Today I’m going to talk about clearing, as I worked for the university during clearing this past week and it’s something I wasn’t aware of while applying to UK universities (or until last week really, I was very confused when I got the email requesting people to work during clearing since I associate that word […]
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As you may know, the university has a clinical research centre where they run clinical studies. You can register as a volunteer on their website, as well as see any open studies (https://crc.surrey.ac.uk/volunteers/studies) and occasionally there’s emails about the studies sent out to all students. I recently participated in a study at the university and […]
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I’ve been wanting to write a post about job applications and what working as an international student entails but I keep putting it off because so far my job search hasn’t been very successful and I don’t want my experiences to make people think it’s impossible to find a job, but on the other hand […]
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Since grades came out a few days ago I thought it would be a good topic to talk about in the blog, as I found it very confusing at the start (and my friends in other parts of the world still find it confusing when I talk about it). For most of my classes the […]
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Given that June was pride month and the London Pride parade was this past Saturday I thought I’d make a post about what it is like to be an LGBTQ+ student at the university of Surrey. Given that I didn’t grow up in a place that was LGBTQ+ friendly, going to university somewhere were I […]
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This past weekend I was a student helper at the University’s Open Day. These take place several times a year and they’re an opportunity for students to get to know their university and get some exposure to how it would be like to study their specific subject at the university. I didn’t know about open […]
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