Every fall students come back from summer vacation with experiences to share and stories to tell. The wonderful part for the most successful students is when they can combine their stories about the good time they had with stories about working on interesting student projects to support a good cause. Sound exciting? For the last few years … Read more
There’s truly no time more stressful than the end of university. The workload is huge, the pressure is at its peak, and it’s too easy to fall into a last-minute slump. Here are six tips for keeping your motivation up right until the very end of exam season. Don’t start celebrating too early One of … Read more
If you’re a final year undergraduate student or a postgraduate student, it’s come to that time of the year where you’re planning, or about to start writing, your dissertation. For those who don’t know, a dissertation is a research project completed at the end of your undergraduate or postgraduate course on a topic of your choice. Writing your dissertation … Read more
If you really want to experience US college life, you should plan to make the most of your free time when you are not attending any lectures and classes. The activity-packed American student lifestyle means that finding student organizations to match your interests is not likely to be difficult. Each US college has its own … Read more
What is a research project? A year ago I had this crazy idea of experimenting with the final semester of my two-year course. Being an international student in Australia, doing two postgraduate degrees and working at the same time was apparently not enough for me. So instead of choosing to do a professional project and … Read more
1. Write things down (by hand) Despite the fact that constant progress in technology seems to make handwriting a thing of the past, do not underestimate the power of writing things down to stimulate your memory! Whenever I start learning a new language – I’m trying Croatian at the moment – I keep an old-fashioned … Read more
Ever wondered what it would be like to study one of the oldest subjects in the world? The ‘Liberal Arts’ go back to the Ancient Greeks who considered a liberal arts education to be the ultimate mark of an educated person. While liberal arts education has long had an established place in the US higher … Read more
The majority of degrees end with this assignment, but just what is a dissertation? Sometimes known as a thesis (in some countries, this term is used only for the final assignments of PhD degrees, while in other countries ‘thesis’ and ‘dissertation’ are interchangeable), a dissertation is a research project completed as part of an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. Typically, a … Read more
Environmental concerns might not be the biggest priority for the current US president, but American universities have upped their game in recent years to become more environmentally friendly through various sustainability goals and projects. As universities become more “green” in the sustainable sense, many have also invested in and maintained beautiful green campuses, which make … Read more
The first challenge of the university application process is deciding which universities to apply to. You can choose your selection of universities randomly, or you can spend months deciding on the best options. Either way, you have to make sure you are happy with all of them. So here are some tips on how to … Read more