Student Life in Helsinki

I live in an amazing three-room apartment with essentials like pots, pans, blankets, study desk and other important furniture already taken care of; my living arrangement could not be more comfortable. The rent is a bit pricy but reasonable for the place we live in. We have free laundry services and saunas which work with a reservation system. We visited the sauna last night and we found a German girl in the sauna as well. She regularly visits the sauna and turned the temperature all the way to 90°C. As fiery as it felt, it really helped increase the sweating process of the sauna, which is the aim. She further continued to explain the benefits of using the sauna such as flushing out toxins, helping fight illnesses and improving cardiovascular performance. Everyone has three monthly reservations and I will be making use of mine, a great shortcut to burning calories! The lectures are a true breeze, there's a lot of group work and readings which we should discuss in each lecture. The lecturers try to make each lecture as interactive and fun as possible. The language courses usually involve grammar games and others which help us get to know each other. However, I still miss the exciting German lectures from Unam with a twist each time. For one of my German courses in Finland, we had an excursion in which we had to follow a map given to us in class and write about 3 of the remarkable monuments or buildings we saw during the excursion with our respective groups. There are course assistants who are from Germany originally and they oversee our work and assist us. Some courses do not require a written exam. Class attendance and an essay at the end of the Academic Period usually makes up your final grade and drafts of these final essays are usually edited by lecturers before the final submission. Library services are pretty much the same, the only contrast is the electronic submission and borrowing of books and e-books are also available for many of the textbooks. Overall, student life is not complete ly different from my home university.*Ann-Adeva is a 2nd year student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She enjoys writing, reading and interacting with different people from different walks of life. Catch her stories on life in Helsinki every Tuesday in The Zone. Ann-Adewa Njambali

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