I don’t think I realised just how ingrained into the community we had become, until it was time to go. On Sunday we said goodbye to our friend family, with fika in the park. It has been so lovely being a part of the AIV program, I think we would have been lost moving to [...]

Moving house is always stressful, but may I give you one piece of advice? Give yourself a little breathing space between finishing your exchange and actually leaving!   On Sunday we will be on a train out of Linkoping, I don’t know what state we’ll be in by then.  We aren’t heading straight home, but rather [...]

Last year, for an assignment from the course Advanced Customer Marketing, my group and I visited a renovated villa near Norrköping, on the Baltic Sea, in an area called Bråviken. It is an example of a fjard, a drowned shallow glacial valley. The current owners of the Villa Bråviken bought it 5 years ago, renovated it [...]

Thesis Defense After several months of hard work on the Master Thesis, the final seminar represents the last step of the semester, and thus, of these 2 years within the SMIO program. As discussants, the aim of the final seminar is to critically scrutinize a thesis and bring out both strengths and weaknesses through dialogue [...]

During the past few days, looking at the Swedish news, I realized there was a protest of the immigrants against the Swedish government that turns into a violent protest. Very young people, started to set fires to cars and locals in Stockholm, and the phenomenon spread through all the countries, in different cities. Linkoping is [...]

Since the due date of my assignment is very close, I have decided to take some time for reading and writing. The research subject was Information Retrieval in New Media which students have to investigate in the use of media and how it involves its stakeholders depends on students’ topic. The theme of my research [...]

If you’re reading this blog, you most probably are evaluating if to move to Sweden for studying at Linköping University is the right thing to do for you. Some of you would have to invest a lot of money in it, some of you would have to borrow them somewhere, some of you would have [...]

“Sure it’s a big job; but I don’t know anyone who can do it better than I can” – (John F. Kennedy) Many people think that I have a good CV. Enough working experience considering the age (as English teacher, Barista, Sale Assistant in two different countries), good language capacities (native Italian, good English, good [...]