It is a known fact that Strand Campus is a labyrinth of buildings that connect in places that don\u2019t entirely make sense.<\/p>\n
The architects seemed to just keep placing buildings on top of old buildings and attaching them with random stair cases. My first day of classes, I got hopelessly lost trying to find the Philosophy Building. Somehow, I ended up at the philosophy bar frantically looking at a pocket sized map. Eventually, somebody came along that did not look as utterly confused as I did.<\/p>\n
As a girl, Julia, walked by, I asked her if she knew where I was. She laughed and told me I was in the Philosophy building but not on the right floor. Considering I was now thirty minutes late to class, I gave up on finding the room and asked her if she wanted to get coffee. This began a tradition of us grabbing coffee in the King\u2019s Building every Thursday. Starting a semester at a different university in a new city seemed like it would be lonely, but making friends with King\u2019s students was pretty easy. After a few coffee hangouts, Julia and I began talking about how we both love Harry Potter<\/em>.<\/p>\n Somehow this led to us talking about never having been to Scotland. Within a few weeks, we had booked train tickets and a hostel in Edinburgh. While in Scotland, we visited The Elephant House, where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter<\/em>, and toured Edinburgh Castle where we met an adorable owl named Hagrid. The trip was essentially a Harry Potter<\/em> fan\u2019s dream. My first few weeks at King\u2019s and the friends I made during them taught me that adapting to a new environment is uncomfortable at first, but, if you try to make the most out of it, you might just end up on an adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is a known fact that Strand Campus is a labyrinth of buildings that connect in places that don\u2019t entirely make sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[148,128,175,176,109],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excellence-scholarships","category-incomingstudents","tag-campus-life","tag-excellence-scholarships","tag-hamilton-college","tag-strand-campus","tag-study-abroad","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingssas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}