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This article was first published 17 August 2018. It has been updated 21 June 2019. KU has since renewed the design in 2022.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

You might be familiar with online Danish citizen services such as borger.dk and NemID – and you did manage to apply for university online, after all. But greater IT challenges lie ahead.<\/p>\n

Most students agree that the intranet of the University of Copenhagen is tougher to get your head around than complex scientific theory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kunet.dk is your new intranet hub where you can access all the necessary information related to your studies over your career as a student. #Easy you might think. You are a digital native, a keyboard-trained millenial, and used to hunting for information and navigating websites.<\/p>\n

But, dear millenial of the internet generation, it is now time to level up.<\/p>\n

Most students agree that the University of Copenhagen intranet is tougher to get your head around than complex scientific theory. With more than 2TB of data (corresponding to 20 million A4 sides) the intranet is a convoluted mess of information.<\/p>\n

Challenge accepted? Well, there is no way around it anyway.<\/p>\n

The home page – stay updated<\/h3>\n

This is the gateway to almost every portal you will use on a daily basis. It is a good idea to stay updated every day.<\/p>\n

On the home page you will find important messages which are both relevant to your studies and faculty and those targeting the entire university. As you progress along in your studies, it could prove quite catastrophic to miss one of these messages, as they could be related to enrollment deadlines for classes or exams.<\/p>\n

The home page is also where you will find posts about student events and important and not-so-important news.<\/p>\n

KUmail \u2013 information in your inbox<\/h3>\n

Your KUmail is one of the most important communication tools during your studies and you can easily access it from the home page. With an aesthetic that looks like it was inspired by the early days of email, you use this tool to communicate with student administration and professors. All official emails from the university will be sent to your KUmail.<\/p>\n

The three letters and three numbers that form your email address will also become your university identity – this swedish<\/em> number plate, <\/em>which it is also called unofficially,<\/em>\u00a0will follow you until the end of your master\u2019s. So learn it off by heart straight away.<\/p>\n

Check your mail often, as people often forget to do that between work emails and personal emails. Alternatively, you could set it up on your smartphone and get copies sent to your private email address. These guides can be found on KUnet – type ‘KUmail’ into the search field.<\/p>\n

Search box – navigate your way through the site<\/h3>\n

KUnet is packed with information, making it tough to work out what info lies under which heading. That\u2019s where the search box comes in handy.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re completely lost, it could also help to jump over to Google in order to find the result. Sometimes the information you\u2019re looking for isn\u2019t on KUnet at all but on the university\u2019s website, ku.dk or ku.dk\/english. Remember: you can\u2019t \u2018google\u2019 information from KUnet.<\/p>\n

Timetable – keep up with changes<\/h3>\n

The University of Copenhagen has made it easy for you.<\/p>\n

With a few clicks, you can download your personal timetable to your smartphone calendar. Tutorials and lectures are directly plotted in between your coffee dates and football matches, and it will also add the location and professor names.<\/p>\n

If there are changes to the timetable, it will also be adjusted on your smartphone. Now there is no excuse for missing a rescheduled lecture. The timetable can also be found in the new app on KUnet\u2019s home page.
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Absalon – your online classroom<\/h3>\n

Absalon is the digital platform for your different subjects. With an intuitive design, this is where you will find course material, syllabuses, information about your courses – and you can communicate with teaching staff and students.<\/p>\n

You will end up using Absalon a lot over the course of your studies, when you are studying at home or if you need to check up on missed lectures. All professors use the portal in a different way, some use it more than others, which can be confusing, but you will figure it out.<\/p>\n

If you are extra curious, you can check out your Absalon groups already. Study plans and overviews may already be uploaded by your professors.<\/p>\n

Your study information page is essential<\/h3>\n

Your ‘study information’ page is your guide to your upcoming study life. This is where you will find all the information about your program and the future possibilities and choices that are related to your studies. You can access it via ‘my portals’ and under the name of your program.<\/p>\n

This is where you will find information about exchange places, electives and internships. This is also where you can access information about career guidance, criteria for your bachelor thesis and many deadlines and procedures and perhaps most importantly of all, the contact information of all relevant entities at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Self-service – results and enrollment<\/h3>\n

You\u2019ll first become familiar with self-service when ordering your student card. Get it done fast, so you can get discounts – and enter campus after closing hours.<\/p>\n

The new app condenses many of the digital platforms into one handy mobile version<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However self-service also contains a lot of other important elements. This is where, with shaky fingers, you click your way to your first exam results. Just click on ‘Enrolment, courses & exams’ and your grades will appear under ‘Grade results’.<\/p>\n

It is also where you find all the information that is registered about you by the University of Copenhagen, and also where you enroll and unenroll from courses, projects and exams. But don\u2019t get confused by that – during your bachelor you are automatically allocated courses and exams.<\/p>\n

Digital exam – this is where you submit<\/h3>\n

After you\u2019ve slogged through the workload and put the final full stop down on your written exam, you submit it via digital exam. It is fast and easy, but don\u2019t wait until the last minute – imagine if the wifi cuts out or there are technical issues and you don\u2019t submit in time.<\/p>\n

The printer – the eternal struggle<\/h3>\n

You might wind up with an old-school professor who prefers to mark your assignments and exams by hand. This is why you need to be on top of your game with the printer – and that is easier said than done.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t wait until the last minute – KUnet\u2019s guides for hooking up the printer to your computer are long and complicated. Give yourself some time and drink a cup of coffee before testing your patience.<\/p>\n

At South Campus there is a new system, where you can print online (webprint.ku.dk) and your computer doesn’t have to be set up to print. It’s clever but also confusing as new ways often are.<\/p>\n

Or, if you really struggle with technical stuff, take a shortcut and head over to IT support. They\u2019ll know what to do.<\/p>\n

MyUCPH app<\/h3>\n

KUnet\u2019s latest update is made for smartphones, but you can also download the official, internationally titled ‘My UCPH’ app which condenses many of the digital platforms into one handy mobile version, including your personal timetable, information about libraries and a lot of other content. You can find the app in Google Play<\/a> or the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ready to go?<\/h3>\n

Perhaps this guide has helped you, or maybe you are just more confused. But get a head start and click on ‘studiestart’ under your study information page (which unfortunately seems to be all in Danish) This is where you can access good advice on whatever you need – from the digital and social to the academic.<\/p>\n

