Politecnico di Torino — student experience, 4/5 stars
Intense but rewarding. The workload is brutal from day one — exams hit you in waves, and “free time” mostly means catching up on problem sets you didn’t finish. That said, the engineering culture here is sharp: practical, hands-on, full of late-night study groups in the library that somehow turn stress into camaraderie. You come out of it exhausted but genuinely competent, which honestly is the whole point.