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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Coimbra and Portugal have better nightlife than Pavia and Italy, but there are some nice places to go at Pavia, like Umbelico, Doblino and so on. We usually went also to parties organized by erasmus students.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
Because I'd met better more people from other cultures
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Personal comments
Was nice, but my neighbours were just italians and they have a different sytle of living from the erasmus students.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Food, Telephone, Housing:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Languages
Language of instruction: Italian
Was learning Italian a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your Italian?
My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
At the begining was pretty hard, but at the end I was spoking almost like an italian.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Be careful with the teachers, some of them are very rude, and they don't care if you're a foreigner or an italian.
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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
Have fun! It's the richer experience that I've ever had.
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Academic
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Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
My opinion of the university assessment
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