Good luck!
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Here is a guide for new students who may want some shortcut tips.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":false,"contributors":[{"use_registered_user":true,"user":{"ID":54,"user_firstname":"Sofie","user_lastname":"Broch-Lips","nickname":"sofiebrochlips","user_nicename":"sofiebrochlips","display_name":"Sofie Broch-Lips","user_email":"sofiebrochlips@gmail.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2017-12-05 12:59:07","user_description":"","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/274a1b91489961346c37a81a9cc5260817ab9d81a4a5b0913bd60e1fad2a4926?s=96&d=identicon&r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/274a1b91489961346c37a81a9cc5260817ab9d81a4a5b0913bd60e1fad2a4926?s=192&d=identicon&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"},"contributor_name":"","contributor_title":"","contributor_image":false}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p><em>This article was first published 17 August 2018. It has been updated 21 June 2019. KU has since renewed the design in 2022.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You might be familiar with online Danish citizen services such as borger.dk and NemID – and you did manage to apply for university online, after all. But greater IT challenges lie ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most students agree that the intranet of the University of Copenhagen is tougher to get your head around than complex scientific theory<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kunet.dk is your new intranet hub where you can access all the necessary information related to your studies over your career as a student. #Easy you might think. You are a digital native, a keyboard-trained millenial, and used to hunting for information and navigating websites.<\/p>\n<p>But, dear millenial of the internet generation, it is now time to level up.<\/p>\n<p>Most students agree that the University of Copenhagen intranet is tougher to get your head around than complex scientific theory. With more than 2TB of data (corresponding to 20 million A4 sides) the intranet is a convoluted mess of information.<\/p>\n<p>Challenge accepted? Well, there is no way around it anyway.<\/p>\n<h3>The home page – stay updated<\/h3>\n<p>This is the gateway to almost every portal you will use on a daily basis. It is a good idea to stay updated every day.<\/p>\n<p>On the home page you will find important messages which are both relevant to your studies and faculty and those targeting the entire university. As you progress along in your studies, it could prove quite catastrophic to miss one of these messages, as they could be related to enrollment deadlines for classes or exams.<\/p>\n<p>The home page is also where you will find posts about student events and important and not-so-important news.<\/p>\n<h3>KUmail \u2013 information in your inbox<\/h3>\n<p>Your KUmail is one of the most important communication tools during your studies and you can easily access it from the home page. With an aesthetic that looks like it was inspired by the early days of email, you use this tool to communicate with student administration and professors. All official emails from the university will be sent to your KUmail.<\/p>\n<p>The three letters and three numbers that form your email address will also become your university identity – this <em>swedish<\/em> <em>number plate, <\/em>which it is also called unofficially<em>,<\/em>\u00a0will follow you until the end of your master\u2019s. So learn it off by heart straight away.<\/p>\n<p>Check your mail often, as people often forget to do that between work emails and personal emails. Alternatively, you could set it up on your smartphone and get copies sent to your private email address. These guides can be found on KUnet – type ‘KUmail’ into the search field.<\/p>\n<h3>Search box – navigate your way through the site<\/h3>\n<p>KUnet is packed with information, making it tough to work out what info lies under which heading. That\u2019s where the search box comes in handy.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re completely lost, it could also help to jump over to Google in order to find the result. Sometimes the information you\u2019re looking for isn\u2019t on KUnet at all but on the university\u2019s website, ku.dk or ku.dk\/english. Remember: you can\u2019t \u2018google\u2019 information from KUnet.<\/p>\n<h3>Timetable – keep up with changes<\/h3>\n<p>The University of Copenhagen has made it easy for you.<\/p>\n<p>With a few clicks, you can download your personal timetable to your smartphone calendar. Tutorials and lectures are directly plotted in between your coffee dates and football matches, and it will also add the location and professor names.<\/p>\n<p>If there are changes to the timetable, it will also be adjusted on your smartphone. Now there is no excuse for missing a rescheduled lecture. The timetable can also be found in the new app on KUnet\u2019s home page.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":88225,"id":88225,"title":"64585333_728845077531777_5231878286652473344_n","filename":"645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n.png","filesize":87731,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/guide-how-to-kunet\/64585333_728845077531777_5231878286652473344_n\/","alt":"","author":"70","description":"","caption":"","name":"64585333_728845077531777_5231878286652473344_n","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":72220,"date":"2019-06-21 11:36:43","modified":"2019-06-21 12:38:33","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1344,"height":652,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-480x233.png","medium-width":480,"medium-height":233,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-768x373.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":373,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-1280x621.png","large-width":1280,"large-height":621,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n.png","1536x1536-width":1344,"1536x1536-height":652,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n.png","2048x2048-width":1344,"2048x2048-height":652,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-290x141.png","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":141,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-290x180.png","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-700x340.png","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":340,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/645853337288450775317775231878286652473344n-990x480.png","extended-width":990,"extended-height":480}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"You have access to both news and timetable in the home page."},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h3>Absalon – your online classroom<\/h3>\n<p>Absalon is the digital platform for your different subjects. With an intuitive design, this is where you will find course material, syllabuses, information about your courses – and you can communicate with teaching staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>You will end up using Absalon a lot over the course of your studies, when you are studying at home or if you need to check up on missed lectures. All professors use the portal in a different way, some use it more than others, which can be confusing, but you will figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>If you are extra curious, you can check out your Absalon groups already. Study plans and overviews may already be uploaded by your professors.<\/p>\n<h3>Your study information page is essential<\/h3>\n<p>Your ‘study information’ page is your guide to your upcoming study life. This is where you will find all the information about your program and the future possibilities and choices that are related to your studies. You can access it via ‘my portals’ and under the name of your program.<\/p>\n<p>This is where you will find information about exchange places, electives and internships. This is also where you can access information about career guidance, criteria for your bachelor thesis and many deadlines and procedures and perhaps most importantly of all, the contact information of all relevant entities at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<h3>Self-service – results and enrollment<\/h3>\n<p>You\u2019ll first become familiar with self-service when ordering your student card. Get it done fast, so you can get discounts – and enter campus after closing hours.