Sarah’s Welcome Buddy Experience

Signing up to be a peer mentor was a little bit daunting, I was worried I wouldn’t be able to help people and wouldn’t have the answers to any questions. Straight away in the training all of my worries were put to ease, I felt confident to be able to help students and was raring to get going.

Waiting to be assigned a group of students was probably the hardest part! Once I received my list of students, I immediately posted. It was so great to get to interact with some new students and help get them settled into the start of term.

Something that I felt really cemented my confidence in the role was the Welcome Buddy hoodie. I didn’t think I would find this to be such a big deal, but going to pick it up I was so excited, and once I received it, it was better than I imagined!

Overall, being a Welcome Buddy has really helped boost my confidence and to be able to help fellow students is such a great feeling, I would definitely recommend signing up to be a Buddy and seeing where it takes you!

Sarah Armstrong
BSc (Hons) Forensic Science (with Foundation year)