How about studying in Sweden?

Whether it is good or not is really a matter of opinion. I am also surrounded by people who have emigrated from Canada but have moved to northern Europe.

Personally, I am at Chalmers Institute of Technology (CTH) in Sweden. Combined with my own experience in studying abroad, I give some suggestions to my younger brothers and sisters who want to study abroad.

1) Come back when you are ready for English, and get ready to learn Swedish (stay).

It is necessary to learn things in English since you came here. If you are uncomfortable and want to translate everything into your mother tongue to absorb it, believe me, you will have a harder life than you think. Especially in this case, you should not only remember things, but also analyze and present them.

Business-related courses not only need good English to understand the contents of lectures and documents, but also need to express themselves in speeches and discussions. If you can write an amazing paper, but you can't present it to your classmates, it will be very embarrassing. Then it will be terrible in business courses.

You need strong English to understand the law course. The maritime law as we know it is the common law. If your English level is below average, it will really torture you. You can skip the lecture because you may not understand what the professor said. And you will spend twice as much time listening to tapes or reading this book at home. It sounds like a very difficult life, and it is really a difficult process.

2) Be prepared for a different learning attitude from China.

1. Your mentality determines how much you can learn. The typical China student mentality will prevent you from learning anything. Yes, if your mentality is just to listen to the teacher in class and do your homework, you think you have finished. You can even get a diploma in this way, but believe me, you are just wasting time and money to get a piece of paper.

As a business course, you need to question everything the teacher hears. Take an active part in the class and become an interactive part of the speech, not a passive audience. In this way, you will learn more, and you can learn something from your speech! This course will encourage you to question the teacher, ask questions, and most importantly-please think! You can't learn anything if you don't want to! Memory may help you in the exam (sadly, it also applies here), but reflection can help you in life!

2. Make a blank sheet of paper! How to draw on covered paper? The same applies to your mentality! If you are not a blank sheet of paper, you will never be described by Swedish society, education, culture and people! If you come, stick with your friends in China and form a closed Chinese community, haven't you been away? Are you here to get a diploma?

3. Know more people! If you don't know your classmates and professors, you are actually wasting a lot of resources you have learned. Your classmates are your future industry peers, and your professor may be the middleman of your future career. Your guest speaker may be your future VIP!

At chalmers Institute of Technology, more than half of the courses include more than 50% visiting professors. Visiting guests have worked in their respective fields for a long time and accumulated rich experience and passion. They will help you understand what you have learned in your real career and how to implement it.

We have to make at least two visits every semester. You will feel that what you have learned has been realized in the workplace and really created value, rather than an armchair strategist.

This is the way of chalmers Institute of Technology, so we are qualified to participate in global undertakings. Because we are people with theory and practice, people who can think, and people who know how to do things correctly.

So if you are ready to accept such a challenge, welcome to be my successor. But before you do it, I hope this article can help you prepare for future challenges!