Introduction

During my third year at Chalmers, I made a choice that I subsequently sees as very successful. I decided to spend a year as an exchange student. After careful consideration, I chose to apply to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. It's been an amazing year that I will never ever forget. Every day has been interesting and instructive, it is hard not to love Australia!

Have I not already convinced you, I hope that this report will get you thinking in the right path. To begin with, I will give three reasons for choosing sun, surf and high-quality studies in rain, running in Skatås and exam-plug at Chalmers.

Change of scenery
After three years, and bachelor's degree at Chalmers can corridors, know how your coffee tastes, and is tired of everything. So it was at least for me. I figured that I had studied for 15 years (in a row!) After my bachelor's degree. It is thus 68% of my life. In Australia's Barrier Reef which, unlike the Irish Rock is well worth a visit and quite remarkable for a Swedish only caught pike and seen the Disney movie Finding Nemo.

Making new friends
A new environment means new friends. In Australia, studying people from all continents of the world. Education is after mining the largest (correct me if I'm wrong) industry / income source. I have friends from America, China, Norway, ..., Australia and England. Over half of all students at UNSW are international which is probably high in the context.

Personal development
This can be seen as a cliché, as it is. One is certain, in any case it's true. I can guarantee that you will develop 8x more in an exchange environment relative to stay a year at Chalmers. The quality of the courses is a factor at play in personal development. Although for many may not be the biggest reason I can reveal that all the courses I've read has been very good and that most outside studies also fantastic development!

Preparation

In order to get into Australia requires a visa. As an exchange student you can travel with a student visa. It is enough for one year and entitles you to work 20 hours a week during semester and full time during holidays. The visa costs about 400 AUD and booked online in advance before you sit on the airplane!

I chose to travel by Australian Quanta. They fly through London or Frankfurt with fast stop in Singapore and has okay size of their seats and good food. Book your tickets early and count to 15 000 for a round-trip ticket. I booked both there and returning before I went and took help of Tour Pacific to find the cheapest ticket.

The food is also slightly more expensive in Sydney in the case of dairy products, vegetables and salad. A steak is relatively inexpensive. If you are like me, a carnivore that is the Australian menu perfectly. (The opposite is true enough for a non meat eaters).

An Australian dollar cost about seven crowns in writing. This is historically very high and almost twice

against the same period the year before I left (see wolframalpha.com - search for "an Australian U.S. dollars to SEC"). I came in at Chalmers exchange places with my girlfriend, which means some cost advantages. After passing three years at Chalmers without student loans, I gave up and taking loans. The loan has gone along with scholarships and grants, I have not taken the extra loan that you are entitled to as an exchange student. When you are looking for scholarships and the general planning of your trip is a reasonable budget for the year from 100 to 200,000 SEK. I applied for scholarships through the database at the University of Gothenburg, all was fruitless. If you are not a member of the Swedish Engineers then you should be sure to get there. They have a few scholarships aimed at exchange students going to get! Since Australia is part of the World Wide program, each student SEK 30 000 in travel grant from the Adler Foundation Bergska. In retrospect, my advice to take at least a week and made some effort to find scholarships and formulate serious applications. Some of my friends managed to get all its budget covered with scholarship funds, which probably makes the year even better!

When you submit your application to UNSW will not require a language test, because you, unlike Mr.. Wong from China, is a Swedish citizen. It is an advantage in seeking to Australia compared with for example the U.S. where schools require both intelligence and language tests. I have no memory of any certificates required in the application and were difficult to organize (which was a question I would raise in this report).

Insurance must be purchased before entering Australia. Other countries accept Kammarkollegiet student out insurance. It is free and provided by the State. I was told that this was not accepted in Australia and bought because CSN foreign policy (in collaboration with the IFs) that is approved. It cost 4000 and can be found via www.csn.se . It should be added that I met a per Swedes at UNSW who had only Kammarkollegiet free insurance so I'm not sure what really applies. I played at least a tooth down there and am glad I had my insurance covering the works. When you come in to UNSW so be sure to check if Kammarkollegiet insurance is okay.

