The assessment system at Aix-Marseille can sometimes be a mystery, other times not – depending on how organised the class is and how much the teacher communicates with you. This here is an overview of how I was assessed for the modules I took for the first semester. Français langue étrangère C1 Unlike the B1 …
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Montpellier
The journey from Aix to Montpellier is approximately three hours long and includes a comfort break in Nimes. When getting Flixbus to Montpellier, the coach stop is quite far out of town at Parking de Sabines, but we were able to get a tram directly to the centre on ligne 2 with a return ticket …
Two Afternoons in Marseille
The best piece of information you’ll ever discover as a resident of Aix under 25 years old is that with the free special card, the bus to Marseille is only €2. One Friday I took my first ever trip into Marseille, as my lessons are over by midday on Fridays – the perfect start to …
Do you ever do any work?
Although anyone on an Erasmus year will go to all lengths – whether it be an immaculate Instagram or a chirrupy year abroad blog – to posit the year as a highlight, I can guarantee you that they don’t share even half of the struggles, and often tears, which go into it. Erasmus isn’t all …
Programme of study
Since arriving at Aix-Marseille, my Learning Agreement has taken many drastic turn in various directions. I was at one point signed up to study Catalan and Hindi until my Year Abroad tutor in Birmingham told me I wasn’t allowed to. So what am I even studying this semester? My degree programme at Birmingham is English …
Welcome week: England vs France
As one of the modules I’m taking is a study comparing contemporary European societies, I thought it relevant to do a comparison of the most infamous week of the English university calendar with the French equivalent. Registration At the University of Birmingham everything administration-related is done online with high-speed servers on one single website. Here …
An Aixpat-en-Provence 