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1. ACADEMIC DRESS Sub fusc Sub fusc is compulsory dress worn both in Oxford and Cambridge. It is required during exams, matriculation ceremonies, formal hall or other official events. Students also must wear the appropriate academic gown and mortar bord (which can be removed during examination or being inside the University) or soft cap. Elements of sub fucs vary a bit and depend on degree you are taking (commoners gown – BA, BFA, Bth; scholars gown – master’s deegres; graduate gown – e.g. Msc or Mphil ) and your gender. Sub fusc for woman usually consist of black or dark skirt, clack tights or stockings, black tie and white shirt. Men are supposed to wear black suit with plain white shirt and white or black bow tie. During exams students wear carnation attached to their gown. The color of carnations depens from what examin you are taking. During first examination students wear a white carnation, then pink while taking intermediate examinations, and a red carnat...

Who like talent-shows? For a lot of people watching it is favourite way of spending free time. I really like it, especially music talent-shows. In this post I want to describe aim, rules and the most participants and winners. 1. VOICE OF POLAND  Polish version of the "The Voice" series. Program emitted by TVP2 since 2011. The aim of this show is find vocal talents. Main award is contract with record label - Universal Music Poland and title "The Voice of  Poland". Stages and rules: Producers auditions - this stage are not shown on TV. Producers choose 100 participants to take part in the next stage - blind auditions. Blind auditions -  this is first televisioned stage. Singer performed but coaches didn't see person on stage. They have their backs to the singer and press the buttom if they like what they hear. If 2 or more coaches turns singer decides which team they wouldbe part of. Each coach take 12 singers to the next stage.  Battle - in this stage tw...

1.        Extinction of life on Easter Island. For many years, a lot of scientists debated on the history of Easter Island. Because of its location, for centuries it remained completely cut off from outside world. Recent research show that in it’s best years it served home for more that 15,000 people. But when Netherlands sailors discovered its existence on Easter Sunday in 1722, they were stunned by small, dying population of approximately 1,000 inhabitants. At that time they were desperately fighting for survive on completely deforested island which could not provide food anymore, which finally resulted in huge rate of cannibalism among people living there. But why did it happen? The theory stated by Jared Diamond – American evolutionary biologist, shows that it is very probable that Easter Island inhabitants are fully responsible for their own extermination, which was caused by excessive use of wood. He also states that a large part of it was use...

Parking lot payment during holidays  According to CBOS data, the holidays of Poles usually last a week. Such a trip entails the need to take more luggage, and there is a question  - whether to go to the airport comfortable with your own car and leave it in the parking lot, or use the public transport and do not worry about additional parking costs? For some people, the price can be decisive. As the analysis shows, the average cost of a weekly parking stop at parking lots at airports in Poland is around 93 PLN. However, if we take the most expensive option from the list (the one at Warsaw's Chopin Airport) which is 6 times more expensive than the cheapest one, we will pay an average of 77 PLN. Parking spaces at airports in Gdańsk, Poznań and Olsztyn are the most affordable. For a seven-day parking of our car, we pay an average of 53 PLN - prices range from 39 PLN to 69 PLN. It is worth noting that the smallest airports in Rzeszów and Zielona Góra in terms of the number o...

Effective learning When the session is fast approaching, many students wake up from sleep and look with horror at the passing time that is left until the exams. They start to panic and think about how to quickly absorb a huge amount of information and not go crazy. In this blog I will present the most effective ways to learn quickly. A lot of coffee The most popular method among students is to drink hectoliters of coffee or energy drinks and study all night before the exam. However, the results of such learning may not be entirely satisfying. Systematic learning If you want to save your nerves before the session, it is important to plan your studies well throughout the semester. An effective solution can be to set a definite time during the week to learn a specific subject and regularly follow this assumption. It is also important to clearly define how much time you want to spend on understanding the topic, making learning more effective. Good notes The d...

HITCHHIKING TRAVEL GUIDE Why is it so interesting? Why are more and more people trying this type of transportation? Generally, it sounds like the best way to travel for people, who don’t have a car. It is cheap, it is quite fast and you meet a lot of people while travelling this way. HOW DOES IT WORK? You have probably seen people standing by the road, keeping pieces of cardboard with the name of city written on it. Basically you just stay and wait for somebody, who will give you a ride. But actually it is not as easy. The most complicated thing is planning. At first you have to find an appropriate place to start your trip. Exit roads are the best. On the other hand there aren’t many spots, where you can safely wait. Also you have to choose which road you want to take very wisely.   You need to know what cities you will go by, becouse you will ask the drivers if the are going to ride that way. HOW SHOULD YOU PREPARE? The logistics you can discuss with people ...