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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Activities, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
The best for a students is the parties organized by the university or by the students. I liked the concerts and cultural events.
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - I had no other choice
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Because you are in touch with more students. And the university is much closer, you need less time to move specialy when the weather is really bad.
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Personal comments
Depends of the corridor and the people in you can be better or worse. Usually is not very clean.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
I didn't have telephone, I used e-mail. The weather was too hard to have more Nightlife. I had no enough money to travel a lot. In my country to travel is cheaper.
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Food, Housing:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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Academic
Course recommendations
Try to organice people with the same level of knowledge.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
The timetable is different every day... I think is better to do a static plan, and then you can organice yourself better.
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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...
About to find a job. Most of the offers you need the local language to work there.
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
It's a really good University. The lessons and the place are very good. You'll learn a lot there. The place is very safe, but... too cold!!!
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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
Try to have all the documents when you arrive,include the housing (if you can't it's not too difficult to rent a house).
Carry clothes to suffer a hard weather.
Buy a bike as soon as posible.
It's better to travel in Spring or in summer.
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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
At the begining it was difficult to communicate with people with differents accents. But, bit a bit, I learned to speak more fluently and to understand conversations without difficulties.
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