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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

£500

Where was it located?

Powisle, 10 mins from uni

How can someone find this place?

Pepehousing

Would you recommend it?

Great location but dated and far too small for 4 people

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Not as organised as home university, but very friendly students and always something happening

🎓 Uni life at Uniwersytet Warszawski

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Teachers all spoke perfect English, some classes dull and overly reliant on presentations. Also disorganised in terms of online resources

Do you have some tips?

Registration fairly easy but lots of forms/beaurocracy, overall good experience

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Great train and cheap flight connections, easy to visit Germany/Baltics/Balkans/Scandinavia (and Ukraine/Belarus if more adventurous)

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Affordable but comparable prices to cheaper UK cities, very safe city with low crime and good nightlife/shopping/dining. Also quite walkable around Srodmiescie

💡 Other Tips

Don't shop at Zabka prices are double other supermarkets

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

Around 600€/month

Where was it located?

In Wola, 20min from university and from the center by bus

How can someone find this place?

Pepe housing

Would you recommend it?

I have a big room with a bed and a couch, it is a residential area so it is quiet but still close to the center and everything, many night buses around. But the shared areas in the flat are really small and unfortunately my flatmates never clean anything and are loud

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Most of the clubs are in Mazowiecka street. Teatro Cubano on Monday is free and multipub on Wednesday (30zl for unlimited beer until 1am). Good and cheap bar is Chicas & Gorillas

🎓 Uni life at University of Warsaw

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Football in Europe is interesting because it’s different from « basic » political science classes Political radicalism, populism, and extremism is very dense but very interesting to understand world politics

Do you have some tips?

I study on the main campus in the center town so it is cool, registration is easy you just need to do it directly when it opens if you want to have the classes you want (places are limited ofc). I don’t have much classes so I don’t really spend much time on the campus

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

If you buy the student card you have -50% on every train ticket and there is a lot of city to visit in Poland like Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Poznan… You can also find cheap flights for big European cities

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Be careful to have a polish or international student card to have reduced transport tickets Daily life costs less than in most European countries (I’m French) Biedronka is great for groceries (you can find everything and it is not expensive) Always cross the crosswalk at the green light!!

💡 Other Tips

Great city very underrated The weather is not always so bad but winter arrives quickly and the night too haha Most people speak English but not everyone and they are not always nice with strangers but it’s ok as long as you respect everything

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

400

Where was it located?

Stoklosy metro, 30/40min away from Uni

How can someone find this place?

Pepehousing

Would you recommend it?

Honestly yeah i would choose pepehousing again, good conditions and nicer place than a student residence

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

I recommend Ramona Bar, i love it

🎓 Uni life at Warsaw college of engineering and health

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Immunology class. Best teacher ever

Do you have some tips?

Good teachers, good classes (very easy) and amazing campuses

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Berlin, Stockholm, LUBLIN AND LODZ(i loved them)

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

The transport here is amazing. But the night life sometimes is weird, especially in the night. If you re not in a group in the night, dont walk in shady places. Its a risk.(personal experience)

💡 Other Tips

Dont be obsessed with finding friends in the fiest weeks. Enjoy your presence, enjoy the city, get to know yourself better. I had this fear of missing out because in the first weeks didnt really have much friends, when i stopped worrying, they found me. For example i was charging my phone on the floor in Lodz train station and one okder guy asked me if he can charge, i told him in 5min, in those 5min another erasmus student came to me and we became friends. In Lublin the same in the station the train was late (i didnt know) and heard some girls talk in english and went to them and asked about the train. That was one of the best train ride i had. Get outside of the house everyday. I have this “rule” : 15min walk everyday, i dont walk 15min everyday because i adventure more to find more shortcuts, cafes, next to my home. Enjoy your own erasmus, not what you see in social media!

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

500

Where was it located?

ZELAZNA

How can someone find this place?

friends

Would you recommend it?

Yes

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Gorillas

🎓 Uni life at Kozminski

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Marketing and Management

Do you have some tips?

Amazing sushis

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Cracovie

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Cafe Karma

💡 Other Tips

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

600

Where was it located?

in the center

How can someone find this place?

by contacting agences ( there's fee )

Would you recommend it?

Nice if open and able to create friendship or with you go with "friends" a lot of club and bar, quit cheap

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

cubano the monday, free and cheap drinks a street with a lot of club, try the blue, the fifty (rap US), the Bank

🎓 Uni life at kozminski

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

quite everything was bullshit

Do you have some tips?

nice campus, a lot of amazing cars on the parking. the registration was easy and we where helped

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

easy to travel in countries around, flight are cheap and the schredule have a lot of free space

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

very safe, also very cold, around 30€ for 3 months pass for transports

🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

600

Where was it located?

