Name: 意大利VS美國 | 工程研究 [ENG CC] 。 (ITALY VS USA | STUDYING ENGINEERING [ENG CC])
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Ciao y'all! Naturally Kenya here, and today, I'm going to be talking about what it is

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like to study engineering in the US
versus Italy... Okay. Honestly. I don't need

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these. I have contacts on, but I was
trying to make geek effect...  nerd effect...

you know... Because every engineer is in
a nerd, right? Sure... Ciao y'all!

NaturallyKenya here, and welcome back to my
channel. Make sure to subscribe to my

channel if you haven't already. Today is
going to be a fun video, because I am

talking about what it's like to study
engineering in the US, where I'm from

versus Italy. As some of you may or may
not know, I actually moved to Italy last

year to complete my master's degree, but
I have my bachelor's degree in the U.S.

in Civil Engineering. That's a little bit
about me, but I'm gonna go into a few

pointers of what it's like in the U.S. vs
Italy. Number one is the format. For

example, in the U.S. if you do a bachelor's
degree it is four years and in Italy the

bachelors is three years, plus the two
years that you will do for your master's

degree. So in total it will be five years. 
Whereas, in the U.S. if you did a master's

and a bachelor's degree, it would be a
total of six years. So, the calendar and

exam schedule is definitely a lot
different than the U.S. here in Italy,

because in the U.S. generally the semester
is fourteen or fifteen weeks long and

following that, you have an exam
period... and following that, I mean three-

four- or five days later you'll start
taking your exams for your four or five

classes, and the thing that's most
different here is that you have

approximately two months or even three
months to take these exams whereas in

the U.S. you have your 15 weeks plus
three or four days of nothing, plus holiday days --

but they're "technically" not holiday days, because you have
to study-- and then it's followed by

ten days where you have to take
all of your exams in that time period.

Here in Italy, I have noticed that the
semester varies between 13 or 14 weeks

and then you have months to take the
exams. For example,  the fall semester in

the U.S. will be from the last week of
August to the first or second week of

December, and then you have your two
weeks or so of exams. Here, I have

classes from the end of September to
around the middle/end of December

before Christmas holidays, with a
period of two or three weeks break, and

then you have the option to take those
two exams in January and February of the

following year, but also you have a
summer session that you can take those

exams in, as well. Which I will go into
more detail later in the video about. So,

to summarize, the semester in the U.S. is
a bit longer by two weeks, but the time

you have to take your exams is minimal,
up to approximately ten days. Where in

Italy, it's 13 or 14 weeks of the
semester and you have two months + to

take your exams in that time period. In
terms of admission, in the U.S. there were

a lot of things that I had to submit
going from high school into University.

For example, the application fee, there
was an essay, you had to obviously submit

your transcripts, there was an option to
submit your resume as well, a letter of

recommendation, your SAT or ACT scores,
like the list goes on and on. But for

example, here in Italy, at least in my
case, I know there's different

specifications or degrees that have a
limited number of entrances available,

but I just had to send my (for my
master's degree), I had to send my high

school transcript and my university
transcript and a passport photo and that

was it. So it wasn't like I had to do
brain surgery. There were no letters of

recommendation - nothing like that for me
to study here in Italy. So the process

was much faster in that sense. So you
didn't have to prepare documents and

documents and have a lot of different
effort, but like I said before this may

just vary between universities in Italy.
So don't get happy thinking that you

might be in the same situation as  I was. It could very well be quite

different. Oh, the fun topic! The money
part. The tuition costs and fees... When you

compare the U.S. to Italy this is
probably the most different topic. I'm

actually going to be comparing the
school that I went to in the U.S. to

Italy. So, for example, if I wanted to do a
master's degree in the U.S. my tuition for

the year will be approximately twelve
thousand dollars. Here it is! That is a

only the tuition. That's not food, that's
not water, that's not housing, that's

not breathing, that's not living, that's
not socializing, that's not walking down

the street- well... okay. That could be
walking down the street, as long as you

don't have to take a bus or drive your
car. You're good. That would be free. It's

essentially twelve thousand one
hundred and forty six dollars a year.

I actually took it upon myself to convert
that into euros, so you can see that

that's one year. Here in Italy, the
tuition actually varies depending on if

you choose a public or a private school.
It can be anywhere from five hundred

euros from people from developing
countries, to up to maybe four or five

thousand euros. But, I mean, if you go to a
public university, I think it would bury

anywhere between one thousand euros and
maybe three thousand. I know that it

definitely varies based on your personal
income and your university. And

supposedly there are scholarships
available. There are Italian government

scholarships available. The United States
was not on the eligible countries list,

so I wasn't that lucky. There are
definitely opportunities available for

people coming from different countries.
You really just have to do your research

and look into it. Because, generally, it's not
that organized. Oh, the good one! This is

also a good one. Homework, which just
seems so different here. So in university

in the U.S. for some of my classes, we
would have to take assignments,

do the exercises and they will be do the
following class. So, if this was a Monday-

Wednesday-Friday class, you'll be
assigned Monday exercises, they would be due

Wednesday. You would be assigned exercises
Wednesday and then they would be due Friday and so

on. Friday-Monday, Monday-Wednesday and
Wednesday-Friday so on and so on.

Here, it's not necessarily like that. It's
your responsibility to pick up all the

information in class. The only homework
I've had so far are group projects and

that's not necessarily a homework
assignment because it generally goes

over the entire semester. So, it's not
like tonight you have to do THIS tonight,

it's due tomorrow. It's not like that at
all at least not in the situations that

I have been in I would definitely say in
the U.S. there's a lot more homework.

There are a lot more projects at least
for a my a master's degree there will be

more projects I'm assuming in the U.S.
There's just a lot more I guess you

So, let's talk about exams. Earlier, I
mentioned how we have approximately 10

days to take all the four or five exams
of a full-time semester, where in Italy

there are different exams for different
dates. So, for example, if I'm taking four

or five classes and the semester ends, I
have different exam dates available to

take the exam for each class. Which is
also very important, because the exam

format in Italy is a lot different than
it is in the U.S. specifically in the U.S.

you have one try. That means if you
destroy the exam... I don't know anyone

that's that was able to redo a final
exam... you essentially have one, try that's

it, and it's a written exam usually or it
could be a presentation or project and

that percentage of the final exam really
depends on how many exams were in the

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