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new app condenses many of the digital platforms into one handy mobile version<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However self-service also contains a lot of other important elements. This is where, with shaky fingers, you click your way to your first exam results. Just click on ‘Enrolment, courses & exams’ and your grades will appear under ‘Grade results’.<\/p>\n<p>It is also where you find all the information that is registered about you by the University of Copenhagen, and also where you enroll and unenroll from courses, projects and exams. But don\u2019t get confused by that – during your bachelor you are automatically allocated courses and exams.<\/p>\n<h3>Digital exam – this is where you submit<\/h3>\n<p>After you\u2019ve slogged through the workload and put the final full stop down on your written exam, you submit it via digital exam. It is fast and easy, but don\u2019t wait until the last minute – imagine if the wifi cuts out or there are technical issues and you don\u2019t submit in time.<\/p>\n<h3>The printer – the eternal struggle<\/h3>\n<p>You might wind up with an old-school professor who prefers to mark your assignments and exams by hand. This is why you need to be on top of your game with the printer – and that is easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t wait until the last minute – KUnet\u2019s guides for hooking up the printer to your computer are long and complicated. Give yourself some time and drink a cup of coffee before testing your patience.<\/p>\n<p>At South Campus there is a new system, where you can print online (webprint.ku.dk) and your computer doesn’t have to be set up to print. It’s clever but also confusing as new ways often are.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you really struggle with technical stuff, take a shortcut and head over to IT support. They\u2019ll know what to do.<\/p>\n<h3>MyUCPH app<\/h3>\n<p>KUnet\u2019s latest update is made for smartphones, but you can also download the official, internationally titled ‘My UCPH’ app which condenses many of the digital platforms into one handy mobile version, including your personal timetable, information about libraries and a lot of other content. You can find the app in <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=dk.ku.myucph&hl=en\">Google Play<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/dk\/app\/myucph\/id897989924\">App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Ready to go?<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps this guide has helped you, or maybe you are just more confused. But get a head start and click on ‘studiestart’ under your study information page (which unfortunately seems to be all in Danish) This is where you can access good advice on whatever you need – from the digital and social to the academic.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"da","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"Read more","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":2932,"post_author":"12","post_date":"2021-06-19 07:50:36","post_date_gmt":"2021-06-19 05:50:36","post_content":"<em>This article was first published 14 September 2016. It has been updated 2019 and 2021.<\/em>\r\n\r\nYou can\u2019t bear the thought of returning to the library-brown corridors of the university after a long summer break now that the weather gods have finally promised good weather?\r\n\r\nNo need to despair. The University of Copenhagen has loads of parks and green areas that are excellent for introductory beers and late summer homework.\r\n\r\nTIP: Watch out for Amorphophallus titanum, which continues to be the subject of particular attention. The plant is better known as the corpse flower, or in Danish the penis flower, due to its phallic-like design. It blooms only for a few days every several years, then smelling, according to reports, of rotten meat. Now you have a story to impress your fellow students on your park tour.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n<h2>The romantic one: Landboh\u00f8jskolen Garden<\/h2>\r\nIn the old agricultural college in the quiet Frederiksberg district is a quiet set of university gardens. Forget the failed pickup lines in the Friday bar and invite your crush on a tour of the Landboh\u00f8jskolen Garden. The park is laid out in the style of classic romanticism, and with more than 6,000 plant varieties, there are enough conversation topics for even the most inexperienced daters.\r\n\r\nIn the garden you will find the cozy V\u00e6ksthuset caf\u00e9 where the barista brewed coffee is so good that the place has won the University Post prize for the University of Copenhagen\u2019s best coffee shop.\r\n\r\nAs a bonus, the V\u00e6ksthuset is run by volunteers from the Faculty of Science, and your study card gives you discounts on coffee and food. If the date really ends well you can finish off with a bottle of ros\u00e9 for DKK 179.\r\n\r\nTIP: In the middle of the garden there is a small footbridge over a park lake. Pure H. C. Andersen, and the perfect place to gather up your courage for that first kiss.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<h2>The party one: University park<\/h2>\r\n<em>Universitetsparken <\/em>on North Campus is the epicenter of the annual Spring Festival. Pre-pandemic, more than 12.000 sociable students and employees participated in the festivities.\r\n\r\nBut the university park, Universitetsparken, is always worth a visit.\r\n\r\nThe park is relatively informal with its flat lawns well suited to games like softball and beer bowling. In the bright sun, a trip to the university park can be a good way to relax and spend the day with new or old classmates. Incidentally: Volunteers planted more than 10,000 wild plants in the university park in 2016. So the place is also for you with green fingers.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n<h2>The hidden one: Sun garden <em>Solhaven<\/em> at CSS city campus<\/h2>\r\nThe Center for Health and Society (CSS) campus in the city is steeped in history and leather-bound books. So much that we sometimes forget that the brown-yellow buildings and associated gardens right up to 1995 were used as a municipal hospital and not as a university campus.\r\n\r\nTucked away in a corner of CSS you will find <em>Solhaven<\/em> - easiest to access via the entrance at Gammeltoftsgade - unless you want to test your sense of direction in the labyrinthine CSS hallways.\r\n\r\nOn most days, it is dead quiet, but during intro weeks and on the CSS campus day it is full speed ahead. Enjoy a cup of coffee from the Caf\u00e9 Kommunen at CSS, or walk in to the all-day opening hours political science bar Jacques D and take out a couple of beers out into the lovely garden.\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n<h2>The edible one: Pometet<\/h2>\r\nWe admit that the Pometet with its Taastrup location is not a simple getaway after class. But the Pometet with its collection of fruit trees and bushes is a fun, and different tour, to take your fellow students on. The park, which is part of the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, exhibits more than 750 varieties of apples and a large number of berry and nuts varieties.\r\n<h2>The one that's still fresh: SUND Nature Park by the Maersk Building<\/h2>\r\nThe new landmark of the University of Copenhagen has been covered in prizes since its official opening in January 2019. Prizes for the roof, front, and interior. But the building is more than just the neat shaped bronze tower. It is also a green area, created for the students to get fresh air to the brain, especially in the warm late summer.\r\n\r\nPanum's old parking lots between N\u00f8rre All\u00e9 and Blegdamsvej has been shut down and replaced by poppies and cornflowers, tall grass and exotic species of plants.\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\n<h2>The modern one: Karen Blixens Plads on South Campus<\/h2>\r\n\u00bbKUA is a place where the spirit cannot thrive\u00ab. This was the harsh verdict on the old KUA buildings from Professor of Comparative Literature, Erik A. Nielsen, back in 1995. But that was then. Twenty years later KUA, which is now called South Campus, no longer exhibit the gray shades of drab asphalt.\r\n\r\nStrictly speaking, there is no park at South Campus - yet.\u00a0 But a winner among students is Karen Blixens Plads.\r\n\r\nWho said that the island of Amager could not be charming?\n<!-- end of module 6 -->\n","post_title":"Six University of Copenhagen parks and gardens","post_excerpt":"There are loads of green areas on the University of Copenhagen campus. We did the leg work and review six of the parks here.