19th November 2010 Chevening, UK
so much dependsupona great curriculumvitae Sorry, I (Shanon Shah, Chevening scholar from Malaysia) just needed to riff off the famous William Carlos Williams poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, which to me at least is as frustrating as it is deceptive. Yet I wonder how many current Chevening scholars out there felt exactly this way when applying […]
16th November 2010 Chevening, UK
I’m experiencing the best times of my life. The people in Scotland as well as the international students are fantastic. Local people organised a lot of greeting parties and tours outside of Dundee. I already visited some places where Harry Potter was filmed. And of course Edinburgh…Speechless… Oleh Krykavskyy, a Chevening scholar from Ukraine, currently […]
16th November 2010 Chevening, UK
Blog 5 from Catherinne de la Torre from Peru – del 11 al 17 de octubre del 2010; La ultima vez los deje con pánico, no? Esta semana, no sé como describirla, creo que vengo aceptando inconscientemente el hecho que en los últimos 15 días vengo respirando, comiendo y soñando con lecturas. Nuevamente, la cantidad […]
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16th November 2010 Chevening, UK
Blog 4 from Catherinne de la Torre from Peru, del 4 al 10 de octubre del 2010; Ya regrese. Desde un principio quiero advertirles que este ingreso será catártico. Recuerdan que la semana anterior les mencione que la semana había sido movida? Pues no tenia de lo que estaba diciendo. Esa semana fue un paseo […]
5th November 2010 Chevening, UK
I wanted to call this blog "the Clash and human rights" but Malaysian Chevening scholar Shazeera Zawawi wrote it so she gets to decide; The title of this piece of intellectual pursuit is a tribute to a close friend’s response to my recent announcement that I will be furthering my post graduate study in Applied […]
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2nd November 2010 Chevening, UK
El estilo LSE – the third blog from one of our 2 Chevening scholars and part-time bloggers, Rina Paredes. Siendo una total y completa novata en Europa y su sistema educativo, a poco más de un mes de iniciar mi maestría en LSE, puedo decir que estoy acostumbrándome al ritmo de estudios y al gran […]
2nd November 2010 Chevening, UK
Un registro más, qué importa…The second blog from Rina Paredes from Peru Finalmente instalada en Londres, hoy cumplo una semana en esta ciudad que nunca se cansará de sorprenderme. Luego de pasar dos semanas al norte, rodeada solo de angloparlantes, esta semana me instalé en la ciudad más cosmopolita del mundo y conocí mi casa […]
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