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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Activities, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Kharma is the most popular club for exchange students."Gigglin Marlin" is also nice but you need twenty two to get in for both of them.
If you want to have a good cup of cofee, memphis is there. Hemingways is also a nice palce when you want to play pool while you are drinking a beer.
For jazz music, the jazz bar is a very nice place, where groups are playing everyday during the week.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Home university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Because there are a lot of opportunities to meet exchange students and it is a greta experience, because most of the time the flatmates are from different countries.
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Personal comments
KOAS which is responsible of housing students, is a flexible and a comprehensible organization. If there is one problem in the appartments someone is fixing it quickly without any charge. If you have some problems about money, one email and you can find an agreement easily.
There is at least on coordinator for foreigners, which is quite helpful in case of trouble.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Because Finland imports a lot, which has some consequences on the cost of products.
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Food, Nightlife:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone, Travel, Overall:
was the same price as at home.
Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Academic
Course recommendations
If some courses you are interested in and they are not available in english, ask to the teachers, most of the time they try to make you pass the course through "book examination".The reading material available is really good usually and quite interesting.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
My opinion of the university assessment
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Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Overall
I wish I had known...
University provides me some informations about finland: not surprise!
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In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
For students who don't have any problem with multi cultural environment Jyväskylä is a great place where they will enjoy their student place.
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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
University organizes "tutors group" who are taking in charge incoming students. They are used to foreigners and you can learn a lot from them.
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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: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
I used to speak scholar english and being here with exchange students from all around the world with one common language was a really nice experience and a great improvement. Everyone who tried to make some efforts though it was not his mother tongue was able after two months to communicate easily.
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