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"six-university-of-copenhagen-parks-and-gardens","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-07-01 10:16:44","post_modified_gmt":"2021-07-01 08:16:44","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=2932\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":82281,"post_author":"5","post_date":"2019-02-27 07:08:49","post_date_gmt":"2019-02-27 06:08:49","post_content":"<em>This article was first published 27 Februar 2019. It has been updated 19 June 2019.<\/em>\r\n<h1>North Campus<\/h1>\r\n<h3>1. The cross-disciplinary one: Caf\u00e9en?<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82163\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/cafeen-700x467.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>It is called the \u2018Caf\u00e9en?\u2019, but it is actually more like a bar. And the beers usually get far more attention than the coffee. The coffee is in the corner of the bar and is free if you are a member. You can be a member for DKK 25 a year. The coffee either comes in porcelain mugs (and bring your own with you, they say) from an assorted collection, or in paper cups, and tastes as if it was brewed a few hours ago. There is no fresh milk, but there is coffee creamer and nice science students from various disciplines.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> Free (requires membership)\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Wednesday 12-20, Thursday 12-22, Friday 12-03\r\n<h3>2 The one with a disco: Studenterklubben<\/h3>\r\nThe medicine students\u2019 underground student club scores many points just by being the only coffee spot with a disco ball hanging from the ceiling. Blue Irma-branded coffee is served, tea and various carbonated drinks \u2013 and when there is milk, you can get a bit in your coffee too. You can borrow games or read the day's newspaper among the multitudes of medical students, who apparently don\u2019t walk around in lab coats all the time. Disappointing. And then there is table football. A big plus.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> Free\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 11-17.\r\n<h3>3. The inventive one: Biocentret<\/h3>\r\nEvery now and again at North Campus, you find the 'fancy' coffee machines which spit out something different from the normal, yesterday's, brew. In the canteens at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Insitute and in the August Krogh building, an espresso costs DKK 18, but at the Biocenter you can make do with a round DKK 10. If you mix it up with water, you get an americano. Now that\u2019s clever. And don't worry, if you would rather have the kind of coffee you know, you can get that too.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 7:45\u201314:30, Friday 7:45\u201314\r\n\r\nTIP: When we asked the students at the Faculty of Science where they preferred to take their daily caffeine fix, we got the following reply: 'The canteen at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Institute has probably the worst coffee at the University of Copenhagen'. So you should avoid that. Speaking of which, the researchers at Maersk Tower have coffee on tap. Like in water taps. For real.\r\n<h1>South Campus<\/h1>\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n<h3>1. The much-loved: Helga<\/h3>\r\nAt South Campus, Helga is loved by all and sundry. Here you can drink fair-trade organic Peter Larsen coffee in soft leather sofas, while you practise memorising royal lineages. It is nice here, and the coffee is cheap. Rumours have it that students from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies also traverse the roof terrace to enjoy Helga\u2019s black gold. The musicians from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and a few stray lawyers have also been spotted here.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 4\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45\r\n<h3>2. The creative one: Roland Bar<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82174\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/roland-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>In Roland Bar, which is mainly populated by students from the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, even the coffee tastes ... creative. The coffee is, however, neither complex nor ornate, but Roland Bar is still a place you would like to hang out in. Everybody who comes through the door, is greeted with a welcome, and between the seats in the various levels and the board games, it feels a bit like being at home with your wacky aunt.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 (+ DKK 5 which you get back when you return your coffee cup)\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 9-17, Friday 9\u201323:45\r\n<h3>3. For the weekend warriors: Hava Java<\/h3>\r\nYou always have your beans at hand at Hava Java in KUA1, KUA2 and KUA3. Among the humanists in KUA2 the coffee bar is called the M\u00f8destedet or meeting place, while the lawyers at KUA3 have not yet named theirs. In KUA1 you'll find the coffee shop as a part of the large canteen in building 23. It is not the cheapest coffee on campus, but it keeps the Copenhagen standard and the large cups are actually large. A huge plus. The M\u00f8destedet is also open on both Saturday and Sunday. A giant plus.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 10, DKK 12 in a to go cup and DKK 8 if you bring your own cup\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> KUA1 and KUA3: Monday-Friday 7.30-16.30\r\nKUA2: Monday-Friday 7.30-21, Saturday-Sunday 9-16.30\r\n<h1>Frederiksberg Campus<\/h1>\r\n<h3>1. The one with Liselotte: Gimle<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82171\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/gimle-700x541.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Frederiksberg Campus has two canteens - Gumle and Gimle. Reliable sources say that you need to go to Gimle, when you need your coffee fix. Not because the coffee here is better than most other places, but because you will find Liselotte here, who is the world's most committed and nicest canteen lady. During the day there is not much of a queue for the coffee, but during lunch break, there are white lab coats all the way down the stairs. So you have to either resign yourself to standing in a queue like on Black Friday or skip the coffee.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 5 for a small cup, DKK 10 for a large one.\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Thursday 11\u201314, Friday 11\u201313:30\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<h3>2. The one with a view: V\u00e6ksthuset<\/h3>\r\nIn the beautiful gardens of the former Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, you will find one of the best cups of coffee of the University of Copenhagen with the most beautiful view. Unfortunately, it is probably also the most expensive. The Caf\u00e9 V\u00e6ksthuset greenhouse is cold (and closed) in winter, but in summer, the glass building is generally packed \u2013 and steaming hot. In view of the fact that it is a greenhouse, the temperature fluctuations make sense. Even though the coffee is way above average, it is difficult to determine whether it is worth the price.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 25 (including student discount)\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> (summer) Wednesday-Sunday 9-17\r\n<h3>3. The one for the DIY people: The library<\/h3>\r\nWhen you got desperate for coffee at [secretimage face=\"the university library in Frederiksbreg, KUB Frb\" imageid=\"82167\"], in the old days, you would have been able to head for a monstrosity of a coffee machine. Unfortunately they have all been laid to rest. But nothing suggests that they will be replaced by another instant coffee with milk powder solution. But fear not! It is still possible to get your daily fix \u2013 if you just stay ahead a bit. The library has a nespresso machine for free use (we think), so if you bring your own cartridges, you can still get you a cup of black gold. The good news is that the capsules from the discount supermarket Netto work fine.