I won't have a job. It's quite impossible to pay your own way through med anyway. at this school anyway. you dont have time for a worthwhile job.
I get 490 euro's a month from the government of the netherlands because I'm a uni student who
*has parents with no or small taxable income
*lives away from home
*has to get a minimum number of study points every semester
I'm in the highest scholarship category.
Then Leuven organises apartment buildings where the rent is dependant on the income of your parents. I will be able to live here for like 100 dollars a month.
That's a bed, desk, sink, closet, table, 2 chairs. about 12 m^2.
Kitchen and bathroom facilities are shared.
Tuition is rather low and books are very affordable. I get an unrestricted pubilc transport pass (PT is more developed and intense in Europe, it's actually handy)
The money I'd still need to live on will come from my parents. I will not work, but I will make an effort to spend as little money as possible.
We have more TV's than people in my family, I can just take one off the shelf here... My father has an electric appliance fetish. He has all sorts of TV's, new and old. I have an old, round glass, CTF wooden box TV in my room at home. I like it. I'm taking that one.
I have a pc with 2600 mhz and 90 gigs harddrive and 512 mb and a DSL modem and a 17 inch monitor (huge box monitor), I'm bringing that too.
I have my sound system hooked up to my pc so I can play everything on MP3 and make playlists and whatnot. I'm bringing the whole thing.
IOW, I should be fine relatively to what it's gonna cost me.
In a way I'm taking a double socialist benefit of my parents not having an income now. I'm getting the 490 from Holland AND im in the income dependant rent place.
(If you're wondering why a class act like me has a family with no income, my father was chemist and dentist but became disabled in a traffic accident he had no fault in.)
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