Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House

Why? I would go in an apartment where local people live, because where I lived there were only foreigners as me, and we hardly spoke German. We used to talk in English, as many of them couldn't German. That disappointed me a lot. Second I would like to live in a real house, as the student dorm where I was, was quite similar to the one I live in in Italy, and I'd like to experience something different.

Personal comments:
The place where I lived, was awful. But I visited all the other student dormitory in Graz and except for mine and an other one pretty close, the others looked clean, nice and comfortable.It's just a question of old building and the bad aspect was that NO Austrian was living in those awful places, just Erasmus and Balcanian students...

Describe host city: Students equally interact with the local and student community

Activities, Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Personal comments:
I organized a lot by myself with people met up there. We often went to private parties and parties organized for Erasmus. A very cheap and good place where to eat, even if surely not that healthy, was the "Drei goldenen Kugeln". I remember a disco, but mainly a kind of disco pub, named the "Three Monkeys", and an other one... but I can't remember how's that called! :p!

Course recommendations:
move very quick and start thinking of them as soon as possible, from your home country possibly. Then, attendance is very important for some courses and teachers give a strong attention to your presence and to your interaction during the course. Be active!

Personal comments:
Just.. if you have some essays or kind of "homeworks", do them soon after your lessons and live your Erasmus student life after it.

Language of instruction: German

Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant

Other sources of funding:
Personal savings

Work opportunities:
I didn't want/need to work

Personal spending habits:
food, generally costs more and then as a foreigner I didn't know where to go to spend less. Housing, in Modena I did not pay for housing, as I got a local grant which used to give me money and house for free. Nightlife was cheaper as you almost do not have to pay for entering disco-pubs, beer is incredibly good and CHEAP and in general we managed on our own for nightlife...

Food, Overall, Housing: was more expensive than at home.

Travel, Telephone: was the same price as at home.

Nightlife: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
that the place where I lived was that bad as it really was.

In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!