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yettyRoot:
Hi everyone,

Enjoyed going through the threads, was worth it as I was able to gather some info. Got admission to study Msc inArtificial Intelligence and Robotics at La Sapienza University.

Only thing I'm currently scared of is the opportunity that avails a postgrad student(e.g Work after study life. I know they give a 6-12months permit unlike the UK). I'd love to work for some time but I'm wondering how the job market for international students looks like over there.

Thanks

chukwuka14:
My guy, there are better days ahead.
Can’t stop laughing with your experience.
I can feel your pain.
Blacks don’t crack.�
By the time you start receiving €40,000 per annum and have properties all over different continents, people won’t know what you passed d through.
One love Bro.

Enjoy Europe.
hmmmm...personal experience

Life in Italy(Milan, as different cities differ). The life here is quite expensive but if you know your way early enough, then you can cope.

Lesson number 1: Shine your eyes (A little story)
I was determined to get a better life for me and my family, so i left a 120k after tax and pension paying Job in Nigeria, everybody says it was a wrong move even my mind says so too (smiles). The intention was one step at a time, if I no die i go survive i told myself. But money no dey o, my parents said....hmmm. Abi make we use our house for Lagos borrow money?. I said no...make i reach first if e hard, i go come back home (yimu, I pray o).

So i used up my savings from my Job to secure visa(no agent o). Lagos/ugbowo boy, anyway na way. If you need Italian study visa unlock code (ask my fans or send me dm). I studied engineering so to find solution to problems is a hobby. Failed once (2016) and tried again.

Well fast forward...time to book flight, i was scared of getting turned back at the point of entry so i booked return instead of one way. I wasted that money. If i am coming home for Christmas, I have to buy ticket again (Lesson learnt).
I got to Milan, them use microscope check my visa...lol (I am not kidding about the microscope, no be metaphor, na real matters, i was asked to stand aside for like 10 mins i guess).

I spent roughly 25 euros to get to the hostel i booked where I am to pay 23 Euros per night (i no know person). Lesson number 1.1(Find someone you know or u don't know but is willing to help, to save cost: In English Language: Information is Key to Power). Roughly 50 euros gone (feeding money for a month. N.B. ask me how later). Still on lesson number 1.2: They say life basic amenities is food,cloth and shelter (the person no add transportation , abi we wan dey trek 2000 miles). So i started to buy tickets 1.5euros for every 90minutes. Sometimes I buy 3 sometimes 4 per day (Little drops make a mighty ocean, in my case little expenses causes depletion of finances). Lack of information made me miss the almighty scholarship everybody has access to and that was the beginning of my challenge
I stayed 8 nights in the hostel and started to look for options...last minute God paved a way. I moved outside the city to live with some Nigerians (another story entirely) where I pay rent on a monthly, transportation became more expensive because i am outside metropolitan city (na wah o). If you have patience dont spend your money to buy winter jackets, just wait to you get to Italy, u go see better jacket buy for street at 4 euros (talking from experience). Please i beg you in the Name of God...learn italian language just for survival purposes.

Hope this suffices for life in Italy in General.

If you have questions ask and I will answer asap (maybe 5 secs or maybe 5 days )


Lesson 2: (Man know thyself)
If you plan on coming here to push drugs, do rituals,hustle meaning beg on the street (since them say no job), or have a career plan...It is your choice. But like i said know yourself else the wind go carry you. So as for Jobs: there are jobs but how do you access this jobs. You can create a Job by providng services (teaching English, translator if you understand Italian, pizza and food delivery guy/babe, get a job as a cleaner, work in a restaurant etc.) if you have services to render o (of course limited patronisation at the starting stage but i guess with time I dont know what will happen...abi I be prophet? No.). Or if you have funds you fit still run importer exporter. But like I said know yourself and planning is key, I am guilty of that so thats why I am telling you. The student must be greater than the teacher IMO. But above all learn the Language.

In addition, my school i dont know if that applies to other schools, created a study plan (Lecture time table in such a way that you have one week day off, and weekends off, the days you have lectures na full day 8-6. Them plan am so you no go fit work but you be Naija nau, you claim to be a hustler, you claim say Naija hard you dey survive so anywhere you find your delf you go still survive abi? . Okay good news...no matter what you go still survive. Man know thyself.

