[IceFire]

Hey all,

This is a bit of a carryover from my last thread on a similar subject.  I've still got no idea what I'm going to do with myself.  Last exam is coming up and soon it will be all over.  Graduated and everything.

Someone popped me the question...would you study overseas (or more - you SHOULD study overseas and come back with a wicked accent ).  So I looked into it a bit...sounds sort of interesting actually.  Hell, I have no idea what I'm going to do....

SO...has anyone done it?  Any suggestions?  Good idea? Bad idea?  I'd probably study somewhere either in the UK or in Australia/New Zealand (depending on whats available) and I'm hoping to limit language issues to a bare minimum.

[Taristin]

I wanted to... but it's 10K USD to go to Oz for a semester.

[Rictor]

Actually, I'm kind of wondering the same thing, though I'm more into finding work somewhere cool (say, Spain.) since I need to earn money, not spend it.

[Fantomeye]

I just returned from a 3 month study abroad program that split the time between New Zealand and Australia. It was a blast, honestly some of the best times I've ever had. I have a bunch of pictures from the trip and will be more than happy to answer any questions about studying abroad.

[Black Wolf]

We get tonnes of yanks and a smaller, but still significant, number of canadians coming over here every semester (as well as other countries, of course, but not very many), and they always have fun. From my experience (Here in WA of course (Curtin Uni ))as a regular observer, if you can afford it, it'd probably be worthwhile, even more so if you can/want to get a working visa.

[kode]

sweden is actually a good place to study abroad in. for one, there's no tuition fees

and everyone knows teh enlishg, more or less.

[icespeed]

i'm actually living with an american, he's over here (uni of newcastle) for first semester. he seems to be having a blast, but as for actual studying, i get the impression that most overseas students (read: americans) are over here for the experience more than the academics. like, visiting sydney, going up the coast to queensland, beaching, doing the wineries tour, that kinda thing.

[IceFire]

Right on guys...some good food for thought

[Slanker_MT]

Germany has some good educational programs... but since you´re a canuck, you will have langual issues everywhere around the world, as you can´t even talk english properly... aboot

[kode]

Originally posted by Slanker_MT
Germany has some good educational programs... but since you´re a canuck, you will have langual issues everywhere around the world, as you can´t even talk english properly... aboot

neither can the germans, so the problem isn't a problem...

[Andreas]

I'd want to study overseas some day, just for the hell of it, but unfortunately it's too expensive.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Slanker_MT
Germany has some good educational programs... but since you´re a canuck, you will have langual issues everywhere around the world, as you can´t even talk english properly... aboot

Nothing wrong with our english...its the Americans who have done far more damage to the language

[Taristin]

Oi! We've dunn no sush ting!

[vyper]

Reason 1: http://www.caledonian.ac.uk

Reason 2: http://www.cplweb.com/home.htm

Typical Location at the end of a dat: Between a bar and a nightclub, with coursework still unfinished

[Flipside]

The Underworld is the one with the two flaming torches outside?

I've caught cabs from Glasgow central near there, avoiding the, as Billy Connolly described them, people trying to walk using only one leg

[vyper]

Yep. (Not to be confused with Waxy O'Conners beside Glasgow Queen Street Station, with big flaming torches.)

Not a club in the strictest sense, more of a starting point before hitting the garage or ... (*shudders and thinks of goths*) The Cathouse.

[Slanker_MT]

Originally posted by kode

neither can the germans, so the problem isn't a problem...

Hehe, true... some people crippled the language, really... reminds me of Lothar Matthäus ("I hope we have a little bit of lucky")

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by vyper
Reason 1: http://www.caledonian.ac.uk

Reason 2: http://www.cplweb.com/home.htm

Typical Location at the end of a dat: Between a bar and a nightclub, with coursework still unfinished

Pff.....Caley Poly strikes again!

http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk ; apparently Strathclyde has one of the highest proportions of foreign students in Scotland (3rd / 4th)

(I spent 8 months working with the Head of Department on a patent thingymabob as well as getting my hons from there, actually....)

St. Andrews also has a nice new computer department (I was up there last year to meet someone).  Glasgow Uni also seems decent.

I probably wouldn't study abroad myself due to the sheer cost of it.

[Hunter]

I'm planning to study in Seoul, Korea within the next two years or so. Suffice to say it's a *big* uptaking.

[Clave]

Go somewhere near London.  Culturally London kicks a s s: there's so many museums, art galleries, theatres, palaces and castles around there (If that's your thing)

I suppose it depends what you want to get out of it, but if you want history then the UK has got lots of it...

Of course if you want a tan, and like seafood then Oz is the place...