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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 within the university/student environment
Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
because it's the best way to meet people in your case
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Personal comments
The specific office gives you one address and that's it. They don't want to give you more help.
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Nathalie B
Expenses
Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
because of the distance from my country
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Telephone, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, 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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Nathalie B
Languages
Language of instruction: Spanish
Was learning Spanish a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your Spanish?
My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Basic phrases
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Courses are in Catalan and Spanish, but most of it are in Catalan. You need to know before choosing courses, who is the profesor, in order to know if he prefers to speak Catalan or Spanish.
By the way, it allows to learn two languages during a year.
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Nathalie B
Overall
I wish I had known...
How stressful can be to study abroad: a little event can become a "mountain" for you (in positive or negative way)
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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
- beware of the location: twenty kms from the center of the city (Barcelona)
- the importance of catalan speaking. It could be very stressful during a course very difficult.
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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
To be cool in any situation: it's no use in being angry. See the minute you was very angry: it's a lost minute.
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Nathalie B
Academic
Course recommendations
beware of the courses in catalan
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
to give more details about academic life like basis data (ie about exams and courses)
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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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