I am in need of advisement!

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O flist! O magnificent, multi-national, diverse-perspectived flist!

I am trying to decide where I want to study abroad.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to do this program called TASSEP (Trans-Atlantic Science Student Exchange Program) because it costs SO MUCH LESS than normal Study Abroad programs, and it's exactly what I want in that you're just enrolled in a foreign school as a normal student.

So the choices are rather limited, both by schools that participate in this program and ones where they speak, y'know, English ;)

In a nutshell, it comes down to these three choices:

Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland
Lancaster University in Lancaster, England
University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland

Now, my lovely European friends (and anyone else that happens to know anything!), tell me what you know about these schools - reputations, strengths, anything about the cities they're in... anything that will help me to make a more informed decision. They all HAVE Biochemistry programs (that's my major) so that isn't really a concern, but if you know anything about how strong they are in the sciences that would help too!

Aaaaaand... go! :D

Comments

[jamesinclair.livejournal.com]

If I were going, Id chose Trinity. Its right in the heart of Dublin, so there are always fun things to do. One of your complaints about college now is that its not very urban yeah? Dublin is a fantastic city, very nice and friendly. A bit expensive though... make sure you know how much housing will cost you, and dont forget that youll be eating expensive food.

As for Lancaster....going from one lancaster to another is just weird.

As for visiting england, youll find extremely cheap airfare with Ryanair from dublin to all major british cities. EXTREMELY cheap.
Just check their website.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
Youll note the word free. And no, theres no catch (I flew them).