Studying abroad

Studying abroad in China In China, I studied as a regular exchange student for a full semester. I enrolled at the Beijing Institute of Technology for the winter term 2012 from September to December. At the BIT, I attended an Artificial Intelligence lecture, a Computer Graphics lecture as well as an intensive chinese course. Campus and Accomodation The BIT is a campus university as well, so everything you need is is reachable with a 15-minute walk. In fact, the campus is rather small (Wikipedia tells me there are some satellite campuses further away from the city center, but I didn't visit those), and a 20 minute walk takes you from one end to the other. In the center of the campus, there's the gymnasium with lots of volleyball fields, football fields and the like. The gymnasium was in fact used for the 2008 summer olympics and the paralympics (only volleyball and goalball, but still). I however didn't use the gymnasium, so I can't provide any insight on their quality. ...

Studying in Singapore As I've mentioned before, my two-month stay in Singapore was not a full exchange semester, but only a relatively short research internship at the School of Computer Engineering of the Nanyang Technological Institute of Technology. The program I attended was the Summer Research Internship program (for which registrations are still open!). The program (designed to lure qualified students to Singapore, I think) is an internship during which you write a research paper about a subject that you chose when applying. Accomodation is free, and the program even gives a generous amount of pocket mony (3000 SGD when I was there). Sounds good, right? ...