#nuslife

[kenilworthglobalconsulting]

“I’ve learnt so much about other countries just by making friends and talking to local and exchange students — that’s been the best part of my exchange in National University of Singapore (NUS) so far!” 🇺🇸🌏🇸🇬#NUSGlobal New York University (@NYUniversity) 🗽 Stern School of Business (@sternuc) student Caitlyn is making the most out of her student exchange programme in NUS 🎓🦁, her exchange university of choice due to “good reputation and academic rigour”, our central location, as well as the variety of courses that were available and relevant to her specialisation in Marketing and Data Science with a minor in Social Entrepreneurship. Caitlyn is currently taking modules from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as @NUSBizSchool — Southeast Asia: A Changing Region; Moral Philosophy; Consumer Behaviour; and Macroeconomics — so if you see her on campus and in your classes, don’t forget to say hi! 👋🏼 #NUSLife Her favourite part about Singapore? It’s our diversity and central location! 🇸🇬👍🏼🗺 “I love how Singaporean culture reminds me of home — like #NYC, a melting pot of cultures — as it’s intermixed with regional influences from all around Asia, and it’s a great location for travelling and learning about different parts of Southeast Asia.” Caitlyn will be staying in #NUSUTown and exploring the region for the next month before she hops on a plane to the US with our little mascot, LiNUS! 🦁✈️🌎#LiNUSGoesGlobal Read more about her student exchange experience in NUS and adventures around the region on the @sternuc Instagram page! Thanks for speaking to us, Caitlyn, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your stay on our sunny island! @caitlynlubas 😊 #NUS #Singapore #UTown #Asia #Education #HigherEd #StudentLife #College #Study #NationalUniversityofSingapore #studyabroad #SGIG #SGInstagram #InstaSG #sep #studentexchange #studentexchangeprogramme #southeastasia #travel #humansofnewyork #humansofsingapore #campus #destination #weekend #weekendvibes (at Singapore) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuVphEFq6P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jlvfvfgucjbt

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Join NUS Singapore @ Town Green today for a 🎙🥁🌃🎶 jazzy evening with the Rit Xu band at 5.30pm! An alumnus of the NUS Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, @RitXuFlute is a Singapore-based award winning flutist, composer, educator & recording artist. He is also the first Southeast Asian to win a solo jazz competition in the United States! 🏆 #NUSLife #TGIF Fret not if you can't make it, they will be broadcasting a snippet of the performance live on Facebook and Instagram! 🎥 fb.com/nus.singapore #NUS #Singapore #Asia #Education #HigherEd #StudentLife #College #Study #NationalUniversityofSingapore #Singapore #HigherEducation #University #UniversityLife #Education #SGIG #SGInstagram #InstaSG #Singaporean #music #livemusic #nusutown #utown #fun #weekend #play #flute #tgif #friday #singaporemusicians #internationalstudents #kenilworthglobalconsulting https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZARAZAxmC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mv1nflsfe1dq

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#nuslife 🥂 (at National University of Singapore)

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#nuslife new life with starbucks🌏 (at National University of Singapore)

[lioncitypolargirl-blog]

In this photo, we walk into the proverbial AND literal sunset. The vom squad, BFFs, friends & lovers. My flight to Helsinki leaves in an hour. Bye Singapore and SE Asia for now. It was the best of times, it was the best of times. #exploreasia #igtravel #doyoutravel #wanderlust #nuslife vaik uskot leuhkat lännen, tai vie idän ihme: sua Pohjan Polaris ain kutsuu kotiis / olet harras tai hurja, uhri tai kurja / se on ja se pysyy, se ei jätä vaan se kysyy, tuo Pohjan Polaris: milloin tuutsä kotiis? Ain Pohjan Polaris sua kutsuu kotiis // no täältä tullaan (at Bali, Indonesia)

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Dorm life, Cinnamon College, National University of Singapore

The kind of roommate you are

the one with the most joyfully eclectic taste in music 

the one who swears alone in her room (you can hear the soft whisper through the door: perkele)

“COULD YOU GUYS PLEASE KEEP IT DOWN IT IS 2 AM AND I SWEAR TO GOD THIS WILL TURN INTO THE SHINING REAL QUICK IF I DON’T GET MY BEAUTY SLEEP”

Buys ear plugs

Passive-aggressively flaunts said earplugs to everyone

Finnish translation: Aivan kamalaa kaakatusta ... En tajua miksi kämppikseni aloittavat kokoustamaan keskiyön aikaan oveni ulkopuolella niin että kaikkialla raikaa, hitto että menee hermo

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The last thing you want to hear on your way to a party

“So guys you do know that tutorial registration starts at 9am tomorrow right??”

Thank you so very much. Actually, we made it – after 4 hours of sleep – and my department (of Communications & New Media) didn’t really even require us to be there that early, because it wasn’t really on a first-come first-serve basis. (And yes, we had to be there in person and fill out a form to register for the groups, which was so 80′s I couldn’t even.) But other departments were way more cutthroat; and if you wanted to avoid that Thursday morning 8am group, you had to be there. I heard stories of chaos and turmoil, and the best tutorial group times just going, going, gone to the people who maybe had the luxury of more than 4 hours of sleep.

So, tutorials are small seminar-type of classes where you discuss topics that were raised in the lectures, i.e. a module (or as we normal people call it, a course) usually has two components, one for lectures and one for tutorials. Lectures start first, so that you can check them out and maybe drop them if you’re not into them, and tutorials only start in Week 3 of classes. For those who are used to mass lectures and book exams, tutorials are a bit of a foreign concept, but language students should know what’s up as we spend a loooot of time in come-here-and-participate-and-actually-speak-the-language small groups where attendance is mandatory.

So, there are usually many tutorial groups at different times, and you have to schedule them yourself. Of course, Singaporean students get to choose first and exchange students are left to fight over the scraps. And – of course – exchange students here want to have long weekends so that they can travel without worrying about skipping (too many) classes.

So, a heads-up for every future NUS exchange student who wants to be strategic about his class schedule: get there early. Sign up.

Finnish translation: Olipa tylsä postaus, mutta nyt kun opinahjoni linkkasi tämän blogin Flammaankin (!! Flamma fame) niin tuli vähän sellanen kuumotus että pitänee kirjoitella opiskelustakin eikä kaikesta oheistoiminnasta (apinat ja baarit*). Tosiaan, kaikista kummallisinta oli tämä kasarihenkinen lyijykynälomakeilmoittautuminen tässä muuten niin älyttömän kehittyneessä ja ajan hermolla olevassa maassa, mutta oikein kivaa nostalgista vibaa, kuin olisi laittanut vintage-filtterin elämän päälle.

*kuten kaverini sanoi, Ladies’ night = turmio. Nyt syön merilevää ja katson Muumeja.

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Around the NUS campus

The campus is its own city: in essence, you never have to leave if you don’t want to. Besides lecture halls and libraries, you’ll find shops, dozens of restaurants, food courts and cafés, a hospital, running routes, tennis courts, football fields and a free gym & infinity pool here. Free internal campus shuttle buses run all day and will get you anywhere. And everyone you know in this new life of yours lives there. Plus thousands of fellow students and strangers.

Finnish translation: Moikku! Kampus on vehree ja vihree. Tunnelma leppoisa. Paikalliset mukavia. Hinnat opiskelijaystävällisiä.