Finally I would like to advertise ICA bank that offers free competitions abroad. You get your money matters in current exchange rate and avoid, for example, the surcharge fee and lower rate such as Swedbank, SEB and most other banks have.

Property

I was "lucky" to have one of the two sites in Australia with my girlfriend Sofia Karlsson. Sofia was a natural roommate. The first semester we had a room on the 3 Botany Street, Randwick 2031 for 280 AUD per week. This was small and not so good. The second semester we shared a third with an Irishman (Carrington Road Coogee 2031). This was much better in default with a rent of 320 AUD per week. If you travel yourself and do not want to share a bed so expect at least 200 AUD (1400kr) a week. Expect also to cockroaches and considerably lower standard of what you're used to in Sweden. Without insulation, it will be the same temperature inside and outside, which means that warm clothes are necessary in winter.

All our homes included a washing machine. Friends of mine lived, however, in apartments where there were many washes in the washing machine shops that are usually present in every neighborhood.

One of my top ten tips are to be in place at least two weeks before the semester starts. More than 50 000 students will have housing around the school and the sooner you arrive the better able you are to (i) get away with an okay rent and (ii) find a home in which you thrive. I came a week before and had arranged housing preliminarily before I went through www.gumtree.com.au (like www.blocket.se ). It went well but I probably would subsequently recommend to be on site and choose. Spend the first week in a hostel (hostel) and use the school's search service to find roommates and housing. UNSW provides telephone and an ad for housing targeted to students.

When you select the area to live, it is important to consider how often you will be in school compared to the beach. If you live in Sydney or Kensington is within walking distance to school. Coogee Beach is the nearest beach and from here you can also walk in about 20 minutes. Just be aware that Sydney is a hilly city (and even hilly than Gothenburg). I enjoyed working in Randwick and Coogee with a slight preponderance of Coogee. Many also choose to stay at Bondi Beach as it is possible to surf there, unlike at Coogee Beach. In traffic, it takes probably 45 minutes to get to school from Bondi Beach by bus changing at Bondi Junction. This is in my opinion too much.

Public transport in Sydney is pretty bad. "Underground" is poorly developed and there are buses that apply. If you are lucky the bus goes directly to your destination, unless you change. Do not forget that you, unlike Gothenburg must stamp at each change.

Language

The language of Australia is English or if you like Australian English. In my opinion, the dialect just right! If you meet someone for the first time it is customary to greet with "godday mate" which illustrates part of the culture. As Northern Europe have an advantage over the many Asians who you study with. Especially when it comes to expressing themselves in writing. Since UNSW is so multicultural tolerance language is high and there is no need to worry (or as they say in Australia 'no worries mate ").

Language courses are of course to read the UNSW but in my case it was not an option because they do not count as electives in the masters program. You must not read more than full-time courses (four per semester) without payment to you.

Social activities

UNSW is just like a Chalmers student union called the Arc. It has a variety of compounds that can be involved in. UNSW also has lots of sports clubs. I was in the Australian soccer team for the school. Australian football is not the same as ordinary Swedish football but played with an oval ball on a circular plan with goals, four vertical poles. The sport similar to rugby but is faster and requires more stamina than muscle. Diving club (the club for water) is another popular sports club which offers diving courses at an affordable price. This may be an option if you want to dive in the Barrier Reef. To have your diving certificate means that you can dive without an instructor but are you the Barrier Reef, you can of course still dive with an instructor.

A question I must answer is whether there are any student union fees. Want to join the Corps does it jiggle, around 100 AUD, I think, but membership is optional. Are you having the force you off at various locations, such as the library. Union organizing celebrations in the round house (roundhouse) located on campus.

The campus is also a gym where I've trained. It has a swimming pool, tennis and badminton courts. Between school and Bondi Junction is Centennial Park, where it is okay to go jogging. In the summer it will be around 40 degrees in Sydney so then it might be nice to run in the shade of large trees.

