I guess a little bit of backstory is required here. My sister actually studied abroad twice during her four years (still trying to figure out how she managed to do that after changing majors...) at Iowa State University. She first went to New Zealand in her sophomore year then Turkey in her junior year. So, I was mildly inspired by that.
[Oh, and for any foreign readers here at DTU, "study(ing) abroad" basically means doing an exchange program. I'll put any notes to foreign readers in square brackets.]
And, you know, being the logical person that I am, I realized I should go study abroad now because once I start working, I'll get 14 days in a year for myself, which gives me no time to travel Europe like I want to.
Anyway, after being inspired and all that, there was a convenient study abroad fair every semester, so I went to one during my freshman year [Freshman year = 1st year, Sophomore = 2nd, Junior = 3rd, Senior = 4th]. I only really looked around, didn't really dive into things.
Summer rolled around, I was boring during my internship. So I went on the main UIUC study abroad website, and did a search for programs. Filtered on Europe and some other factors, and after some more research, I was down to DTU and a university in Stockholm, Sweden.
I literally wanted to apply to both equally, not even one preference higher than the other; they were that equal to me at the time. Both offered tons of classes that would come in for credit, both required and technical. Engineering students get to take them as pass fail when they transfer back to UIUC, which is awesome. Eventually I just came down to DTU because lots of Danish people speak English, and Exchange students are 1/8 of the DTU population, so they've set up lots of resources to help us out.
After that, came the prep.
[Oh, and for any foreign readers here at DTU, "study(ing) abroad" basically means doing an exchange program. I'll put any notes to foreign readers in square brackets.]
And, you know, being the logical person that I am, I realized I should go study abroad now because once I start working, I'll get 14 days in a year for myself, which gives me no time to travel Europe like I want to.
Anyway, after being inspired and all that, there was a convenient study abroad fair every semester, so I went to one during my freshman year [Freshman year = 1st year, Sophomore = 2nd, Junior = 3rd, Senior = 4th]. I only really looked around, didn't really dive into things.
Summer rolled around, I was boring during my internship. So I went on the main UIUC study abroad website, and did a search for programs. Filtered on Europe and some other factors, and after some more research, I was down to DTU and a university in Stockholm, Sweden.
I literally wanted to apply to both equally, not even one preference higher than the other; they were that equal to me at the time. Both offered tons of classes that would come in for credit, both required and technical. Engineering students get to take them as pass fail when they transfer back to UIUC, which is awesome. Eventually I just came down to DTU because lots of Danish people speak English, and Exchange students are 1/8 of the DTU population, so they've set up lots of resources to help us out.
After that, came the prep.
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