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> The price of your capsules\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday\u2013Thursday 8\u201321, Friday 8\u201318, Saturday-Sunday: 10\u201317\r\n\r\nTIP: Frederiksberg and North Campus are battling for the worst coffee of UCPH. \u00bbOn a good day it is just bad,\u00ab said one student of natural resource management. For the late afternoons you can bring your own instant-mix and use the tea kitchenette at the main entrance on Thorvaldsensvej \u2013 or go to A-vej, which is the student bar on Dyrl\u00e6gevej 7.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n<h1>City Campus<\/h1>\r\n<h3>1. The international Studenterhuset caf\u00e9<\/h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-82168\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/studenterhuset-700x463.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/>The Studenterhuset caf\u00e9 is paradise for the international students, and the coffee can be enjoyed by everyone. Here you can get a barista coffee for a student discount, and all students at the University of Copenhagen get a discount on everything. This is a concept that you can understand. The filtered coffee is fine. Not exciting, but it is neither bitter nor watery. The cappuccino comes with a foamy kind of art, but varies in strength. With the price, quality, the number of power outlets and the option for you to bring your own food, this is clearly a recommended spot.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 12 and DKK 6 for a refill including student discount\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday \u2013 Wednesday 9\u201323.45, Thursday 9-01, Friday 9\u201303, Saturday 10-02, Sunday 10-22\r\n<h3>2. The one with the queue: Kommunen<\/h3>\r\nThe Kommunen is the beating heart of the Center for Health and Society (CSS) campus, both when it comes to Friday bars and thirst for coffee. The coffee is from Peter Larsen - and both organic, fair trade, and cheap. Unfortunately this is nothing that you should write a letter home about. The coffee in the 12 different thermos jugs waiting for the coffee-hungry hordes, switches between being unusually watery and a kind of tar-like black. But there is both a wide selection of milks, the option of \u00bd litre cups and chocolate biscuits for a krone \u2013 and this really helps things.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 4 for a small cup, DKK 8 for a large one.\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-16.\n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n<h3>3. The undefinable: Jacques Delors<\/h3>\r\nIn a basement at the Center for Health and Society there is a monstrosity of a coffee machine. The coffee machine belongs to the political science students' Friday bar and hangout \u2013 Jacques Delors, and it can really spit out a lot of interesting drinks. It is open, when everything else is closed, but it should only be used in desperate cases. The brown substance in the cup is at best suspect, and you cannot taste the difference between latte, cappuccino and wiener melange.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price:<\/strong> DKK 3\r\n<strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Monday-Friday 8-20.\r\n\r\nTIP: There is an unknown, blessed, soul who has donated an electric kettle to the reading room in the corridor in building 4, so you can slurp instant coffee at any time of day. Alternatively, you can even brew mocha in the kitchen that is located by the sociologists\u2019 and anthropologists' common room, the Katedralen.\r\n\r\n<em>Translated by Mike Young<\/em>\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\n","post_title":"Test of coffee on campus: The good, the bad and the one that tastes like tar","post_excerpt":"From bog water to the elixir of life. At the University of Copenhagen, your favourite brew comes in all varieties. The University Post has checked out the caf\u00e9s, the coffee machines, and the coffee powder stockpiles, and found the best (and worst) coffee spots.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"test-of-coffee-on-campus-the-good-the-bad-and-the-one-that-tastes-like-tar-2","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-08-17 11:53:55","post_modified_gmt":"2020-08-17 09:53:55","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/test-af-kaffe-paa-campus-den-gode-den-onde-og-den-der-smager-af-tjaere\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":73170,"post_author":"68","post_date":"2018-08-27 14:02:13","post_date_gmt":"2018-08-27 12:02:13","post_content":"For many students at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), the working day is made up of about 12 lessons a week that actually entail having your butt in your seat. The rest of your time is spent on independent study \u2013 the art of churning through 40-page articles in your syllabus, or endless weekly assignments.\r\n\r\nIt may take many years before you really find out how you best do the studying. Some get up early and take up all the spots in the best reading rooms from 8-16. Others sleep in, and pore over the difficult words until late at night instead.\r\n\r\nNo matter what kind of person you are, the reading rooms can be a great help in structuring your time effectively and meeting other students. But UCPH is a maze of campuses and departments, and the range of places to study may seem completely overwhelming. The University Post therefore offers you a guide to all the reading rooms you can use to fight the pile of unread syllabus literature.\r\n\r\nGood luck!\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nNorth Campus is the home of students from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and has a very respectable selection of reading spots where you can sit with a thick book or discuss theorems with your fellow students. The aula at the H.C. \u00d8rsted Institute is, in particular, frequently used for homework and projects. But actual reading rooms are few and far between.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> KUB Nord, which rolls off the tongue better than its official name 'The Faculty Library of the Natural and Health Sciences' is a favourite among UCPH people from several faculties. In addition to having almost 500 student places, the library has a nice mix of reading rooms, conference rooms and quiet study spaces. The majority of students are in hardcore study mode when they hit KUB Nord so you can easily end up sitting between a mathematician cursing imaginary numbers and a medical student memorising types of wound treatments. Quiet spaces are to be found in the old reading room and in the two silent reading rooms that are associated with the book hall\u2019s ground floor. Group spaces are in the Info room (the room with murals) and on both floors in the book hall.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> If you get hungry, KUB Nord has a very honest cafeteria where you can get the dish of the day and other good things. Automatic coffee in the ground floor costs DKK 8, but look around and bring your own coffee cup. If you end up choosing the wrong machine and even have to get a paper cup, you may end up paying caf\u00e9 prices. In addition, KUB Nord has a small lunch kitchen for free use. Here you will find a kettle, a microwave and a fridge.\r\n\r\nHow to get there: KUB Nord is at the intersection between Tagensvej and N\u00f8rre All\u00e9. The address is N\u00f8rre Alle 49 and the building is almost impossible to overlook. In front is an extensive grassy area, which can, of course, be a major diversion on sunny days.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> At the Mathematical Library, there are books as far as the eye can see. In two storeys. The library is in the large central room in the Hans Christian \u00d8rsted Institute, and contains several long rows of black tables with grey reading lamps. The reading lamps are usually bent into all kinds of strange angles: perhaps because they are never really used, perhaps because the students do an awful lot to get the lamps to shine absolutely perfect. If you are not the reading lamp type, you can familiarise yourself with the fluorescent yellow lights, or withdraw to the aula with one of the many books.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> Just turn towards the ground floor and the lobby of the Hans Christian \u00d8rsted Institute. Here you will find the canteen. It will send you off with a cup of scalding hot coffee when you and your books turn up in the wee hours of the morning. Your caffeine-shaky hands and tired eyes can also find coffee in the canteen at the Biocenter or at the August Krogh Institute (we have heard on the grapevine that the Biocentre has the best canteen).