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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Fureys is a good pub, bar's owner really friendly
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - My choice
If returning, I would choose: With a family
Why?
Because in this way you can improve better your foreign language due to every day close contact with english mother tongue.
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Personal comments
I am pretty satisfy about IT Sligo University. The lecturers were friendly and helpul.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Government assistance
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Housing was more expensive than housing in my home town (I paid for ine month about 345€, instead for a housing at home I usually spend for one month 200€). Also the travel was more expensive (train and bus tickets).
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Telephone, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Food:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Academic
Course recommendations
The interaction with local students was really poor. The course was almost attended by international students and this isn't so good because you hear different international pronunciations (with mistakes) all the time.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
We had to do a lot of projects, for different subjects, at the some time (sometime it was really enervating).
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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...
I would like to know, before to chose the course, that course was attended almost by international students (if I had known this before, I would had chosen a different course).
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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
Mix the students (foreigns and domestic students together)
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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
People are very friendly, I love the Irish culture.
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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: Basic phrases
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
this experience was necessary to improve my english!
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