My Coming to the UK Summer Plan

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I haven't posted in a long time, but i need to tap the ILX expertise. I want to "study abroad" for about a month this summer in the UK. Can't go through my university because it's so fucking expensivem, so I'll be going directly through the foreign school.

Without any decent knowledge of UK schools, non-London England, etc, the online study abroad info is hard to even process. Where do you think I should be looking? I'm an art student/kid lit major over here, but it would be nice to stray a little.

I know I'd like to visit Edinburgh, but I don't know anything about England schools/geography except what I've learned from the UP series, and i've got nothing on Scotland or Wales.

I'll be visiting my school's study abroad office tomorrow, but i don't think they'll be helpful-- they'll just get all pissy that i can't/won't pay $5000 to hang out with other NYU students in paris.

Anyone going to summer school? Any advice? please?

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Thursday, 13 April 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

my third paragraph looks stupid. Yes, i know edinburgh is in scotland.

― rebecca s (rebecca S), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

one thing: im not sure too many of these programs have summer courses? not sure, though. also, have you really compared price from what your own university is offering? i doubt its much cheaper to go on your own, but im just speculating.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Thursday, 13 April 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

make sure nyu will take the credits. i went to nyu and looked into some other programs in europe, and the study abroad people said something about not accepting some credits, or something like that. i dunno

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

US universitites a very stuck up about crediting foreign universities' courses, like phil says.

Also UK universities are not known for their summer programmes. It would be better all round to do a semester or a year at a UK university. You'd actually meet some british students then.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

Edinburgh University certainly had (and I assume still has) a lot of students from foreign universities who would come to Scotland for a single term (or alternatively a year) and join normal classes.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

they'll just get all pissy that i can't/won't pay $5000 to hang out with other NYU students in paris.

oh, i did nyu in paris. i didn't have a very good time, but the best part about it was when we had a lecture about french youth, and the guy was telling us about how popular "le barebacking" was.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:04 (twenty years ago)

Was their fieldwork?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

That was such awful grammar.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

i mean, maybe i misinterpreted it, and there's a french word that sounds like "barebacking", and he really meant that french youth really like kite-flying. but im pretty sure he meant unprotected anal sex.

i did see the lecturer and one of the male school administrators frolicking over oysters and a glass of wine a few weeks later. then maybe they went home for some kite-flying.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't know anything about summer schools in Edinburgh, but be warned, if you do decide to go there, that Edinburgh in the summer is hell on wheels due to the Festival and Fringe. And becomes stupid mad expensive as a result.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:34 (twenty years ago)

btw, dont trust nyu housing to find you somewhere you'll like. at nyu in paris, all the other suckers went with nyu housing and it got bumbled and most people were really unhappy with their places. people who wanted home-stays got studios, people who wanted studios got home-stays - in shitty neighborhoods too. i was the only person who didn't go with housing - stuck it out in a hostel for a week or so while looking for an apartment, and got a great studio in the marais for less than the nyu kids were paying. worked out pretty well.

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 13 April 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

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