I was lucky and was able to get housing from DTU. I’m currently living in Tingbjerg Kollegiet in Bronshoj. The location is nice, as my building sits between Copenhagen and Lyngby (where my school’s campus is). TIngbjerg Kollegiet is a block of buildings provided for students. I’m living on one floor with 15 other students. We all have our own bedrooms and bathrooms, but we share one kitchen. This has been a nice setup because we often see each other in the evenings when we’re cooking dinner. My floor is very diverse, with most people coming from different countries. We have people from the UK, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Spain, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, and Slovakia. Since we all live together and see each other regularly, it’s easy to make friends and go out to Copenhagen together.
Besides the people on my floor, I made friends early on with my group from the introduction week. Once again, this was a diverse group of people. Since nobody knew each other and we all came from different backgrounds, we had to reach out to each other in order to make new friends. This was a good experience because nobody formed any cliques of American students, or Danish students, etc.
Of course there are lots of other students that I’ve met in my classes. At DTU, there seems to be a big emphasis on group work. Because of this, it’s fairly easy to make connections with people in the same group. Overall, meeting new people and making friends has been easy. At first I was worried about this since I’m the Northeastern student at DTU for the semester, but after these first 3 weeks, all of my fears have faded.
