Reading time: 2 minutes by Sarah, from Indonesia, studying Veterinary Medicine, 1st year Hello everyone! It’s Sarah, a first year student on the 5-year BVM&S course. Easter holidays are now over and we’re back on campus after a long break that was joyously filled with lambing. This was my first lambing EMS placement, where I assisted in neonatal care, […]

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 when my alarm […]

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 to your success. […]

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 two years of […]

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 hadn’t encountered before, […]

Reading time: 4 minutes by Theoklitos, from Greece, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 3rd Year In this short essay, I would like to talk about the way in which stoicism is both a skill required to thrive (and survive) during a PhD project, but also a mindset which naturally evolves through all the hardships you face in that time. Stoicism […]

Reading time: < 1 minutes by Scarlett, from the USA, studying History & Politics, 3rd year In this quick video, I take you through a day in my life working remotely during the Covid pandemic. This vlog was originally published on ‘SHCA: Blogs from the School of History, Classics and Archaeology’. To read more blogs from History, Classics and Archaeology […]

Reading time: 2 minutes by Doireann, from Ireland, studying PhD Precision Medicine, 2nd Year This year I was unusually reluctant to say farewell to February, for two main reasons: March brings the first anniversary of the original COVID lockdown; and if you consider Monday to be the first day of the week, February was a perfect month, beginning with […]