15Stroop Past Review
By A student (Computer Science, Middlebury College) - abroad from 09/08/2014 to 06/05/2015 with
Middlebury - Dartmouth Engineering Dual Degree: Domestic Exchange in New Hampshire
I took engineering courses and gained valuable engineering skill. However, I didn't enjoy some of the broader courses as much as specific courses that were closer to what I study in my major.
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Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 0-2 weeks |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
This is an extremely rigorous engineering program. You will have access to the full breadth of Dartmouth and Thayer School of Engineering resources. As or more intense than normal study. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
Not a host country, but Dartmouth could have been a lot better at giving us the resources to start. We were given varying information about what orientation events we needed to attend and were never given a firm arrival date. We also had to go through a manual process of having individual courses from our home schools waived before registering for each course. |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
Coming from the far away land of Vermont, all the way to New Hampshire, it was hard to assimilate with the locals. After months of hard work learning the culture and the language, they accepted me as one of their own, but only after I made a sacrifice to Daniel Webster. |
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| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
No
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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) |
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| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | USD $25 |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | No |
Direct Enrollment/Exchange
| * Did you study abroad through an exchange program or did you directly enroll in the foreign university? | Direct Enrollment |
Other Program Information
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A Look Back
| * What did you like most about the program? |
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| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | I wish I had more insight into specific classes I would be taking before I had to sign up for them. |
Reasons For Studying Abroad
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The Outright UrbaniteA social butterfly, you're happiest in bustling cities with hip people, and took advantage of all it had to offer. You enjoyed the nightlife, and had fun going out dancing, and socializing with friends. Fun-loving and dressed to the nines, you enjoyed discovering new restaurants, shops, cafes, and bars in your host country. |
Individual Course Reviews
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Systems |
| Course Department: | Engineering |
| Instructor: | Stuart Trembly |
| Instruction Language: | English |
| Comments: | Extremely challenging, but rewarding. You will learn the material well. Problem sets take a long time (some up to 12 hours, weekly) and labs are graded rigorously. You sometimes have to redo labs if you arrive at inaccurate results. |
| Credit Transfer Issues: | I didn't transfer credit. |