\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> On the clever map graphics showing North Campus, you can see that the reading room is actually located in building 4. But it will all make sense once you enter the building. Up to the 1st floor and then into the largest room you can find.\r\n\r\n \n<!-- end of module 4 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> If you are going through some heavy syllabus, and your eyes glaze over at the thought of the next exam, it might be a good idea to got to Panum to do your readings. Here you are surrounded by future medical doctors. Last year, several of Panum's reading rooms got a significant upgrade. One of them, which is now light, and can seat approximately 100 students, is said to be so popular you may be forced to sit on the floor, if you don\u2019t arrive on time. And it is supposed to be extremely quiet. We heard that you go through a soundproofed lock on your way in.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> At Panum, there are four obvious coffee spots. Maersk Tower has a combined canteen and caf\u00e9 (Bldg. 38) which, like many other of the UCPH canteens, is run by Chartwells. Here, the going rate is usually DKK 5 for a small cup of regular (i.e. black, filter) coffee from the machine and DKK 10 for a large one. Apart from this, there is an outlier canteen at the dentists (Bldg. 18.2), and the Shabaz coffee bar, which, according to the large sprawling Panum map is between buildings 9 and 15, near the Panum Student Club. Shabaz has an excellent menu, but the prices feel more like a caf\u00e9 in the trendy Vesterbro district.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> It is actually almost impossible to miss Panum. And it is impressive if you can find your way around the huge complex.\n<!-- end of module 5 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The reading room is not for the faint-hearted. You do your readings here flanked by body parts with needles in them and science\u2019y things in large display cases, so the medical students have something to, well, study. Last year, this reading room was moved down into the \u201cgrave\" or the basement, and somewhere in Panum's dark cellars, there is also another grisly reading room with lots of - things - in jars. But this is not for everyone. So leave it to the medical students and keep in the well-lit areas. And near a door, so you still have a chance to find your out of the complex.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The four coffee spots we have found for you above, also work here. The Student Club at Panum also serves cheap coffee and cake. Rumours have it that they serve free coffee during lunch hours.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> The reading room is located in building 14, down in the aforementioned grave. Panum has been gracious enough to draw up a map of the site to us, the lost souls. You can find it here.\n<!-- end of module 6 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> KUA1, at the Faculty of Humanities, just prefers not to be a part of the conversation when it comes to good reading rooms. You can understand this, as the original KUA building did not offer much to the bookworm. Both the IKK (Arts and Cultural Studies), NoRS (Nordic Studies and Linguistics) and (English, Germanic and Romance Studies) Engerom departments have, however, libraries for the humanities and several of them even have a nice view of Njalsgade street.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> It is actually coffee in, coffee out at the KUA1 complex. The canteen is nearby and then there is the Nordisk Kaffebar which is always good for cheap (and organic) coffee and snacks.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> The IKK and Engerom libraries can be found on the third floor of building 21 and 23, respectively. Biblo-NoRS is distributed throughout building 21 and 27. So you might have to take out the large map of KUA to find them.\n<!-- end of module 7 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The high-ceiling new building from 2014 offers a wide variety of study spots in all shapes and formats. The departments ToRS, MEF and SAXO each have reading rooms in each of their knowledge centres, which (apparently) is a fancy word for library. Here you can, for example, be surrounded by Japanese literature while you study it. Especially the ToRs Library is highly praised by a number of students, who also give kudos to the librarian S\u00f8ren (#s\u00f8renforprez). However, users of the library also points to the pile up of books that master's thesis writers deposit in six-month intervals in the reading room.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> From the glass-clad reading rooms you can look directly down at the caf\u00e9 Wicked Rabbit in the centre of KUA2. The name alludes to the rabbit food aka vegetarian products on the menu. But it does also include coffee and smoothies.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> KUA2 is located in the middle of the South Campus-labyrinth and is located off Njalsgade street. From the building 13 information desk you can look up to the three libraries. They are behind the glass panes of the 1st and 2nd floor in buildings 10, 12 and 14.\n<!-- end of module 8 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> KUA3 is where the theology, law and information science students belong. In the middle of the building, you will find a large, bright atrium with surprisingly good acoustics. The main aula itself is buzzing with movement, you can sit and work in groups, and yet the sound levels rarely exceed what you find in an ordinary caf\u00e9. One end of the room is dominated by an outsized stairs. Here, the steps are large enough to be used as tables, but you can also jump behind the stairs to the silent reading room. Here it is not quite as bright, but it is verging on scarily quiet. If you still want to be able to do concentrated work, but have an easy buzz of happy people in the background, then look up to the 2nd and 3rd floors. Almost all the way around the atrium, you will find reading rooms and spaces, where you and your favourite statute book should be able to find a corner.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The need for coffee is something that KUA3 clearly understands. No matter where you are in the building, it is never far to a caffeine fix. Apart from the canteen, which should be more or less OK, but which is only open between 11 and 14, you will find the coffee bar Hava Java close to the entrance at the Islands Brygge metro station. They are open until 8 pm on weekdays - finally some opening hours that make sense. At the top of the building, tucked away in a corner, you will find the law students' hang out \u2013 the parakaffen. If you can find it, they usually also have cheap coffee. And if all else fails and you're sitting on a Sunday evening at 18:00 at KUA3 and have the craving, you can, as a last resort, turn towards the coffee machines at the entrance to the atrium.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> KUA3 is the UCPH building which is closest to the metro. When you turn up (out of breath) up the stairs at the Islands Brygge station simply turn away from \u00d8restad Boulevard and veer slightly to the right, and the glass and concrete-clad building towers up in front of you.\n<!-- end of module 9 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> One of South Campus' glass bricks is home to the Humanities library, which offers the most airy impression you can ever imagine for a reading room. There is plenty of light and views of the sky above the Islands Brygge district. This means the space for big ideas, while you are entranced by the cloud formations. There is actually so much space that you are not (really) bothered by your studymate\u2019s jaw gymnastics when their candy, carrots and other all-too-hard snacks need to be consumed. There are places on the 1st floor, where small talk is permitted, while there is the more traditional reading room silence on the 2nd floor. You can also book smaller rooms for group work, if you want the option of mouthing off to the studymate in your group whose discourse analysis is complete nonsense.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> KUA\u2019s large canteen is a minute-and-a-half walk away, so the selection of both drinks and solid fare is fine. If you don\u2019t get the coffee in the canteen, it can be had for DKK 8 in the machine.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> Between KUA1 and KUA2 it is a square, glass behemoth. This is the faculty library. Go there. Open your book. Finished.