Although Jyväskylä in conviniently located for traveling, there is also a lot to do in the town itself. From Jyväskyä, you can travel all over Finland and beyond. Take a day-trip to Tampere or Ähtäri Zoo, weekend excursions to Stockholm or Tallinn and maybe even a more adventurous journey into Lapland or Russia. But before you embark on an odyssey away, ...

If you follow memes, play MMORPGs and have an obsession about new technological devices, then you might be a geek. The ’geek’ has long been stereotyped as the socially inept, bespectacled, skinny kid content spending long hours at a computer. ”I think that a geek is a person who holds a strong interest outside the societal norm”, says Mark Halmagiu, electrical ...

Heading back after an exchange semester can be ever more difficult than leaving home. There’s a shock in both ends of an exchange semester. And the one you encounter back home might be even harder than the initial one. ”For many the exchange might have been one of the highlights of their student days and it feels difficult to return”, explains Solja ...

Exchange student trips keep on gaining popularity. For some, the opportunity to travel is a deciding factor in coming to Finland. Choosing where to do your exchange might not come down to a good city and the best university. For many foreign students it's not all about Finland, but rather what's right next to it. ”Before they come to Finland many students ...

I’ve been living in Brussels – the capital of the European Union – for nearly three months now. According my study plan I should take courses on EU-journalism, but mostly I have sat on trains, walked around and met people in front of the old and beautiful cathedrals. Once while being drunk, I decided to travel to Netherlands to meet my ...

It’s not only about the parties and the education: exchange student have come to find to adventures. Walking through Jyväskylä, one hears a multitude of languages, from familiar French and German to obscure Asian and African dialects. The city is teeming with exchange students come to Finland for an educational adventure. In 1992, Christopher McCandless left his home and journeyed into the ...

Last year, I visited two countries in West Africa. During my visit I decided to make a presentation in the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and to teach a course in the University of Bamako in Mali. I wanted to have an experience of how teaching and learning works in West Africa and to share my own experience from ...

Jyväskylä is a small town with many students. This means fierce competition among job seekers, especially if you don't speak the language. In Finland, studying is still free, no matter what passport you are holding. But life indeed isn't. Many students find the place not just amazingly cold but beastly expensive. Even among the EU-countries Finland's price level is high, not ...

In life, there is no difficulty, which we cannot overcome when we are really determined. Yet many of us fail in big and small ways because our determination was never strong enough. Determination is very important because it enables us to persist in the face of difficulties. It makes us to march fearlessly ahead with faith until we achieve our goal. ...

The Finnish Language Club gives foreign students the chance to use newly-learned language skills. A group of foreign students grimace as each tastes a bite of black liquorice for the first time. ”I promised I would bring you candy”, laughs Sanna Rauhamäki, the leader of the Finnish Language Club and a biology student. The first session of the ”Suomi”-club this semester was focused ...