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PDG was the greatest experience of my life. Past Review

By (Accounting, University of Kansas) for

CIMBA: Paderno del Grappa - Undergraduate Program

What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile?
Absolutely! I loved every minute of it and I miss it so much.

Review Your Program

* Overall educational experience

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

Workload was not too heavy and pretty good for the most part. The finals right before you leave at the end is pretty hard to do. It is not easy to study for tests over there but you do learn a lot from projects and homework. Classes are overall a good experience and easy environment to learn.

* Host Country Program Administration

On-site administration of your program

Very helpful about traveling and pretty much everything they expect you to do. They offer so much help and there is no weakness of their administration program.

* Housing:

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

* Food:

You eat the same thing a lot. Kind of gets old after a while.

* Social & Cultural Integration:

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

So much fun! Everyone goes out and there are only a couple of bars so everyone is at the same bars all the time.

* Health Care:

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

* Safety:

If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? Yes

Finances

* Money: How easily were you able to live on a student's budget?

(1 = not very easy/$200+ on food & personal expenses/week, 2.5 = $100/week, 5 = very easily/minimal cost)

Language

If applicable, to what degree did your living situation aid your language acquisition?

Other Program Information

* Where did you live?

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  • Dorm
* Who did you live with?

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  • Americans
  • Local Students

A Look Back

* What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? You get to see more of Europe doing the CIMBA program because you don't want to stay there on the weekends and you get more time to travel. There are honestly no words to explain how and why CIMBA is so great until you just do it to see it for yourself.