• Some foods are hard to find. Check out my guide, especially if you want to bake some brownies.

• the PhD survival guide

• the international students page

• There are used bike markets held all summer and the merchendise ranges from cheap to quite nice. Here is the 2007 schedule --search for ZH for canton Zurich.

• There is also an exchange/sale board for the ETH/Uni Z

• The ETH and University of Zurich libraries are quite extensive and have lots of english books, although generally rather academic. There is also the Canton library which is accessible with an ETH library card. All three have a single catalog

• There is also the privately run community library which costs about 40 CHF per year. They have a small collection of english books and are also very popular place to get DVDs which are free to borrow once you are a member.

• The best deal in town for language is the Migros Klubshcule which is sort of adult education through the Migros (which is one of the two grocery store chains in Switzerland).

• Comparis is a great place to get quotes for health insurance (compulsory and privately run by a confusing array of hundreds of insurers) mobile phones and other things.

• Fantastic collection of maps, including one with the Kreis regions identified!

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last updated 28 July 2007

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