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Student life
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Activities, Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Uni. Essex is a tiny campus about 30 mins from Colchester town center. There is very little to do on campus because it is so tiny and limited. The food is absolutely diabolical, as is the social life in general. You keep running into the same people over and over and over, and you can't do anything without the whole campus knowing about it within a day.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
I lived in the Quays. It is too far from campus, especially when it gets cold and it is also very expensive. I do not recommend anyone should live there.
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Personal comments
If you are a first year student, it is best to live in the Towers where all the parties are. You may think that this will not help you learn much, and you are correct. However, nobody really learns much at the University anyway.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
none
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
England is a country where everything is too expensive and services are generally very poor quality.
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Food, Telephone, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
I was surprised how expensive everything is. If you want to save money, eat Pot Noodles a lot, but then you might die from too much sodium.
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Academic
Course recommendations
Uni Essex is not a top University so it has a so-so selection of courses available. It is easy to meet other international students because they comprise 40% of the student body.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
University of Essex offers a boring and limited lifestyle which can become dull within the first three weeks of school. After that you end up wishing you had gone to a larger school with more interesting, intellectual people, a more varied social life and better entertainment options. Please come to University of Essex if you are a boring dull person.
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
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Overall
I wish I had known...
I wish I would have known how quickly I would become tired of the University of Essex, which is probably the most boring place on the entire planet.
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In my opinion:
Stay home.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
I pity the people who have to spend an entire 3 years at this University. If I would have this year back I would choose to go elsewhere.
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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
The only good thing about Essex is that it is close to London. Apart from that, it is substandard in every department. You are not going to be meeting the brightest sparks at this University because it is not a top school. I don't really know what would motivate people to come here, maybe they could not get into any other school.
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
It is easy to speak to English people because I come from America where we speak English.
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