Lesson 3: Think Ahead all the time
So this is because you asked if you can work during school holidays (Yes you can as stated online). I neva get school holiday, just two months here and I am still trying to find my feet. Had a lot of challenges(real time challenges I cant say because I cant come and be washing my dirty linens in public but i think they are avoidable if you have funds and you have someone giving you directions) due to finance so life was kinda rough at the initial stage...e dey balance out now gradually.

Also going to other EU states to work...YES. Don't quote me, I heard of and know people that have done or are doing but I never try am. But i am 80% sure it is quite illegal (I stand to be corrected). How much can be made? Hmmm but I never dey work nau. Delivery job that I attended the interview but couldn't sign the contract for some reasons best known to me says 8euros per hour for 40hours a week(but you cant get 40hours a week but maybe 15-30 hours i guess). Teaching English Job that I have registered on platforms but I dont have students yet...dont ask me why 15-25 euros per hour. That's all i know. I also stand to be corrected.

Roaming around Europe is not a challenge within the schengen states...do your resident permit when you get here and start to move as you like. I know one girl wey dey travel frequently. Even this Saturday she get another trip. But na your money dey talk .

How they perceive blacks is relative...they are friendly if they know you dont need anything from them and you can speak their language. Even Nigerians attitude to fellow Nigerians worse pass oyinbo attitude to blacks. My experience though which is quite relative and myopic because it is what I experienced.

relationships...yes they can make friends with you, everybody i don meet get boyfriend, but if you need one you go find sha. That one sure...bad as e bad enta club, or any event wey your school organize or social gatherings. Money answereth all things...if you know what I mean. As for sugar mommies and daddy...OYO. Find out yourself LOL...

I hope to write my life experience in Italy someday. It is quite an interesting one. Also need to add that FoFt, but I am sure he won't write lol(sorry for calling you out bro, I am writing this because of the discussion we had about Nigerians that are here that have level but are just chilling instead of showing the upcoming ones the way) has more experience than I do, I have spoken to DanIndia since I got here.

By the way...I am still trying to find my feet. But one thing is sure: where there is a will there is a way.
, Don't be discouraged , only seek counsel. Yours truly...signs out

SOLACE1206:
Hey Guys, I have 2 million in my account presently, and am still doing my NYSC, I have gone through Authentication to DOV. Am a graduate of mechanical engineering with 2/1 and 7.0 in Ielts . How do I go about documents concerning my account since its Self funding by next year . please I need advise ( both for schools around italy and documentations to the embasy) .So I plan ahead . God bless you all .

guiddoti:
If you need links to PhD thesis of various universities particularly UK and few USA, I may guide you to the link. Its only for PhD candidate/ researcher.

ato12:
Naa bolzano I dey ooooooo, house is expensive, the city naa small one all naa language talk and finding way to survive ooooooo

ato12:
hello fam,

is there any format or template of cv that someone can use to apply for part time jobs here in italy, please kindly send me one to ayokunmi12@gmail.com

KenModi:
Show me that man/woman wey talk say God no dey exist, make I gist am my experience so e go follow me praise God.

I have collected my visa to the glory of God.

All the stress, sleepless nights, prayers and novenas even three days dry fasting wasn't in vain.

God you are wonderful.







List of documents submitted:

- Visa form (filled on pc or mobile)
- All legalized documents
- DOV
- Letter of admission
- Bio data
- Sponsorship letter (with dad's company letter headed paper)
- Sponsor's statement of account
- Sponsor's pension savings account statement
- Documents of sponsor's landed properties
- Certificate of registration of sponsor's company
- Photocophy of sponsor's driver's license
- Two passport photographs
- Two coloured photocopies of my passport data page
- Flight reservation
- Hotel reservation
- Coloured photocopy of my Austrian visa

Note: No insurance!

Also, don't be fooled by the lies told by agents and their likes at the gate of the Italian consulate of "oh you must have 5 million or 7 million in ur account".

If you are going for masters, and you have at least 2.5 million and you are being sponsored by your dad or mum with all the necessary documents submitted plus prayers and fasting, you wld be given a visa!

I am a testimony!

Shout out to smithsydny and geekytobi. I bless God for using you guys to assist me on the journey to getting my visa.

Aint getting carried away. I know the struggle has just begun. One chapter has closed, another one is abt to be opened.

Baba God is in control.

chukwuka14:
Please is anyone here in Milan. I need a friend Cux I'm
Very lonely ..

KenModi:
Are you studying at Univ of Pavia?

rowenagold:
Hello Everyone,
So im researching grants and scholarships that foreign students can benefit from, such as the
Borso di studio
Laziodisu
MAECI
some of this grants are for specific schools. You can google them and see what comes up.

