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Discussion on: What's your advice for future CS students?

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DevEstacion
  • Travel to a 3rd world country
  • Get a CS degree for cheap
  • Get an experience at an internationally known company for a year or two
  • Return back to your country
  • Enjoy the money since you're not drowning in debt

~ Tips based off of my experience

NOTE: This path requires you to study harder but hey, you're not in debt :P

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Lautaro Lobo

You did that? Quite an adventure!

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Louis • Edited

I live in Germany and I don't really think that studying somewhere else could be cheaper in any way. As German citizen, the semester fees range between 90 and 300 euros, already including public transportation in your university's area.
Based on your parents' income, Germany offers you an interest-free student loan to cover your living cost and the by far coolest thing about it is that you just have to pay back 50% of it afterwards, the rest is paid by the government after you graduated.

However, your story sounds so damn cool! I did an apprenticeship in banking and often thought about doing an microfinance internship in a third world country! If you ever write an article about your time over there, I'd be happy to read it!