Travel and holidays

In Australia there is very much to see, too much for one year with only a student budget. At UNSW, four courses in parallel for 13 weeks during a semester. Exam period is usually about a month. In the middle of the semester is the one a week off for holidays. The school year in Australia starts in March with a winter holiday in June-July, the year ends in November. I can definitely recommend starting your exchange in July and end in June. Advantages:

• It fits with the Swedish school year.
• You will experience three summers and no winter.
• You get three to four months of summer vacation to use to travel around the wonderful Australia, the world's most beautiful and most violent country!

We came to Australia during their winter at the beginning of July. It was then quite cold in Sydney but after a month started in the spring. After a month of school was the perfect time to take a week off. We flew with budget airline Jetstar (compare Ryan Air) to Cairns. From there we took a bus to Port Douglas where we stayed at the hotel. Check resesiterna for great deals! Cairns is a great city on the edge of the barrier reef / rainforest. Port Douglas is a few mil to the north and provides contrast to Cairns a stunning beach. We took two tour boats and snorkeling in the Barrier Reef (cost around 200 AUD for a full day). This is probably the best trip I have been to so far.

After school ended, we decided to see more of Australia. We bought a car [1] and went south. As the summer vacation was so long, we had no money to get by at all times. We therefore decided to get a job in a month. The options available to find a job as a foreigner is often cafes or restaurants. We chose to work in the "agricultural sector". Agriculture is also a very big industry in Australia (as well as mining and education). Many seasonal workers are working to pick fruit, bananas, apples, kiwi, grapefruit and mango are some examples of fruits that thrive in different regions from Melbourne up to Cairns. Me and Sofia was working at a winery in the small cavity Penula. Penula located in Coonawarra wine districts in the state of South Australia 150 mil west of Melbourne. It takes about two days to get there from Sydney. Our job was to trim vines strains. This is called "pruning" and must be done one month before the berries to be harvested (just as they begin to grow out). If no trees "prune" will all the fruit on the trunk instead of the foliage which gives a bad wine. The work was tough, especially in Sofia, which has a little pain in my back sometimes. The first day we worked in 43 degree heat for eight hours. The salary was about 100 AUD a day which was enough for food, shelter and a few weeks of vacation after months had passed.

Working on the vineyard is absolutely nothing that I recommend. It is slavery. I am confident that you will find a much better job if you need and want to work. Australia has low unemployment! Would you like to work in agriculture (harvesting), call "The Harvest Trail" which is a service farms use to call in personnel when it is time to harvest in their region. One thing is certain: the job of the vineyard in Penula I will never forget. You will meet many people from all over the world!

After Penula we traveled along the south coast back to Melbourne. I can really recommend Southend has a fantastic beach and national park. The coastline is stunningly beautiful. We stayed themselves on a camping (it was a few weeks before the Australians got holiday), sunning, swimming and catching an occasional fish.

The route then went to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road, which is another attraction that I would recommend. Beautiful scenery in sandstone with interspersed beaches during the high walls of rock is what it is about.

The last month we took the car north of Sydney. There hittars cities like Byron Bay, Noosa Heads, Fraser Island and Brisbane. Brisbane is not to visit but Byron Bay, however, vehemently. Surfers will start far out and surf along the beach giving a long ride. My surfing experience in Byron Bay is a memorable one, next to me in the wave showed up a bunch of dolphins who wanted to play! It does not see every day in Sweden. In Byron Bay, I recommend a visit to the balcony restaurant that serves good food in a nice environment.

Sydney

I was going to mention a few words about Sydney. Sydney is famous for its harbor with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. As you might imagine, it is also a very nice port! There is much else to do after looking at the Opera House during the afternoon. Take the ferry to Manly is a good option. Manly is located on the northern peninsula at the entrance to Sydney Harbour. From the harbor, take a ferry which takes about 30 minutes. Manly offers great shopping and surfing at one of Sydney's best beaches.

