My name is Andries and I am a fourth year particle physics student. I have just completed my year abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, working at the LHCb experiment at CERN. CERN is home to the Large Hadron Collider, a circular
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A year in Geneva, Switzerland
A week in Lisbon
Monday Every Monday I have classes 12-2 and 6-8, the university is only a ten minute walk from my flat so I don’t need to leave early at all. Between my lessons I usually go to Pingo Doce to do
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An introduction My name is Josh and I have just completed my third year of my BA Linguistics, Spanish & German course. I spent this academic year in Hamburg, northern Germany, studying at the University of Hamburg. Before I had
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In October of last year, I packed my bags and boarded a flight to Switzerland to begin what would become one of the most unforgettable experiences of my life: A year-long research placement at CERN as part of my master’s
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I’m Maria, a French and Spanish student who has just finished up a work placement in the South of Spain. As a teacher in a language academy in a town of less than 30,000 people, my year definitely didn’t subscribe
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Hi, I’m Lydia, an English Literature student, and I have just finished my year abroad at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. I had not heard of Groningen until the application process, but I liked the look of the
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