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The Insider interviews people about their job, university or country so that listeners can actually understand what it’s like to study there, work there or what is the reality of any events happening in the interviewees country.
15 Episodes
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Introduction - 0:00
Application tips - 1:05
Transfer Into London - 4:13
Social Life - 6:59
Campus and facilities - 10:18
Teaching Structure - 11:53
The best thing and a bad thing about ICL - 16:31
Rate out of ten of Campus, Professors and Social Life of ICL - 17:51
Typical day of a Imperial College London Student - 18:29
Career Prospects: 21:16
The University of Warwick is one of the top Public universities in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is ranked #62 in QS Global World University Rankings 2021. Warwick is acknowledged reputation for excellence in research and teaching, for innovation, and for links with business and industry.
In this episode, I interview Alex, a PPE student at the Warwick. We talk about:
0: Introduction
0:36 - Application Process and Tips
5:35 - Starting at University of Warwick: Accomodation and integration into University Life
8:16 - Living in Coventry and Social Life at the University of Warwick
10:15 - Campus and its facilities
11:18 - Social Life at the University of Warwick
12:52 - Teaching Structure
16:10 - "What do you like the most about University of Warwick and what don't you like about it?"
18:37 - Societies at Warwick
20:30 - Rating from 1 to 10 Campus, Teachers, Social Life in the University of Warwick
22:26 - Typical life of a University of Warwick student
In this episode, I interview Helena, a student from Johns Hopkins University (Global Leader in Research against COVID-19).
Here's a list of what we talk about:
0:00 - Introduction
0:50 - Application Process and Tips
7:20 - Arriving at JHU
12:13 - What's the JHU Campus like?
14:50 - The Student Body, Non-Academic Side, the Greek Life at JHU
18:59 - The Teaching Structure
24:25 - Careers Prospects
26:58 - "Is there anything that you don't like about JHU?"
28:03 - Rating from 1 to 10 different Aspects of JHU
29:47 - A Typical Day of a JHU's student
During this episode, Alex, a Computer Science and Mathematics student at the University of St. Andrews, tells us interesting insights about his experience at the University of St. Andrews. Here's a list of what we talked about:
0 - Introduction
1:00 - Application Process and Tips
8:15 - Arriving in St. Andrews: Accomodation, Welcome Week etc.
13:15 - Social Life in St. Andrews
15:40 - Teaching Structure in St Andrews
19:41 - Societies in St. Andrews
21:15 - St. Andrews' Campus and its facilities
23:35 - What Alex likes about St. Andrews and what he doesn't like
26:00 - Weird Section: Rate out of 10 different aspects of the University
30:01 - A typical Day of a University of St. Andrews' Student
UCL is one of the top universities in the world and Sara shares with us her experience in studying there. In this episode, we go through application process, social life, transferring in London and many other insights.
If you don't have time to listen to the full episode:
0:00 - Application process and Tips
5:59 - UCL's freshers integration + transferring to London
9:05 - UCL Campus and Accomodations
16:05 - Teaching Structure and Professors
20:59 - " A thing that you like and that you don't like about UCL"
23:00 - Rate from 1 to 10 different aspects of UCL
26:00 - Typical day of a UCL student
Edoardo and Pietro tell us about their experience in Bocconi University and share with us their insights about the application process, living in Milan and its social life despite Covid-19 and many more important aspects that might persuade you to study there.
0:00 - Application Process and tips
9:10 - Arrival in Bocconi
14:37 - What's it like to live in Milan
19:23 - Social Life in Milan
21:05 - Bocconi's Campus
25:26 - Something that Pietro and Edoardo like and don't like about Bocconi
34:14 - Typical day of a Bocconi student and usual workload
Thanks for listening!
In this episode Lorenzo Magnini tells us what it is like to study at Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Lorenzo shares with us his insights about the particularity in the structure of education in this university, the modern campus and some tips to have a good application and nail the exams.
In this episode, Guia Quagini tells us what it is like to study at IE University, based in Madrid, Spain. Guia shares with us her insights about how great of a social life IE promotes and the importance of creativity in the university's principles.
(We apologise for the initial noises. They are due to connections errors. It is just at the start. Thank you for your patience)
In this episode, we interview Nick Zane, a student in Dartmouth College which is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. The conversation goes through the American application process, social life and the importance of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, campus facilities and useful tips for future applicants.
Welcome back to the Insider Podcast!
We are starting a new series. The aim is to help students who are applying for universities in making a more precise choice for their future.
In this episode, we have David, who studies Law at the University of Oxford. We don't think this university needs any kind of introduction. We will have a conversation about what's it like to study in one of the top universities in the world with its application process (and some tips), historic campus, social life and professors.
Hopefully, you will enjoy this new series!
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding college and member institution of the federal University of London.
King's alumni and staff include 14 Nobel laureates; contributors to the discovery of DNA structure, Hepatitis C and the Higgs boson; pioneers of in-vitro fertilisation, stem cell/mammal cloning and the modern hospice movement; and key researchers advancing radar, radio, television and mobile phones. Alumni also include heads of states, governments and intergovernmental organisations; nineteen members of the current House of Commons and seventeen members of the current House of Lords; and the recipients of three Oscars, three Grammys and one Emmy.
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research.
1Politecnico di Milano is a scientific-technological university which trains engineers, architects and industrial designers.
The University has always focused on the quality and innovation of its teaching and research, developing a fruitful relationship with business and productive world by means of experimental research and technological transfer.
Research has always been linked to didactics and it is a priority commitment which has allowed Politecnico Milano to achieve high quality results at an international level as to join the university to the business world. Research constitutes a parallel path to that formed by cooperation and alliances with the industrial system.
n this episode, we talk about Russia's referendum and its importance to the world's future. We also talk about the Hong Kong protests, the experience of students not having to do their final exams and how COVID-19 has been handled so far in our countries.
We discussed the overall concept of the coronavirus and its influence on a social, political and economic level. As you love it, we had a perspective of a person connected to the problem.
DISCLAIMER: we are not experts. Therefore, do not take as absolutely true everything we said. The Coronavirus events develop in a really fast way and anything can change in a matter of one day.
Ryan gives us an overview of his unique perspective on the conflict. It's utterly different to the way the media presents the issue.
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