Type of housing: room with shared kitchen

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: room with shared kitchen

Why? I was really lucky with my corridor mates, had never so much fun with people. I love to have conversation and parties whenever I enter the corridor and that was really the case on our corridor in Ryd.

Personal comments:
The rooms are sufficient large and the bathroom directly connected to the room, so you don't have to share it with other people...very good. The kitchen has to be shared with the corridor mates and is large enough if not all eight want to cook at the same time. Telephone and a connection to the internet are available, especially the internet connection was a great advantage and this for a really moderate price.

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

Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment

Personal comments:
Night spots: Herrgår'n in Ryd Tuesdays for the International Pub, Fridays and Saturdays; Nationernas Hus everytime especially in the summer a nice place; Platå and Platen's very near to each other good places on days with student prices; student parties (Kravall) and Sittnings in Kårallen and elsewhere are compulsory (not all but most of them); special highlight is the SOF (student orkester festival) every second year in Linköping, the next will be in 2003, I had the luck to expirience it...great; always watch out for special events organized by the different student communities (Draget, Le Mans, ELINpiaden ...)

Course recommendations:
Never hesitate to ask teachers, there will always be a helping hand. If you want to learn Swedish, take courses given in Swedish. Most of the courses contain laborations which give a deeper insight in the theoretical learnt, don't be afraid of these labs.

Personal comments:
All in all it was good ... keep on going with the practical work in the labs, that ws really better than in Germany. A bit more and deeper insight in the theoretical background would have been sometimes desirable. Keep your flexibility!

Language of instruction: English

Main source of funding:
Family

Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant

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

Personal spending habits:
Telephone: everybody called me Accomodation: I had a really cheap one at home Nightlife: alcohol is very expensive in Sweden Travel: I wanted to get to know the country from the north to the south

Travel, Nightlife, Overall, Housing: was more expensive than at home.

Food: was the same price as at home.

Telephone: was less expensive than at home.

I wish I had known...
That it is raining that much during the autumn.

In my opinion:
Most people loved it.