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When you take notes you forge a deeper connection to your field

Why take notes? To remember, to understand or to become one with the subject matter? All three, in fact, according to a professor of educational sciences. And according to a handwriting expert, your note-taking techniques have their roots in Antiquity

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Student life

Copenhagen student ended up at deportation facility, sent home to China

After a tumultuous process, master's degree student Bingzhi Zhu has now been sent out of Denmark. Up until the last minute, she tried to get her residence permit extended, without success. »Don't feel sorry for me, feel sorry for the Danish system,« she says.

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Student life

4 tips: How to endure all this online teaching just one tiny, tiny bit longer

Try to enjoy the procrastinating and the delaying. And do a marathon reading session with your study group on FaceTime — advice from an expert in digital communication.

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Coronavirus

Do you turn off your camera when you do your online courses? You are not the only one

Many students never turn on the camera for their online courses. But this can be detrimental to students' social relations and well-being, and it negatively affects instructors' motivation.

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Student life

These 11 Copenhagen-based student start-ups are crushing it

As student-founded companies, they wanted to make their mark on the world. Now, after riding the yo-yo up and down the corona year 2020, they are surviving. And even thriving.

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Campus

10 things you will miss out on as a University of Copenhagen student during corona

In the old days, campus was packed with students. They went on intro camps with no hand sanitizer, and they shared beers and other liquids on packed dance floors. Here is everything that you (perhaps) might never get to experience if you start at the University of Copenhagen this year.

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Academic life

No Friday bars, no parties at the University of Copenhagen before the autumn break

The University of Copenhagen has just released guidelines for social events on campus with effect from the start of this semester. It will be a socially-distanced and truncated fall season.

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Academic life

How to live on a student budget in Copenhagen

Start brewing your own coffee, quit buying kebabs on your way home from a night out, and get creative with your gifts for friends and family. Here is the ultimate guide to living on a student budget in expensive Copenhagen.

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Student life

Ten Little Indians And Then There Were None: How do you do intro camp without causing offence in 2019?

In 2018, tutors at the Faculty of Law at The University of Copenhagen were asked to drop a Mexico-themed intro party for new students after complaints of cultural insensitivity. This set off a national debate about identity politics and how to deal with offences. So what are this year's students supposed to do?

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Student life

Beatings, bombs and sex with a pig's head: The university's crazy initiation rituals through the ages

You probably know the hullabaloo: Every year, just around the start of the academic year, the traditional intro camps for freshmen are up for debate. There is too much drinking. Then it’s all about sex. Then the themes are inappropriate. But it is actually a new phenomenon that society outside the university holds an opinion at all about what happens among students.

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