Reading applications
Last week a few members from LBG Lund met up at Kårhuset to select participants for the summer course in Biotechnology that will be organised in Lund in August.
To find the energy for the work that should be done during the afternoon, we started out with having lunch together. When the plates were empty we sat down to select participants. Because the course is on intermediate level many applications were rejected due to the applicants lack of knowledge in the field. When this was done all applications were sorted by country and the group started to read motivation letters. From the beginning our course had 190 applications so it took a while to read through the letters even after the first round of rejections.
After a while every letter had been read and ranked between 1 and 5 by at least three people, we picked the top ones from as many countries as possible. However it was not so easy, so in the end we managed to prolong the discussions to the evening. The final list of participants will be shown through the BEST homepage later, after that our list have been compared with the other courses in Europe, due to that it is only possible to attend one BEST course during the summer course period.
When the discussions had ended a few BEST members stayed to discuss some more about the schedule for the upcoming Cultural Exchange. During a few days around walpurgis night (valborg) BEST Lund will host 20 besties from Gliwice in Poland and Veszprem in Hungary.
More is going to be discussed about this and a short meeting will take place on wednesday 15 April at 15.00 in Kårhuset. If you are interested in BEST Lund or have questions about the courses this summer you are welcome to show up, it will be besties there to take care of you :)
To find the energy for the work that should be done during the afternoon, we started out with having lunch together. When the plates were empty we sat down to select participants. Because the course is on intermediate level many applications were rejected due to the applicants lack of knowledge in the field. When this was done all applications were sorted by country and the group started to read motivation letters. From the beginning our course had 190 applications so it took a while to read through the letters even after the first round of rejections.
After a while every letter had been read and ranked between 1 and 5 by at least three people, we picked the top ones from as many countries as possible. However it was not so easy, so in the end we managed to prolong the discussions to the evening. The final list of participants will be shown through the BEST homepage later, after that our list have been compared with the other courses in Europe, due to that it is only possible to attend one BEST course during the summer course period.
When the discussions had ended a few BEST members stayed to discuss some more about the schedule for the upcoming Cultural Exchange. During a few days around walpurgis night (valborg) BEST Lund will host 20 besties from Gliwice in Poland and Veszprem in Hungary.
More is going to be discussed about this and a short meeting will take place on wednesday 15 April at 15.00 in Kårhuset. If you are interested in BEST Lund or have questions about the courses this summer you are welcome to show up, it will be besties there to take care of you :)
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