Universiteit Utrecht

Personally I was really lucky about acomodation getting a nice place to stay, near university and relative cheap as well. The negative thing was that I didn't apply for accomodation before leaving, and once there I had to wait for a month until get any accomodation.

since it has lots of students and limited dormitory for them the students are scattered around in the city, so the housing is not perfect. i would prefer students to live in the dormitories whsch are close to each other. Besides it is expensive.

In utrecht you cannot miss going to the Mich O'Connels. It is an irish pub where all international students meet up every Tuesday. It is a must if you want to get to meet some people! Utrecht has a very organised Erasmus Student Network (http://www.esn-utrecht.nl). It is an organisation responsible for getting the Erasmus exchange students to aquanted to Utrecht, Holland and the dutch way of life in general. In order to accomplish this it organises all sorts of events where exchange students get the opportunity to meet each other. Some events I participated in was a trip to Amsterdam, a volleyball tournament at night and rowing in the dutch canals to name just a few! I would say that the key is to join the activities that the Erasmus Student Network organises! Clubs and cafes i will not bother to name cause I think it is the company you have with you that makes the difference!

While I was in Utrecht, Monza was renovated and was a great place to go to when the medicine students had parties there. Storm was another great place to go for a good night out with students. The canals are also great in Utrecht, especially if you are a rower.

Unforgettable experience in one of the old beautiful Dutch student city. An amazing teaching facilities, professional and good quality education, which helped me prosper and enter one of the prestigeous colleges, i.e. College of Europe.