Coogee and Bondi Beach are two other beaches you will visit in Sydney. It takes about an hour to travel between the beaches on foot along the coast. When you come to Sydney in July to look for whales. These migrate up to Queensland to give birth to their calves in warmer water. Australia has lost its whaling as thousands of whales pass the coast. The day before I went home I saw a selection of Coogee Bay! Besides whales Bondi is famous for its surfing. You rent a border with wetsuits for around 20 AUD depending on demand and then you just have to start paddling. I met a friend who could surf and gave some good lessons, otherwise you can take surfing lessons by different companies on the beach. Surfing is hard so please be patient! My advice is to not buy any short surfboard before you can surf, it's hard to surf on a short surfboard.

I would like to recommend Thi-food Randwick (the block between the school and Coogee). Approximately six restaurants compete by giving customers great value and good food. Tapas bar in the area is too cruel! Another tapas restaurant that is cruel is Peek's located on Victoria Street near Kings Cross. Test it before your first night out at Kings Cross (which together with Ivy at George Street and Oxford Street is where you go out in Sydney).

Tennis can also play in Coogee for a good price. I have defended Sweden's honor against a Norwegian, a couple of times a week during the last semester. It went well at first but worse towards the end. Norwegian Axel ( www.axeljuul.com ) would go for another year at UNSW and need a game mate!

General comments on the stay abroad

After a year in Sydney, I am a better person in many ways. My language has improved along with my confidence. Australia is in many ways similar to Sweden. People are friendly and as an exchange student, I have always felt welcome.

Australia is incredibly hot in the summer. Remember sunscreen and buy a hat with a brim. Leave the suit at home and pack your flip-flop (Australian thoungs, which also can be translated to strings in Swedish).

To see as much as possible of Australia for a reasonable price, I recommend as I buy a car. Join together with a friend or purchase one yourself. Think of what I previously wrote about registration (footnote 1). Also remember to not do like me and buy a Ford, they are useless crap cars that break [2] . Because it breaks so exceptionally high, many people know how to cook them, which is the only advantage the brand offers. Example: When we stopped the car at the winery two days from Sydney was not to start (which was corrected by changing the ignition coil). Once you bought your car you can visit the Blue Mountains (see Grand Canyon) and the Hunter Valley (great wine regions north of Sydney) for free. Trips where costs would otherwise over 100AUD. South of Sydney is Australia National Park which is also worth visiting with nice deserted beaches.

Australia is also the world's most dangerous country. Spiders, Sharks and Jellyfish, I have seen it all up close! With common sense, you will almost certainly survive one year.

Expression of the selected courses

One difference that is worth mentioning is how they study in Australia compared with Chalmers. As in previous trip reports have talked about, it is important to work continuously during the study period. I do not think it is possible that only the exam to study for high ratings. The reason is that most courses have group projects, labs and assignments, which usually gives about 50% of the score. This can be good and bad depending on your attitude. I take most of what I do very seriously and have a need for control. This I had to work out during my year in Australia, which I afterwards think is very good. In group work, it is always different motivation and knowledge. My experience is that Chinese people are motivated, but perhaps not as good at expressing themselves in English. Americans and Norwegians are better able to express himself with the poor motivation. The best of the score is to work with the Australians, who are in school to study. Best work I did, however, together with a group of Chinese people in a research course in which we succeeded in 99 out of 100!

All the courses I have selected have been good quality, it really feels like I've learned twice as much as at Chalmers and at the same time had plenty of time for a lot of fun outside of school. This is awesome. Many might think that how much you learn and how much you are experiencing is inversely correlated, but this is not the case in Australia!

Semester 1

I chose to read the corresponding term two and three at Chalmers during my exchange at UNSW. That means 45 credits (six courses) elective courses in my field of study and 15 credits compulsory courses. Future years at Chalmers, I read the forward one and four (ex-work) and then be finished with my Master and Master.

Applied Marketing Research (entry level)

Course Number	MARK5811
Lecturers	Dr.. Gary Gregory. Responding to emails. Very dedicated and gives great help to anyone who asks! g.gregory @ unsw.edu.au
Quality	Very high level and quality.
Time-consuming	Yes
My recommendation	Read the course!
My ratings	7 of 7 (85%).

