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Student life
Describe host city:
Nightlife: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Activities, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Odense is a good starting point for travelling, that's for sure. Nightlife is good, you just need to find the right times and places...
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Easy to meet a lot of people in a relatively short amount of time.
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Personal comments
Was at Rasmus Raskkollegiet, student complex with everything you need there. Bit far from town, though...
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Albeit one of the cheaper Scandinavian countries, Denmark is still quite expensive, worse than Holland for example. A beer downtown is hilariously expensive...
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Food, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Rema supermarket for your groceries. Check the nights downtown when beer is on special offer, saves money.
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Academic
Course recommendations
Not really that much English courses on offer. I believe it is better now, though..
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
They make examination relatively "easy" for exchange students - don't worry too much about it.
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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...
In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Odense actually a very good place to study, you'll be surprised!
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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
Odense lies in a great central spot to first of all visit other places in Denmark, secondly to see some of the rest of Scandinavia as well. Use that.
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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: No problems in any areas (including slang)
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Everybody speaks almost perfect English in Denmark - facilitates easy communication, but then again, hard to really learn any Danish.
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