• Life in Sweden
• Living costs

Work-life balance: some insights from a Master student with several side-job(s)

Posted by Dasha Shvaikovskaya - Nutrition Science (MSc)

The spring has officially begun in Sweden, meaning that many students both inside & outside the country got some exciting news about being enrolled in their (hopefully!) dream Global Master & […]

4 May, 2019

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• Okategoriserade

Have you heard about Frontotemporal Dementia?

Posted by Sara Abu Ajamieh – Biomedicine (MSc)

Not so many people are familiar with rare diseases until one of their dear ones develops one. Märta Schörling Andreen and Sofia Schörling Högberg noticed that their father’s behaviour and personality changed […]

9 April, 2019

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• Life in Sweden
• Pre-arrival

Sweden as I see it: What I had thought and how it turned out to be

Posted by Shadali Singh - Bioentrepreneurship

Isn’t it human tendency to speculate and form preconceived notions about the unknown? Though I always knew I am bad at the guessing game, I formed my own share of […]

28 March, 2019

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• Life in Sweden
• Stockholm activities

Tops of being an international student in Stockholm

Posted by Ines Rivero - Molecular Techniques in Life Science

Choosing where do you want to continue (or start) your studies can be difficult, and questions like “will I adapt to the new culture?” or “will I have any problems […]

28 January, 2019

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• Academics
• Application and admission
• Health Informatics

6 Documents you should not miss when applying for a Master’s degree in Sweden

Posted by Winner Ng - Health Informatics

The deadline for submitting your application is drawing near. I remember when I was applying two years ago, I got quite anxious, compulsively reviewing and going through the document checklists. […]

23 December, 2018

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• Okategoriserade

Lassi Koski, Medical Student – #HumansofKI

Posted by Eden Black - Biomedicine (MSc)

Do you want to learn what Swedish word can be used to best describe the environment at Karolinska Institutet? If so, read the interview of Lassi Koski, a second semester […]

14 November, 2018

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• Application and admission
• Career

Autumn review: Bioentrepreneurship ’18 graduates looking back at their internship experiences

Posted by Paula Salme Sandrak (Bioentrepreneurship)

If you happen to talk to anyone who is at least half-way through the Bioentrepreneurship programme, you can pretty much bet they would quote the practical placements (so-called PP-s: PP1, […]

28 October, 2018

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• Academics
• Career
• Life in Sweden

From #BiomedsLife to #NutritionistToBe: continuation of my journey at KI

Posted by Dasha Shvaikovskaya - Nutrition Science (MSc)

Hello and TERE TULEMAST! Yes, I just greeted you in Estonian! You know, living this expat life in Stockholm & slowly, but steadily forgetting your own national language calls for […]

8 October, 2018

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