The semester actually is not up yet. It is more than 1,5 months till it. Officially, autumn semester finishes on the 22nd of January. However, everybody is rational enough to understand that most of the exchange students will not come back after the Christmas holidays. And I'm among them :-) So today the International office of LiU held farewell ( Read more... )

One of the student association dedicated to international students arranged the celebration of the Lucia day. In fact this is Swedish celebration of mid-winter. They sing carols, drink julmust (Swedish “cola” with some herbs) and eat special yellow bread.  Frankly speaking not everybody sings carols. There is a special choir in white and with ( Read more... )

Today there is my general thoughts about LiU student card. It is incredibly universal! I can use it as:

• student card (surprisingly) to prove my identity inside LiU (to enter exams, for example)
• library card
• open different doors even when open hours are up
• ID card for the sport hall and booking classes there
• account for printing and copying inside campus

I planned to post today the link to the wonderful pictures of the university campus, that I had made a couple of weeks ago. In the morning, when I wanted to copy the pictures from the memory card to a hard drive for editing, I discovered that they had disappeared ( Read more... )

One more letter from Finland! Even if this is a bill, I'll be happy to receive some correspondence from Finland ( Read more... )

It was when Web 2.0 was created. Any discussions about the power to the common intellect were in trend. And it is still. From what I see at LiU, the Swedes might be among the founders of the phenomenon.
Today I studied for my thesis (good news for my supervisor!) and once again saw the same picture: Swedish students sat in groups of 4-5 people and " ( Read more... )

This year this is the first time in my life when I haven't seen even a single snowflake before my birthday. I don't know why but this thought brought me to some kind of nostalgia...

This is amazing feeling! Firstly I didn't understood what had happened. It was like slow motion in the brain.Our team was announced, we needed to go on the stage to get our winner diplomas, hand shakes, best wishes.... But the true happiness and joy came with some lag when recognition of what had happened reached finally the brain. Yes! We did it! ( Read more... )

I'm in the train again. No, no, it's not a claim even considering that within last 4 month I spent in the trains more time than before in my life. I guess it is called "exchange semester" when student is supposed to travel a lot. This is amazing landscape outside; the train is passing lake side and some farms in the middle of nowhere. The day is ( Read more... )

There is the career center in LiU. Or they may even have some stuff dedicated to foreign students and their career opportunities. Today it was a lecture arranged by them. The target is to give international students understanding of their career opportunities in Sweden. To be more convincing they invited a foreigner who studied and LiU and then ( Read more... )