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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Nightlife, Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
NightTown in Rotterdam, only 15 minutes trainride away from Delft. Delft itself is pretty boring at night, so you can forget about it.
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Housing
Type of housing: single's apartment
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: student housing
Why?
The previous arrangement was a single studio room in an entire block of similar rooms. There isnt any chance of social interaction between neighbours which makes life pretty boring. Most of my neighbours are not Dutch, so that defeats the purpose of studying in Holland because i do not get much exposure to the Dutch Culture and no chance at all for a decent cultural immersion and exchange.
I would choose to stay in student housing complex, because there, i get to interact with Dutch students and get to learn more about their culture.
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Personal comments
There are very little on-campus housing, most student hosuing are off -campus. The university is helpful in securing housing for exchange students albeit off campus, so there's no worries in that department.
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Academic
Course recommendations
Avoid lumping all the international students together, provide more chance for interaction between locals and foreigners. The whole purpose of these exchange programmes are for cross-cultural exchange and immersion. The university should place that in mind, instead of simplifying matters by lumping all the exchange students together.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
Provide Dutch lessons for all exchange students.
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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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Languages
Language of instruction: English
Local language was: Different than language of instruction
Was learning English a key decision factor?
No, it wasn't.
Was learning the local language a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my the local language
How much did you improve your the local language?
My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Lack of opportunity to learn Dutch. The university is not helpful in this aspect.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
All the major European languages!!
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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's a pretty good place to go, but you must bear with the initial aloofness of the Dutch students.
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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
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Family
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
Well, basically the euro is much stronger than the singapore dollar and the standard of living is higher. i pretty much live the same way i do, but its just not as affordable in Holland than in Singapore. The only plus point is the cheap beer in Holland. Beer in Singapore is 5 times more expensive.
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Food, Travel, Housing, Overall, Telephone:
was more expensive than at home.
Nightlife:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
well, there are a lot of coin denominations in the euro currency and that makes it very troublesome to carry coins around as you will end up with a lot of useless 1 cents , 5 cent coins that you cannot seem to get rid of. However you really need to have a local bank card and do all your transaction electronically to save yourself the hassle of going home with a bag full of useless coins.
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