Si j'y retournais je choisirais: Appartement/maison
Pourquoi?
independance and some distance from university.
living in a real community with French families and children around rather than a student-only atmosphere.
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Evaluation personnelle
Frais
Installations
Emplacement
Propreté
Espace
Commentaire personnel
housing in Paris is very expensive and tends to be very small. most people rent studios - French people don't like sharing flats, and certainly not bedrooms. if you rent an old servant's room (chambre de bonne/service) you will most likely be sharing a toilet and shower facilities. it is also common for students to rent rooms at the top of six or seven flights of stairs with no lift.
You can find housing in fusac.fr (though this tends to be a bit expensive) and at the American church - you can sometimes get a room in exchange for about 15 hours babysitting a week.
If you take Economics, get Schlacter as your maitre de conference; he's fantastic
Christophe Jamin is also brilliant for law / law and economics
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Mon expérience académique
Qualité des cours
Catalogue de cours
Accès à différentes ressources
Intéraction avec les professeurs
Intéraction avec les étudiants étrangers
Intéraction avec les étudiants locaux
Commentaire personnel
You are worked into the ground and the admin is a disaster - we had end of year exams before the end of teaching. But overall fairly good feedback and lots of continous assessment, if you like that.
Signing up for courses is also a bit difficult - you have to be on line the moment inscription opens and have a priority list and lots of alternatives as you won't always get your first choices.
Courses with French students are marked harder than courses with just international students.
Critères importants pour mon choix (1) Aucune importance – (4) Très important
Raisons académiques
4
Culture
2
Frais
1
Activités
1
Vie universitaire
1
Vie sociale / Fête
1
Climat et emplacement
3
Recommandation personnelle
If you like working hard, you'll get a lot out of it. It won't teach you to think, but you'll learn lots of information.
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Pendant mon expérience à l'étranger j'ai... (1) Jaimais – (4) Très souvent
Appréhendé une autre culture
4
Voyagé
3
Accru mes compétences linguistiques
4
Rencontré des gens d'autres pays
3
Développé mon autonomie
3
Fait la fête
2
Vécu une transformation
4
Amélioré mes possibilités de carrière
4
Derniers commentaires
If you get stabbing pains in your calves the first few weeks, don't worry, it's just all the stairs in the metro. At least you won't have to go to a gym.