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Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Caffe Belvedere,situated on a rocks with balcony, old furniture and books really
temptate you to sit there all day long chatting with some friends or just reading a book of poetry.
One spot next to the University library where most of the students meet at night especially weekends.
Weekend were mostly organized by the local IAESTE group otherwise is would be quite boring.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: but a newer one
Why?
because that is the best way to meet other international students
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Personal comments
The old students residence was pretty expensive relatively to the facilities avaiable. The food in a students restaurant was not very good and also the cleanliness of the toilets was quite bad sometimes but a new buildind was a hole new world, very comfortable and modern and almost the same price, so you should just be lucky to get the room there.
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Other
Other sources of funding:
Government assistance<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
I worked during my study abroad experience
Personal spending habits
Because Switzerland is in general one of the most expensive countries in Europe.
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Nightlife, Travel, Housing, Overall, Telephone, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
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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
Switzerland is a perfect country for learning many languages. Most of the people there speak both Germanand Franch and at least people at the University are also fluent in English. On the street Swiss German can be a problem even if you are a german native speaker but everybody can speak also German properly.
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Overall
I wish I had known...
Well not really. Everything was easier then I imagined before.
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In my opinion:
Most people loved it.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Fribourg is a small but lovely town with quite many students but is can be very quite on weekends and holidays. The University is quite small but everything is easily accesible. The student dormitory is just accross the street.
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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
The train system is great in Switzerland so you can get wherever you want very fast and comfortable and if you get a halfprice ticket even not very expensive. Mountains are great for hiking and lots of beautiful lakes.
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Academic
Course recommendations
Well I actually didn't take the course at the University but I did my diploma thesis at the Institute de Physique where they thought my a lot about Surface Physics.
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My academic experiences
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Interaction with international students
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