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Iran passport · started 2010–2014
Considered leavingIf you are an international student who does not speak Italian fluently, you will have a hard time studying here. If you are used to live in big city, you will get bored pretty soon at Padua.
Before they found their people
Never really did
What surprised them
I found people so conservative and close-minded. Most of my classmates had grown up together and knew each other from elementary school. They preferred to do group projects with people they knew! The fact that a few Italian students and profs spoke English surprised me a lot too.
Wished they'd known
That Padua is a small town and for me who I grew up in Tehran it would be suitable to go to a metropolitn like Milan or Rome.
Choose it again?
Absolutely not. I would chose a metropolitan like Milan. Mainly because the University of Milan is more international and the city has much more interesting thing like museams, galleries, performances ecc to explore.
Why they nearly left
I had to study engineering in Italian and with my A2 level of Italian it seemed impossible. I expected professors to speak English and could give me references in English, since I was new in Italy. But unfortunately just a few profs spoke English and they preferred to keep the Italian references for the exam. I had an extremely hard time preparing myself for the exams
Across every review here, expected to already be local predicts whether someone belonged. Treated as foreign doesn't. Why that is
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