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Between the Veil and the Vow

O n the day I visited Sister Philothea, I could not find the appropriate clothes for a convent. Nor could I find the appropriate mindset.What do you ask someone who has given up everything for faith?Nuns in the Eastern Orthodox Church live in convents, and they never leave unless they are sent by the abbess, head of the convent, or they need to go to a hospital. They obey in poverty, chastity, and obedience, meaning they cannot possess anything, they have to remain virgins, and they should obey...

Studying at Two Universities: An Opportunity or a Challenge?

AUBG is one of the few universities in Bulgaria that allows its students to graduate with two majors simultaneously. However, some students decide that they are passionate about another area of study that is not part of the academic catalog. Hence, they enroll in a second university while also studying at AUBG.
 
Among these students is Georgi Pandev, a junior majoring in Business Administration and Political Science. Apart from his studies at AUBG, he is a part-time Law student at Southwest U...

Janina Ormanova: Gender Quotas in Bulgarian Education

For Elena Andonova, a pharmacy student at Medical University in Pleven, gender quotas in the university admission process made her change her career path.“The two times I applied for dentistry, I had significantly higher results than the accepted boys, and still, I was not accepted,” Andonova said. “This felt so discouraging.”This year, at the Medical University of Sofia (one of the most desired medical universities in Bulgaria), the minimal score for women applying for medicine is 39,03 (out of...

Is This the End of the AUBG Community?

Dear AUBG Community,
I have something to say: We are not a community anymore. 
I have been at the university for three years now, during which I have seen and heard the words AUBG Community more than any other two words. The small campus, the clubs, the events, the alumni networks, and the dorms in which everyone lived back in my first year made AUBG like no other university. It made it feel like “The Place to Be.” 
Things have changed. 
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a community is...

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