or twice a week

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because otherwise if I went out as much as I did in the first year, I would never, ever get any work done.

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I'd be so behind.

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Anyway, guys, that's just sort of a quick little overview of how I'm finding my masters at at the moment.

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It is busy, it is quite stressful, you do need to be organised.

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I really do enjoy it, I think it's great but it is a lot more work than I was expecting.

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I think it's going to be a really good thing to have done though, I think it's a very employable thing at the moment especially with there being very limited grad jobs

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and a lot of undergrads so I'm very excited to have a postgrad degree as well

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which will be a really great thing on my CV.

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If you have any more questions about doing the Masters then do leave them down below, I will try and get back to you on those and If you have also any video recommendations or suggestions,

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then also let me know those.

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Those are great.

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Like and subscribe and I'll see you next time.

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Bye!

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實用表達積累

“the step up is considerable” —— 難度提升顯著
“a different level of expectation” —— 更高的期望水平
“get to grips with” —— 理解、掌握
“cop out of” —— 逃避（非正式表達，適用於口語）
“hybrid learning” —— 混合式學習

這些表達不僅適用於描述學業，還能拓展到工作、生活等場景，是看影片學英語時不可錯過的“乾貨”。

攻克發音與節奏難點

影片中大量使用了連讀和弱讀，比如“sort of like”中的“of”弱讀為/əv/，“I don't think as I say”中的“don't think”連讀為/dəʊnt θɪŋk/。這些細節正是影響口語流暢度的關鍵。建議採用shadow speak（影子跟讀法）進行練習：播放影片後延遲1-2秒跟讀，重點模仿說話人的語調起伏和停頓節奏。堅持一週，你會發現自己的口語聽起來更自然，不再像“背書”。此外，影片中“however”“obviously”等邏輯連線詞的重讀的處理，也值得注意——通過強調這些詞，能讓你的表達更有層次感，這也是雅思口語評分標準中“連貫性與銜接”的重要體現。

利用好這段影片，結合shadowspeak技巧，你能在短時間內提升口語的“地道感”，輕鬆應對各類口語場景。趕快行動起來吧！

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	is based · is expected · would be expected
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	I've actually found · I've made · I've found
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	person which is · people who are · well which is

什麼是跟讀法？

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攻克發音與節奏難點

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？