Culture

Indian student blog on top 100 world list

Ankit observes Danish customs and routines in a way that has got him nominated to a world blog ranking

New students judge the Danes in prejudice test

The University Post asked new international students to be prejudiced. And this is what they came up with

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119 great stupid questions

41 reasons why Danes are so strange

Gallery: Orientation Meeting

New fines slapped on bike riders in Copenhagen

A DKK 700 penalty for riding with no hands. Just one of a series of new strict traffic laws to be enforced by police in the bike city

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Danish cycling etiquette

Feature: How to make a bike city

Go and get your free bike

Top 10 ways to celebrate Danish Christmas

This guide is essential, if you are staying in Denmark for the Holidays. Here is everything from Christmas hearts to Christmas infidelity

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Top 10 ways to celebrate Danish Christmas, part 2

Time is not well spent, students report

You want to spend time on one thing. But actually end up doing something else

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Here is your typical day

Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs

Out the door in fifteen minutes

Lectures? No, I am a humanities student

Gallery: Your typical day. The graphs

In the University Post survey 'your typical day' we asked Danish and international students about their daily routines.

The survey first asked students to state how much time they actually spent on typical activities. The survey then asked students to evaluate whether they would prefer to spend more time, or less time, on them.

Read the main article: 'Here is your typical day'.

Graphs by Mike Young, Rumfang and Polina Chebotareva.

Need us to make another cross-tabulation? Write to miy@adm.ku.dk with your suggestion.

Feature: How to make a bike city

Copenhagen was not always so bike-friendly. In an interview with our Canadian reporter, renowned architect Camilla Van Deurs explains how this city originally made the switch to bikes

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Danish cycling etiquette

Top 10 crazy date ideas

So you are interested in someone. Maybe they don’t even know you exist. Maybe you’re actually quite sure they think you are pretty amazing. The million-dollar question is what happens next? University Post gives you 10 mad unisex date ideas for Copenhagen

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Top 10 crazy date ideas, part 2

Top 10 Copenhagen digital hotspots

Top 10 places to find love

Top 10 places to study in Copenhagen

Students: We are meeting strangers

New people are entering our lives, students reckon

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Close encounters at the student café

Is Facebook destroying spontaneity?

Editorial: Time to log off, look up, and listen

Is Facebook destroying spontaneity?

While you are on Facebook half an hour every day, you are ‘with’ your old friends, and not out meeting new ones. Does this make it harder for new friendships to form? Maybe yes, maybe no

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Close encounters at the student café

Why you should talk to strangers

Editorial: Time to log off, look up, and listen

Students: We are meeting strangers

Close encounters at the student café

Can we make a new friend in one hour? This reporter set up a social experiment

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Is Facebook destroying spontaneity?

Editorial: Time to log off, look up, and listen

Students: We are meeting strangers

Pick of the Week: Movember and Grød

This time around, Pick of the Week encourages you to grow a moustache and eat some oatmeal

Jam sessions in off beat locations

Urban settings serve as inspiration for spontaneous music videos featured in the upcoming Copenhagen Sessions, led by Austrian student

Gallery: The dancing cleaning staff

University Post got a tip that the cleaning staff of City Campus were having fun dancing in the basements after work. We sent two reporters to find out why and how they came up with such an idea.

What we discovered were some pretty amazing dancers: old, and young, men, and women. All of them colleagues, friends, strong legged, out going, and unbelievably young at heart. Dancing to up beat music inspired by African kuduro, Indian bollywood, and Brazilian samba, the cleaners have made a decision to improve their health.

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Dancers in the dark

University cleaning staff fired after outsourcing

Pick of the Week: Danish Music and Film Festival

The leaves are changing their colours, and Fall has undeniably started. This week, Pick of the Week encourages you to embrace it with walks in the park, out- or indoor concerts, and by cruising the city to see movies at Copenhagen's lesbian, gay, bi- and transgender festival

Eating mom and dad

The ideal kitchen is a site for cannibalism. So the off-beat interpretation of University of Copenhagen professor and consultant at a new art exhibit at Louisiana

Gallery: Culture Night 2011

Culture Night is an annual Copenhagen event where the city comes alive late at night and fills up with people of all age groups.

Most cultural institutions plan special events on the occasion and open their doors until midnight, some even longer.

We went exploring. Check the pictures here!

Read more about Culture Night at the University of Copenhagen here.

Text and photos by Afton Halloran.

What is ‘your typical day’?

When do you get up in the morning? And what do you do after that? Do our survey and we will report back to you soon

Why you should talk to strangers

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