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- Don't sweat about accommodation. You never hear stories about that student who spend their year abroad homeless. Some people have more luck than others, but everyone finds somewhere eventually. Just keep your head up and keep several irons in the fire and something will come come up.
- Make sure you 100% live with Austrians. There is a marked difference between those who did and those who didn't.
- The Erasmus network is good when you first arrive but ideally you want to mix with Austrians, so treat with caution.
- When picking modules, think about what you want to do in your final year as you can really steal a march on other students by sneaking in a couple of relevant modules or picking something dissertation relevant. Same goes for other subjects too (I do French and German and went to Austria. I didn't take any French language but did take French linguistics and dealt with French language over the summer).
- University caters for your writing, listening and reading skills way more than teaching will (and I did both!). Make sure you make the most of this.
- Don't worry about your other language if you have one whilst on your make part of your year abroad. There are summers either side and these can be fairly long.
- Travel. As far as Germany and Austria go, the holidays can be quite long so travel is a good way to fill them. Austira in particular is well placed for travel in Eastern Europe and Italy, with Budapest, Prague and Munich all within 4 hours and Venice no more than 6 hours by bus. South Germany and Austria possess some of the best ski resorts in Europe too. Makre the most of it!
Christopher Cooper studied at the University of Vienna
I am loving the city and the country! It is probably one of the nicest places I have ever lived in and best for travelling for sure! It is very easy to travel from here to anywhere. We went to Prague, Budapest and Bratislava for only 30EUR return trip on the train and then travelled around those places. We have also been all around the North of Italy and Venice and rented a car there and seen lots of nice little places that are not all in the tourist guides.
I have met so many people from so many countries. There is a VERY big Erasmus group here and there are students from all over the world. We live in very nice accommodation and price wise it is very cheap to live and dine here. I have also been to a few ballets and operas in Vienna and on some local tours in Graz.
The school stuff is quite helpful, but it is very difficult to coordinate anything with them as they work one and half hours on Monday on odd weeks and 2.15 hours on Friday on even weeks or something like that. Work in the classes I find more laid back than in England, for example we still don't know when or even if we will be taking exams! Overall I've had a great experience and would definitely recommend it!
