Student experiences written by outbound and inbound King's study abroad students
What do you study at King’s? Mathmatics BSc Where did your Global Summer Experience take place? Korea University How did you apply? The application process was straight forward. It consisted of two main parts: 1) the application to the KCL study abroad team, which they filter down through their criteria and 2) the completion of …
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What do you study? Mathematics with Management and Finance BSc Where did you Global Summer Experience Take place? Hong Kong University (Global Business in Asia programme) How did you apply? I began looking at the different Summer Programmes offered by King’s’ partner universities very early on in the year. There are so many different summer …
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Accommodation By far the most popular type of accommodation in Barcelona is a flat share as it is a great opportunity to find cheap accommodation and to make friends with native Spanish or Catalan speakers.
The money I received from the Edith Baer grant made a huge difference on my year abroad. Year abroad can be a very expensive year for a student, and makes certain aspirations a financial challenge, such as traveling around your destination country, as opposed to staying in the one host university city/town. However this grant …
Studying There are a few peculiarities in the German university system that you will notice: at the end of classes the students knock on the desks, for example! The classes at Heidelberg start 15 minutes past the hour and finish 15 minutes before the time stated on your timetables, to allow staff and students to …
Continue reading “Lucy Baughan, 2014-2015 at Heidelberg University”