Best experience ever? Yes. Past Review
By scurry (Marketing., Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway) - abroad from 01/23/2012 to 05/29/2012 with
American Business School - Paris: Paris - Direct Enrollment & Exchange
This trip taught me how to be independent
Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 1 month - 6 months |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
Very easy courses, it was like a 6 month vacation! |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
Could've been better, could've been worse |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
Everyone wanted to live in our apartment. Everyone, no joke. |
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Good but extremely expensive for extremely tiny quantities |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
It wasn't the program as much as the school |
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* Health Care:
How well were health issues addressed during the program? |
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| * Safety: |
Don't be stupid and you won't get robbed.. Passed out on the streets of Paris once though in the middle of the night drunkenly and nothing happened to us, but I wouldn't recommend testing that |
| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
Yes
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Finances
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* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?
(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost) |
You better learn how to cook, and in order to do that, you gotta know enough French to read the instructions because you can't Google translate everything |
| * Was housing included in your program cost? | Yes |
| * Was food included in your program cost? | No |
| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | $50-60 |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Learn how to cook |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | No |
Other Program Information
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A Look Back
| * What did you like most about the program? |
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| * What could be improved? |
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| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | More French and that America is a country that doesn't care about its people |
