Originally posted by: DaWhim
Originally posted by: Balt
I spent a semester in London. Probably the greatest four months of my life. I went as a junior and think it was the perfect time to go because by then I was really burned out on academic classes. I opted for an internship rather than classes for my semester abroad.
Advantages to London:
1) They speak English.
2) You can still get very cheap airfare to mainland Europe or to Ireland (and Guinness).

3) Greatest museums in the world.
4) Excellent public transportation.
5) Pubs on every corner.
6) etc etc etc
Ultimately it comes down to what
you are interested in, of course.
where did you go in London? I have 2 places in my mind right now(anywhere in europe is fine), London and Sweden. well, I plan to do 2 semasters in there. I want to go to london school of economics, but I don't think I can get it. they want 3.5GPA
we will see. my friend's already told me the transportation will cost alot in london, which sucks. But it seems like london will be the only place I will stay in in england.
How did you get an internship in there tho? it would be good experience too
If at all possible, I would try to get a student pass for transportation through whichever school you attend in London. You can save quite a lot of money of travelpasses that way. Travel costs will also depend on what zones you travel through.
I went through
Florida State's program. The best thing about our program was that they had flats in Zone 1 (central London). It really doesn't get much better than that. You are literally about a two minute walk away from the British Museum. The downside is that you will probably share a flat with five or six other people. Fortunately for me, everyone in my flat got along great. This was not true for all of the other flats, though. Of course, being in London, no one spent that much time in them anyway.
The internship was mostly arranged by FSU after I told them which positions I was interested in. They also offer a lot of classes, though, if you don't want to pay to work.
The downside to all of this: the cost. The program is expensive, and London is expensive. Really expensive. The program does include the fee for the flat as well as many sponsored trips to places such as Oxford, Bath, Stonehenge, etc. (including one to Paris). Since your two choices are London and somewhere in Sweden, I assume you know you will be spending a lot of money.
FSU's program also accepts students from other schools, by the way. One of my flatmates was from Jacksonville University, for example, and they were others from all over the country. Whichever way you decide to do it, though, you really
should do it. I wouldn't trade the experience I had for anything.