A young meteorologist from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Nedim Sladic won a new award at the University of Reading. This means that, as he explained in his post on Facebook, he won the title of the best weather forecaster in the master’s student category.
He said that it is a small, but for him, a big victory going to BiH:
His post is shown below:
”First of all, I want to express my sincere gratitude and say a big thank you for all the nice and positive words that followed after the seventh week of my participation in the meteorological competition that we played this semester as part of my Master’s studies at the University of Reading and where, I competed withnumerous undergraduates and master’s students from different parts of the world, including our teaching staff. I must admit that I was surprised by the great interest of both the media and the people in my list of friends. Also, from the seventh week (November) until today, I put in a lot of effort and will to keep my first place. Today, the last day of the first semester, there are the final results and awards.
Today, the number one university in Europe, and especially the department of meteorology, which until September 2022 did not have a single full-time student from BiH, received a winner from BiH. Hearing the name and surname pronounced correctly, and even with the affricate in the surname for which they made a special effort to practice, as well as the name of the country I come from, created a special feeling of pride and happiness on my face.
It is an even greater pride, and at the same time another victory of mine, to receive sincere congratulations from your professors who taught you and who will teach you in the next 4 to 6 months and to hear words that they are proud of me and my achievements, especially from the professor who continues to work for the United Kingdom Meteorological Office (UK Met Office).
Today I conclude the first semester with a victory, one among many in a series of victories in the past hectic two months in which I read as much material as for four years of university education,” he wrote on Monday.