I understand that other grants such as accommodation busary etc can be gotten over there in Italy IF you have the ISEE Parificato
Please if you have any info about this (especially those who are currently in school in Italy) pls kindly share

I am currently looking into getting the documentation for reciveing the ISEE Parificato in Italy, Kindly see the attached.
https://www.studenti.unige.it/tasse/iseeuparificato/en/
it states that some documentation needs to be shown over there in Italy
-Personal data
-foreign incomes (regarding the year 2015)
-foreign properties and financial assets (regarding the year 2016)
-The documentation must be:
-Issued by the competent offices in the country in which the incomes have been produced;
translated into Italian by the competent Italian Diplomatic or International students

1. how can these documents be gotten here in Nigeria? someone said Income returns from the Tax office, some other person said from Commissioner of oaths' who did the income declaration, family unit,etc

Does anyone know the procedure or has anyone done this in the past for getting the documents for ISEE certification in NIGERIA?

KenModi:
Bro, did you get it that same day after paying the 50k?

Cutezt:
1. This was Twitter's first ever homepage. The site opened to the public on July 15, 2006.

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The first person to send a tweet was Co-founder Dorset, beating Biz Stone by a minute—on March 21, 2006, at 4:50 p.m. The tweet now has more than 50,000 retweets.

2. Twitter was founded on a play ground.

Founding team member Dom Sagolla says the group went on the highest point of a slide at a play ground in South Park, a little neighborhood in San Francisco, and Jack Dorsey talked about a "thought so simple that you don't even think it—you simply write." This little motivation has transformed into a multibillion-dollar organization.

3.The user with the highest base of followership is American singer Katy Perry with over 101 million followers, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Katy Perry have
more Twitter followers than the entire populations of Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Canada, Argentina and Egypt combined.

4.@ArabicBest is in the lead for the account following the most users;the profile shows it follows 2.4 million accounts.

5.@Yougakduan_00, a girl from Japan holds the record for the highest number of tweets with an astonishing 36,402,262 tweets before Twitter suspended her account, likely because of the excessive tweeting.

6.The bird on Twitter logo actually has a name
https://www.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/20-facts-you-didnt-know-about-twitter-2.jpg
Yes, you read it right, the popular iconic bird y see in Twitter's logo shown in TV commercials, print ads and practically every website is named Larry, —was named after Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.


7.Twitter was almost called Twitch. Before finalizing on the name, the team looked at the Oxford English Dictionary. "We found the word Twitter," Dorsey says. "And Twitter means a short inconsequential burst of information , chirps from birds. And we were like, that describes exactly what we're doing here."

8.The domain name twitter.com was already taken as at 2006 when the company was starting up, they had to buy it from the owner, the page was empty before it was bought.

9.Ending a tweet with an empty hashtag is called a hangtag, and it's Twitter's version of the mic drop, the team at Medium declared recently.

10.Dorsey was reportedly brokenhearted when Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock in April 2012.

11.Twitter Co founder Dorsey has not posted on his instagram account ever since Facebook purchased the company in 2012

12.It took Three years, two months and one day in between from the first tweet to the 1 billionth tweet.

13. You can find your first ever tweet at First-Tweets.com

14.The service sees more than 500 million tweets a day now.

15.Twitter (288 million) has 1 billion fewer monthly active users than Facebook (1.39 billion) has.

16.Twitter's fourth co-founder Noah Glass was kicked out of the company, according to the book "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal," by Nick Bilton of The New York Times . Glass is said to have made almost no money from Twitter's IPO, Glass has only tweeted five times over the last five years. His bio reads, "I started this."

17.Twitter was thinking about creating a feature called "worship" in the early days. "If you worshipped someone, you would get every single one of their messages,"

18.Facebook tried buying Twitter—twice, according to Bilton. Each time, Twitter pushed the "dislike" button.

19.Why are posts limited to 140 characters? Twitter was born as an SMS phone service designed to fit its character limit.


20. Twitter didn't actually start the use of the Hashtag

https://www.rd.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/never-knew-twitter-hasthags-sl.jpg
Use of the hashtag (#) to sort content goes back to 1988 and users communicating on Internet Relay Chat Clients (IRC), which resembled old- school chatrooms. It wasn't until 2007 that The hashtag was created by a Twitter user. In August 2007, @ChrisMessina tweeted, "how do you feel about using #(pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]?" He is now referred to as "The Hashtag Godfather."

