University of Warwick

Food is much more expensive here than it is in Germany and travel and housing as well. But I have a Young Persons Railcard which gives you up to 30% off all train fares and booking early is a way to ensure you get the cheapest tickets. The yearly (or termly) bus pass that you need when you don't have a car or bike comes with a discount coach card (30% off National Express tickets) but is quite expensive.

Not really .. I knew someone from Warwick who was in Munich as an Erasmus student the year before I went. Get in touch with these people (or with people from your University who are at the University you are going to) because they will be able to provide useful information!

Join clubs and societies .. work at Warwick Arts Centre (you don't get paid much but you can see concerts, films, theatre productions etc. for free!!) and enjoy yourselves. Make an effort to talk to the people in your classes and show that you are interested in meeting them!

It seemed to many of us that in literature essays the fact that we were foreign students whose first language was not English was sometimes hardly taken into consideration. Apart from that .. no problems at all.

I would want to live in the same house because I lived with 24 other students most of who were British and threfore it was easier to make friends.