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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Activities, Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Cardiff is an amazing city with a great student enviroment. There are plenty of top sports events in the popular Millenium Stadium.Moreover, Cardiff citizens are warm and really good hosts.
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Housing
Type of housing: A room exchange
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: A room exchange
Why?
It was really interesting to live with foreign students, indians, greeks, malaysians, chinese..
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Personal comments
I had an excellent relationship with my flatmates and enjoyed the opportunity to exchange experiences with foreign students, with different ideas and ideological thoughts.An intercultural mixure, indeed
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Javier O
Academic
Course recommendations
There is a wide list of subjects to choose, it is a great university
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
It was great to improve my english while I was coursing my Law degree.I spoke the local lenguaje fulltime, going out with friends, playing football. It was simply fantastic
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Overall
I wish I had known...
Not really, I like the experience of unknowing what is waiting for me
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
I think Cardiff University is one of the best in UK, its facilities and courses are really good support for the students
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
An international academic experience is a basic luggage in order to start a succesfull proffesional career. It makes you open your mind and removes all the prejudices you could develope all along your life, only influenced by your local culture and traditions.
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Javier O
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Uk is more expensive in these categories than spain but I tried to minimize this difference getting a part time job
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Food, Telephone, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Overall:
was the same price as at home.
Housing, Nightlife:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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