Surrey meets Latin America

I often get asked what kind of things I do as a student ambassador and what the application process was like so that’s today’s topic! For the application process I remember filling out a form on the website and emailing it, I think it described what the different teams did and asked you to tell […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]