UWC Blogs

A collection of over 470 blogs written by UWC students in 33 languages from 81 countries at the 18 United World Colleges.

When I started UWC Blogs in 2013, I intended to give UWC applicants a glimpse into life at UWC. At the time I was waiting impatiently to start my own UWC experience at UWC Waterford Kamhlaba. I had soaked up every bit of UWC promotional material, but I still couldn't quite imagine what UWC would be like. So I read through every blog about UWC I could find and eventually created UWC Blogs to share the blogs with other UWC hopefuls.

I strive to make the list as extensive as possible so that everybody can find a blog for their favorite college in their native language. This wouldn't be possible without you. Thanks to everybody who submitted a blog! Do you blog about UWC or know a blog that isn't listed here? Submit the link.

UWC Blogs is powered by Astro DB and built with Astro and a lot of 💙.

🚀 Project Structure

Inside of your Astro project, you'll see the following folders and files:

/
├── public/
├── src/
│   └── pages/
│       └── index.astro
└── package.json

Astro looks for .astro or .md files in the src/pages/ directory. Each page is exposed as a route based on its file name.

There's nothing special about src/components/, but that's where we like to put any Astro/React/Vue/Svelte/Preact components.

Any static assets, like images, can be placed in the public/ directory.

🧞 Commands

All commands are run from the root of the project, from a terminal:

Command	Action
npm install	Installs dependencies
npm run dev	Starts local dev server at localhost:4321
npm run build	Build your production site to ./dist/
npm run preview	Preview your build locally, before deploying
npm run astro ...	Run CLI commands like astro add, astro check
npm run astro -- --help	Get help using the Astro CLI

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