The Stockholm School of Economics is a private business school located in the city of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
SSE has been creating opportunities for its graduates for
Over 100 years.
Admissions are open. Each year, 360 students from all over the
world get accepted into either one of the two Bachelor of Science degrees that the Stockholm
School of Economics has to offer.
Business and Economics is the oldest of the two running its 110 cohort.
Retail Management BSc with an intake around 60 students per year, which
in 2015 moved to the heart of Stockholm and SSE after being under Stockholm
University and being located outside of the city.
Now we know what it's like with being in your position where you're waiting, and obviously
the competition is fierce to earn a spot at the school.
However, our ambition with this episode of Unfiltered is to show you a bit
about what it's been like being in the first cohort, doing it digitally.
But I would also like to mention that since the school has been running a hybrid solution and under current
circumstances, the campus is closed down.
I think it's important to be grateful for for all the front line and the health care
professionals that have done such a fantastic job during this pandemic.
Our campus is located in the heart of Stockholm, with the main building at
Sveavägen 65, and the Center for Retailing.
At Saltmätargatan
Hey, what's up Peiyu. Yeah, absolutely, Aidan is on his way
too, Bye!
The working from home environment is something we've all had to be used to, whether we like it or not.
Uncertainty, whether it's in the form of long or short term business cycles or
might even be you moving to a new country or starting a new school.
Knowing how to deal with the unknown is one of the tools that you get equipped with,
within an education from SSE.
So online school has its downsides. Obviously, the lack of human interaction, which sucks, but at the same
time there are upsides.
You don't really have to get out of bed until the lecture starts in the morning, which is always a benefit I guess,
What's up Aidan? How did you get in?
Anyway, Peiyu, can you tell us a little bit about how you been dealing with online school and so on?
Well, it's obviously kind of different from what other students have experienced
from the early years, but.
So far, I've only seen the positive parts, like, of course, you are still missing a human
interaction part, but.
It's been fine for me, you can wake up at eight o'clock and then attend the lecture
at 8.15.
Is there anything specific that you wish you kind of knew before you started your bachelors?
I guess I would have liked to know more about what a typical week looks like.
I mean, we have three courses every study period and we have one or two
lectures and every course every week and then one or two seminars where we get help from
teacher assistants to to learn about how we actually solve the questions.
And then there's also a lot of reading that goes on.
Yeah, true, Peiyu, anything that you wanted to know?
For me from the beginning, I didn't have any expectations at all and it was kind of good
because. Then
I started everything new from the beginning without any biases and
I learned along the way.
One of the great things about SSE is it's central location,
And this is the place that we usually go to when we want to get something to drink.
Oh, so good.
Oh, yes, that's good.
That's always very good.
Never tried boba before.
And we're by the parliament
and it's so nice to be out in Sweden when it's sunny.
Peiyu, and Maximos
I mean, there is this one burning question, do
Business and Economics
students have a beef with Retail students since you're a second year retail
student and do the retail students have a beef with the BE students?
No, no, that's not a thing, we love each other and we're in the same committees. We interact with each
other all the time. So as a second year retail management student, I had the chance of actually having
a normal first year, which wasn't that digital until late into the spring
semester. But the education is still up to part to what it was
last year and in some cases even better, as we have the chance to have even more people on the
courses doing Web lectures.
But the only thing lacking is the social aspect.
We can't socialize with our friends during breaks.
And it's a different way of meeting your friends and being Corona safe.
Even though this year has been quite different from the other years.
I think we still manage to get deeper friendships and connect to each other
on a much deeper level
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Than, for example, being in high school.
Like, I still have many good high school friends and for elementary school too, but it's kind of
different maybe at university and you have the same ambitions and
Yeah.
You came from the same experience.
And for us that's just nice because that means that when we'll be greeting you in
August, we will get to experience it everyone together.
And I obviously I'm talking about the human aspect of human interaction because at the
end of the day, you know, we have all this information available to us on the
Internet. So whatever you choose to study, wherever you choose to study, the
basic principles are the same, the fundamentals.
However, what I have felt that SSE is the amazing people and the environment,
and it's really difficult to like showcase it in a video, but it's something you feel when you're here.
So with that said, I look forward.
We all look forward.
Yeah, we do.
To meeting you in August.
Yeah.
Erik is behind the camera.
Do you look forward?
Do you look forward to the people coming in?
Yeah. We look forward to meeting you in August.
In August. Yeah.
See you in August, people.
Bye bye.