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Student life
Describe host city:
Student life dominates the city
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Travel, Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
in Boston mainly: Rumour, Venue, Wonderbar, Kells.
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Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
location, student life, facilities
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Personal comments
I only can recommend to live on campus, as it's awesome to have that "campus college life" and also because students living off-campus do not seem to be as active and as involved in the free-time programmes as students living on-campus
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Overall
I wish I had known...
If you want to travel around it is good to buy a car together with some of your friends and sell it after the semester. I've spent too much money on renting cars (even if we shared them). Public transport to malls is bad (from campus), but between Boston and New York, Philadelphia and Washington awesome.
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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
Try not to spend too much money. If you have the choice do not take an unlimited meal plan - it's too expensive and does not pay off. Every day the same food, after 1 week you can't even look at it.
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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
go to Maine, travel around in MA - there are loads of interesting things to see. Do not forget to go to New York for longer vacations, or for a weekend only. Enjoy your semester, because you are likely not to have another semester at your university which is that much fun.
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Academic
My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
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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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
at the beginning often dificulties finding one or another word, afterwards more and more fluent.
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Attila S
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Government assistance<br>
Other
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
telephone is much more expensive in the States than in Europe in general. Nightlife in Boston is in particular very expensive (entry fees + drinks). Housing on-campus in extremely expensive, even compared to off-campus housing. Travel and food are quite inexpensive due to the level of tax in the States.
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Housing, Telephone, Overall, Nightlife:
was more expensive than at home.
Travel, Food:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
text books are quite expensive. Especially the course books for finance and cost accounting seem to be over 100 USD
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