Applied Marketing Research given by Professor Gary Gregory the marketing department. The course responds as a substitute against the research methodology, which is a compulsory course in Qom. As it should is the course about how to do research. It goes through quantitative and qualitative methods (eg fukusgrupper and various types of investigations) with quite a lot of details on how to practically do. All steps in a research process is reviewed (define problems, set goals, figure out an approach to solve the problem, complete the survey and then analyze the results to draw conclusions). In this course you work practically with one project at a company. I worked with the Bell Shakespeare Theatre performing in the Opera House. The organization is called a non-profit and living on donations and grants. We examined what motivates people to donate to the organization and the various means to improve the meeting with donors to increase revenue. I held a focus group with people who give millions to the company, which was a challenge! In retrospect, was the process and outcome of the Ogre much better than my candidate's work.

This is not a course I recommend if you want an easy grade with little work. Gary demands a lot from his students, my report was over 100 pages and it will be a planning report and two labbinlämningar. This course is for those who want to learn something. I imagine that it would be appropriate for management consultants who (probably?) Are working on similar problems and approaches.

Web Applications Engineering (entry level)

Course Number	COMP9321
Lecturers	Srikumar Venugopal, India. Informative, responding to emails! Good readers! srikumarv@cse.unsw.edu.au
Quality	Good quality
Time-consuming	Yes. Easy course but difficult because of the time it takes.
My recommendation	Read the course if you are good at IT and motivated. Otherwise, forget!
My ratings	7 of 7 (90%)

During my degree I have studied Business Administration with IT focus. Jag gillar IT eftersom det ger mig en faktisk/verklig (engelska tangible) kunskap. Trots att jag läser industriell ekonomi delar jag uppfattningen om att management mycket handlar om sunt förnuft. Detta kan vara medfött men går också att plugga in.

IT idag handlar mycket om webbutveckling och mobila applikationer. WAE lär ut webbutveckling från grunden i java J2EE. Detta innebär servlets och JSP. Tentan är på 50 %. Andra hälften är labbar och ett stort projekt som går ut på att utveckla en webbapplikation. Detta är lärorikt men tar mycket tid. Än en gång, läs denna kurs om du vill lära dig något, inte om du vill ha tid till annat! Detta var utan tvekan den mest tidskrävande kursen jag någonsin läst. Utöver grundtekniken i J2EE lärde jag mig också att använda ramverket Hibernate för object relational mapping (ORM) samt Spring för säkerhet och webbflöde. WEA läste jag som en valbar kurs.

Business Process Improvement and Quality Management (postgrad)

Kursnummer	OPMG5820
Lecturers	Shilu Tong. Engagerad och rolig. Svår accent och hyfsat dålig föreläsningsteknik. sl.tong@unsw.edu.au
Quality	Good quality
Tidskrävande	Nej, ganska enkel men många uppgifter. Lagom arbetsbörda.
My recommendation	Läs kursen om du vill ha ett bra substitut till Mats Winroths kurs på QOM.
Mitt betyg	7 av 7 (94% totalt 100% på tentan!)

BPI&QM läste jag som ett substitut för en obligatorisk kurs i QOM som heter något liknande. UNSW är inte lika bra som Chalmers på produktion och denna kurs är i stort sätt allt man erbjuder. Kursen tar upp Six-sigma som är en viktig teknik i kvalitetsarbete. Detta intresserar mig eftersom jag gillar statistik! Lean, köteori och Littles Lag är några andra ”begrepp” som man jobbar med i krusen. Kusen har två ”case” (Harvard) som löses i grupp, två individuella inlämningsuppgifter samt ett företagsprojekt i grupp. Alla projekt är dock små med rapporter kring fem sidor. Kursen har inte lika hög arbetsbelastning som de två jag tidigare beskrivit. Dock är den väl värd att läsa. Föreläsaren, Mr Tong, är trevlig och påläst. Många upplever honom som tråkig eftersom han använder mycket Power Point. Försök att ställa mycket frågor så blir det roligare!

Jag har lärt mig att teorin bakom Operations Management är fruktansvärt enkel. Det svåra är att våga tillämpa!

