Are you considering, studying or have studied abroad?
I'm a person with high expectations from my academic studies.
I plan on studying comparative literature/history of literature, maybe classical studies - Latin [if I can catch up on the grammar X_X which most probably won't happen], and maybe a creative writing course just for the fun of it.
Now, I live in Romania and although the uni in my city is the biggest in the country and has plenty of foreign students and etc. etc. it specializes mainly on medicine/physics/sciences in general. I went to a college course offered to high school students there last year [as a way to catch our attention] and I didn't like it. I've heard all nasty things about it and our scholar system is lame anyway .
So, for some time now I've started to look into other possibilities.
The best candidate so far is University of Vienna because it's only about 300 km away from where I live and it's all-round amazing, but it requires proficiency in German. Which I don't really have, but I could learn. The next options would be France because Sorbonne is just ... Sorbonne and I know the language and have a class mate who's also going to study in Paris. Then I could go to Italy/Spain because of the language factor again, I have relatives there and there's a big Romanian minority there and I wouldn't feel all outcast-ish. Lastly, the UK and the rest of the English-speaking world, because I have English proficiency and they have good unis, but it's far away from home, rainy and rather expensive.
I've finished my ramble. I have this winter/spring to decide where to go and start making the proper arrangements.
Thoughts, opinions?
:cute:
I'm a person with high expectations from my academic studies.
I plan on studying comparative literature/history of literature, maybe classical studies - Latin [if I can catch up on the grammar X_X which most probably won't happen], and maybe a creative writing course just for the fun of it.
Now, I live in Romania and although the uni in my city is the biggest in the country and has plenty of foreign students and etc. etc. it specializes mainly on medicine/physics/sciences in general. I went to a college course offered to high school students there last year [as a way to catch our attention] and I didn't like it. I've heard all nasty things about it and our scholar system is lame anyway .
So, for some time now I've started to look into other possibilities.
The best candidate so far is University of Vienna because it's only about 300 km away from where I live and it's all-round amazing, but it requires proficiency in German. Which I don't really have, but I could learn. The next options would be France because Sorbonne is just ... Sorbonne and I know the language and have a class mate who's also going to study in Paris. Then I could go to Italy/Spain because of the language factor again, I have relatives there and there's a big Romanian minority there and I wouldn't feel all outcast-ish. Lastly, the UK and the rest of the English-speaking world, because I have English proficiency and they have good unis, but it's far away from home, rainy and rather expensive.
I've finished my ramble. I have this winter/spring to decide where to go and start making the proper arrangements.
Thoughts, opinions?
:cute:
November 15th, 2008 at 07:40am