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First post of a long serie about Sweden… My motivations, choice of the destination and courses i will take!

Motivations

The motivation of this trip abroad to study computer sciences start at the end of my first year in BTS,  I was motivated to go to a Scandinavian country. When you are on BTS,  which is include in a “lycée” system (in France), it’s not easy to get informations about an eventual “study abroad” trip , and instead of my malgré my efforts and my visits at the international relations section of the nearest IUT (Institute of Technology),  I was unlucky to prepare this “too much early” and finaly “too much later”.  Anyway, I did my Bachelor’s degree in France, and I have no remorse to do this! At the beginning of this year, I got a mail of the international relation section of the IUT,  asking to me to go to a meeting about studying abroad as an Erasmus Student.  I try to do an application for that “…there’s no harm in trying” ,  and finally i was accepted!

Destination

I had to choose a destination: A nordic country with english speak! Why a nordic country? Everything I heard about theses country is good, culture is very different, it’s there which many of my favorites musics starts, landscape are amazing, peoples are friendly etc. So every of this point had guided my choice.

The choice of the Sweden is due to the partnaires University of my IUT, indeed any university are in relation with mine in Norway or Danmark, the choice was between Finland and Sweden, and after an analyse of the courses available, I choose Sweden.

Here is the course detail:

1st Semester

Ht1 (August -> October)

• Beginner’s Course in Swedish for Exchange Students
• Cryptology
• Information Networks

Ht2 (October -> January)

• Information Networks continues
• Advanced Computer Architecture
• Compiler Construction

Many things to do

I dont have choose course in the 2nd semester, but i’ll in october!

So, the departure is for tomorow, I need to get an accomodation there now. I have until September 3rd to find it.

I’ll detail later the “howto” get an accomodation, which is not easy if someone want to start the adventure!

The rest of this adventure soon!