It’s almost a year since I finished my exchange at the Universidad Autónoma in Barcelona, and what a year it […]
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Online learning during lockdown.
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the universities in Spain to close and students were told to return home, myself and […]
Some of us aren’t honours
TL;DR: My expectations of doing a year abroad as a fifth year masters student with the School of Chemistry. The […]

This is not goodbye
With less than a month left in Canada’s capital, the inevitable goodbyes are fast approaching. The snow from the long […]

One Country, Two Systems – Hong Kong, China

Finding the true meaning of ‘joie du vivre’ in Montpellier
Why on earth would I want to spend my third year abroad in France. For the sun? For the Mediterranean […]

“If you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t been to China”
I once thought moving to Edinburgh from Sandefjord, a tiny town in Norway would be a big transition – and […]
Cultural Immersion – Grenoble, France
There is a common held theory amongst anthropologists that one must immerse oneself in another culture to truly be able to […]

One Month Left – McGill, Canada
Final Refrains: An Essay, as Written on the First Morning of my Last Month on my Year Abroad You know […]

Living The Dream – Queensland, Australia
I am a daydreamer to a fault. I am always chasing stronger emotions and richer experiences. I take life just […]