Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I am doing erasmus exchange program next year, and so far i am very interested in either Norway (Trondheim) or the Netherlands (Delft). It will last one year, as i have no possibility of going for 3 or 6 months only, due to specifications of my university course subjects, but i have the best marks in class, so i can go anywhere i want, which kind of makes it even more confusing and difficult to choose, tho you might not understand what i mean. The basic constraints here are language and money. I am extremely fluent in english, and from what i have gathered from people that have been there and know about it, the majority of the classes are in english and people don't have any trouble at all with the language, which is absolutely fine for me. About money, there are scholarships available, tho i still don't know exactly about values but i know Norway is a bit expensive, compared to where i come from - Portugal by the way - and the quality of life is far superior. The weather is also completely opposite from here. Few hours of sun and serious low temperatures. Cool thing about Norway is that we can get to travel for other countries or locations inside the country, to work on our projects for short periods of time. I know of some mates that went to Tibet and China for some time. About the Netherlands, i don't have that much info. Still investigating. I appreciate all the useful info you can share with me, watmm :sup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Both alternatives are alright, IMO. Norway is expensive though and probably be more "exotic" than NED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 i just noticed the pre-registration can't be edited, so i don't i can change the list i proposed in the first place, which was: 1st- Trondheim 2nd- Delft 3rd- Grenoble (France) got to confirm it, tho. "exotic" explain please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retape Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 mountains, fjords, polar bears who roam the streets etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 mountains, fjords, polar bears who roam the streets etc beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I live in Trondheim and work at the university here, I know some erasmus students and they seem to love it here. It is very expensive though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 There's some good music in Trondheim I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 I live in Trondheim and work at the university here, I know some erasmus students and they seem to love it here. It is very expensive though. nice man. i am kind of worried about money now, but still waiting on new info here. scholarships from my university are very low and often paid out of time, but i will try to know if i can get some scholarship from NTNU as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noise Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 trondheim is a good place if you're not too picky about the music scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 trondheim is a good place if you're not too picky about the music scene. there's you and impakt there right? so it can't be all bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noise Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 the club scene is a bit lackluster, though. there's only one place for decent electronic music, although some good artists might pop up during the Pstereo festival. other than that, "Blæst" feature some nice shows sometimes. Wire is coming to play there soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I see, I see. Fuck all nothing for good electronic in the US. That's besides the point though. /end derailing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Trondheim is alright for music. There's around 4-5 shows a year that I really enjoy. Been on a good streak the last months; James Blake and David Rodigan. Pantha du Prince coming up in feb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Al Hounos Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 norway is beautiful, but when people on here say expensive, they really mean it. be prepared to move down a few financial classes - even a lousy Big Mac meal was like $12. Made Denmark seem cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kichiguy Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Norway is easily one of the most beautiful places on earth. Go there if you get the chance! If you like doing outdoorsy stuff I cant see why you wont have a blast in the spring. Music wise, when I was there last I caught lasse marhaug playing in a cathedral outside oslo. The good vibration crew also organises great psytrance parties deep in the woods if your into that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 don't think i'll go to Norway. times aren't the best around these parts (my country) and i can't forget that it will have to be for a whole year. i am sure it is a wonderful country, but maybe i will get to visit it in a near future. will think about Delft, which is one of the most advanced schools in terms of architecture and the technology involved in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 can you choose anywhere in the world or just europe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MortstoX Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 trondheim is a good place if you're not too picky about the music scene. there's you and impakt there right? so it can't be all bad They only play at bi-curious private parties over here, so I don't think they are a part of "the scene". (The scene consists of 90% rock or metal bands, anyway.) I stayed in Rotterdam for two weeks last summer, and Delft seemed like a nice place. Perhaps a bit quiet, but with Rotterdam and Den Haag 15 mins away, and Amsterdam one hour away, you will have a lot of things to do, and concerts to attend. It's strange that you are considering these two cities, since they seems quite different to me. Trondheim; far away from the rest of the world, nice landscape/scenery, slow but nice city, expensive. "Excotic" (Long, dark and cold winters, bright summer nights.) Delft: extremely centrally situated in Europe, boring landscape, not so expensice. Not so "excotic" for a portugese? Anyway, I'm working at the university here as well, and if you have any questions, you can always send me a message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ruiagnelo Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 can you choose anywhere in the world or just europe? Erasmus programme offers me: leuven (belgium), clermont-ferrand, grenoble and paris (france), delft (netherlands), trondheim (norway), rome, firenze and milan (it), aachen and dresden (ger), la coruña, bilbao (es), prague (cz), bialystok (pl), thessalonikis (greece) and vilniaus (lithuania). But i can choose from about 25 brazillian universities, couple of north american cities, australia, lebanon, japan. Nothing in the UK, as far as i know. edit: but those are external programmes, not erasmus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 im american so ive had a long love/fascination with the whole narrow cobbled anti-car streets of Europe. I just love it. Delft looks amazing and cozy and gorgeous. At least from google maps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Go to Berlin and you can hang with me :sup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stockfish Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 i love dresden. you won't lack anything in musical/party terms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chim Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Norway: real expensive, crazy high quality of life if you get a job, shitty weather netherlands: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 berlin would be wicked. prague would be cool. what about iceland? i've always wanted to go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I'd love to go to Norway in summer as I love the great outdoors, fjords, hiking, fishing all that caper. Would love to see the Northern Lights too, but proberbly never see them unless I get a massive load of spare cash I could never justify the cost of going on holiday somewhere even colder and darker than the UK. And the Northern Lights are in the depths of winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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