Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

Because I liked the independence. I liked that if I went away from home, not to have a cleaning and cooking lady to do things for me. I learned to live without my parents and that included all the luxury of having people doing things for me. I learned to go grocery shopping every monday afternoon. I learned to cook, to wash clothes, to do my bed everyday, to clean my own room and bathroom, etc. Things that at home I have people to do them for me. I learned to make my own rules and respect them by being responsible, etc. I would defenitely choose to rent an apartment and live there with a friend/s like I did that semester that I went to study abroad.

The thing is that the method of evaluation is very diffrent from my home country. In Spain they don´t have tests, homework, projects, essays, presentations throught out the semester course. They just have one closed multiple choice final exam and depending in what you get in the test is what your grade is. I personally dont think the a single closed test can evaluate everything you learned through out the course.

I would suggest that there should be homework, projects, presentations, tests through out the course that evaluate in different percentages what we learn, instead of only one single closed exam at the end.

That it was not that easy to make friends in the University. Almost everyone were just girls at the psychology faculty, and they had already their group of friends or had a boyfriend and they lived in the outsides of the city. So it wasn´t like I went out with them at night or something.

The psychology faculty should have like more erasmus gatherings, and should make reunions where locals can meet international students.

I think prices are more reasonable in Spain. Things are cheaper, but due to the fact that the Euro compared to the Mexican peso is a lot more, that´s what made it sometimes more expensive in some things. Although for example airplane tickets are much more cheaper in Europe using some airlines than in Mexico by far.