The best 4 months of my life Past Review
By A student (Tulane University) - abroad from 01/23/2012 to 05/18/2012 with
CYA (College Year in Athens) - Semester/Academic Year Program
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Personal Information
| How much international exposure did you have prior to this program? | 1 month - 6 months |
Review Your Program
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* Overall educational experience
Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc. |
CYA has strict rules regarding academics, but most of those rules weren't enforced. I felt like my semester was academically challenging because of the particular professors I had, but it would be possible for a student to have a relatively easy semester if they knew which classes to pick. Some professors at CYA are more intense than others. |
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* Host Country Program Administration
On-site administration of your program |
I enjoyed the staff at CYA but there were many students that felt they were too relaxed and hypocritical. |
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* Housing:
How satisfied were you with your living arrangements? |
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* Social & Cultural Integration:
How integrated did you feel with the local culture? |
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* Health Care:
How well were health issues addressed during the program? |
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| If you could do it all over again would you choose the same program? |
Yes
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Finances
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* 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) |
Travel was my biggest expense, so if a student spent all/most of their weekends not traveling it would be easy to live on a budget. |
| * Was housing included in your program cost? | Yes |
| * Was food included in your program cost? | No |
| Not including program expenses, about how much money did you spend on food and other expenses each week? | $100 |
| Do you have any general money-saving tips for future study abroad participants? | Withdraw large sums of cash at one time to save on ATM fees. |
Language
| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes |
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How much did the program encourage you to use the language?
0 = No encouragement, 5 = frequent encouragement to use the language |
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| How would you rate your language skills at the beginning of the program? | None |
| How would you rate your language skills at the end of the program? | Intermediate |
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Other Program Information
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* Where did you live?
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* Who did you live with?
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* Who did you take classes with?
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| About how many local friends did you make that you will likely keep in touch with? |
A Look Back
| * What did you like most about the program? |
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| * What could be improved? |
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| * What do you know now that you wish you knew before going on this program? | What to pack |
Individual Course Reviews
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Art and Archaeology |
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| Instructor: | Steven Diamant |
| Instruction Language: | English |
| Comments: | Least favorite of all my courses. On-site classes were cool but the course was poorly organized and work-heavy at the end of the semester rather than distributed evenly throughout the semester. |
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