Université Panthéon-Sorbonne: Paris I

Housing and Beer (in bars) are the expensive thing in Paris.

We didn't really have much choice when it came to courses as the university told what we had to do by our university. The courses were okay, one to aviod like the plague, is Macro 2 in the first semester; very hard and very dull. On the other hand, one that was good, was development economics. A lot of the Erasmus students did it too.

A lot of people didn't know that it existed, but SEGLAS runs a french course for two weeks before term starts, which was really good. There are four groups and you have to do a test for them to decide which group they put you in. For more details, contact the people in the Maison Internationale (Bv Arago). I met lots of Eramus student from it, that i kept in touch with all year. The computer rooms' locations are ...SORBONNE: at the end of the Gallerie Dumas, turn right, then go down some stairs on the right, follow the corridor along and then the rooms are at the end on the left. TOLBIAC: 4th Floor Room C404 (follow signs to the libre service). PANTHEON: Escaliers G (near the accueil) 2nd Floor.

Carte séjour: if you are from the EU you don't need one, so don't bother wasting your time like i did.

Work really hard if you want to do well.

I hear that the Cité Universitaire is supposed to be an amazing place to live. Some of the other Erasmus, students lived and i went to one or two great parties down there. There is even a CROUS restaurant on site. You have to apply early though and competition for place is fierce. In typical french style, you have to put together a dossier, so if you want to try and get a place there, sort it out around 6-8 months in advance.