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Student life
Describe host city:
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Onnela,pizzeria Rooma,
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Because there is a lot of other international students and campus is a good place to meet a new people from different culture areas.
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Personal comments
I was missing a lounge (common room)where the people could meet, speak and do whatever they want.It is hard to spend all time in one room with your roommate and there isn`t any other place where can you go if you need to have a fun with other people and if your roommate want to sleep or don`t like to be disturbed... Next thing is that it is difficult to meet a new people if everybody is in his/her room. The common room would be very good, because who want to meet people can go there and dont disturb anybody else.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
An ERASMUS grant
Other sources of funding:
Family
Personal savings
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Because everything is many times more expensive than in my home country and I had to reduce a lot night life and I have started to use more free calling via internet by SKYPE.
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Food, Housing, Travel, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was the same price as at home.
Telephone:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Shopping in LIDL,PRISMA, take a lot of things from home or buy it in other country or at ferry :-)
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Academic
Course recommendations
The teacher of HTML and PHP course,Mr. Markku Komminaho has been the worst teacher which I have ever had.I thing if somebody has papers for teaching full of mistakes and if he isn`t possible and ready to explain what about is he speaking he shouldn`t teach programing. Because almost nobody understand what is PHP, how does it work,how to write php code and what does it mean, what I am now writing. For most of students it was something total different then what they have never done.And Mr.Komminaho wasn`t ready to explain anything, he just sID that we should rewrite it to our computers from projector and see what it will do.If somebody ask for explaining what does that code exactly mean he said that he explain it later, but he didn`t do that. I thing it was only waste of time. But other courses was quite good, especialy video and photoshop courses was realy great.
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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...
That here in Finland isn`t so hard weather like it could seems, because I have bought a lot of special winter clothes at home and it wasn`t so needed. More about structure and content of courses in DIME course, because it wasn`t exactly that what I have expected.
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Take it easy, try to learn something, but just have a fun :-)
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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
DIME course isn`t so much about technical way like IT, but it is mostly about graphic design, photography, movies and nothing about graphics from technical point of view.
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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: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: At ease in most situations
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
I have had a lot of opportunities to speak english and improve my language skills. Almost everybody in school is speaking english and lectures was also in english. Also outside of school people usualy understand english and in campus most of communication was in english. I think it is the best way how to improve language if you have to speak this language and use it always and everywhere, because nobody understand your mother language.
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