Subject: Socrates Erasmus

I bet almost all know that exchange student programme :) I just want to know how does it look like, how about transport, living in foreign country, was it difficult to qualificate to this program ? How about language ? (Well, I can speak english but that's practically all :D) I would like to travel to Spain or Portugal next academic year and I am still not sure about it.

Any informations from students which has already been "exchanged" will be nice.

you dont care about academic, just getting laid :D

If you can afford it and qualify to the programme - go there. Though you won't learn a lot.

Which means that I don't care about accomodation ? A University assures me a academic or sth ? :D

Od course, but I put that topic in few places in internet and thats one of them ;) I just want find out how does it work :)

No, the uni won't give you accomodation, at least not always. You have to search for a place in 'akademiki' on your own, usually.

Anyway, better go to the guy/woman responsible for student exchange programme at your uni, you'll get all info there.

Of course I will do that but a qualifications starts in Ferbuary and in that month I will get first informations about exchange. Have you been in other country for exchange ?

Unfortunately not, the locations didn't suit my taste. One was great, but I've read very bad comments about the level of my kind of studies out there - I studied English philology and read that most of the English philology classes were in the native language.

But a couple of my friends went to such exchanges and were generally satisfied, although all of them told me, that it was more like holidays than studies.

I was hoping that it's more like holiday than studies cause one of the reasons is to avoid difficult subjects in my home university ;) But of course it's not main reason :D

Did they work anywhere during the exchange or they had enough money to live ?

They had enough money, but mostly from parents...

it is very possible that tearchers in your university won´t approve some subjects you study in foreign country. i recommend to talk with them about it before

- accomodation is mostly your own problem
- depending on your studying subjects, its easier or impossible to go abroad. Studying genetic engineering in Belgium, it's almost impossible to get a decent bunch of subjects abroad that my university would agree with.
- if you go to Spain or Portugal, you better speak Porgugues ore Spanish. Most of them suck at english ...
- Dont expect to learn much, its mainly partying from what I've heard from other people.

also the same coming from Spain to Holland xD. easy to pass the subjects, all time partying..only difference is that no need to learn dutch as far as people uses to speak english

Well I am studying computer science, quite popular faculty so I think I will find easily some university :P Returning to learning, I really don't expecting that I will be learning so much, whats more I was expecting rather partying as you said than learning :D About Spanish, well that's a main problem cause I know it only at beginner level.

Where in the Netherlands have you been?

In the Netherlands, indeed, you can easily go without learning Dutch. At some universities all the course for the last year bachelor students and for the master students are taught in English.

i visited some fiends who were erasming there, In Groningen