Category: About me

When you move to a different country or city and don’t know anyone, volunteering can be a fantastic way to make friends and learn new skills, as well as giving something back to your adoptive community. Oh, and volunteers generally get free food and a cool t-shirt! I’ve volunteered in a few places since moving […]

What is the word robotics mean to you? First things any person will think about is Terminator. A human-like robot with the cool metal skeleton, who kills people. Is that what really a robot is today? Robotics is one of the fields were a lot of innovations and research is taking place. It is a […]

What a great time to be at Lund University. The past 2 days have been nothing short of exciting thanks to Lund university’s Faculty of Engineering– LTH student union.  To give you a brief introduction, LTH is the faculty that has given us some of the most disruptive innovations such as the inkjet printer,  fingerprint readers, […]

2 weeks ago, the Lund Gents and Women Rugby teams commemorated the end to the season with an annual dinner at one Lund’s ritzy dinner halls. It was a memorable and intimate night where we celebrated rugby as a sport and it’s players. If you haven’t guessed it yet, I recently joined the Women’s Rugby […]

Chalmers University feels like a microcosm within the city. It’s full of engineering students who have a disposition towards a very quirky, charming sort of fun. I’ve found that this results in a pretty interesting campus culture. Want to know more? Here are 10 signs you might be a Chalmerist!

Discovering the origin of certain traditions always adds an interesting perspective to how these traditions define holidays. I have been curious, for instance, why pumpkins carving is done during Halloween. Many countries celebrate Halloween and Sweden is no exception. There have been a couple of Halloween parties at my university this last month in celebration of this. Therefore, when […]

Most student accommodation in Gothenburg is close to the university buildings where you will have your classes, but if you’re renting privately you might end up a little further from campus, like me. At the moment, I live about 5 miles away from my university building. It’s not the longest commute in the world, but […]

If, like me, you’re from a place where English is a second language and you’re looking to study in Sweden, how do you know your English is good enough? Back when I got the admission letter from Uppsala University, I ran myself through a few checks: – Scoring high enough on a standardized test as […]

     Let’s talk what to do before leaving from your comfort zone and how not to shift it to a panic zone!      Wow! I made it! These are the first thoughts when I arrive in Stockholm Arlanda Airport from Istanbul after 2 hours 40 minutes flight. I felt like there was a […]