Hello!

A couple of weeks ago I came on here and asked for help with grammer. People were very helpful at that time and now I have one thing I am not certain of.

Now, like then , I'm trying to submit an application to a school (different one). I want to explain in my statement how I got interested in the topic I want to study. Here's how I plan to state it:

"My intereste in anxiety research emerged during my studies at X University when I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant for the university's "such and such lab."

Now, I showed my statement to my bf and he says it should read "where" not "when" after X University. I'm confussed coz I try to give a sort of history of my interest and since I'm referring to time I think "when" is fine. I'm confussed and this came up right before sending the statement.

Can someone who is a native English speaker or good with English tell me if it should be "when" or "where" ?

Thank you!

i don't know if it's a typo or not, but "interest" doesn't have an 'e' at the end.

as for 'where' and 'when,' it's a matter of preference. 'where' obviously describes location ("the university where i studied...."). 'when,' as you said, deals with time, but since you added "for the university's 'such and such lab,'" you gave the location. 'where' would sound redundant to me. 'when' is fine.

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thank you! yes, the "e" is a typo, in my statement it is spelled right. I left the sentence with "when" like it was originally before I got confussed.