City Center

How can someone find this place?

local renting website

Would you recommend it?

yes it was ok

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Chicas & Gorillas; Cubano; Moon

🎓 Uni life at Warsaw School of Economics

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Don't choose Business Modeling

Do you have some tips?

cool overall

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Gdansk

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Low cost city transport

🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Classic Apartment

How much was the rent per month?

450€

Where was it located?

In Warsaw suburbs 30min from city center

How can someone find this place?

Direct contact with real estate agency

Would you recommend it?

I would recommend I was with my best friend so for a colocation it is perfect with a lot of space the owner was really nice and available for every problem we could have. It was a bit out of the city center but Warsaw is a great city for public transportation and so I would warmly recommend

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

In the city center there is a lot of bars for very affordable prices, the best street was foksal and globally around nowy swiat For clubbing cubano is great for Erasmus, smolna and jasna for techno music and more globally mazowiecka street with all the clubs in it

🎓 Uni life at Kozminski University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Of those I remember psychology of money and negotiation were great classes

Do you have some tips?

Campus is great and modern with a lot of person available to help you for housing and adapting yourself to new city and culture

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Other cities in Poland are great especially krakow and gdansk with a direct access via train other big cities abroad are not to expensive to go as Budapest riga or Praha

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Cost of living is increasing but is still low compared to French standards, Warsaw is very far from the clichés it is very modern and welcoming

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Airbnb

How much was the rent per month?

1300

Where was it located?

35min by transport

How can someone find this place?

Airbnb at the begining and on site you can find something else or asked the apartment of the student before you

Would you recommend it?

I think I would pick the same place

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

A lot of shot bars in the Main Street and after as club you have the cubano on Monday (only international) and level27, the sketch

🎓 Uni life at KOZMINSKI University

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

N/a

Do you have some tips?

The campus is cool, a bit far from the city center but it’s okay. Also yes I would pick the place again but this time I would ask the teacher about the exam during class one because we had a lot of problems related to exams and their supposed dates

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

The train station is very easy to get to and it connect a lot of different places together

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

The cost of living is pretty tchip, same as transportation. For you groceries, find a big market it will be better and tcheaper Thant all their small market (ex carrefour express). The city is very safe, a lot a police in the street. Also be careful to get your ticket in all the transportation, they contrôle a lot. If you do not have a ticket machine at the stop, their is always one in each, bus, tram or subway or you have an app look on google the name “transportation app Warsaw”

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Airbnb

How much was the rent per month?

Around 700 per person

Where was it located?

25 minutes from the University Ochota Neighboor

How can someone find this place?

It was on AirBnB

Would you recommend it?

Such a good place, but we were searching in cohousing with a friend, then we dont find other places

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Chicas & Gorillas for before. Level 27 and Theatro Cubano for the night club (spécial event every monday at Theatro Cubano, Level 27 is more expensive, at tge 27th floor of a building)

🎓 Uni life at SGH- Warsaw School of Economics

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Europe and International Migration (CIVICA Engage Course) : Very easy, incredible professor (she love french people) Business Plan : Also very easy, no final exam, just a huge group work (create a business plan for a created company) Global Cities: No exam too, just some presentation and case studies

Do you have some tips?

The campus isnt huge, kind of "classic". The registration is quite easy, you just have to follow the instructions.

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

Trip to Gdansk and Crakow (over huge polish cities) Such good moments.

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

Awesame, very safe and clean. Compared to france, living cost is cheap

💡 Other Tips

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🏠 Housing

What kind of place was it?

Coliving / Shared House

How much was the rent per month?

Around 600€/month

Where was it located?

In Wola, 20min from university and from the center by bus

How can someone find this place?

Pepe housing

Would you recommend it?

🍻 Social Life

What are some top bars, clubs, or events you recommend?

Most of the clubs are in Mazowiecka street. Teatro Cubano on Monday is free and multipub on Wednesday (30zl for unlimited beer until 1am). Good and cheap bar is Chicas & Gorillas

🎓 Uni life at University of Warsaw

Which classes do you recommend… or not?

Do you have some tips?

✈️ Travel

Best trips to do?

🌆 Warsaw vibe

What do you absolutely need to know to live your best life in Warsaw?

💡 Other Tips

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