Category: How-tos and tips

Lund University is located in Sweden’s southern Skane county. I get to enjoy Skane’s beautiful landscapes and an autumn that couldn’t be more beautiful. Skane county occupies Sweden’s southern peninsula. It is surrounded by water on three of its sides – Öresund, Kattegat and the Baltic Sea. You will not run into a shortage of nice […]

Cooking like a Swede I never thought I could cook like a Swede. After all, the few times I have tried making something Swedish I ended up adding a few Jamaican spices here and there. I say here and there when I actually everywhere. Of course when I do that the meal loses its Swedish […]

Writing my first post on Study in Sweden Student’s blog is a surreal moment for me because it was just the other day when I was reading posts here relentlessly to get a glimpse of Swedish life. Given that it’s that time of the year when the first round of applications is open, I feel […]

From the city of diverse culture to the city of contrasts, a travel from Delhi, India, to Stockholm, Sweden. Being an Indian I went through many processes from the application for Studies in Sweden to getting settled in Sweden. Through this blog post, I would like to explain about the process that everyone should go […]

Darkness in Sweden can be a total drag! I’m not going to sugar-coat it! Every morning can feel like you’re being born again (not in the religious sense), screaming and kicking into the harsh light of your lamp against the pitch black outdoors. LUCKILY FOR YOU THOUGH, I have now lived in Sweden for one […]

      The most beautiful nature in Sweden is in the archipelago. Stockholm consists of 3000 islands called Archipelago. The Stockholm is made up of four large islands, and if you take a 20-minute drive outside, you can see thousands of islands of varying shapes and sizes. Today, I would like to introduce the Art Museum called […]

Hello! If you’re a person who has registered as living in Sweden, and you identified yourself as “Female”, it is very likely you will have recently received a letter with a “cellprovning” appointment booked onto it. What is it? “Cellprovning” is a test which is done to test for any cancerous cells and the general […]

Who can become a Thesis Zombie? If you have a million creative ideas, plus you are easily stressed and you have once been a victim to procrastination… You are at risk of becoming a Thesis Zombie. When ‘thesis season’ comes around, students  usually go into deep hibernation mode (much like the Swedish brown bears). Hair […]

And I am from the UK anyway, but Sweden took me back there for 10 days this summer! In this blog post I’m gonna talk about how getting active in student life – and Student Nation life more specifically because I live in Uppsala – can take you places! Both on paper, and actually out […]