My internship at UNIS and bioCEED has come to an end. The last semester has been different from what I’m used to. And if I didn’t do a course alongside the internship, it would have felt like I was done studying and a working man. I think doing an internship at the end of a bachelor is something to recommend, as at this time you must evaluate where you want to go after you’ve completed the bachelor. The main thing I, and I think the rest of the interns, have seen is that the field of biology is flexible and […]
Simen Hjelle
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I’m closing in on the actual end of my internship, and the last ~2 weeks I’ve been working on various projects. First, as explained in the previous blog, me and Tina from bioCEED have been creating a plant family classification game, that hopefully can be used to better teach students the difference between the plant families we have here in Svalbard. To explain the game briefly, we have made several cards that contain a trait and a picture illustrating that trait (see top picture). The traits are divided into a flower, leaf, stem or general trait. Then, using these trait-cards, […]
Hiatus from internship After a hiatus from my internship period to focus on a different course, I’m now back at the Arctic Biology department working for bioCEED. The weeks of no internship was maybe a little long, and I got a bit “out of the loop”, but that’s how it goes when scheduling must work for several people. Anyway, this week we had our “end” of the internship course, but all of us still have more hours to burn, so the period is still not done. Presentations The end of AB-208 Internship in Arctic Biology was marked with a presentation […]
While I haven’t had many internship days since the last blog, I was lucky enough to join Ørjan the UNIS student representative down to Bergen where DIKU had arranged a convention. There, bioCEED and the other centers around Norway that works towards improving education met up to drink coffee and eat good food. And to learn something too, probably. Short summery of the convention It kicked-off with Harald Nybølet who is the director of DIKU, he was followed by a presentation about Erasmus+. Then, after a couple of coffee breaks, we went over to presentations by the different centers. This […]
I’ve started my internship experience at bioCEED and have so far worked here for a good normal work week in terms of hours. I’ve been doing a variety of things from graphic design (figures), meetings, video production and other small things. And most of the time have been spent in the biology department of UNIS with my supervisor, Eike. Student and employee culture A big difference between spending time here compared to the normal class setting, is that here people are mostly up to their own projects – hammering away on something in their office spaces. Not like in a […]
They call me Simen, and I’m currently a bachelor student in arctic biology. I grew up in Bergen, and first started studying and dreaming about working with something related to media and communications, but later decided to start studying biology at Nord University in Bodø, Norway. Anything related to biology have always interested me, and I don’t regret switching paths. After two years in Bodø, I figured a change in environment would be nice, so I traveled up to UNIS here on Svalbard where I’ve spent one semester and currently doing my second. One of the courses I’m taking this […]