21.The most retweeted tweet ever came from Ellen DeGeneres in March 2014.
The star-studded selfie tweet at the Oscars produced 3.4 million retweets.

22.Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd)—also not verified— has 330,000 followers but has only tweeted 19 times and just once since March 2009.

23.Police in Granada have their Twitter handles written on their uniforms .

24.Facebook is on Twitter; Twitter is on Facebook. Twitter has 15.3 million Facebook fans, while Facebook has 13.9 million Twitter followers.

25.Account @everyword tweeted out every word in the English dictionary.

26.Twitter won't allow you to follow more than 2,000 people unless you have 2,000 followers.

http://tutsmap..com/2017/07/26-facts-you-never-knew-about-twitter.html

scolefield:
Nawa oo. Renewing a passport that still has 1year validity? that's unusual. six months validity is what's always required. why would they reject one of a whole 1year.

scolefield:
According to my researches, one needs to have a valid passport whose expiry date is three months longer than that of the visa requested. Is this just a written requirement or do they work according to it? my passport d expire August next year oo, and I'm going for a two year master's program. is it not a problem? any idea from anyone?

mindovamatter:
Everywhere we go we spoil...that's the reason Europe is steadily becoming difficult to survive in as a black African. And we think we are smarter. You think the white people are fools? Look at all those coming to Europe by boat...98% are abled bodied young men...when they get in they claim asylum lying that there is war in their country... If you(98% male) are all running from war then whose fighting the war? Your mothers and your sisters abi? So wen you find yourself in italy with all doors closed to you...remember I told you why.

Ohai7th:
Thank you very much.

smithsydny:
I dey my papa house ooo bros

smithsydny:
baba from his narration he has not started even were dov wan from comot

lionlee216:
I know all educational documents will be taken to MOE for authentication. He is going for masters. So he will need his primary school testimonial, his undergraduate transcripts, his degree certificate. So what documents will he need to authenticate at MFA

Ejaloni123:
Catania, Nuclear Physics(Applications)

Ejaloni123:
Hello peeps, I am new on this forum and would need you guys help. I am currently in Rwanda for studies and will be done with my thesis in June. I was opportune to secure an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship with Italy as first itinerary. Please, how do I go about the visa application? If I decide to come home in the month of June, hope it won't be too late to process my visa for September start date?

chaiks:
hello bros.thanks for your contribution to d thread.please am with a cgpa of 4.49/5 in international studies.please is there any hope for me.I am tired with no job.

dejiconde:
please I need hint on how to make a request on temporary accommodation at dsu.toscana.it
Nah Italian den use write everything can't change to English. Our Ogas in d house should please help.

kwenu:
is there anyone to tell us about the positive stuffs in italy. all i hear are all negatives about the place, met with a man few hours ago who toured 6 shenghen states including italy Austria, spain france etc. but he says italy is the worst of all of them. no jobs ,many youths are into scavenging jobs, also he talked about many young guys been caged down there by Bini women, and they be doing gigolo tinz for survival. , ebo is being carried in italia according to him (sacrifice) everywhere. he painted that italy is ugly . now he wants to move to the US.

GUYS i do not say this to bring discouragement

are there people residing there right now , please tell us what life is really like over there in Italy

ghostmist:
Rubenic said he did his translation and legalization in Abuja...he posted the number of the translator's contact person.Even though it was a couple of years ago,i was hoping he could say something in that regard.

If there is no translator in Abuja, then I have to be in Lagos.

lionlee216:
Pls someone enlighten me, after authentication, what next, is it pre enrollment or DOV?

If it is DOV, what are the docs needed to do DOV

Thanks

ghostmist:
hello bro, I tried calling the contact number you posted but it wasn't connecting. I Don't know if it would be possible for you to describe the address you went to. Those security guys at the embassy couldn't help much as per contacts for the translation.

Talented4real:
Please i want to know where i can translate my documents to italian here in lagos, i got admission into the university of rome tor vergata, Thanks

chasers:
Please Guys,might not be in the right thread apology.Is there any thread for Niaralanders hookup in Italy.....

dejiconde:
Please house who can help mi to pay for my application fee in euros I will pay back in equivalent in naira. Pls it's very urgent

dejiconde:
Anybody interested in sapienza university of Rome application is on and anybody interested in university of pavia application will be on 9th of January, ca'foscari university of Venice application is on, university of bologna January 9th, university of Milan February 1st, university of padova 1st week of February. So start preparing your docs.