Carolien, a third year student at UCG, about writing her Bachelor’s thesis.

Being a third year Bachelor’s student means you will have to write a Bachelor’s thesis whether you like it or not. Although the process is not always fun (to be totally honest: it can be terrible sometimes), I have enjoyed writing my Bachelor’s thesis. First of all because I could write about a topic which…

Project work at UCG

At University College Groningen (UCG), there are a few courses that you mandatorily have to follow. This is to give students a broad basis of academic skills to make sure they have the perfect basis in order to follow other bachelors and masters in the future. In this mandatory curriculum, there’s courses such as Research…

Project Rome: the Aftermath

The last time I updated you all on the proceedings of the Rome project, was right before we returned to Groningen. Seeing that this was already two months ago, I thought it was time to let you know what we’ve been up to in the mean time. To be honest, the process of returning to…

My third year project

Carolien, a third year student at UCG, about her third year project. Doing interdisciplinary projects is a part of the study programme of UCG which is coming back every year. Whereas in the first year the focus was on Creating Horizon, the second year was about Creating Scholarship (doing research so to say). For the…

Life after UCG: choosing your Master

Carolien, a third year student at UCG, about choosing her master Three years ago when I started studying at UCG, I was lost in the sense that I did not know what to study and what I wanted to become later in life. As the class of 2017, we followed a course called Global Challenges…

What I love most about UCG

  My first year at UCG is almost over, and I have experienced a lot this year. I will give you an overview of what I liked the most about UCG in this year.   Atmosphere When you walk into the faculty of University College Groningen, you immediately notice the nice atmosphere in the building.…

A Voyage Through the Universe

  On the evening of Tuesday the 30th of May,  I went to a guest lecture of Dr. John McKean at University College Groningen. I always like to follow guest lectures at UCG, because it feels so comfortable and cosy to be there, and still follow a lecture from a different person about a different subject.…

Why I chose to stay in Groningen

Dear readers, I have always been quite determined about how my future would be; I would graduate high school, go to law school and then become a great lawyer. However, this path didn't come out as easy as I thought it would be. After high school I started my first year at the University of…

The Submariner & The Shelter City project

By Marius Merz - Second year student The second year in the University College Groningen offered me the chance to partake in the project ‘Shelter City’. This project is organized by the organization ‘Justice and Peace’, which strives to improve the access to social and environmental justice, by providing support to human rights defenders from…

Project Rome – Phase 6: The Power of a Woman

Yesterday afternoon, the Reverend Tom had met on the plane to Rome, had invited us to a tour of the Vatican on Friday. Thus, at 15.45 we were on our way to meet him at St. Peter’s square, in front of the Basilica. However, due to the meeting of 27 European leaders with the Pope…