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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities, Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Barillo gothico
El spit chupito
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
It let you discover new people, because you have to share your flat with flatmates.
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Personal comments
In barcelona, you dont have other choise than to share a flat with unknown people. That is one of the spice of the life in Barcelona.
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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
The barcelona's housing is much more expensive than the nancy's one. The public travel is also more expensive because you don't have student price over there.
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Telephone, Housing, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife, Overall:
was the same price as at home.
Food:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Academic
Course recommendations
No hesitate to ask for some extra informations to the other students or to the teacher
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
When you are an erasmus student, you dont have special laws in comparaisons to the local students, so you need to preapare yourself more than the others.
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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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Overall
I wish I had known...
For the rentings of particular things is quite difficult because its plenty of people who want to rent the same things and you have to wait a lot of time before to have a free place.
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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
Study pretty hard because its a quite difficult university but profit a lot of your free time.
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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
You have to be very carfuly to the thiefs. They are numerous and very good.
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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: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
It was a very good experience for me. Actually i could not speak any single word in spanich when i arrived. Afterwards one year i became fluent at spanish.
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