Student
16/02/2018

And how are things in Sydney?

Hey guys! I am an Industrial design student and I followed electives from different faculties at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), last semester. I’ve been back in The Netherlands for three weeks now, and if people ask me how my experience has been, I honestly have no idea what to tell them. It is pretty hard to summarize half a year in Australia; a country 17000 kilometers away from Eindhoven, 185 times as big as The Netherlands, where many cultures and landscapes can be found.

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Student
06/12/2019

And how are things in Sydney?

I had not thought to experience a culture shock in a country like Australia, where the spoken language is English and which culture is more western than not. That being said, seeing Christmas trees everywhere you go and hearing that timeless classic from Mariah Carey when the sun is shining and the temperature is around 30 degrees is one of the weirdest things I have ever experienced. It didn’t help that when I arrived on June 30th during the “winter”, (winter here means an average temperature of 16-18 degrees), the celebrations for Christmas in July were in full swing, which was even weirder. Apart from that minor detail, adapting to the culture was not a problem for me at all simply due to the open character of Sydney and Australia in general.

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Student
01/06/2018

And how are things in Sydney?

At the beginning of February, I changed the winterly Eindhoven for the summer in Sydney. Now after four months it has become winter here, but there are still days with nice weather. I’m doing a five-month internship at an architectural firm specialized in sustainable design. It’s not mandatory to do an internship at my master Architecture, Building and Planning, but it is recommended. And it has been years now that I wanted to live in Australia for half a year. So in August, I started to organise everything and the result: an internship at an architectural firm in my dream city!

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Student
02/03/2018

And how are things in Linz?

When you think about Austria, not many people would think about Linz. Still, it is the third biggest city in Austria, besides Vienna end Graz. Linz has about the same amount of inhabitants as Eindhoven, although it feels a lot more quiet here. Thereby, there are not many tourists here, but after all Linz is mainly an industry city.

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Student
23/02/2018

And how are things in Antwerp?

Usually, when you ask a student where they want to study abroad, they say ‘far away’. While I do love to travel, I figured moving out would be a bigger step than any measurable distance, so I chose the content over the place. At the moment of writing this, I have been in Antwerp for less than three weeks and it has been quite an adventure already.

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