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Eight tips for insecure new students

When you start at university you start to question your identity, your future, and even your own intelligence. The University Post’s student reporter, who is about to finish her bachelor's degree, shares a few tips: This is what she wished she knew when she started at uni.

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Student life

Illegal textbooks: »Hard to know what is legal«

»If anyone has found an online version and it is being sent around, then this is always pretty cool.« Three students from UCPH talk about their textbook expenses.

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Opinion

Associate Dean: We insist on respect and inclusion

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Opinion

Using the phrase 'Asian disease' during class is not OK

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Student life

Students on price increases: »My card is often rejected«

»It does not help that they increased the earnings ceiling«. Three students talk about how price increases have affected their finances.

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Science

Trine Dahl-Jensen has Danish geophysicist Inge Lehmann as role model

There are still significantly fewer women at the top of Danish research than men. And if we go back in history, there were even fewer women. But they were there. And they are of great importance to the star scientists of today. We met up with seismologist Trine Dahl-Jensen, who talks about her role model Inge Lehmann.

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Student life

Inflation: One out of every ten Danish young people has skipped a meal to save money

Food price hikes are not only leading to student stomach ache. They are lowering the quality of life, and having them use up their savings. This is according to a new consumer survey of Danish young people between the ages of 18 and 30.

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People

Geophysicist wins Carlsberg Foundation prize

Glaciologist and geophysicist Dorthe Dahl-Jensen has received an award from the Carlsberg Foundation for long-standing research into ice cores and climate.

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Student life

Review: Vartovkollegiet — »Sometimes it feels more like a shared house than a dorm«

The Vartov Kollegiet dorm in the inner city is not that big. There is a strong community behind the walls of the red building. And the months pass via a series of permanent traditions which the residents take pride in.

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Culture

Top scientist Eske Willerslev: »Academics don’t enjoy a unique status in Denmark. But we should celebrate each other«

Eske Willerslev wants to bring back the sense of pride to the University of Copenhagen. He wants to reintroduce rituals and ceremonies to heighten students and staff job satisfaction.

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