Thammasat University (BMIR) is just a really bad department of a "prestigious" university. You may think you're not there to study anyway, but you'll be surprised how shitty admin, vapid students and having egomaniacs as professors can impact your experience. People will make you or break you. Thai students are both vapid and prideful. The quality of your exchange will be all about other exchange students and that's pure luck.
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Ne perds pas ton temps
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Universities in Thailand are more about the name on your resume than you actually learning. Universities in Thailand are just plain bad. Avoid Thammasat and Chula because they are full of egomaniacs, snotty students and shitty admin who all have this holier-than-thou attitude. Snobs with no substance don't make a positive experience. You can't walk on eggshells because shitty admin or egomaniacs as professors
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Pendant mon expérience à l'étranger j'ai... (1) Jaimais – (4) Très souvent
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Avoid Thailand and do your exchange in China or Hong-Kong if you can. If you have to, go to Bangkok University if much more professional and located near Ekkamai BTS (skytrain station) which is central Bangkok. If you have to do Thailand and Bangkok, pick Bangkok University instead. People are actually more professional there, more exchange students, and administration is much more competent.
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Cheap apartments. Make sure that your AC matches your apartment. If you get some sort of basic AC in a big apartment, it will be hot as hell. Best of luck getting your deposit back.
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Siam paragon Mall. Good BTS (skytrain) and MRT (underground). It's extremely difficult to get from point A to point B because Bangkok is heat and concrete. Traffic jams. You may underestimate this because there's plenty of transport (which is damned expensive btw!) but heat sucks the life out of you.
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Apprendre le Anglais fut un élément important de la décision?
Non, pas vraiment.
Apprendre le la langue locale fut un élément important de la décision?
Non, pas vraiment.
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Snotty and vapid Thai students. Group work is definition of hell. If you do well, you make someone else "lose face". Petty backstabbing and gossiping. Your conversations will be basic. Even though Thai students know English, you'll tire quickly of hearing them brag where they lived or studied. You'll have to experience for yourself how utterly vapid this is.
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You get what you pay for in terms of quality. Not a lot. Why not study in Beijing, Shanghai or Hong-Kong? You're not allowed to work nor volunteer. Good luck securing some sort of United Nations internship because most of things in Thailand work because of connections. You, presumably, a Western person won't have high status in Bangkok. If you want to have a great exchange, I would advise Shanghai, Beijing or Hong Kong. I don't know who goes these days in Bangkok to forge friendships and create life-changing experiences?
Dr.Chanintira na Thalang (proud to show you both her Thai and British passport on first day of classes) may hold you down. She seems like she's too good for teaching and thinks of herself as British. Professors often bring their private lives into classrooms, yell and criticize Thai students (you will be affected, too), and talk about back-stabbing the other person WHILE in class. Most of Thai professors are just plain bad.
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Administration is really really bad and I can't overstate how this affects your experience if you need support or things done in a professional way. I used to think it doesn't matter that much. Find university that has better administration that Thammasat BMIR. People who work there don't represent average Thai person. Very prideful which is funny considering most of them are there by connection and have no skills for the job.
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