American student studying abroad at Trinity College Dublin?

Hi everyone!
I am a third year university student, age 20, in America. I'm considering studying at Trinity College Dublin next Fall, for four months from September to December.
Can anyone tell me any experience or information you have regarding the student life at Trinity College Dublin, and the town of Dublin (and surrounding places) in general?
My other consideration is the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
It's important to me for the city to have good energy and to be visually/atmospherically pleasing. Also I am planning to take weekend trips to surrounding parts of Europe.
Thank you, would really appreciate your input!

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Copenhagen is definitely more "visually pleasing" than Dublin. However I would suggest that if you can't find plenty of fun in 4 months as a 20 year old in Dublin you don't have a pulse. For weekend trips there's Ryanair - say what you will about them, they fly nearly everywhere for cheap.

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Dublin has a great student night life and Trinity College is well known for having great social clubs and student events. It is located right in middle of Dublin city centre. Yes dublin would not be as 'visual pleasing' as other cities but would still be great city for a young student to live in for 4 months. As eurotrash said you can still take weekend trips to other european cities with Ryanair. One point to be wary of is that living and having fun in dublin can be expensive

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I'm sure, if you're not a Danish speaker, Dublin wins out socially, but visually......?
People knock Dublin, especially Dubliners, but it has a wonderful varied architectural heritage, dating mainly from the 18th century to the present, with only a few monstrosities that don't affect the general atmosphere. Copenhagen is neater, but I don't think it is more interesting to look at. Then there's the bay, and the mountains....

Trinity College is very central - right in the center of the city, and there is quite a substantial number of US students there. The Campus is historic and quite beautiful - a major tourist attraction in its own right (one of the nice things about Trinity is that its not 'isolated' from the city, its very much part of it). Certainly, in terms of social life very few Universities in the world could match it. If its possible, the rooms on campus have a good reputation. Getting a good place to live for a relatively short period wouldn't be that easy, you might end up in one of the inner suburbs (places like Rathmines and Ranalagh are full of student flats, some nice, some pretty grim), in which case I'd suggest getting a bike to make coming and going easier.

Copenhagen is also a very expensive city, Dublin has some splendid architecture and parks, and of course it wins on the language side (although to be fair it's very easy to get by in Copenhagen without speaking any Danish - nearly everybody speaks very good English).