INUTI - THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE
Welcome to Lund, and welcome to the I-guild! My name is Alice and I’m head of the International Committee at the I-guild, also called InUtI. Me and the rest of the committee are very excited that you all are coming!
InUtI arranges several international related events throughout the year and most importantly we have a lot of fun doing it. Every year we organize a student trip to a secret destination and we also handle the relations with the European student network ESTIEM. During your time in Lund we will arrange activities for you and of course we will make sure you get to experience Swedish traditions such as crayfish party (”kräftskiva”) and the famous sport ”ölkubb”.
We are looking forward to meeting you and will do our best to make you feel at home in Lund.
See you soon!
Alice Bergman
HEJ!
Welcome Letter
Congratulations on your admission and welcome to Sweden, Lund and to the guild of Industrial Engineering and Management, the I-guild!
When you arrive you will get the opportunity to be a part of something called Nollningen! This introduction gives an insight into everything the guild has to offer. In this introduction you will get to know people at the I-guild and the other international students. Hopefully you will make friends for life!
Our lovely guild is run year after year by more than two hundred active students who ensure that the I-guild offers a top-class student life. The I-guild is one of the eleven guilds that together create the Student Union at LTH, Teknologkåren (TLTH). Our guild has about 25 different committees that plan events and offers
everything from weekly sports activities to sittings (festive dinners), pubs, case competitions, company visits and much more. We also have one committee that plans events specifically for you, the international committee. They want to give you the best possible experience of our guild and Lund’s student life. We understand that this could be a lot of information but don’t worry, everything will make sense when you arrive. You will get an introduction to the school on “Registration Day”. If you have any questions about how the guild works or anything else regarding the student life, feel free to contact our so called World Master Lukas Fredin through vm@isek.se.
We look forward to meeting you this fall! Until then, have a lovely summer :)
Fishermans friend will be the name of your Phaddergroup for half of the introduction. Make sure to spend time with them, as they’ve been waiting all year to welcome you to Lund!
To participate in events arranged by the Student Union (TLTH) you need to
become a member of the Student Union. It's a one time fee and costs around 100 SEK.
Good Things to Know
Studentlund - Since LTH is only one part of Lund University, becoming a
member of Studentlund will give you a lot of opportunities to discover the
student life in Lund outside of LTH.
Transportation - In Lund most people get around everywhere by bike, you
can get used ones cheaply either around Lund or in the nearby city Malmö.
Course Literature - The books needed for your courses can be bought on the
campus bookstore, from an older student or by borrowing from one of the
libraries.
Clothing - Bring clothes for all weathers. The weather of Lund ranges
between freezing and a bit of snow (winter) to 30°C and sun (summer).
Payments - The most places in Sweden are cashfree. So if possible, make
sure to bring a debit or credit card.
Communication - Most of us will use Whatsapp to communicate. If you don’t
have it yet, it's recommended that you download it before arrival.
Useful Words
Nation - A student union not connected to a specific faculty. Anyone who is
a student at Lund University and a member of Studentlund can join.
Nollning - The introduction, a four week period of different events.
Nolla - A student being introduced during the first few weeks.
Ouvve - The overalls used by the students, mostly during introduction.
Every guild has its own colored overalls. We are bordeaux colored.
The International Committee - The committee that plans events for you ♥
World Master - International Coordinator. Each guild at LTH has one.
Schedule international students
Monday 18/8
Tuesday 19/8
Wednesday 20/8
Thursday 21/8
Friday 22/8
Saturday 23/8
Sunday 24/8
Pre Reg Day
Grilling with VMX
This is the day where you will get to meet the phadders (mentors), tour the campus of LTH, and finish it off with a bbq-night together with the other guilds.
IKEA sitting
(Alcohol)
K-, E- and A-guild invites you to a Swdish-themed sitting with the other International students at LTH. After there will be a club with all international students in Lund
Monday 25/8
Tuesday 26/8
Wednesday 27/8
Thursday 28/8
Friday 29/8
Saturday 30/8
Sunday 31/9
Campus touring 2.0, Phaddermys
A campus tour together with all the new arrivals to the I-guild. In the evening your first Phaddermys, a dinner and chill evening together with your phadders.
Ouvve-introduction, Communication branch-day, Introduction of the songbook
A day where you'll put on your ouvve for the first time and then play games with the Communications branch.
"How-to-attend-a-sitting"-sitting
(Alcohol)
A sitting, where introducing sitting traditions will be the focus.
Spextour
Here you will plan a spex, trying to break the stone face of the Phøs...
Crayfish party
(Alcohol)
You will enjoy a small sitting, eating the traditional Swedish crayfish and hang out with the International Committee.
City tour, Outside Disco
(Alcohol)
The day starts with a city tour, where you will complete challenges for points, competing against the other groups. The day ends with a big parking lot disco with the other guilds.
