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   Nov 11

The town

Next in the “how to survive in Aberdeen” series: It’s not exactly a metropolis. There’s a reason why the student society arranges Christmas shopping trips to Glasgow. Night life is still impressive for an Oslonian, people do know how to party. Beware, alcohol prices have dropped 60 % in the last decade or two, and […]

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   Nov 11

The Uni

So for the Aberdeen-specific stuff: King’s college (the 1500s part of the uni) is really pretty, it feels good to go through such gates on the way to lecture: As for school, the level is higher than home, no doubt. Not in the sense that what we learn is more complicated or the workload heavier, […]

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