\n<!-- end of module 10 -->\nThe CSS complex is a very twisty thing and it is (unfortunately) not a misprint when the map tells you that when you want to go to building 4, it is the one located between building 8 and building 26, and on the other side is building 18, which apparently is only called building 18 when you are in the basement, but if you go through building 18 and up to the first floor, you need to use a different entrance, which also includes building 15. And the Library of the Social Sciences on Gothersgade street is building 709-1 in accordance with the same system.\n<!-- end of module 11 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The Faculty of Social Sciences Library has 292 study spots and extends over three floors, four silent reading rooms, six group rooms and several lounge areas. The library, perhaps due to its location close to N\u00f8rreport, attracts students from several campuses, and you should not turn up too far late in the morning if you want to make sure you get one of the good spots. Even though thick books are read here, and many curses are uttered over incomprehensible Bauman-quotes, the atmosphere is relatively relaxed. The building's many group rooms and offbeat ideas give a good flow for your reading. And you can borrow slippers if you get cold feet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The only major negative for the Faculty of Social Sciences Library is that they do not have a coffee bar (however, an enterprising man has spotted it, and often has a coffee van out in front). If you have your own instant cup and have brought your own cup with you, the library offers kitchen and electric kettles, so even though it requires preparation, you can easily get your caffeine craving satisfied, while you fight your way through the latest addition to your own home library.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> The Faculty of Social Sciences library in Gothersgade is, depending on where you cross the road, 270-280 metres from N\u00f8rreport. It takes a minute on the bike, and somewhere between 3 and 5 minutes to walk, so it's no wonder that the building is an attractive place to study.\n<!-- end of module 12 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> You have to really sneak around the CSS reading room in building 4 if you want to stay friends with everyone. High heels, fancy shoes, or crunchy carrots quickly trigger glances of indignation from your fellow students. On the other hand, you have plenty of room to spread out in the three reading rooms, four group rooms, and one newspaper room that you can find here. Each seat is shielded off and has a reading lamp, so you can sit in deep concentration, and you do not even have to put the books back when the darkness falls over CSS, which used to be the old municipal hospital.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The social science students at CSS, have made sure there are lots of coffee options. Just outside building 4, you will find the student-run Caf\u00e9 Kommunen. The coffee is cheap here, but because different students are behind the brewing process, the quality swings dramatically. In addition, CSS has two canteens, the big one and the secret one, where a small cup costs DKK 5 and a large one costs DKK 10. If you're looking for an adventure, you can see if you can't find the caf\u00e9 in building 35, where the prices are the same, but where you don\u2019t have to line up in the lunch queue.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> Building 4 is actually one of the easier places to find. If you go into CSS from \u00d8ster Farimagsgade street you end up in a courtyard. On the right side, at the back of the yard, you will find a staircase up to building 4. (Tip: The nice campus officers have put up signs outside all the buildings, so you are hopefully just a little less lost)\n<!-- end of module 13 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> You can quickly overlook the small reading room that is hidden in one of the cellars of the old municipal hospital. It doesn\u2019t make a big show of itself, and for good reason. The prison lives up to its name: The sunlight hardly reaches the heavy iron windows and the lack of oxygen in the room will require extra coffee breaks. On the other hand, there is always space and no distractions in the reading room. In this way, the Prison is good for syllabus reading between lessons, where the good study spots have been taken up already by the early rising (and possessive) students. You really want to get out of here, and this could also be a motivating factor.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The Caf\u00e9 Kommunen offers well-sized and cheap coffee cups for the prison time of your own choosing. But if this calls for more energy than candy bars and caffeine, the juice machines and salads in the canteen in building 5 with so-called street food from large parts of the world (including hot dogs on Fridays) in building 4. If you, for one reason or another, cannot get your daily caffeine fix in one of these places, you will have to go for a hunt among the students' Friday bars. If you can find them, that is.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> This is one of the more circumstantial ones. If you come marching into CSS from \u00d8ster Farimagsgade street, walk through the first gate (it is called 5A). Then you can, while standing beneath the entrance, at the gate, turn down into a basement door on your left hand. When you have done this, you'll be in a long concrete corridor, that often smells of damp. You pass some yellow lockers \u2013 and continue. At some point the reading room appears on your left hand. We wish you the best of luck.\n<!-- end of module 14 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> At Frederiksberg Campus, there are not many reading rooms to choose from. In fact the library might be the only one. In addition to KUB Frb., the students can, however, hide in a number of group rooms, or shielded tables\/benches in the aula on campus. But the library is cherished by the students. On the Facebook page the place and the staff are praised by several students, and with 300 reading spaces, there are plenty of places to sit down.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> Those with caffeine dependency on KUB Frederiksberg have, the way we reckon it, two choices. You either go to the left corner, at the library entrance (where there is also a sink), otherwise you towards the S-vej street. You will do that at around 17 anyway, but if you are not quite ready to flip open a can yet, you can turn in to the door next to the work of art, instead of going in through the A-vej gate.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> KUB Frederiksberg is on Dyrl\u00e6gevej 10, right up to the Landboh\u00f8jskolens Have (gardens) and the Frederiksberg Campus. If you have shopping or caf\u00e9 needs, you are sitting dangerously close to the centre of Frederikberg and the Frederiksberg Centret shopping mall.\n<!-- end of module 15 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> Reading Room North in the Royal Library reminds you of the time before the expensive glass buildings and Apple monitors. In the glow of the emerald green reading lamps, you can almost feel history. Like when Vladimir Lenin sat at space 9 in 1910. You might not be figuring out how to start the October Revolution, but the high ceilings give plenty of play to your thoughts. The diamond - which is built as an extension to the old library \u2013 offers just as much beauty in a more modern setting. Here you find both the reading room East, West and E\/F West, where the light from Copenhagen\u2019s canals streams in through large glass sections. There is\u00a0[secrettext face=\"silence in the reading rooms\" text=\"People actually shush at you so keep your carrots and high-heeled shoes at home.\"] but in the so-called information room there is space for group work. You should be aware of the presence of tourists, however, who want to capture the attractive study environment (and thereby you too) in their selfies.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The Diamond's Caf\u00e9 \u00d8ieblikket serves delicious cortados, but if it is at the end of the month, you can also snap up some coffee that is less oriented towards hipsters. Here you can enjoy your liver paste sandwich or get bounty bars and a coffee from a nice machine.