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Sinead, student MSc Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Top Spots to Study in Leeuwarden

Date:30 August 2022
Author:Sinead Walsh
Check out the top spots of study places here in Leeuwarden!
Moving house the Dutch way!

Top Tips for Finding Housing in Leeuwarden

Date:01 August 2022
Author:Sinead Walsh

Every major city in the world, from Shanghai to New York, is currently facing a housing shortage. This is a well known worldwide fact. Lucky for you Leeuwarden isn’t as overpopulated as Shanghai or New York City so it should be a little easier. In order to...

Wetsus

WETSUS x Campus Fryslân

Date:01 June 2021
Author:Sinead Walsh

During the Month of March Campus Fryslân and WETSUS hosted a Business Development Course. This course helps to bridge a general gap and tends to exist between academia and industry. I really enjoyed the concept of this course as it paired a PhD student of ...

My student room

Top Tips to Make your Student Room in Leeuwarden Feel like Home

Date:15 June 2020
Author:Sinead Walsh

As the saying goes, home is where the heart is and I find this to be very true especially when it comes to student rooms. It’s often unlikely that you will spend more than one or two years in the same room so it’s important to know how to make whatever...

Leeuwarden

A Mexican exchange student in Leeuwarden: A new world (Part 2/2)

Date:18 May 2020
Author:Campus Fryslân
Time flies and the day arrived. After saying goodbye to friends and family for a while and without realizing, I was on a plane for the first time! Fortunately, I had a really smooth arrival thanks to the staff members and my assigned buddy for my exchange (Daria, who is also Mexican!) who guided me through the procedures and my stay in the Netherlands.
Alda

A Mexican exchange student in Leeuwarden: Netherlands, I unexpectedly love you! (Part 1/2)

Date:07 May 2020
Author:Campus Fryslân

Hello everyone! My name is Alda and I’m doing my exchange at Campus Fryslân. The story of my exchange is quite a hilarious and intricate one. Firstly, because I never imagined I would end in the Netherlands. I prepared myself for an exchange in Germany,...

Madhusudhan Balasubramanian

An Indian in Leeuwarden

Date:14 April 2020
Author:Madhusudhan Balasubramanian

The University of Groningen was pretty much unknown to me until a few months before I applied to the Master’s Program of Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Campus Fryslân in 2019. However, while researching about the University, I found that it is one of the...

So, what is Frisian?

So, what is Frisian?

Date:04 March 2020
Author:Sinead Walsh

So, what is Frisian you may ask? As an international student, I’ve been asking this for a long time myself. However, the funny thing is, that if you ask Dutch people to explain Frisian to you, many of them won’t be able to do it sufficiently. Frisian...

Campus Fryslân in fall

How to survive Autumn in Leeuwarden

Date:14 November 2019
Author:Sinead Walsh
With the leaves turning golden and the first block of exams disappearing in our rear view mirror, Autumn is well and truly upon us. Here are our top tips on how to survive Autumn in the beautiful city that we call home. 
Marc Flessa

Rossini’s Opera: The Barber of Sevilla in the Harmonie in Leeuwarden

Date:13 November 2019
Author:Marc Flessa
There is one thing which seems rather unlikely that anyone would find boring and this was the fantastic enactment of Rossini’s buoyant opera “The Barber of Sevilla” in the Harmonie in Leeuwarden on the 9th of October 2019.