Chevening Essay is About Connecting the Dots; What Does It Mean?

After I published a post about breakdown Chevening essay in my blog, I received many more requests to proofread Chevening essay. I only accepted a few depending on my loads, but in total, I have proofread 10-ish essays. Some made it to the Chevening interview, some didn’t. As a proofreader, I don’t check merely on grammar/vocabulary mistakes…

How to Manage Your Scholarship Money

Managing the scholarship money sometimes can be stressful as it might be the only resource you have to finance yourself while study. There are also feelings for "make the best out of it", especially for PG student (we only have 1 year to spend, guys!) which led to unclear prioritisation and ended up overspend (if…

Getting (Paid) Jobs in the UK as an International Student: Sites You Need to Know

Being a student did give me perks — student discounts, bus fare discounts, railcard, you name it. But still, like any other students, I need additional money to fulfil my wish lists, mostly travels. The only way I could top up my savings was by taking paid jobs. But to be honest, the reason why…

Chevening Interview: What are the Questions? | Tips from an alumni

Congratulations to those who got Chevening interview invitation!! You’re halfway there, seriously! To be invited for an interview means that your essay is really outstanding and they want to know you better, hence the interview. You just need to nail the “last” step to be awarded. “Last” because if you pass the interview stage, you…

Bekerja di Startup Harus Pandai Beradaptasi – Wawancara dengan Jobhunt.id

Perkembangan startup di Indonesia terus meningkat. Laurensia Irma atau yang akrab dipanggil Irma ini melihat bahwa potensi pengembangan startup memang besar seiring dengan penetrasi internet yang juga makin meluas. Sebagai pekerja di dunia startup, perempuan yang hendak melanjutkan studi S2 ke inggris ini menyebutkan soal pentingnya beradaptasi, mengingat banyaknya perubahan yang bisa terjadi sewaktu-waktu. Nah,…

Low Budget Trip to Iceland from the UK: Tips!

One of my highlight trips in 2019 was definitely Iceland! Iceland is one of my bucket lists and since I was gonna be-3 hours-flight-away from Islandia, I committed to find ways to go there, in a student budget. I have read many blogs that a trip to Iceland can be really expensive, especially in food…

Lesson Learned After Being Rejected by 7 Scholarships

I am completely familiar with the bitter feeling of rejection. Angry, disappointed and confused. And I have been experiencing this for 7 times, until the moment that even I kept doubting myself of not deserving any scholarship. I kept trying to apply schools and scholarships for two years, but no one was successful. Until I…

Writing Chevening Essay: Breakdown Those 4 Questions

Writing an essay for Chevening scholarship was not an easy task. But surely, we need to invest our time to write, revise and polish it. The whole writing process took me 1.5 months, but let's not use this as a standard as anyone can have different situations. In this post, I'm going to breakdown each…

Writing Chevening Essay: General Tips from a Scholar

A student for a year, a scholar for a life! Hi, there! The deadline for Chevening scholarship 2020/2021 is approaching really sooon! As a Chevening scholar who just finished the master study, I’d like to share my thoughts for essay writing for Chevening scholarship. I also did mentorship for some people for Chevening application 2019/2020…

What I learnt as a WMG Master student.

Hi! I am Irma, a student at WMG 2018/2019. I am just done with my dissertation and viva and thank God the result was on my expectation.  Looking back from my journey, I learnt some things by being a student of WMG. Ace time management Being a WMG student means I have to be independent…