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> Take the futuristic escalator directly back to the study future. On the 1st floor, you will find Reading Room West and East, which are on the right and left side of the Diamond. The old reading room (East) is further back in the old building.\n<!-- end of module 16 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The Round Tower glances at you knowingly, while you bury yourself in your books at the Studenterhuset. Perhaps you know the ground floor best as the backdrop to a number of your nights out, but the Studenterhuset also has space for you to immerse yourself in your studies. On the 1st floor, you will find an actual reading room, which consists of a number of four-man tables. An ideal place for group work. In the evening, you should probably reckon on having a festive soundtrack to your curriculum, but during the day the sound level is very reasonable on K\u00f8bmagergade 52.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> As a UCPH student, you always have a discount on coffee and other beverages at the Studenterhuset. A black pot of coffee costs DKK 40, but you can also get an excellent cappuccino for DKK 26 with your student card. And so you can end the day with a cheap beer on tap.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> Follow the tourist crowds from N\u00f8rreport to the Round Tower, but continue to the next building and turn into the Studenterhuset instead. The narrow spiral staircase leads up to the small reading room.\n<!-- end of module 17 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The location could hardly be better for the large library in the inner city. Right next to the pedestrian streets it is the perfect meeting place for study group discussions, if you had a trip planned to the H&M sales further down the road. On the 3rd floor, there are two small reading rooms, where you only have to be quiet in one of them. But throughout the building there are countless reading and study spaces for the curious students. Get used to the smell of freshly baked croissants, and bring your ear buds with you. The main library operates with large, open spaces and is not free of background noise, despite its immersed visiting clientele.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> The associated coffee bar Democratic Coffee is in the competition for the city's best croissants and pastries. But the Netto supermarket is not many metres away, if you are more into the rye bread.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> You can just wave to the soldiers outside the Jewish Synagogue before you turn in through the revolving door to the main library. On the third floor you will find the reading room, but otherwise take the escalator a couple of times to find vacant study spaces. There is demand for them, so turn up early.\n<!-- end of module 18 -->\n<strong>This is what it is like:<\/strong> The national research library for visual arts, architecture, art history and museology is right up at the tourist paradise Nyhavn. The library has both a small reading room and a number of lounge areas which are open during the period 11:00-17:30. Here you have access to everything from art archives and books to architectural models and sketchbooks.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to satisfy your caffeine craving:<\/strong> You'd better fill up your energy stores before you step into the Nyhavn 2 address. Here, at least, there is no coffee, but on weekdays, the Charlottensborg restaurant Apollo offers an extremely insta-friendly lunch.\r\n\r\n<strong>How to get there:<\/strong> The library shares the building with the art gallery Kunsthal Charlottenborg, located on the other side of the tourist mecca Nyhavn.\r\n\r\nBut you don\u2019t have to move between tourist groups and crowds every time you want to find a study space. In most cases, you can easily find a secluded spot on your own campus. Then, you won\u2019t have to go far to go to the Friday bar.\n<!-- end of module 19 -->\n","post_title":"Guide to Copenhagen reading rooms","post_excerpt":"It can be hard to pull yourself together when your sofa is your bed, and there is a Magnum ice lolly in the freezer. Lucky for you, the University Post has set up this extensive (but not exhaustive) guide to Copenhagen's many reading rooms. So now you are at least one step closer to getting the curriculum over with.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"guide-to-copenhagen-reading-rooms","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-04-29 09:32:43","post_modified_gmt":"2021-04-29 07:32:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/den-store-laesesalsguide\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":54782,"post_author":"14","post_date":"2017-09-12 10:02:04","post_date_gmt":"2017-09-12 08:02:04","post_content":"<h2>1. Save up<\/h2>\r\nIt costs money to begin at university. Between all the trips to IKEA, the books, and the travel cards for commuting, starting to study can end up being expensive, so it's smart to save up a bit before you take off. There are also expenses for social activities such as introduction week, which you can easily forget on the go \u2013 and all the beers you are going to drink at the Friday bar don\u2019t pay for themselves.\r\n<h2>2. Learn the lingo<\/h2>\r\nOn campus you will hear many new and strange expressions \u2013 they are a part of the particular language code that is used on campus. The UCPH language is a distinctive \u00a0[secrettext face=\"sociolect\" text=\"variant of a language used by members of a specific social group - a kind of group language\"]\u00a0filled with absurd abbreviations and very long words that it takes time to learn. Do yourself a favour and read up on some of the university's lingo before starting studies so you can easier follow the conversation and laugh at the right time. We have done some of the work for you on Danish university-related terminology. Find our (Danish) guide to uni-lingo<a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/uni-lingo-din-ordbog-til-koebenhavns-universitet\/\"> here<\/a>.\r\n<h2>3. Make friends<\/h2>\r\nEven though there are many things you have to keep track of, make a point of showing up at social events and Friday bars on your new study programme \u2013 even if you don\u2019t feel in a festive mood. You can just drink a tonic without the gin, the important thing is that you spend time with your new classmates and make an effort to get to know them. This community may carry you through the really tough, troubled times of your programme of study \u2013 like having to study for a new exam in methodology.\r\n<h2>4. Have hobbies<\/h2>\r\nExtra-curricular activities can give you back the energy for your daily life. It can be anything from embroidery, to a trip to the practice room, the gym or football pitch, and this will give you significantly less of a bad conscience than a Netflix marathon, and it will make your studies easier. Not everything in your life needs to be about your new study programme, and it's both healthy and nice to take a break and clear your head.\r\n<h2>5. Relax<\/h2>\r\nRemember to \u2018check out\u2019 every now and again, and take a break. Thousands of things happen at the start of your studies, and it's not easy to be both social with your new reading group, and keep up old friendships, while at the same time being a good student and reading up on your entire syllabus. Give yourself breaks and breathers along the way - it's okay. Nobody can do everything all the time \u2013 even if it looks that way on Instagram. It is, seriously, not good to end up as a stress statistic.\r\n<h2>6. Be social<\/h2>\r\nIt might be a good idea to sign up for the Friday bar committee, the book club or any other campus associations. You learn to know the university in a completely different way when you commit to more than just reading the curriculum. It's also a great opportunity to get to know people from other student cohorts and study programmes \u2013 something that might otherwise be difficult.\r\n<h2>7. Study the right way<\/h2>\r\nNow there is no right or wrong way to study. But you could easily be led to imagine that other students sit in the reading room until late into the night while they are at the same time engaged in all the different clubs and\u00a0 associations of their programme, and that this must be the right way to be a university student. It is not. There are as many ways of being a student as there are students. We all tackle uni-life differently and have different priorities and preferences \u2013 and this is perfectly normal!\r\n<h2>8. 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