International Project Management (postgrad)

Kursnummer	CVEN9730
Lecturers	Ted Tooher. Svarar inte på mail. Företagsledare inom projektledning.
Quality	Lousy
Tidskrävande	No. Mycket liten arbetsbörda.
My recommendation	Läs den inte om du är seriös. Läs den om du vill ta det lugnt och ha något att komplettera MARK5811 och COMP9321 med.
Mitt betyg	7 av 7 (88%)

International project management läste jag också som en valfri kurs. Kursen gavs av en projektledare från industrin. Intressant var fokuset på kultur som togs, även om jag kanske inte håller med om allt som Hofstede (gurun på kultur) säger om svenskar, amerikaner och kineser.

Detta är en kurs du ska läsa om du inte vill lägga så mycket energi. Det var ingen tenta och examinationen bestod av några små inlämningar. Ett grupprojekt genomfördes vilket också var litet. Gruppstorleken på åtta var dock för stor. Jag jobbade tillsammans med personer från Pakistan, Kina, Thiland, Australien och Sverige. Min uppfattning är att betyget sattes mycket på hur delaktig och intresserad du var att följa diskussionen på lektionen; vilket kan ses som ett lotteri. I min mening var alltså detta inte en bra kurs!

Jag läste två kurser som hölls av Civil Engineering (svenska väg och vatten). Generellt kan sägas att ingen av föreläsarna använda Power Point samt att kurserna var mer ostrukturerade med sämre kurs PM. Arbetsbördan och kvaliteten var lite lägre jämfört med institutionerna marketing, Business och Computer Science.

Term 2

Computer Networks (postgrad)

Kursnummer	COMP9331
Lecturers	Kommer inte ihåg hans namn men han var ursprungligen från Kina och hade pluggat/forskat i Linköping. Bra lektioner!
Quality	Mycket god
Tidskrävande	Above average but the means to be an IT course. Two major assignments and six labs.
My recommendation	Read the course if you do not have any networking course in your resume.
My ratings	7 of 7 (91%)

The course focused on computer networks with focus on the Internet. All parts of the network stack were discussed, starting with the application layer and terminated in the physical transmission layer (+ Security). I had a good overall check on this before but the course was set at a high level of detail in all protocols. A packet sniffer (Wireshark) was used to study protocols in labs.

The focus of the submission were on application and transmission layer (TCP / IP). The first lab was to set up an overlay network (as used in, for example Skype or BitTorrent). Other labs was about to implement TCP in a simpler form.

Management of Risk (entry level)

Course Number	CVEN9710
Lecturers	Steven Davis, Australia. Good lecturers who talk freely with OH and provides many (!) Joke. However, some unstructured (Aussie). Does not respond to email but the forum.
Quality	All right. The assignments screwed when to send through an online portal. Pretty good level of content.
Time-consuming	The average if you can statistics, otherwise it will be a drag!
My recommendation	Read the course if you like all probabilistic mathematics and applications, be patient with the teacher!
My ratings	7 of 7 (92%)

Risk management was about how risks should be tackled in a systematic manner. Several standards specify risk management, including the famous PMBooK (project management). It's about defining risks, set goals for their risk management, assess risks, develop options and take action. The focus was very much on the risk assessment / analysis, which can be done both qualitatively and quantitatively. The teacher liked to count so it was very statistics. Probability theory, regression, interference, Monte-Carlo simulation and a lot of different techniques were used. Read the course if you like this, in my opinion a perfect course for the engineer.

Negotiation Skills (entry level)

Course Number	MGMT5712
Lecturers	He Kyoung Young, Korea / USA. Speaks very good English (not American). Highly structured lessons, best of all courses! Hard to argue with (explanation: teaches negotiation methodology).
Quality	High but I think forms of assessment was poor.
Time-consuming	No. Attend classes and simulations so you can manage the course.
My recommendation	Read the course but does not hope to high Distinction (7), the course is extremely useful for the future regardless of engineering specialization.
My ratings	6 of 7 (78%)

Negotiating Learning about learning to negotiate. This is not simply a person who is accustomed to not haggle. There are two different schools in negotiating learning, competitive, and cooperative bargining. The first is to grab the cake while the other is to enlarge the pie. An insight that is extremely important in negotiation methodology is not to underestimate his opponent who is never dumber than you! A variety of techniques available to work with and the course's approach is to apply the techniques in the simulations. A simulation is held every week with a new theme in which you work in a group against the other students. Roles and requirements will be assigned as homework. Every week, it is also 3-6 articles to read and a bit out of a textbook (which I bought in vain).

