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Reindeers, Skating and lots of Salmon
My spring reading weeks have been increasingly more exciting over my time at university. Last year was a trip to Paris and this time, I was heading out furthest North than I have ever been: to the coastal city of Oulu in Finland. Representing UCL EDUCATE and as an Erasmus student, I was joining the European Edtech Network Intensive Study Programme. After delayed flights due to Storm Dennis and precariously catching a connecting flight from Helsinki, I ventured into this beautiful city. On the second day, bleary-eyed at 8am, we got on a bus and headed into a remote village called Yli-li where we were to visit a comprehensive school.…
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Escape to Edinburgh
I finally realized the figment of a plan which began in my 1st year. Edinburgh; the beautiful capital of Scotland. Listening to the Skye Boat Song and imagining the rolling fields of the Scottish highlands had haunted me for many years and when the BUCS annual cross-country championship was planned to be in Edinburgh, I signed up with the UCL cross-country team to take part! After 2 hours of geophysical fluid dynamics and a further 3 hours of cosmology lectures (back to back!), it is fair to say my brain had been fried to a crisp and the only will to live was a train that would whizz me across…
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The Ships’ Grave
Going home for winter break essentially means two things: catching up on the sleep you missed out in term-time and gorging on Mama’s food. Having successfully ticked off that long list of tasks, there was one more thing I was desperately longing (well, maybe three): sun, sand and the sea. Unfortunately, all hopes for this final task dwindled as I was unable to mobilise my old school friends or my family on a plan for this. But as the last night of my break approached, it all suddenly panned out… In just a few hours, a friend and I planned an early morning run along the corniche and then breakfast.…
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The Social Venture Weekend in Cambridge
Rumbling through an ombré British countryside, Friday brought me to the quirky building of the Judge Business School for the Social Venture Weekend run by Cambridge Social Ventures – a packed out two-and-a-half days of intensive training for people on the journey of building and growing a business with an inherent positive social mission. Day 1 It all kicked off with an academically rigorous lecture on the importance and impact of social ventures and helped bring light the different models of how social ventures are currently being run. It continued with an introduction to the theory of change and how social impact should be measured. For the last bit, I…
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Seaford to Eastbourne
How can a well-organised trip with the best of people fall apart completely? British weather… It’s been a crazy couple of weeks with uni in full swing and as it happens with things that demand a creative flair and gentle coercion, you, my dear blog, have been neglected. So many cool things to share and if I tried to catch up on it all, I never could. Instead, let me describe to you the amazing day-trip from yesterday! After 5 weeks of full-on learning, UCL deems us worthy of having a half-term break described as “reading week” where it is thought that we would, well, spend time reading. In reality,…
