Universitetet i Oslo

Amatøren, Garage, a place downtown I don't remember the name of... but it was very nice! But most of the student nightlife occurs in the student village, since it's quite expensive to go out. You just have to get used to it, and once you are, it's not bad at all!

The accomodation was simply great. everything you need is in the student village, from supermarket to nature, pubs, and during the coldest months it may not be worth the effort to pay loads of money to go downtown and get your bottom freezed...

Living there with not too much money will teach you how to survive in non-ordinary conditions. You'll experience that you can have a lot of fun even if you don't move a lot from home, and that you can eat decent food spending less than you thought. Travelling may be very expensive (especially because if you buy a bike - it can be very cheap, like 50€ - you won't be able to use it from november to april...), but if you wanna travel across Norway and Scandinavia, use some bus companies like www.lavprisekspressen.no or www.swebus.com, you'll be shocked at seeing how cheap they can be. The websites are in Norwegian/Swedish only, so remember what I said about the local language...!

I must say that most of the international students take courses in English only. I took courses in 3 languages, namely English, Norwegian and German. This means that you can choose among a much wider range of courses. Ask someone about the teachers, if you speak the language ask someone about the teachers, cuz there may be written "taught in Norwegian" on the website but then you find a teacher speaking an impossibile dialect from southern Sweden, which the local understand, but it may sound obscure to you...

Go to the immigrants' market, open every day in Grønland (near the bus terminal), it's VERY cheap! Books and photocopies are VERY expensive, try to loan them in the library and copy only what you really need.