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3.77 / 5 based on 77 reviews
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
Because I have there my own room. Also have kitchen and living room. And you can live with other students together.
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Personal comments
In the house were I'm living is pretty big. Everybody has his own room. We have a garage, bathroom with a second toilet downstairs, living room and a big living kitchen. The bad thing is that it is sometimes not that warm. But generally ist really o.k.. I'm living together with a rumanien, spanish and france gay. So it is good, because you always have to talk english. I think the accommodation from the GMIT are very good and close to the college.
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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Roisin Dubh, McSwiggans, O'conners Pub in Salthill, Nightclub CP
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Academic
Course recommendations
The level of the courses are pretty low.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
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...
No not really.
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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
I'd sayed before the level of the subjects are not very high and so you have time to travell around and to enjoy your stay. But I'd like that it is a bit harder, because sometimes I hear something in the lectures I already learned. But generally it is good because you can really improve your technical english. Also the teacher are mostly good and they able to explain the problems very well. And it is after some week no problem to follow the lectures. And this is good because when you cannot follow the lectures you will give up after some time and you don't learn anything.
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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
Travellin here is no problem, because from the colleg there are sometimes trips to somewhere in Ireland. Also it is no problem to rent a car. It is not that expensive. Travelling with bus is also possible but took's sometimes a long time. In generally when you come to Ireland you have to travel a lot because there are so many beautiful things to see. And the landscape is amazing.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Family<br>
Personal savings<br>
Government assistance<br>
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't want/need to work
Personal spending habits
Because you have to buy your food staff. And sometimes at home you get themn from the parents. Here you also spend a lot of money by going out and travel around because you want to see what Ireland can and also to enjoy your life here you have to go out and visit the pubs and nightclubs.
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Overall, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Languages
Language of instruction: German
Local language was: Different than language of instruction
Was learning German a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Was learning the local language a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my the local language
How much did you improve your the local language?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
At the beginning it was very hard on the college, because I didn't have a lot of experience in technical english. But after some week it was o.k. You learn every day new words and it becomes better from one week to the other. In the social life it was ok because you improve day per day because you speak every day english.
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