Nolle-Sunday
(Alcohol)
You will get to meet all the different committees here at the guild.
Monday 1/9
Tuesday 2/9
Wednesday 3/9
Thursday 4/9
Friday 5/9
Saturday 6/9
Sunday 7/9
First Boxcar day, phaddermys
For the next two weeks the theme-phadder groups will be replaced by "uppdrags"-groups, where you will be the Boxcar Group. This day ends with another Phaddermys.
TriaTLTHlon & Monument painting
Watch while the Regatta groups compete each other as a warm up before the big Regatta.
Afterwards it's time to paint the monuments belonging to each guild around campus.
Study night
Tonight there is free study help and dinner :)
Boxcar construction evening & Branch day with External Communications
Start building your boxcar. End the night with activities organized by the External Communications branch.
Light lunch, Tour de Skåne & LTH club
(Alcohol)
Travel north by bus tour with two stops and Helsingborg as the final destination.
Later at night there will be a club with all other guilds before returning to Lund.
10K beer walk with the Social Activities branch
(Alcohol)
Meet the committees of the Social Activities branch at each kilometer, while drinking beer!
Monday 8/9
Tuesday 9/9
Wednesday 10/9
Thursday 11/9
Friday 12/9
Saturday 13/9
Sunday 14/9
Boxcar Construction evening
Continue building the boxcar.
WaTerloo and Pub-Crawl
(Alcohol)
Cheer for the Waderloo group in their competetion.
Then be ready for a night where you can visit the different Guild-Pubs at LTH!
Lunch-beat & International Sitting
(Alcohol)
Have a dance break with PeppI during lunchtime!
Later there's a sitting at Lunds nation followed by clubbing with the W- and D- guild.
Study night
Tonight there is free study help and dinner :)
Nolle-Friday, and GloWIFEst
(Alcohol)
Join all the Guilds at Sankt Hans and watch the ØPH and Cheer groups as they compete against the other guilds. End the night with joining the E-, W- and F-Guild for the GloWI-Party!
Nollelørdag, and nollesitting
(Alcohol)
Boxcar race day!! Get ready to race the other guilds, as well as watch Showdown and Ballongista compete in their respective competitions. Later you can attend the Nollesitting, a sitting planned and attended almost entirely by nollor!
Regatta
(Alcohol)
The last mission day! Cheer for Regatta in the biggest naval battle in Lund!
Monday 15/9
Tuesday 16/9
Wednesday 17/9
Thursday 18/9
Friday 19/9
Saturday 20/9
Sunday 21/9
Toga
(Alcohol)
Join the guild for a night in a Toga! To help warm up the night starts with a tournament in "Ölkubb".
Study night
Tonight there is free study help and dinner :)
Dinner-lottery with E-guild
Everyone is assigned a group of I-guild and E-guild students to have dinner together
Aerobics, committee-mingle & Phaddermys
Kickstart the morning together with Phøset.
In the afternoon there will be a committee-mingle and your last phaddermys together before the nollning ends!
Gasque
(Alcohol)
The last, best, and most important sitting in the Gasque hall... <3
Gasque lunch
(Alcohol)
Every big sitting is followed by a massive day party!!!
Monday 22/9
Tuesday 16/9
Wednesday 17/9
Thursday 18/9
Friday 19/9
Saturday 20/9
Sunday 21/9
Game night
A cozy night to meet new friends and have classic Swedish fika.
For most of us international students, it all started the same way: “I’m going on exchange soon! Where? In Sweden. No, not Stockholm, a small city in southern Sweden. The name’s Lund, have you heard of it? No, me neither, but it’s a small university town, I guess there will be many things to do as a student there”. And oh boy, there was.
At the middle of August 2017, I left Belgium with my backpack to carpool to the small town of Lund in Sweden. I had no accommodation yet, and counted on some friends to couchsurf before I found a place to stay for the semester. With the I-need-to-find-something-otherwise-I’ll-go-back-home struggle in mind, I went to the introduction day in LTH. I didn’t really expect anything special from it, but you know, why not? And now, I can’t imagine what my stay in Sweden would have been like if I just said “Nah, I’ll just pass”, because the Nollning made my exchange a unique experience.
During the Nollning, the exchange students have the opportunity to live an authentic Swedish tradition. And I think it is important to salute the openness of the Phøs and mentors to take the time and effort to include non-Swedish students. There are of course moments of brain freeze where you just hear vowels and consonants that don’t really make sense to you. You look around and see people laughing so you just do the same, feel dumb, but enjoy it. And even though I sometimes didn’t understand much, it hasn’t stopped me from having fun and meeting awesome people.
What I love about having been a Nolla during my exchange in Sweden is that I lived an experience specific of the country I was in, and I think very few exchange students can claim such thing. Whether you are from Sweden or abroad, I recommend you to enjoy every moment of the introduction, because that’s something you get to do only once in your life.
