Sounds of the city: audio guides from your new Swedish metropolis How do you get your bearings in a new place? In the weeks leading up to a holiday, perhaps you spend your time on TripAdvisor, pin-pointing the best spots for local cuisine or exciting art galleries. Maybe when you arrive, you’ll hunt for the local supermarket. You’ll find yourself marvelling at new fruits, veggies and […] Written by Emma 29 Jun 2020 at 10.02 pm Everyday life How-tos and tips Swedish cities
Cycling in Sweden: 5 destinations for beginners in Gothenburg during the summer Sweden has a beautiful nature, which shows all its splendor in summer! Hiking, walking and have picnic in all the nature around is what you should do in Sweden during the summer. On the other hand, a good idea that I recently discovered is visiting Sweden’s nature with a bike! That’s why, I will show […] Written by Camilo 18 Jun 2020 at 9.04 pm Holidays and occasions How-tos and tips Travel
Accessing sexual health services in Sweden When you move to a new country, there’s a whole host of new smells, tastes, sounds to immerse yourself in. The feel of snow underfoot, the smell of pine trees at dusk, the taste of salt as you swim in a new sea. Of course, all these sensations don’t just apply to dazzling landscapes, but […] Written by Emma 14 Jun 2020 at 6.26 pm How-tos and tips
A solo walk to spring – A photo essay Classes are cancelled. Meetings are cancelled. Outdoor gatherings are cancelled. But spring is not cancelled. Spring is always my favourite season, but I have never imagined my first spring in Sweden would turn out with no park picnic, no friends meeting and no coffee chilling under the gentle spring sunlight and cool breeze. Then I […] Written by Nguyen 25 May 2020 at 10.56 pm About me Everyday life
My experience with distance learning in Sweden One especial characteristic in spring of 2020, is that universities around the world had to do the transition from face-to-face education to distance education. In this blog, I am going to share my “online” experience as a master student in Sweden. I will write from my perspective how I overcame the negative and take advantage […] Written by Camilo 24 May 2020 at 8.47 pm Academics Everyday life Social life
Complete Guide to Student Accommodation – How to find one? So, after all of your hard work, you have been admitted to your dream programme and preparing to study in Sweden. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS! You made it! Now, it’s time to plan! You started searching for a place. Well, you are on the right path, my friend. Searching for accommodation as early as possible […] Written by Hazal 22 May 2020 at 5.06 pm Everyday life How-tos and tips
#SOBORED or #HOMESWEETHOME Are you actually #sobored at home or you’re having the time of your life at #homesweethome? How to process the “staying at home”? The VERY scientific explanation with my VERY DEEP knowledge in psychology (I hope you sense my irony): There is this very popular distinction between two “most popular” human personality theories (popularized […] Written by Sara Roza 28 Apr 2020 at 11.45 pm Everyday life How-tos and tips Swedish culture Uncategorized
A Student’s Survival Guide to Social Distancing #AloneTogether In this new COVID-19 reality, most students are navigating a world of social distancing and virtual learning. With Zoom lectures and virtual student happy hours as our main mode of feeling connected, it is easy to get weighed down with feelings of anxiety, loneliness and despair. Because of this, now more than ever, it […] Written by Jordan 16 Apr 2020 at 3.15 am Everyday life How-tos and tips Social life
My Two Years in Sweden in Pictures Hi everyone! I hope you and your loved ones are doing well in these troubled times. In case you were wondering how I am doing, read my last blog post here. Like everyone else, my life has been changed lately because of the pandemic. So, I am writing my thesis at home while self-isolating -with acknowledging […] Written by Hazal 10 Apr 2020 at 7.11 pm About me Everyday life Social life Swedish cities
Why changing my MA was the best decision I made in Sweden Hiya guys! You may have read on a previous post of mine (or not! It’s cool!) where I said that I moved to a new programme. I was originally in Uppsala studying my MA in Literature. But after a year of studying it, I realised it wasn’t quite right for me. So after a lot of […] Written by Emma 7 Oct 2018 at 10.56 am About me Academics
“What ifs” you do not need to worry about before coming to Sweden Before coming here, I spend too much of my time worrying about things that now I realize I didn’t needed to. When you start doing your application, the pressure is enough and you already have too much to worry about. There’s always that simple but disturbing thoughts before applying or coming to a different country, […] Written by Marina 3 Nov 2015 at 6.37 pm Social life Travel
Sweden Application tips Today marks the last day to submit your choices for the 1st admission round for Bachelor and Master applications for Autumn 2017. Therefore, I decided to quick write 5 Sweden application tips to give you a much needed pat on the shoulder to tell you that your almost through with the first step to coming to […] Written by Anita 16 Jan 2017 at 5.34 pm Academics How-tos and tips
10 Awesome Arrival Day Tips! Your arrival day is getting closer and judging from the questions I have been getting, many of you are just like me. You plan ahead! That is really an awesome thing to do, considering that most of you are in for quite a journey. Even though you think your plan is top notch, you might […] Written by Sanjay 3 Jun 2018 at 10.00 am Everyday life How-tos and tips Travel
