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Avoid a cultural shock!

Avoid a cultural shock!

Posted by on Jan 17, 2012 in All, Food/Drinks/Fun, Prospective students, Student life | Comments Off

Most of the students who are starting their studies abroad are having a cultural shock. Even if you come from Europe, Asia, Australia, North or South America, you can “get hit” by a cultural shock anytime, anywhere.

So, in order to be prepared we will highly recommend you a great blog that “puts the ducks in a row”. The address of the blog is: http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/

The blog is hilarious and presents the facts exactly as they are in reality. There are very interesting things about Dutch lifestyle and habits, which you will not find on universities websites of brochures.

Here is a preview…

P.S. I don’t know any international student who likes that type of candies. :)

 

 

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www.groningenlife.com

Posted by on Sep 26, 2011 in All, Current students, Food/Drinks/Fun, How to survive in Netherlands?!, Student life | 0 comments

We found a whole website that is entirely dedicated to student life in Groningen and just like Feb-International, it has international students as its target group! You can surely find some interesting info there as well! www.groningenlife.com

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From New Delhi to Groningen

Posted by on Sep 7, 2011 in All, Blogs | 0 comments

Aman is originally from New Delhi, India, and is currently a Bachelor’s student at the FEB, following the Economics and Business Economics programme. He shares a lot of interesting information accompanied by pictures and videos in his blog, that can be useful to prospective students who wonder what living and studying in Groningen would be like. To make sure that the blog’s content is delivered correctly, we recommend viewing it at its original location.
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Samuel Knight’s Blog

Posted by on Aug 31, 2011 in All, Blogs | 0 comments

Samuel Knight is a Bachelor’s student from the United Kingdom following the programme Econometrics and Operations Research. Samuel shares his experiences in Groningen as a new student coming from abroad and hopes that his blog will be helpful to other prospective international students. His blog is originally located on this address, but it can also be seen below by clicking the ‘read more’ button.

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