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Charlotte M
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings<br>
An ERASMUS grant
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
For travel simply because I travelled more than I do at home! The other stuff was just more expensive than it is in Belgium.
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Overall, Housing, Nightlife, Travel, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Not really, I looked into it very carefully before I left. It is easy to keep track of your money, not in detail but just write down what you spend and when.
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Charlotte M
Academic
Course recommendations
I really liked the system of seminars, at home I only have lectures. The only comment for me is that all my courses stayed within my departement and I would have liked to had more courses, to broaden my education like I have at home.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
I am not reallly fond of just essays as evaluation, I think an exam is good because it makes you study the entire course and not just concentrate on your essay topics. If you just have to essays, it's easy to skip the lectures that are not about your topic! Though one essay or a few during courses are good because you get to focus and you learn a lot about a specific subject that interests you!
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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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Charlotte M
Overall
I wish I had known...
If I had known what a good axperience it woul be, I would have saved more so I could go for an entire year!
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Their international office is a great support. Maybe the accomodation office could consider the preferences of the students more or if that's not possible just shorten the preference-list!
Another comment is that I think a broad education is good and maybe they should force students to take a few courses outside their departement!
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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
I loved it! It was really nice to experience a different kind of university life, a different way of studying, a real campus which I had never had!
Meeting al those new people from everywhere in the world! I can recommend it to everyone!
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Charlotte M
Languages
Language of instruction: English
Was learning English a key decision factor?
Yes, I wanted to improve my English
How much did you improve your English?
My level before: At ease in most situations
My level after: No problems in any areas (including slang)
Language difficulties
Administrative / Institutional
Personal comments
Everything was fine, people were understanding and patient with international students. I liked the system of a test to see who still needs language lessons!
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Charlotte M
Housing
Type of housing: university accomodation but not on campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
I think sharing a house with other international students and british students would have made me more independent and would have impropved contacts! I remember the house-parties and they were great!
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Personal comments
I liked it, it was a bit dissappointing that my preferences weren't really taken into account. And it was a shame that not all uni-accomodation had internet acces. For the rest Oxley was great, the surroundings were really nice, a lot of green, good bus connection, although the buses were never on time.
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Charlotte M
Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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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
We tried to go to as many places as possible and didn't really do a lot of places twice! But we had a weekly meeting point at the Eldon, every tuesday a lot of intenational students met there, almost all international students knew about that and it made a lot of contacts possible!
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