"I didn't choose Győr, Győr chose me," says Rebeca Mendoza, who came to Széchenyi István University from Mexico in 2018. The graduate student, who currently lives and works in Budapest, speaks about the motivating power of the Stipendium Hungaricum scholarship, the international student community in Győr and the cultural differences between the two countries.
Pázmány Péter Catholic University organized a Hungarian as a Foreign Language Club (HFL) for the first time in the spring semester of the 2021/22 academic year for those international students in Hungary, who were interested in practicing Hungarian in an informal session.
In Hungary and most European countries, spring is when we celebrate one of the most important Christian holidays - Easter. It is not on a fixed date, but held every year based on the following agreement of the church: “Easter should be observed on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox (21 March).” This year Easter falls on the 18th of April.
If you are a graduate student, April is already here and you are in the middle of writing your thesis, which is one of the most challenging tasks during your academic years. Sometimes, it will be stressful, and you may lose your motivation. However, you must remember that all university students go through the same process and many of them achieve excellent grades. How do they do it? Here we collected some useful tips which may help you to stay focused and effective during your thesis writing.
The Students at Risk Programme is launched by Tempus Public Foundation in the frame of the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme.
Doaa Nabawy is a student from Egypt, who came here to study architecture at Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2018. A little while later she felt more attracted to mechanical engineering than architecture, for that reason she made up her mind to join BME gain but this time as a mechanical engineering student. At the moment she is over her two global exams and writing her thesis on hydrodynamics systems.