After just one week in the UK, I have discovered some, for me as a Swede, quite surprising things. Busses are not going to stop unless you wave at them. I learnt this lesson the hard way many years ago when I visited my aunt in Cambridge. So luckily for me, I have not yet …
Month: September 2020
As I opened my kindle for the first time in over a year earlier today I discovered that my brother Oskar, who had borrowed it during his year in China, had bought Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s search for meaning”. What surprised me was not the horrors Viktor Frankl described or the revealing anecdotes (Viktor was about …
Dear reader, this is for those of you who are interested in reading about why and how I got accepted to the exchange programme at UC Berkeley. It’ll be a long, but quite an instructive post for prospective applicants who want to familiarize themselves with the 6-month long applications process. The idea of going to …