Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Activities
Nightlife
Travel
Overall
Personal comments
Clubbing: Barfly, Teatteri, Kaivohuone, Botta, Hesperia, Helsinki Club, Tiger, Highlight Café, Kerma, Mother, Helmi, Mocambo, Kaarle XII, etc.
Bar-crawling: St. Urho's Pub, Molly Malone's, Zetor, Simone, Santa Fé, Hullu Kukko, Kappelin Kellari, Storyville, On the Rocks, Saunabaari, Limón, Sling In, etc.
Best ethnic restaurants: Kabuki (Japanese) and Namaskaar (Indian).
Type of housing: Studio apartment in student housing
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Same place!
Why?
New building and furniture, great central location close to school and the Helsinki city centre. Each room has free broadband Internet connection, there is a launderette on every floor and 3 saunas on the top floor (some with a terrace).
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Personal assessment
Cost
Facilities
Location
Cleanliness
Space
Personal comments
Choice of central studio apartments for €464 per month and flat shares (Ida/Puistola/Pasila) out of the city centre for €150/€215/€250. If you don't want to pay for the studio apartment, I would choose the flat share Ida.
Family<br>
Personal savings<br>
An ERASMUS grant<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Telephone: in Denmark, I used prepaid cards for my mobile phone and in Finland I had a subscription from an operator.
Travel: my apartment in Helsinki was within a walking distance from both the school and the city centre.
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Food, Nightlife, Housing, Overall:
was the same price as at home.
Travel, Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand text books
Second-hand household items
Computers / Internet
Administrative
Money from home
Personal comments
No need to buy your own books, just borrow from the school library or photocopy the essential parts. Teachers also give paper handouts and some material is available online.
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