Reviews of Oulun Seudun Ammattikorkeakoulu | Finland

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Student life

Describe host city:

Travel, Nightlife: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment

Activities: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment

Personal social experience

Activities

Nightlife

Travel

Overall

Personal comments

Onnela,pizzeria Rooma,

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Housing

Type of housing: On campus

Arranged by: Host university

If returning, I would choose: On campus

Why?

Because there is a lot of other international students and campus is a good place to meet a new people from different culture areas.

Personal assessment

Cost

Facilities

Location

Cleanliness

Space

Personal comments

I was missing a lounge (common room)where the people could meet, speak and do whatever they want.It is hard to spend all time in one room with your roommate and there isn`t any other place where can you go if you need to have a fun with other people and if your roommate want to sleep or don`t like to be disturbed... Next thing is that it is difficult to meet a new people if everybody is in his/her room. The common room would be very good, because who want to meet people can go there and dont disturb anybody else.

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Expenses

Main source of funding:

An ERASMUS grant

Other sources of funding:

Family<br> Personal savings<br> An ERASMUS grant

Work opportunities:

I didn't explore any work options

Personal spending habits

Because everything is many times more expensive than in my home country and I had to reduce a lot night life and I have started to use more free calling via internet by SKYPE.

Food, Housing, Overall, Travel:

was more expensive than at home.

Nightlife:

was the same price as at home.

Telephone:

was less expensive than at home.

Accessibility of student needs

Second-hand text books

Second-hand household items

Computers / Internet

Administrative

Money from home

Personal comments

Shopping in LIDL,PRISMA, take a lot of things from home or buy it in other country or at ferry :-)

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Academic

Course recommendations

The teacher of HTML and PHP course,Mr. Markku Komminaho has been the worst teacher which I have ever had.I thing if somebody has papers for teaching full of mistakes and if he isn`t possible and ready to explain what about is he speaking he shouldn`t teach programing. Because almost nobody understand what is PHP, how does it work,how to write php code and what does it mean, what I am now writing. For most of students it was something total different then what they have never done.And Mr.Komminaho wasn`t ready to explain anything, he just sID that we should rewrite it to our computers from projector and see what it will do.If somebody ask for explaining what does that code exactly mean he said that he explain it later, but he didn`t do that. I thing it was only waste of time. But other courses was quite good, especialy video and photoshop courses was realy great.

My academic experiences

Quality of courses

Variety of courses

Access to resources

Interaction with teachers

Interaction with international students

Interaction with local students

Personal comments

none

My opinion of the university assessment

Exams at end of course

Exams throughout the course

Essays and/or projects at the end of course

Essays and/or projects throughout the course

Overall

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Overall

I wish I had known...

That here in Finland isn`t so hard weather like it could seems, because I have bought a lot of special winter clothes at home and it wasn`t so needed. More about structure and content of courses in DIME course, because it wasn`t exactly that what I have expected.

In my opinion:

Most people loved it.

Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important

Academic reasons

3

Culture

2

Costs

3

Activities

3

Campus life

3

Party / people

2

Weather / location

2

Personal recommendation

Take it easy, try to learn something, but just have a fun :-)

During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot

Became familiar with another culture

3

Traveled

4

Improved language skills

4

Met people from other countries

3

Became more independent

3

Partied a lot

3

Experienced a change in life

4

Advanced my studies & career

1

Final comments

DIME course isn`t so much about technical way like IT, but it is mostly about graphic design, photography, movies and nothing about graphics from technical point of view.

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Petr K

Vítejte na VUT v Brnì, Brno, Czech Republic
Communication and Information Sciences, Graduate, Erasmus

Languages

Language of instruction: English

Local language was: Different than language of instruction

Was learning English a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my English

Was learning the local language a key decision factor?

Yes, I wanted to improve my the local language

How much did you improve your English?

My level before: Everyday knowledge (shopping, directions, etc.)
My level after: At ease in most situations

How much did you improve your the local language?

My level before: Did not speak it
My level after: Did not speak it

Language difficulties

Social

Educational

Administrative / Institutional

Overall

Personal comments

I have had a lot of opportunities to speak english and improve my language skills. Almost everybody in school is speaking english and lectures was also in english. Also outside of school people usualy understand english and in campus most of communication was in english. I think it is the best way how to improve language if you have to speak this language and use it always and everywhere, because nobody understand your mother language.

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