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RonnyS
Academic
Course recommendations
Gestion-Finance has very well respected teachers
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
More interaction with the French people as they don't seem to settle with English or German or Spanish people.
More help for interational students with banking, accomodation, carte de séjour. Goto Century 21 for good quality accomodation.
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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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Bastiaan K
Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
Close to the University and not far from the centre! Prêt de la Fac et pas loin de centre ville!
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Personal comments
In compare to many other Erasmus students from other universities, we have nothing to complain. Facilities are nice. The only minor is maybe the administrational problems
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sldoherty
Overall
I wish I had known...
The lack of things available in the accommodation.
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In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Offer other accommodation alternatives and make sure to overcome the teething problems you had this year academically.
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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
If you want to travel around France (highly recommended), make sure to get a "carte 12 - 25" for the train - it's excellent and will save you loads of money!!
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RonnyS
Overall
I wish I had known...
Admin and the fact that French hate other Europeans
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In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
It is good for a year, any longer and you would want to go!
Courses are excellent though.
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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
Travel, bring car as petrol is cheap.
Make sure you get your cards and accomodation sorted first 2 days.
Banks - Société-Générale near Continent or Crédit Agricole near town.
You cannot pay bills like phone over the counter in banks. Be ready for bills of exchange!!
Mix well with others and friendship will last lifetime!
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Annika B
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings<br>
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Compared to Holland everything except the baguettes, the cheap champagne (90 euro cent in the hypermarket but a beer in a bar 5 euro!!) and cheaper clothing, was everything more expense.
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Telephone, Nightlife, Food, Overall, Housing, Travel:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Since July 2002 the flow of money between european countries is fee so I could extract money from a french ATM without extra costs! The banks charge you 30 euro fine when you close your bank account!! When you want to open an bank account use the CIC bank, it is the cheapest for students. When ariving in caen arrange a bank account right away; you cannot get your key (address) from the room agency without an insurance and you can only pay the insurance with a cheque which we do not have in holland, and you can not get a cheque from the bank because yo do not have a bankaccount and can not get it without proof of residence!!! TIP: Open the bank account first or else ask Sophie Collet from Sup Europe to sign a cheque for you so that you can pay her the amount in cash.
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Jaap w
Languages
Language of instruction: French
Was learning French a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my French
How much did you improve your French?
My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Very good, although you had to try to connect to the french students. Furthermore the lessons where ok, slightly boring in the beginning, cause they didn't kept on pace for the international students
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