Category: Netherlands
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My name is Fotini, and I study Product Design at UTS. I finally arrived two days ago in the beautiful city of Eindhoven, after much organisation and preparation !It’s a 30 degree day here (which is not what I was expecting at all), and I’ve already had some time to explore and look around. I’m…
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Hi there! I’m Parisa, a Business and Law student at UTS, and am about to start a semester of exchange at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. In all honesty, I was never too adamant on doing exchange. It’s not that I was sure that I didn’t want to, but more so that I thought I…
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This semester I am completing a Global Exchange at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. After just over six weeks in the Netherlands, I’m pleased to say I have not fallen off my bicycle, not even during orientation week when it snowed, and I have now learnt a total of three words in Dutch – hallo,…
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Today marks about a month and a half of living in Tilburg. It’s been a pretty full-on month, with a lot of partying, traveling, making friends, and maybe a small amount of actual studying. From the very beginning, Tilburg University did a good job of making everything easy to navigate. I moved into my student…
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Hoi, aanghenam! Two months into my exchange in Rotterdam and I’m already wishing it was longer… ACADEMIC LIFE The academic standards in Rotterdam are fairly high and the teaching styles here differ quite a bit from back at home. Erasmus School of Economics breaks down their semesters into smaller ‘blocks’ and each block has its…
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Hallo! If you’re looking into exchange and wanting to find out about a great place to spend 6 months abroad, you have come to the right place. I am currently completing my exchange at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and I could not recommend the experience more! Maastricht is a small but vibrant town in…
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I’ve been here for two months now and can honestly say it’s been one of the best experiences of my life! The city is bigger than expected – lots of shops, cafes and bars. More importantly, the people you will meet and the experiences you will have are larger than life. I live at Verbs,…
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What’s it like in Tilburg? Well so far, it has been two of the best months of my life. I arrived in the sixth largest city in The Netherlands on a cold and rainy Friday afternoon and was immediately greeted on the station platform by some students from I*ESN (the international student society). They assisted…
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To whichever potential exchange student has the pleasure of reading this blog I will try to make this as comprehensive as possible. I am a 4th year law and business student and I am on Exchange in Maastricht which is a student city consisting of roughly 100,000 people of which nearly 40,000 are involved with…
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Maastricht Maastricht is a small university city located in the south of Holland. There are many reasons why I chose this enchanting little city for my exchange and since I have been here the list has grown!… The traditional Dutch houses, the biking culture, the affordability of the city and the variety of courses the university has…