The course is incredibly interesting, perhaps the most interesting I've read. However, it is difficult to get good grades, competition is tough stone of the Australian School of Business. Two short essays determines your rating which I think is difficult. It's all about subjective quality instead of more measurable quantity!

Stretegy and Entrepreneurship (undergrad)

Course Number	STRE2010
Lecturers	Martin Biemel, Canada. Young and committed. Often come late, but keeps well and short lessons.
Quality	Yes and no. I learned a lot under their own course, which tends to encourage. Very good literature!
Time-consuming	No. Very little effort. Easy to get high ratings.
My recommendation	Read it if you are eager to start a business. I'm working on a startup project right now as a spin-off from the course.
My ratings	7 of 7 (87%)

This was the only course I read on below grade level (ie not at masters level). We will read two such courses to master (from what I've heard). It was obvious that the course was in grade because it was a little less to do. When you read the four courses in parallel, it is smart to have someone to take a break in.

The purpose of this course was at least going through what you need to consider when starting a business and writing a business plan. Every week was a guest speaker from a start-up companies and held for 1.5 hours. The usual lessons were also held for 1.5 hours per week.

I have previously started a business during high school and was very inspired by the course. My goal is to make another start in the near future and the course definitely helped me to think properly and to develop one of my best ideas!

Finally on the subject courses

I chose the master program Quality and Operations Management because it can be combined with the exchange studies. All master's programs do not accept the substitution of courses in a student exchange to those who read at Chalmers. This is terrible and wrong, and I really hope that it will change in future. By MEI program managers, I got the explanation that Chalmers is as high quality as compared to other universities so no matter if you read exactly the same thing abroad, you have to read about it when you come back to Chalmers. My experience of UNSW, and all the world university rankings, however, proves the contrary, most of the exchange university is better than Chalmers! In Qom has however the right attitude, are the same courses at your exchange university so they can respond as a substitute against the courses offered in the program at Chalmers. Therefore, I urge you to choose Qom and say no thank you to all the proud program managers!

Starting from the courses provided by the exchange is over in three copies. The rating is not included in your incision at Chalmers.

Resources

Trip report in pdf format!

www.davidgustafasson.com / blog - My blog from Sydney.

http://sofiakarlssons.se/ - Sofia's blog from Sydney. Very well written and funny!

http://sofiakarlssons.se/2009/07/ - A little about how the first month can be when you come to Sydney!

www.davidgustafsson.com / photos / on-flickr - Great pictures. Worth seeing for those who want to know what awaits you in the great Australian, the world's most beautiful country!

www.flickr.com / techonomics - Beautiful pictures from Sydney and our adventures!

www.techonomics.se - My Swedish site, some information about scholarships and so on.

www.handbook.unsw.com.au - Courses at UNSW.

Penula, Centre for the Coonawarra wine region

http://www.balcony.com.au/ - The Balcony in Byron Bay.

http://southcoogeebowls.com/ - Lawn bowling in Coogee, Australia The bowl is on the grass instead!

www.briskis.se

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[1] Ford Falcon skitbil of the 1998 model at the Kings Cross Car Market for 2000 AUD. Also check the www.gumtree.com.au . Remember that the car must be inspected and newly registered. This cost about 1000 AUD if all goes well, since the registration also includes an insurance policy that covers all people are hit in traffic (the government's way of paying for traffic injuries). Utöver denna ”försäkring” (som egentligen inte är någon försäkring) måste du även teckna en trafikförsäkring som du kan använda om du kör på någon (precis som det fungerar i Sverige).

[2] Sprucken kylare = 1000 AUD, Tänd spolen = 200 AUD, Oljefilter = 200 AUD, trasig AC = Fixade själv.