Your experience is what you make it, and mine was incredible Past Review

Academic rigor, intensity, resources, etc.

I wasn't the fondest of how classes were paced at DIS. They went to are you kidding me? This is a college course? To oh my god this is way too much work all at once. There was a lot of overlapping in assignments, and a lot more assignments that had longer term due dates.

On-site administration of your program

DIS does not give students enough notice when they are about to travel or go anywhere. We were given emails often times 1 or 2 days before were were traveling internationally.

How satisfied were you with your living arrangements?

I have no complaints about my family, I loved them dearly. I just did not like being so far away from Copenhagen and having such a long commute. And there were students who had longer commutes than me. That just is not right, or fare. Sure we get a Danish experience, but we did not experience Copenhagen the same way.

Danish food is pretty bland. I enjoyed my host mother's cooking. But Denmark just did not no how to season its food. Good freshness though with every product I received.

How integrated did you feel with the local culture?

Danes don't engage much with foreigners. And when they do, they are often very closed off. it was incredibly difficult to make Danish friends, which we were repeated told that we needed to do. I liked living in a different country, and I feel that I was able to get a little more of a cultural experience out of it than if I had gone to London, but emersion, in 4 months, is very difficult.

How well were health issues addressed during the program?

I had no health issues. But I also was never given a CPR card because DIS messed up at immigration, which was extremely unprofessional.

Im from New York. This place is very VERY safe..

The program is fantastic. I would have never ever gone to Scandinavia if I hadn't chose DIS. I wish there was a little less Americanness though. it seemed at times too polished.

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

I was able to budget myself easier because I had dinner at night with my host family. But copenhagen is very expensive.

0 = No encouragement, 5 = frequent encouragement to use the language

The program, like the class I took, encouraged me a lot to use Danish. No where else in the country did. I didn't need to, pretty much every Dane speaks better english than you will speak danish.

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• Americans

• The trips
• The professors

• Communication with the students from the organization itself
• Pacing of classes and course loads
• distances from the city

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