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Student life
Describe host city:
Students equally interact with the local and student community
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Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Travel: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Downtown LA, specially Sunset Blvd., Santa Mónica, Huntington Beach.
In Long Beach go to the Bistro Café, a little coffe shop, beer for 1 buck, and you gonna love it if you smoke...cigarettes, ´cuz you cannot smoke at any public place in California except at the Bistro.
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Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Independently - My choice
If returning, I would choose: Apartment/House
Why?
Is the best way to live in the US for me, you have your own rules instead of living on campus.
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Personal comments
There´s a lot of accommodation at the university, you can live on campus or off campus and is even greater, ´cuz there´s a lot of student apartaments next campus and the transportation is free, there´s a little shuttle every hour around apartments.
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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
English is very important, since is the business common language worldwide it´s kind of mandatory to practice or have an experience in an english spoken country. I had a lot of fun and I did learn a lot about the language and communication skills
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Expenses
Main source of funding:
Family
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't want/need to work
Personal spending habits
The US is more expensive than Mexico, widely speaking (education, food, accommodations, nightlife, everything).
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Overall, Nightlife, Housing, 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
Is better for you to open an acount, just for using it at the ATM machines or cash dispensers in order to save al the commisions you have to pay for the bank from your country.
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Academic
Course recommendations
If you are planning to study in the US get there very early, ´cuz the registragion of the courses is on your own, nobody is going to help you, so do it early, otherwise they get close very soon.
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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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Overall
I wish I had known...
In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Is one of the best CALState campus in California, the city is great and you will meet a lot of people from all over the world.
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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
When you get there try to know as much as people who is in the same program, cause they are in the same situation as you if you go by yourself, know them and you will find people who get along with you and may be you will live together, or study together, get involve with all the people from the program.
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