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Klostergården: pluses and minuses

The accommodation in Lund is always a problem, but once you get it, you can easily compare with one you had before in your hometown. Students even start to compare it with each other’s accommodation living in different student areas in Lund, writes columnist Julia Kryuk. ...
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A Tale of Two Homes

What is home? Is it a place? Is it food, a feeling or a bunch of people you love? Finding a new home – while keeping your old one – is a challenge for international students. Columnist Katherina Riesner debates what home means once we are abroad. ...
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Learning for life

Columnist Paula Dubbink doesn’t want to leave the University now that her master is almost done, but neither will she continue for a PhD. And that doesn’t sound problematic in her ears. ...
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Regret. Reflect. Respect.

Why did I ever decide to come here? Every time I get homesick I ask this to myself and subsequently enter a minor depression. Everybody can get homesick, but people have different ways of dealing with it. My way usually takes the path of retreating to personal reflection, writes columnist Anindyaningrum Chrisant Rystiasih. ...
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Going the Distance

Long distance relationships suck! I know this. I have done it before. Somehow I decided to put myself through this torturous process once again with double the amount of time away from home. Am I insane? This is the question Katherina Riesner ponders in this week’s column. ...
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The weight of memories

With those falling leaves and pouring rain, nostalgia lurks around the corner and memories to ‘times gone by’ easily come to the fore. But how much stronger would it even feel if you have lived more than 80 years, columnist Paula Dubbink ponders. ...
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Let’s have fika

The question is, do Swedes need to drink so much coffee ...
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A ‘friendly’ Swedish bank in Lund

Columnist Julia Kryuk comes from Belarus and is surprised by the ...
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Costume Customs in Sweden

Carnaval do Rio, Mardi Gras in New Orleans or Karneval in ...
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Surviving Swedish Summer

Lund is somewhat of a miserable place to be in during ...
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