Choose Your Persona

You came to Erasmus with a colour-coded Google Calendar, three sharpened pencils, and the unshakable belief that “this semester I’ll finally be on top of everything.” You chose courses for actual academic relevance, you spent real time reading the ECTS descriptions, and you’ve already checked which professors publish in English so you won’t have to write your essays in French at 3:00 a.m. while crying into your laptop. — Your strengths? You understand tasks faster than anyone. You can produce a 16-page analysis with diagrams in one evening if pushed. Your weaknesses? Everything else. — A poorly timed group event, a cancelled bus, an unexpected “mandatory” critique session, or simply someone asking “come for one drink?” is enough to send your mental stability into an irreversible downward spiral. But if you hold it together — even barely — you finish Erasmus with brutal academic results and absolutely no memory of the city you lived in.

Your calendar is not a schedule but a constellation of vibes. You are the sun around which every international student orbits. If there’s a rooftop gathering somewhere in the neighbourhood, you already know it. — Your strengths? You’re resilient. A ruined group project? A surprise French oral exam? An email from your landlord saying the boiler exploded? All manageable — after all, you survived that techno night that ended at 11:00 a.m. Your weaknesses? You keep forgetting that university actually exists. — But unlike the Nerd, you don’t break: you diffuse stress socially, deny reality until it calms down, then somehow sprint to catch up. Erasmus for you is a balancing act between parties and PowerPoints, friendships and deadlines. If you play your cards right, you leave Erasmus with a full heart, decent grades, and a phone full of numbers you’ll never message again.

You are a creature of chaos and stamina. You run on coffee, intuition, and blind optimism. You don’t do schedules — the schedule does you. You skip obligations, you skip commitments, you skip sleep. Sometimes you even skip the city you live in. — Your strengths? Nothing can kill your momentum. You “work” only under catastrophic pressure, but when that moment arrives, you pull off miracles with methods nobody understands. Your professors think you’re unreliable; your friends think you’re iconic. Your weaknesses? Actual competence. — Your skill stats are low because you rely on shortcuts, improvised half-solutions, and the cosmic belief that things “will somehow work out.” And the worst part? They usually do. Erasmus for you isn’t a semester; it’s a speedrun.