About Grace

Introducing… Grace!

For those of you who are interested, I’m Grace and I’m currently a Master student of ‘European Studies on Society, Science and Technology‘ (ESST) at Maastricht University. Four other students and I were asked to start a blog about our experiences as a Master student here in Maastricht, so here we go…

Just to give a short introduction about who I am, I’d like to start by saying that the one question I dread answering when I first meet people is ‘where are you from?’. The truth of the matter is that I’m never sure how to answer it simply, and here’s perhaps why: I was born in Paris, France to a Dutch father and a Congolese mother. When I was four the company my father worked for transferred our family to San Francisco, California and then seven years later, we were transferred back to Europe where I attended an international school in Brussels, Belgium for middle and high school. In the end, I’m not sure which country I would identify with the most, but Maastricht is where my home is. I came here as a Bachelor student in 2007 and graduated just last summer from the Liberal Arts faculty (University College Maastricht), where I focused in Media and Communication Sciences. I was thrilled to hear about the ESST program where I could incorporate my own personal enthusiasm for science and technology in my academic work (and even more thrilled when I was accepted!)

Having spent so much time in Maastricht, right now it’s hard to imagine living anywhere else, but taking a look at my track record, I can imagine that I will probably live abroad again. I am quite excited about the idea of blogging about my final experiences here (at least as a student) for myself, but some of you reading might also find it interesting to get a student’s perspective about university life here as an addition to the information that’s available on the website.