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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Nights of the PROMS, Universities GALABALS and European Commission parties shouldn't be missed. Every week from wednesday to sunday the centre is good, particularly close to the Stock Exchange( Archiduc, Mirano, Celtica, The Lounge, O'Reilly's , Cocktail bar, Pablo bar, The Fuse )
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
It gives opportunity to know a lot of people, and it s supposed to be pretty new and well working building.
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Personal comments
The housing in its broad evaluation was good, cause the same landlord owned several buildings in a district and then everything worked like a campus, and the social life has been perfect for an erasmus experience. Unfortunately those buildings were very bad kept.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
I spent more in the whole cause life costs more in Brussels than in my home town. I also enjoyed a lot social life and travels, which are not for free...
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Food, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
In some banks ( Bank van den Breda )problems with foreign checks
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Academic
Course recommendations
Do not think in the italian way, the academic quarter of hour before classes doesn't exist!
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
I really would not know what could be changed
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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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Overall
I wish I had known...
no, it should have been worse in any case!
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
It s a high quality organization, I don't think you can find out better in Brussels for business studies.
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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
The whole experience changes life of everyone.And among people I am of those who changed most ideas, or better got completely convinced of already existent ones : work abroad, meet different cultures, travel, learn languages.
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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
The english experience has been perfect, studying throughout one year economic texts it gave me the technical vocabulary I lacked.Now I am also able to recognize different accents of foreigners in english. I had the opportunity to learn french, being brussels french/dutch speaker. I studied it first at EHSAL, then I took a 120 hours course at Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, obtaining a diploma.
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