Hi all!

This September I will be moving to Zurich to start classes as ETH (I'm getting a master's in environmental engineering). I'm originally from Romania and I have been living in the US for the last 4 years, studying to get my bachelor's.

So far I'm struggling with finding a place to live in Zurich (IT IS as complicated as I've been warned) and trying to learn more about Switzerland.

My interests include current events, film, and languages.

I'm looking forward to meeting a lot (if not all ) of you!

Hey welcome to the forum and soon zurich

good luck with finding a place to stay and your studies, there are a lot of events in the ef .. and also the street parade is this weekend .. so hope to see you in one of them.

when i look for a place to stay i used homegate.ch and wgzimmer.ch ... if you want tips or help just let me know

Welcome to EF, and soon Zurich and ETH.

I would advise that you come to Zurich sooner rather than later. There is a lot of competition for student rooms, particularly at this time of the year. I arrived last year at the beginning of September and it took me a month to find somewhere. At some of the room castings I went to 50 people showed up. We recently advertised a room in our WG and we got tons of emails in the first day alone. I'm not saying this to scare you or put you off or anything, just letting you know what to expect.

On a more positive note, I love living in Zurich and I'm really enjoying my studies at ETH (I'm in physics )

Thanks guys! I will definitely come to some EF events, they sound really fun.

I did hear about the street parade, too bad I won't be able to make it since I'm not in Switzerland yet...

hi welcome

which ETH ur studying? where in zürich?the city itself?

Welcome to the forum

Hello! I'm also starting a master's program at ETH Zurich in September (albeit in process engineering), so we might meet

welcome.

it is quite ambitious of you to want to meet everyone on the forum. let me know once you did it.

cheers!

Ferdinandaldo, well, there are 54123 members on the forum, so I'm thinking I could have at least 40,000 (subtracting the people who aren't friendly or aren't in Switzerland anymore) new friends by the time I get to Switzerland if I try hard enough

Papa Lemming, process engineering is fun... I used to study chemical engineering, so we did a little bit of that. I'm sure we'll run into each other at school