 Hi, I'm Zeynep and I'm 24 years old. Before I moved to Tilburg I was living in Istanbul, which is a very beautiful, sunny and friendly city, as Turkey itself overall. Here in Tilburg I'm studying Language and Communication Research Master's, which is a two-year master's program as different from regular one-year master's program. This is because it's a research master's program and the emphasis is really on research. This is also what makes it special for me because it prepares you to be a researcher, especially if you want to go on doing a PhD and if you want to be a part of academia and research world. It's really good in that sense and what makes it special is also as different from other research programs in Holland or in another country is that it offers you a very wide range of subjects to study, especially to specialize in different things if you still don't make up your mind about what you specifically want to focus on while you're doing your master's. For example, before I came here I mostly studied applied linguistics and generative linguistics, but when I came here I realized that there are many, many other areas in this field like cognitive linguistics or computational linguistics and it offers you all those opportunities to explore more what is out there in the field and there is a lot of emphasis on research and very high-quality researchers and very much publications and research is going on here. Therefore, if you are really interested in research as well as doing master's, I would really recommend this program to you. Overall, Tobrik University has been a very good choice for me. I'm very satisfied here with what I found and especially academic staff. I'm very happy with people I'm working and with people at the department and at the university in general. They are very supportive and open-minded. They are very open to any kind of discussion and whenever you have a question or you want to talk about something, discuss something, you can go to them anytime you want. It doesn't matter if they're a PhD student or if they're a professor, they always make time for you and they're always very interested in you. They're always supportive. This really goes for support staff as well. Whenever you have a question about admission, how things are going or about scholarship, anything, you can email them or you can visit them in the office. They're always more than happy to help you and support you. You can really survive here with no problem in terms of language and when it comes to Tobrik specifically, although it is pretty small when compared to the city I was living in Turkey, Istanbul, still it has a very wide range of activities. It's offering you there are many museums you can visit. There's theatres now as you can go to or you can make any course you want, let it be painting or anything about music and sports. Sports life is really good, I should say, especially at the university. There are many, many varieties of sports, climbing, hiking, skating, whatever you would like to. So overall it's a very good student city, I should say, with nightlife or with social life. You can have many opportunities to entertain yourself here. If you would really like to study here, do this program, study in Tobrik University. My suggestion would be that you start your application process very early, especially writing your motivation letter, preparing your papers or documents very early so that you don't have any problem meanwhile. But I also highly suggest that you contact people whenever you have a problem, like people in international office or in any support staff. You can just email them, you can ask them about any point which is not clear with you and they're always more than eager to help you. So I suggest you start everything early and never hesitate to contact people here.