Reading Time: 2 minutes …by Scarlett / from the USA / studying MA (Hons) History and Politics / 4th year At times as an international student, it can be difficult to be so far away from home. But trust me when I say it’s worth it! Now, as a third-year student I can say I’ve found a home in […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes …by Lauren / from Scotland / studying Ecological and Environmental Sciences with Management / 4th year From unwashed dishes to fights over cupboard space, flat horror stories seem to be everywhere when you begin to contemplate moving into halls. But with every horror story, there is a good time that would only happen in the […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Scarlett / from the USA / studying MA (Hons) History and Politics / 4th year It’s Wednesday, February 2nd… 8.00am – Typically when I wake up and the first thing to do is grab a cup of tea and breakfast. I can’t say that I’m always waking up this time or getting up right […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Georgia / from Greece / studying MA (Hons) History / 4th year In my first year I didn’t really feel like I was doing the student thing right. I made my closest friends during a Film Soc screening but they were not studying History and so when I would attend lectures and tutorials, I […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Tristan / from Edinburgh / studying MA (Hons) Ancient and Medieval History / 4th year In 2018, the University of Edinburgh launched its Access Programme as part of its Widening Participating Initiative. As a 26-year-old who had been out of education for four consecutive years, having previously studied Acting and Performance, and later Art […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes …by Aurelia / from the UK / studying MSc International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law / Postgraduate Online Learner Whether you study full time or part time, face to face or online, at undergraduate or postgraduate level, balancing your studies around the rest of your life is a challenge. But, overcoming this challenge is key […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Andrew / from London / studying Biodiversity, Wildlife & Ecosystem Health (MSc) / Postgraduate Online Learning Programme I am in the third year of my programme of online study with the University of Edinburgh, and it is very easy to notice that this final instalment of my MSc journey feels rather ‘different’. The first […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes …by Hannah / from the UK / studying History / 3rd year When starting my History degree, I was interested in taking courses outside of my subject area to both investigate possible career options and to build upon skills I had learnt in school. I was excited by the possibility of taking on subjects I […]